Decision on the first item on the agenda: Formalization of the informal economy: Follow-up to the resolution concerning efforts to facilitate the transition from the informal to the formal economy

Record of decisions | 04 November 2015

Decision on the first item on the agenda: Formalization of the informal economy: Follow-up to the resolution concerning efforts to facilitate the transition from the informal to the formal economy

The Governing Body requested the Director-General to:

(a) take into account its guidance in pursuing the plan of action for the implementation of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), and to draw on it when preparing future programme and budget proposals and in developing resource mobilization initiatives; and

(b) communicate the resolution concerning efforts to facilitate the transition from the informal to the formal economy in the standard manner to the governments of member States, and through them to the national employers’ and workers’ organizations and, also, to partner agencies in the multilateral system.

(Document GB.325/POL/1/2, paragraph 50.)