Policy Engagement

Date: 07/03/2025

Policy Engagement

Many worker protections are effectively inaccessible for working people, leaving them vulnerable to insecurity and exploitative working conditions. GFI strives to ensure that legal frameworks are applied equally to all, including informal workers, to secure lasting protections and improve the lives of partners. This may involve expanding the legal framework, such as the 2020 Auto-Entrepreneur Law in Tunisia, which supports the transition to the formal economy and includes measures to facilitate the formal registration of informal self-entrepreneurs.

Policy engagement is a crucial step towards implementing new legal measures and frameworks. Informal workers, who are often left out of public dialogue, must have the tools to participate meaningfully in public discourse about their rights. GFI works to build policy literacy at the grassroots level and strengthen workers’ capacity to engage in the policy process, which promotes inclusive civic engagement and accountability. Through our multi-stakeholder approach, all economic actors have an equal standing in developing informed solutions for inclusive growth.

At the global level, GFI has long been an outspoken voice alongside our partners to improve the living standards for informal workers, ranging from building consensus on the decent work agenda with development institutions as early as 2007, to continued advocacy for the inclusion of informal worker representatives at the International Labour Conference. By facilitating policy engagement and discourse at the national and international levels, GFI works to strengthen legal protections for informal workers and ensure their rights and economic security are upheld.