The ITC-ILO, jointly with the Employment Policy Department and the Department of Statistics, is launching two new courses – integrated within the learning series on the transition to formal economy – in response to the increasing need for countries to strengthen their capacities to produce and collect data on informality, which should underpin the effective policy-making process on an integrated policy framework for the transition to formal economy.

The two courses followed the intervention model cycle, with:

• Course on measuring and monitoring informality focusing on data production and collection and on the use of statistics to monitor formalisation processes and progress changes towards decent work for workers and economic units in the informal economy; and
• Course on design of an integrated policy framework for the transition to formal economy focusing on the diagnostic of causes and patterns of informality at the national level to support/bolster/promote the design, development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of an integrated strategy framework for a transition to formal economy.