Knowledge Sharing & Planning Workshop

The ILO Sub-regional Project titled Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia is going to organize a two-day Knowledge Sharing and Planning Workshop on 26 and 27 May, 2013 at the Hotel Sonargaon, Dhaka with the key stakeholders of the project.

The ILO Country Office for Bangladesh announces launching of the Sub-regional Project titled Way out of informality: Facilitating formalization of informal economy in South Asia covering Bangladesh, India and Nepal. This Sub-regional Project will apply integrated decent work strategy for the informal economy to the formalization aspect, emphasize knowledge management to fill the large knowledge gap in the policymaking, and embrace the proven ILO strategy of participatory dialogue. The project is an ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral Technical Cooperation Programme for a period of 5-years (2012-2016). The Project partners are the ILO tripartite constituents (Government/Employers’ Federation/Worker’s Federation) and Social partners.
 As a part of the project activities, the ILO Country Office for Bangladesh has organised a Two-day Knowledge Sharing and Planning Workshop on 26 and 27 May, 2013 at the Hotel Sonargaon, Dhaka with the key stakeholders of the project.
 
The two-day national workshop is aimed at knowledge sharing on the formalisation of the informal economy and identifying priority sectors for project intervention through in depth consultations with the tripartite constituents, key stakeholders and the social partners in Bangladesh.
 
The following issues shared and consulted in the workshop event:
  • Formalisation concept of the informal economy in South Asia and the Project design;
  • Integrated decent work strategies for the informal economy and selected international and national good practices;
  • Incentives and disincentives to formalising of Informal Workers & Social Protection;
  • Skills Development and Business Promotion in the informal economy;
  • Overview of the informal economy in Bangladesh;
  • Prioritising Sectors to focus on programme interventions in consultation with the tripartite constituents and workshop participants.