Participatory Lab on Informal Employment
The Participatory Lab on Informal Employment is an innovation laboratory launched within the framework of the Integrated Strategy for the Formalization of Employment in Paraguay, led by the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (span. MTESS) and developed with the support of the UNDP Acceleration Laboratory and the ILO. The objective of this novel institutional space is to produce knowledge to innovate in the field of social security and develop strategies to address the problem of informality and unemployment. To this end, it is structured around three components: the Interdisciplinary Action Research Team, made up of two dedicated researchers with advice from UNDP and the ILO; the Permanent Focus Group of Participants in the Informal Economy, with the participation of informal employers and employees, as well as other representatives of organized civil society and academia; and the Cross-sectoral Work Table, with representation from different Ministries. The main purpose is, on the one hand, to accelerate the Formalization Strategy and improve its implementation, and on the other to generate draft Bills that address specific problems related to the phenomenon of informality.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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