Key resources for enterprise formalization
Thematic publications
Environment: A double transition: formalization and the shift to environmental sustainability with decent workSocial security: ILO policy resource package “Extending social security to workers in the informal economy”
Social Security: Extending social security to self-employed workers
Social Security: Extending social security to workers in micro and small enterprises
Finance: Role of Finance in Driving Formalization of Informal Enterprises
Multinational enterprises: Formalization of SMEs in supply chains in Latin America: what role for multinational enterprises?
Gender: Engaging Informal Women Entrepreneurs in East Africa: Approaches to Greater Formality
What works: Fact or Fiction? – ILO/GIZ Study on what works to formalize enterprises
COVID-19: Answering key questions around informality in micro and small enterprises during the COVID-19 crisis
COVID-19: Number of jobs in sectors at risk from the COVID-19 crisis online analysis tool
Theory of Change: Enterprise formalization for decent work
Regional publications
Africa
Key measures to facilitate integration of informal enterprises into the formal sector and promote decent work in Morocco: Study report (French)Integrated package of incentives and services to support formalization, targeting different categories of enterprises/economic units in Cabo Verde: Feasibility Study (Portuguese)
Challenges related to informality and formalization in Turkana County, Kenya
Diagnosis on informality in targeted intervention areas of the PROSPECTS programme in Uganda
A diagnosis of the informal economy in Kenya
Initiatives de promotion de la formalisation des entreprises et leurs travailleurs en Afrique
Engaging informal women entrepreneurs in East Africa: Approaches to greater formality
Diagnostic sur la Formalisation des Entreprises et de leurs Travailleurs au Cameroun
Stratégie nationale intégrée de formalisation de l’économie informelle (SNIFEI) et du Plan d’action opérationnel de transformation du secteur informel (PAOTSI) du Sénégal
Etude de l’impact de la Covid-19 sur les entreprises et travailleurs de l’économie informelle au Sénégal - Note synthétique
Asia
Labour Law, the Business Environment and Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in South Asia: Synthesis BriefLabour Law, the Business Environment and Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Nepal
Labour Law, the Business Environment and Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Bangladesh
Labour Law, the Business Environment and Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in India
Labour Law, the Business Environment and Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka
Europe and Central Asia
Better cheese, better work: The Alliance Caucasus Programme's Impact on Informality and Working Conditions in Georgia's Dairy SectorLatin America
Promoting pathways to formality for women entrepreneurs in the informal economy in the Plurinational State of BoliviaEnterprise Formalization: The case of Chile
Monotax regime for own-account workers, micro and small entrepreneurs in Brazil
Formalization in Latin America and the Caribbean (FORLAC)
Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean: Introductory Brief
Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Brazil
Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Chile
Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Columbia
Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Costa Rica