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Extending social protection access and portability to migrant workers and their families through selected RECs in Africa (EC through ICMPD) - Final evaluation

eval_number:

3197

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3197

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Informal economy

category:

Employment

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comments:

Project team, ILO-ROAF, relevant ILO-DWT and Country Offices, EC.

challenges:

While the activity planned in the project document was “1.5) Assess feasibility to extend to the informal economy and pilot test concrete policy proposals.”, it turned out to be quite difficult to undertake especially due to a lack of data.

success:

Activities on the informal economy were in the end only undertaken in the ECOWAS region. While the ECOWAS Convention is only for formal sector workers, the partner states agreed to undertake two studies on the legal backgrounds of informal migrant workers, one each in Ghana and Cabo Verde. The first drafts are ready now which in itself is a good accomplishment, and Ghana is mentioned as a Good Practice with voluntary schemes for all informal economy workers including migrant workers. However, the studies remained rather theoretical, and offered not many new insights, especially because no data are available. For the coming months, the project will try to include an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the informal economy.

context:

The project’s aim of extending access to social protection and portability of benefits to migrant workers and their families was not limited to formal sector workers, but especially the EU Employment/Social Protection Section was in favour of including those in the informal economy as well. This can be considered as an additional component of the project; while guaranteeing social protection for formal, registered workers is already a giant task it becomes even more complicated when unregistered workers are included.

description:

he inclusion of the informal economy in projects on social protection/portability of benefits can only be very exploratory.

administrative_issues:

ILO Recommendation 204 - Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/201575

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location:

country:

Africa - regional

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Extending social protection access and portability to migrant workers and their families through selected RECs in Africa (EC through ICMPD) - Final evaluation