Book on Social protection in the informal economy: NGOs' perspectives - OIKOS
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The book Extending coverage: Social protection and the informal economy drafted during the RNSF Regional Workshop held last February in Kenya involved a mixed group of researchers, regional experts, members of civil society organizations, and public officers.
Several members of NGOs took part to this initiative, such as Francesca Lucchi and Kupaza Ramadhani, who work for Oikos East Africa. This Tanzanian NGO, supported by the Italian NGO Oikos, is an implementing partner of the RNSF project. It promotes the protection of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources as tools to fight against poverty.
Oikos East Africa currently implements the EU-funded project “Empowerment for better livelihoods, including skills development and vocational education and training, for marginalised and vulnerable persons and people dependent on the informal economy” in partnership with Oikos, the Maasai Pastoralists Foundation, the NGO TRIAS supporting rural entrepreneurship and the Marketplace Literacy Communities Trust. It aims at improving the livelihood of 5.000 Maasai women in Arusha, Monduli and Longido Districts dependent on the informal economy through integrated and multidisciplinary solutions in order to increase food security, reduce child mortality and mitigate social fragmentation.
Here are their impressions on the workshop experience:
Francesca Lucchi
Kupaza Ramadhani
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