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Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 1895
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1895
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Informal economy
- category:
- Employment
- comments:
- ILO DWT, ILO CO (Dhaka, Kathmandu and New Delhi) and the other ILO offices in sub-region, region, and headquarters; Ministry of Labour and Employment; local governments; trade unions; and the workers in the informal economy.
- challenges:
- Limited involvement of tripartite constituents in advancing formalization agenda; need to trial different options to advance the agenda; continued differences in defining, measuring and reporting informal employment statistics.
- success:
- Willingness in tripartite constituencies to advance formalization of informal economy agenda; commitment towards ILO Recommendation 204.
- context:
- No prior serious effort to address employment in the informal economy; inadequate literature on pragmatic ways to tackle formalization process.
- description:
- The incentives from formalization need to be disseminated widely to both employers and workers. The consideration of incentives from formalization can speed up formalization process. A study commissioned by the project shows that an important incentive to formalization is to facilitate access to credit particularly for small manufacturing units at the bottom of the value chain. At present, there are no incentives to formalize such enterprises.
- administrative_issues:
- High staff turnover and limited resources.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/194806
- location:
- country:
- Asia and the Pacific - regional
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia - Final Evaluation
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