Informal Economy Support Facility

You will find below the book Extending coverage: Social protection and the informal economy – Experiences and ideas from researchers and practitioners.

This book was drafted during the Regional Workshop held in Kenya last February as a collective effort of academics, public officers, regional experts, and civil society organisations to answer the question: “How can we use social protection mechanisms as a tool for promoting social inclusion of people dependent on the informal economy?”

This workshop was organised as part of the ambition of the RNSF to improve knowledge on ways to enhance the livelihoods of people in the informal economy and to increase the social inclusion of vulnerable groups through research, identification of best practices, information sharing and networking on key themes of the informal economy with the support of the IESF Group.

Here is a 7-minute video presenting the book:

During the workshop, participants were interviewed to share their impressions on the workshop and the book. You will find the videos here:

• Chandan Kumar, ActionAid, India
• Alvin Amadu Winford, African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), Liberia
• Mupenzi Ejid, Association of Youth for Human Rights Promotion and Development (AJPRODHO-JIJUKIRWA), Rwanda
• Rania Rashad William, Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services Association (CEOSS), Egypt
• Marius Olivier, Institute for Social Law and Policy, South Africa
• Hellen Magutu, International Labour Organization (ILO) Kenya
• Luis Frota, ILO South Africa
• Patience Matandiko, ILO Zambia
• Anesio De Castro, Mowoza Mozambique
• Prosper Honest Ngowi, Mzumbe University, Tanzania
• Winnie Mwasiaji, National Social Protection Secretariat, Kenya
• Francesca Lucchi & Kupaza Ramadhani, OIKOS
• Lilyanne Ndinda, Oxfam GB, Kenya
• Simon Ndembeka, Plan International, Tanzania
• Lilian Pius Massawe, Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO), Tanzania
• Ramendra Kumar, Trade Union Coordination Centre, India
• Dorothy McCormick & John Njoka, University of Nairobi, Kenya
• Anoop Kumar Satpathy, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, India
• Laura Alfers & Francie Lund, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)
• Felix Muramutsa, Winrock International, Rwanda
• Anne Hoelscher, World Vision Australia, Somalia

And here is the takes on the workshop of the organisers of the event:

• Serena Bove, Project Coordinator
• Paolo Carlini, RNSF Team Leader
• Alessio Lupi, RNSF Project Officer
• Jacques Charmes, RNSF Research Expert
• Mei Zegers, RNSF Senior Consultant
• Pierre Ghilain, European Commission
• John Belt, facilitator, Royal Tropical Institute
• Paul Mundy, Book editor

Other videos will be posted soon.

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