Informal economy resources
August 2021
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ThrivePH Session 3: Exploring Opportunities for Economic Diversification and Productive Employment in the Philippines
02 August 2021
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ThrivePH Session 2: Unlocking Opportunities to Build a Better Normal: Toward Gender Responsive and Resilient MSMEs in the Food Manufacturing and Processing Sector in the Philippines
02 August 2021
July 2021
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Feeding the future of Tonga
24 July 2021
Through the Informal Economies Recovery Project, IFAD is supporting a range of agricultural development activities across Tonga, including supporting the investment in seedlings for homestead gardens to improve food security.
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ABS-CBN News: New Delta variant threatens recovery of small, medium firms: ILO
23 July 2021
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Japan, ILO earmark $2.2-M to restart small Philippine firms hit by pandemic
23 July 2021
ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Market Edge in a live interview with ILO Enterprise Development Specialist Hideki Kagohashi talked about a recently launched ILO and Japan project to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tonga’s first ever tapa trade show to commence in August
22 July 2021
The newly-formed Tonga National Tapa-making Workers' Association [TNTWA] plans to inaugurate the association with the country’s first-ever Tapa Trade Show. Organized in partnership with the Tonga Public Service Association, TNTWA was formed through the support of the UN’s Informal Economies Recovery Project. The trade show is expected to be the first of an annual quarterly calendar, aimed at boosting members’ income flow.
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Cainton Milroy – One Tech-Savvy Entrepreneur’s Mission to Digitalize Vanuatu
22 July 2021
This month we sat down with Informal Economies Recovery Project partner, Cainton Milroy – an ambitious young software engineer, entrepreneur and self-confessed coffee addict from Vanuatu. He spoke to us about his role in organizing Vanuatu’s first ever e-commerce symposium; why digitalization is the future of small business success, and what his hopes are for his country – the most disaster-prone nation on the planet. Interviewer: Sanya Ruggiero
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19 local business trainers in Fiji introduced to ILO’s Community Based Enterprise Development (C-BED) tools
22 July 2021
In an effort to strengthen Business Development Services (BDS) in Fiji, the ILO organised and delivered a Training of Facilitators (ToF) on 1st June 2021.
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Diary of a Project Coordinator: Katrina Ma'u Fatiaki’s Observations from the COVID-Free Kingdom of Tonga
22 July 2021
Katrina has put down some of her interesting observations in the form of a diary entry, to give us a snapshot of what the Informal Economies Recovery Project is doing on the ground in Tonga, and what life is looking like at the moment, as COVID remains safely locked out of the Island Kingdom
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Informal sector workers in Vanuatu to have a voice
22 July 2021
An initiative led by the Vanuatu Association of Public Employees Trade Union (VAPSE) and the Vanuatu National Workers Union (VNWU), aims to formalise existing informal sector associations, particularly those in the creative and agriculture sectors, on Santo and the Northern Provinces of Vanuatu.