GOOD PRACTICE: Inclusion and Social Protection Model Based on the Provision of Services. ADG, Senegal

Good Practice: Inclusion and Social Protection Model  Based on the Provision of Services

1. Brief summary

The action is a unique approach to protection, social inclusion and building the resilience of rural households. This approach consists of:

-Identifying service providers who are useful for the economic and social inclusion of rural populations working in the Informal Economy and who do not have access to formal support

- Exploring distribution channels of social and geographical proximity with the target population (cooperative, savings and loan association, etc.);

- Enabling suppliers and distributors to work together to define a new package of services that is more coherent and adapted to the needs of vulnerable populations. This helps establish public-private-civil society partnerships.

- Informing people dependent on the Informal Economy of these services and products.

This approach is aimed at promoting an adaptive social protection model for people working in the informal economy. It increases their resilience to climate change and other risks (illness, disability, death, loss of productive capital, etc.).

1. Key Areas of Good Practice

• Capacity building of the implementing agency and / or project partners, including (local) government agencies (1.9)

• Awareness raising of operators / workers in the Informal Economy and other stakeholders (4.3)

• Organisation of Informal Economy workers in officially registered associations, cooperatives or other groups (1.9)

• Providing support to operators / workers in the Informal Economy to access services (social welfare services, business registration, access to formal savings and credit systems, training, etc.) (3.1)

• Entrepreneurship and Business Management Training (3.2)

• Leadership Training, Empowerment Training (3.4)

• Support for improving occupational safety and health among workers in the Informal Economy (2.3)

• Social protection at Community level (4.4)