Africa: War on Want launches research report on informal economy organisations

This report highlights the struggles that informal economy organisations are facing in Africa was launched by War on Want and its partners during a seminar on 3-4 May 2006 in Lilongwe, Malawi. The report, entitiled Forces for Change: informal economy organisations in Africa, focuses on the experiences of informal economy organisations in Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, and is a joint research report between War on Want and the Workers' Education Association Zambia (WEAZ) and the Alliance for Zambia Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA). It shows the contribution of informal economy workers to the overall economy and the need for wider recognition of the informal economy within the International Labour Organisation (ILO), trade union federations, local and central governments.