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Please be aware that the content herein has not been peer reviewed. It consists of personal reflections, insights, and learnings of the contributor(s). It may not be exhaustive, nor does it aim to be authoritative knowledge.
Learnings on your challenge
What are the top key insights you generated about your learning challenge during this Action Learning Plan? (Please list a maximum of 5 key insights)
- Entrepreneurship and the promotion of informal actors: In collaboration with the ILO, we identified the importance of entrepreneurship in promoting informal actors. The goal is to help formalize the informal economy and create sustainable jobs.
- Promoting access to finance for informal actors: We learned that access to finance is crucial for informal actors. This can enable informal actors to invest in and grow their businesses.
- Capacity building and awareness: We learned that capacity building and awareness are essential to helping informal actors understand their rights and cope with the economic system.
Considering the outcomes of this learning challenge, which of the following best describe the handover process? (Please select all that apply)
Our work has not yet scaled
Can you provide more detail on your handover process?
Discussions are ongoing with the ILO and the Direction de l’Appui à la Formalisation. It is maintained to launch the innovation challenge in January.
Please paste any link(s) to blog(s) or publication(s) that articulate the learnings on your frontier challenge.
Data and Methods
Relating to your types of data, why did you chose these? What gaps in available data were these addressing?
The data types were chosen because of the observed gaps in the available data regarding Mauritania’s informal economy and also to provide insights that would shape our intervention. For example, we decided that an innovation challenge around the key informality challenges would be a pertinent approach :
- Informal Conversations: These provided insights into the experiences and challenges of informal workers, which are often not captured in formal data.
- Interviews: allowed for the collection of detailed, qualitative information from a diverse range of stakeholders within the informal economy.
- Literature Review and Document Analysis: This helped to understand the context and historical background of the informal economy in Mauritania.
- Socioeconomic Data: Provided a statistical source for the understanding of the informal economy, such as the informal employment and poverty, etc.
Why was it necessary to apply the above innovation method on your frontier challenge? How did these help you to unpack the system?
Solution Mapping: allowed us to identify potential solutions, ensuring that the innovation challenge we decided on was relevant and addressed the issues faced by informal workers in Mauritania.
Exploration: This method helped us delve deeper into the informal economy, exploring the complexities of the challenge.
Horizon Scanning: enabled aligning our innovation challenge with the evolving needs of the sector.
Partners
Please indicate what partners you have actually worked with for this learning challenge.
Please state the name of the partner:
ILO
What sector does your partner belong to?
United Nations
Please provide a brief description of the partnership.
We exchanged with the ILO's consultant, who is in charge of the ongoing study on informal economy. This exchange enabled us to identify the three key challenges facing informal actors in Mauritania.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Please indicate what partners you have actually worked with for this learning challenge.
Please state the name of the partner:
Direction de l'appui à la formalisation.
What sector does your partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the partnership.
So far, the partnership consists of identifying the key priorities of the challenges facing the formalization of the sector in Mauritania.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
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Bonus question: How did the interplay of innovation methods, new forms of data and unusual partners enable you to learn & generate insights, that otherwise you would have not been able to achieve?
By combining different perspectives and expertise, we identified innovative solutions tailored to the informal economy and understood the pertinence of the innovation challenges to help in addressing the challenge of informality. The diverse data sources we used led to a better understanding of the informal sector, leading to a more informed event organisation.
Please upload any further supporting evidence / documents / data you have produced on your frontier challenge that showcase your learnings.
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1No poverty
8Decent work and economic growth
10Reduced innequalities
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