Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literatu...
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| description | The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their coverage is limited to small parts of the populations – and in no way stands measure to the needs. In these circumstances, people depend on other means of protection and cushioning against risks and vulnerabilities including different forms of collective self-organizing providing alternative forms of social protection. These informal, bottom-up forms of social protection are at a nascent stage of social protection discussions and little is known about the extent or models of these informal mechanisms. This book seeks to fill this gap by focusing on three important sectors of informal work, namely: transport, construction, and micro-trade in Kenya and Tanzania. It explores how the global social protection agenda interacts with informal contexts and how it fits with the actual realities of the informal workers. Consequently, the authors examine and compare the social protection models conceptualized and implemented ‘from above’ by the public authorities in Tanzania and Kenya with social protection mechanisms ‘from below’ by the informal workers own collective associations. The book will be of interest to academics in International Development Studies, Political Economy, and African Studies, as well as development practitioners and policy communities. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599122025-05-20T05:49:18Z Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa Riisgaard, Lone Mitullah, Winnie V. Torm, Nina informal workers informal economy informal income informal work employment in the global south development studies social protection policy development policy global south development global south economies Formal Si Social Protection Measures Formal Social Protection National Social Security Fund Informal Social Protection Social Protection UHC Flexible Payment Plans Transformative Social Protection Social Protection Policies Informal Economy Workers FGD Informal Social Project Survey Data thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their coverage is limited to small parts of the populations – and in no way stands measure to the needs. In these circumstances, people depend on other means of protection and cushioning against risks and vulnerabilities including different forms of collective self-organizing providing alternative forms of social protection. These informal, bottom-up forms of social protection are at a nascent stage of social protection discussions and little is known about the extent or models of these informal mechanisms. This book seeks to fill this gap by focusing on three important sectors of informal work, namely: transport, construction, and micro-trade in Kenya and Tanzania. It explores how the global social protection agenda interacts with informal contexts and how it fits with the actual realities of the informal workers. Consequently, the authors examine and compare the social protection models conceptualized and implemented ‘from above’ by the public authorities in Tanzania and Kenya with social protection mechanisms ‘from below’ by the informal workers own collective associations. The book will be of interest to academics in International Development Studies, Political Economy, and African Studies, as well as development practitioners and policy communities. 2025-05-20T05:49:17Z 2025-05-20T05:49:17Z 2025-05-19T07:32:09Z 2021 book ONIX_20250519T091213_9781000478655_61 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102136 9781000478655 9781032003290 9781000478693 9781003173694 9781032003283 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159912 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102136/1/9781000478655.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003173694 10.4324/9781003173694 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 5e8be029-89ec-4f5f-8055-ba3b5351b633 9781000478655 9781032003290 9781000478693 9781003173694 9781032003283 Routledge 274 Oxford [...] open access |
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| title | Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| title_short | Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| topic | informal workers informal economy informal income informal work employment in the global south development studies social protection policy development policy global south development global south economies Formal Si Social Protection Measures Formal Social Protection National Social Security Fund Informal Social Protection Social Protection UHC Flexible Payment Plans Transformative Social Protection Social Protection Policies Informal Economy Workers FGD Informal Social Project Survey Data thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour |
| topic_facet | informal workers informal economy informal income informal work employment in the global south development studies social protection policy development policy global south development global south economies Formal Si Social Protection Measures Formal Social Protection National Social Security Fund Informal Social Protection Social Protection UHC Flexible Payment Plans Transformative Social Protection Social Protection Policies Informal Economy Workers FGD Informal Social Project Survey Data thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour |
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