All publications: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

Let’s Organize! : A Syndicoop Handbook for Trade Unions and Cooperatives About Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy

A resource tool for trade union and cooperative organizers and trainers.

The Livelihood Assessment Toolkit

A joint ILO-FAO toolkit to assess the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people, and the capacity and opportunities for recovery and increased resilience to future events, as part of the response to disasters and the post-disaster needs...

Employment diagnostic analysis: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Employment Working Paper No. 86

Leaflet on Recommendation (No. 200): Prevent HIV, Protect Human Rights

Growth, Productive Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries

The Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries report has been prepared for the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (Istanbul, 9-13 May 2011). It reviews trends in growth, employment and decent work in...

Informal employment in Namibia 2008

This paper reports on analysis of data from Namibia’s 2008 Labour Force Survey (LFS) so as to describe and compare informal and formal employment in the country. The paper is based on an understanding of informal employment which goes beyond the...

A Study on Informal Apprenticeship in Malawi

This study aims at providing a better understanding of the informal apprenticeship system in Malawi in order to inform policies for upgrading the system. It argues that informal apprenticeship is embedded in local norms, customs and traditions which...

Mainstreaming environmental issues in sustainable enterprises: An exploration of issues, experiences and options

Employment Working Paper No. 75

Policy Brief 3 - Including the informal economy in the recovery measures

While the media, official data, policy attention and recovery packages primarily target the regular and protected formal workers and employees, there is a real danger of increased informalization that will be harder to reverse. It is essential that...

A study on informal apprenticeship in Malawi

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 9

What role for labour market policies and institutions in development? Enhancing security in developing countries and emerging economies

Employment Working Paper No. 67

The informal economy in Indonesia: size, composition and evolution

This study of statistical audit informal economy: an Indonesian case study was undertaken as part of an effort to clarify data- and statistics-related challenges faced in measuring and monitoring the size and trend of the informal economy in...

Constraints on policy making towards the informal economy in Indonesia: lessons of the current decade

This study was undertaken as part of an effort to draw out policy lessons learnt since the systemic shock triggered by the 1997/98 crisis, to provide a summary evaluation of the existing policy framework to lower informal workers’ vulnerability to...

Social security for informal economy workers in Indonesia: looking for flexible and highly targeted programmes

In Indonesia about 17% of the employed population enjoys formal social security mainly employees of the formal sector. With respect to health the coverage has recently been substantially expanded through the Jamkesmas/Askeskin programme targeting...

Extending social security coverage to informal economy workers: way forward

In line with the objective of the government to achieve universal coverage of social security for all, it is important to mapping out what the initiatives that have been undertaken by the government and other stakeholders in particular for the...

Winning Fair Labour Standards for Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from the Campaign for a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in New York State

This paper attempts to identify the core reasons for the success of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Campaign while explaining how the strategies adopted overcame particular challenges.

Decent Work and Local Development Through Dialogue and Partnership Building Project (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project GHA/08/50/DAN - Evaluation consultant: Oladele O. Arowolo, Stanley A. Asangalisah

Extending the scope of application of labour laws to the informal economy

Digest of comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies related to the informal economy

Recognizing and supporting home-based workers

Intended to guide and support the Provincial and Local Governments, in developing their own strategies, plans and programmes for the protection of labour rights of home-based workers.

2009 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 2009 Labour Overview is special because it recounts the entire scenario of the global crisis and its effect on employment in our region. It also contains some forecasts on what may occur this year in the labour market.