Resources on social finance

  1. News

    ILO and Apindo sign a partnership agreement to promote responsible digital wage payments in Indonesia

    20 June 2023

    The ILO and Apindo join forces to promote the transition from cash to responsible digital wage payments by signing a Collaboration Agreement. This will enable Indonesian workers to have better control over their wages and benefits.

  2. Project

    Promoting and Building Social Protection in Asia (Viet Nam - 4th phase)

    15 March 2021

    The project builds on the achievements made by the ILO/Japan project on 'promoting and building social protection in Asia (3rd phase): Extending social security coverage in ASEAN (2016 – 2019)' as well as other development cooperation projects.

  3. Briefing note

    Research brief 2: Institutional constraints for the extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China

    20 November 2020

  4. Publication

    Product Offer - Enterprise Formalization

    17 February 2017

  5. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #62: Microfinance and formalisation of enterprises in the informal sector

    17 November 2015

    Awareness raising campaign and BDS for the formalization and strengthening of growth-oriented enterprises ESAF

  6. Publication

    Report on Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises in Cambodia: Main Findings

    28 March 2014

  7. Video

    Out of Informality - Ghana's Way to Decent Work

    27 November 2007

    Informal workers in Ghana are starting to see the benefits of more formal ways of working. With help from the ILO's Decent Work Pilot Project, people in Ajumako and Winneba, some of the poorest places in Ghana, are bringing about their own transition to Decent Work. Experts are sharing similar effective experiences this week at the “Interregional Symposium on the Informal Economy - Enabling transition to formalization”.