How Gender Integration Can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty, General background document on issues in our research matrix, ACUMEN

2.1 ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

2.1.10. Improving linkages between formal and informal economy

Recommendation: 6. Avoid focusing only on creating work opportunities inside the informal economy and also include focus on working with the formal private sector to create formal employment of trained beneficiaries.

Reference:

• ACUMEN - Cartier Charitable Foundation, International Center for Research on Women, 2015, Women And Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration Can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty, General background document on issues in our research matrix, ACUMEN, New York.

Sample evidence: the analysis indicated that, while many of LabourNet’s trainings for women build their capacity for participation in the informal labour force, engaging with Corporate Social Responsibility programs and private sector companies who are interested in involving women in skilled positions in the formal sector, can help identify the latent labour demand that exists for women in the formal sector.

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2.3 Direct actions in communities

2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training

Recommendation: 4) Explore a range of methods to determine types of skill sets needed in the labour market. Aside from labour force surveys this can include surveying companies and Corporate Social Responsibility programs to understand the skill-sets that are needed.

Reference: ACUMEN - Cartier Charitable Foundation, International Center for Research on Women, 2015, Women And Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration Can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty, General background document on issues in our research matrix, ACUMEN, New York

Evidence sample: LabourNet carries out an assessment of the labour force demand by surveying companies and CSR programs to understand the skill- sets that they need.