NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION / INFORMAL SECTOR

Realizing the growing importance and voice of NGOs in development in general, the NGO Café was set up on the internet as a think tank for NGOs to discuss debate and disseminate information on their work, strategies and results.

The basic objectives of the Café are to assist NGOs in enhancing and improving their programs and activities; to affect a better understanding of NGOs in general; and to enable NGOs to network at local, regional and international levels

The informal sector is an oxymoron - on one hand it is an unorganized 'nuisance' sector whose members, for example, do not pay any form of tax; on the other, it provides jobs and increases incomes of the most vulnerable groups in a city - the very low-income group. What should the policies be? Who should be doing what? What is the link to the formal sector? There are no easy answers!

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