Well in relation to this question Deputy Chairperson, the Small to Medium-seized Enterprise department and our own department and various social partners are in the process to develop a national strategy for informal economy. This in relation to us in particular, because we are dealing with the labour issues.
This will be premised on the provision of the International Labour Organisation's recommendation 204 on the transition from informal to the formal economy which was adopted by the member states in 2015.
This is under the auspices of National Economic Development and Labour, Nedlac, Decent Work Steering Committee to serve as the vehicle for this particular purpose. To date various consultative engagements have been held throughout the country that facilitated the development of the road map towards the attainment of this strategy.
The road map is characterised by five pillars which will also serve as the bases for our national strategy on the formalisation of the informal economy and these are a building of enabling regulator and policy environment for supporting transition from the informal to the formal economy.
The focus has been on the creation of enabling policy and regulatory framework. Maybe I must say the development or review of local government policies that provide for adequate infrastructure creation of awareness on policies the bi-laws and programmes on informal economy and developing the gender sensitive policies programmes in support of the formalisation efforts.
This process will in addition strengthen the capacity of the local government to support the formalistic efforts, so there is the lot which will have to do to concertize the people and the different
structures on these responsibilities. The second one is the strengthening of the participation of workers and economic units in the transition from informal to formal economy by building the capacity of the workers in the economic units to participate in efforts to facilitate that transition and the third areas is to strengthening the capacity of the national, provincial and local government to adequately provide mechanisms for compliance measures with incentives by building the capacity of local government and informal business organisation and Economic units to enforce the laws and facilitate the compliance and excess to the incentives and I think this point is very important because if you look at the informal sector very few people that are complying with the laws. Talk minimum wage, talk the UIF, talk registering the workers, talk whatever a lot of things. The working hours, so there is a lot which will have to educate our people in the informal economy, including the area of the other vulnerable workers and the domestic.
Fourthly measuring informality development integrated gender sensitive monitoring and the evaluation system to track those formalisation effects and also the coordination of the implementation and the monitoring of the transition which we must increase visibility of engagement that support formalisation effects ensure effective coordination and the formalisation efforts at the
local level. It is a very, very complex task which needs a lot of education not just from the side of the employees but also from the employers.