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Insights into ILO Formalize Your Business in Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia and Senegal

Key learnings from trainers and entrepreneurs

Understanding informality and child labour in sub-Saharan Africa

This study examines the interrelationship of child labour and informality in 22 sub-Saharan countries.

Employment Impact Assessment of the PASE II project in Senegal

Ex-ante Employment Impact Assessment of the SMART GRID project in Senegal

Health sector investment impacts on employment and economic growth: A panel ARDL analysis in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)

Policy brief

ILO Youth Country Briefs: Senegal

This analytical Brief summarises youth labour markets, the impact of COVID-19 on youth employment, and the school-to-work transition in Senegal and its evolution in recent years. It identifies where youth labour market outcomes indicate recovery and where challenges remain in Senegal.

Publication

A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining

Employment impact assessment of the rehabilitation of the Senoba – Ziguinchor-Mpack road in Senegal

Social and solidarity economy: Social innovation catalyst in Africa?

The report illustrates and characterizes the social innovation processes carried out by Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations (SSEOs) in five African countries (South Africa, Cameroon, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia). By analysing practical cases of social innovation, it explores the extent to which SSEOs contribute to generating social innovation in Africa for a more sustainable and inclusive local development, as well as the creation and promotion of decent work for all. The report highlights internal and external factors impacting SSEOs in their social innovation process and it presents a set of policy recommendations to unlock the potential of SSEOs as catalyser of social innovation in African.

Strategy

Senegal's Integrated National Strategy for the Formalization of the Informal Economy (SNIFEI) and Operational Action Plan for the Transformation of the Informal Sector (PAOTSI)

The development of the Integrated National Strategy for the Formalization of the Informal Economy (SNIFEI) stems from a desire to achieve the orientations of the Emerging Senegalese Plan (PSE), in particular, those related to a structural transformation of our economy in order to promote sustainable and inclusive growth, which creates decent jobs. (Document in French only)

The ILO is providing support to business development structures in Senegal to facilitate the transition to formality through the training programme "Formalize Your Business" (FYB).

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) organized a training workshop for trainers on the module "Formalize Your Business" from 21 to 25 March 2022. This activity, carried out within the framework of the project for the promotion of formal and innovative entrepreneurship in Senegal and Gambia (PROMEFI), was financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and executed by the ILO.

Improved working conditions, productivity and income for formalized women tanners

This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.

Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda 2063-SDG Target 8.7

The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. The target population are children, women and men who are victims of or vulnerable to the forms of exploitation addressed by the Agenda 2063 - SDG 8.7 target.

Exploring the potential for skills partnerships on migration in West Africa and Sahel

Sub-regional study on skills systems and policies in place, migration flows and patterns, links between training and migration policies, and collaboration on skills anticipation, development and recognition within the sub-region.

Social protection in action: Exploring public options of social health protection for refugees in West and Central Africa

Since 2014, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have worked together in line with their respective mandates to strengthen access to decent work among refugees, especially as regards income generation and social protection. This partnership has led to the elaboration of joint technical studies in a number of West and Central African countries.

Wages in Africa

Recent trends in average wages, gender pay gaps and wage disparities

This publication depicts the evolution of real average wages since the global economic crisis of 2008, offering insights into the economic context for Africa and also presenting an overview of existing wage disparities within countries, including those related to gender.

Supporting the transition to formality: The case of informal female tanners in Senegal

TRANSITION DE L’ECONOMIE INFORMELLE VERS L’ECONOMIE FORMELLE L’EXPERIENCE DE LA COOPERATIVE DES TANNEUSES DE GUEDIAWAYE,DAKAR – SENEGAL

The ILO in Senegal - Senegal and decent work

Trade union involvement in skills development: An international review