ILO-WIEGO joint webinar

Innovative approaches to addressing informality through the social and solidarity economy

Women at their stall selling dried fish in the streets in Kisumu, Kenya. © Marcel Crozet / ILO
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About the webinar

The year 2025 marks the second United Nations International Year of Cooperatives (IYC2025), offering a renewed opportunity to spotlight the transformative potential of cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in the world of work. As part of the year-round celebrations and to commemorate the International Day of Cooperatives on 5 July, ILO Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy (COOP/SSE) Unit and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) are co-organizing a webinar on decent work for workers in the informal economy in and through the SSE, showcasing some good and emerging practices from different regions of the world.

The webinar will also highlight the resolution and conclusions concerning the general discussion on addressing informality and promoting the transition to formality for decent work, adopted by the International Labour Conference on 13 June, 2025, ten years after the adoption of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204).

This webinar aims to:

  • Highlight practical experiences of cooperatives and other SSE entities in addressing the needs and rights of workers in the informal economy.
  • Present country cases and organizational initiatives that demonstrate pathways to formalization through the SSE.
  • Provide a platform for knowledge sharing and dialogue among ILO, WIEGO, partners and networks of workers in the informal economy.
Webinar draft concept note_Innovative approaches to addressing informality through the SSE.pdf - PDF 92.66 KB

Presentation slides in English:

00_ILO - English.pdf - PDF 130.16 KB 01 Planeta Verde - English.pdf - PDF 74.04 MB 02 FIWON - English.pdf - PDF 1.23 MB 03 UTEP - English.pdf - PDF 844.3 KB 04 SEWA KERALA - English.pdf - PDF 2.42 MB 05 WIEGO - English.pdf - PDF 34.49 MB

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