GOOD PRACTICE: The empowerment cycle. OIKOS, Tanzania

Good Practice: The empowerment cycle

Key Areas of Good Practice:

• Advocacy Methods (1.2)
• Awareness raising among informal economy operators/workers and other stakeholders (4.3)
• Organising informal economy workers into associations, cooperatives or other officially registered groups (1.9)
• Providing support to informal economy operators/workers to access services (social protection services, business registration, access to formal savings and credit schemes, training, etc.) (3.1)
• Entrepreneurship and business management training (3.2)
• Leadership training, empowerment training  (3.4)
• Vocational and/or skills training (3.6)
• Enabling especially vulnerable groups on economic empowerment (women, people with disabilities, affected by HIV, youth, refugees, migrants, minority groups, etc.) (4.6 – 4.7 – 4.8 – 4.9 – 4.11)