Social cohesion, employment, and decent work in informal economy: good practices and lessons learned from EC-funded projects in Volume 4.1

As part of its activities of research, the RNSF has disseminated knowledge and best practices related to the informal economy since 2015 on the IESF group. One of the first outputs is the Volume 4.1 Good Practices and Lessons Learned Extracted from 33 Projects selected under the 2009 EC Call for Proposals: “Investing in People. Promoting social cohesion, employment, and decent work. Support for social inclusion and social protection of workers in the informal economy and of vulnerable groups at community level”.

The Volume 4.1 is the result of an analysis by RNSF experts Jacques Charmes and Mei Zegers of 33 completed EC funded projects that include informal economy and social inclusion actions. It contains interesting good practices and lessons learned in the field of social protection promotion, employment, and decent work in the field of informal economy that can be used in the development of concrete approach within the framework of projects implementation.

Some of these good practices are were dedicated in specific posts on the IESF Group. You can find them in the following links:

• Informal workers formalization
• Access to social protection
• Working children returning to school 
• Certification of informal workers with Proficient Acquired Skills (PAS)
• Social Behaviour Change Methods to Raise Awareness of Social Protection
• Defence of street workers’ rights
• Economic diversification for vulnerable populations in protected areas
• Occupational safety and health procedures in Ghana
• Youth Become Agents of Change
• Social private company providing marketing services and pre financing support