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Informal employment in Arab States:
A Gender Equality and Workers' Rights perspective
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Regional Office for Arab States
Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR)
Author: Report of the Regional Meeting of Experts
Carthage, International Labour Organization
Regional Office for Arab States
Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR)
Type: Report
Date: 15-17 July 2008
Keywords: Gender
Equality , Workersâ Rights , Informal Economies, Arab States.
Location in CRTDA: http://womeneconomicrights.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/109b09_174_engl.pdf
The objective of the research component of the ILO/CAWTAR regional initiative on Gender
Equality and Workersâ Rights in the Informal Economies of Arab States, undertaken in 2007-2008,
was to start reversing the regional knowledge gaps in relation to statistics and extension of social
protection to informal workers. The research phase has generated key research and references to
influence the thinking within governments, workersâ and employersâ organizations, research
institutions, and the international agencies working in the select Arab States included in this
regional initiative. This phase has also achieved to pool together a group of 21 experts from the
countries of the region including the researchers and the advisory group members. Highlights of
progress to date include:
ô Mainstreaming Arab States into the global discussion on informal employment by:
ô ensuring that the regional research network members use the latest tools, concepts and
definitions globally available;
ô encouraging the regional research network members to become resource people for any
further informal economy research in the region; and
ô providing the global knowledge networks with the emerging research from the region
for comments and comparisons with other regions.
ô Providing proof of the flaws in applying global assumptions to the region without substantiating
empirical evidence; and
ô Calling for use of sex-disaggregated data and inclusion of gender-responsive indicators in
household and labour force surveys (inclusive of discouraged workers, home-based workers,
domestic workers, and unpaid work) in order to understand the nuances of the high rates of
economic inactivity of women in the region.
The report was drafted by Mr. Mansour Omeira based on the presentations and discussions
during the workshop. Ms. Simel Esim, Ms. Emanuela Pozzan and Ms. Sanaa Abousleiman provided
inputs for its finalization.
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