Meeting Basic Learning Needs in the Informal Sector: Integrating Education and Training for Decent Work, Empowerment and Citizenship
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"This anthology brings together basic facts and features about basic learning needs and skills of people working and living in the informal economy and presents case studies from different countries examining educational and training strategies for meeting these learning needs. It portrays the grave problems facing educational and training systems vis-á-vis informal sector workers, even as they look at holistic solutions that take into account principles of lifelong learning and innovations in informal, non-formal and formal adult learning, and show a growing awareness that education is a human right of fundamental significance to promoting decent work and humane living conditions. The size, diversity, and the strength and sheer tenacity of workers and owners in the informal sector as well as the stress on globalisation and technological changes have combined to bring about a reappraisal of the links between education and training and the informal labour market.The book looks at the interlinkages between EFA and work and takes the stance that promoting the right to basic education is crucial for overcoming oppression and indecent working conditions. Basic education in its current state is not imparting the necessary skills for entry to the labour market. In view of this gap, the case studies pose the crucial question of what essential skills and which basic learning needs have to be addressed for productive and decent work.Although this book mainly provides cases of learning programmes for the informal economy in countries in South Asia, Latin America and Egypt, the lessons learnt have much to offer to researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in other parts of the world".
Schooling and basic skills : training programmes and challenges in the informal sector : Latin America25Informal learning and the role of social movements43The informal sector : non-formal education settings for working children61Institutional support structures and modes of skills transmissionGender and the informal economy in Latin America : new challenges and possible answers for labour training policies91Trade unions and adult learning for women construction workers in the informal sector119Skills formation for the informal sector in Bangladesh : a strategic framework133Training and skills development for decent work in the informal sector : case studies from South India155Education, training and skills formation for decent work in the informal sector : case studies from northern India183Educational reform for linking skills development with employment in Nepal215Training in modest housing construction for those who need it most : an example from Nicaragua229
