Integrated Strategy for Employment Formalization in Paraguay

General Information

Institution:

Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security

Country:

Paraguay

Contact person:

Viviana Cano

Position:

General Director

Email:

vivi_canokt@hotmail.com

Phone:

(+59521)7290100

Website of the program:

https://www.mtess.gov.py/application/files/2615/8221/0781/Reporte_Estrategia_de_…

Which of the following topic(s) applies to the program?:

Topics:

Working conditions

Informality and non-registered work

Labor inspection

Program Description

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Description:

This program works towards employment formalization with an integrated strategy as a roadmap for formalization policies, with the coordination and commitment of all parties involved in specific and integrated actions, in order to achieve a common goal of extending formalization to reach populations in the margins of the labor market.

Objectives:

The Strategy has a specific objective of agreeing on and developing actions for formalization public policy that work on informal employment mechanisms, as well as devise practical solutions, monitoring progress in the transition towards formality.

Other specific objectives include a group of priority actions and programs to achieve the employment formalization goal, coordinated with specific priorities:

Designing and enforcing specific regulations to formalize employment
Detecting and deterring informal activities
Developing links for the most vulnerable populations’ transition towards employment.

Cross-cutting priorities to each of the above are the following:

Raising awareness of formalization
Creating and using information
Monitoring formalization process.

These aligned objectives make monitoring actions’ performance possible, thus approaching the goal.

Year of Start:

2018

Estimated duration:

3 to 5 years

Geographic coverage:

National

Target population:

Workers

Employers

Informal workers

Migrant workers

Young boys

Older adults

Indigenous populations

Afro-descendant populations

People with disabilities

LGBTI Community

Evaluation and Documentation

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Describe the challenges of the program:

This Strategy acknowledges the fact that challenges to formalize employment in Paraguay are multidimensional. Informal employment’s heterogeneity reflects the need to reinforce compliance in the formal sector, promote registration in the informal sector, and provide social guarantees to affected workers while transition towards formality is still ongoing.

Specify if the program has any internal and external evaluations, if applicable, include key findings:

Achieving the formalization goal requires constant evaluation and monitoring. Parties involved in focal points will follow up on the strategy’s implementation with contributions from information management organizations on progress made.

A control panel will be developed as a tool to monitor the Strategy. The panel will rely on the following factors:

Level of progress made with Working Groups’ agendas
Program implementation by participating organizations
Evolution of indicator panel.

This control panel will be an analytical report plan delivered to the Presidency every six months, and will include:

Accountability on commitments made
Control and evaluation system on indicators’ impact
Performance indicators for each focal point and its respective actions
Action schedule to be carried out over the following six months.