1st Edition

Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa Lived Realities and Associational Experiences from Tanzania and Kenya

Edited By Lone Riisgaard, Winnie V. Mitullah, Nina Torm Copyright 2022
274 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their coverage is... Read more
 

Chapter 1. Introduction
Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, and Winnie Mitullah

Chapter 2. Formal social protection and informal workers in Kenya and Tanzania: From residual towards universal models?
Nina Torm, Godbertha Kinyondo, Winnie Mitullah, and Lone Riisgaard

Chapter 3. The relationship between association membership and access to formal social protection: A cross-sector analysis of informal workers in Kenya and Tanzania
Nina Torm

Chapter 4. Self-regulating informal transport workers and the quest for social protection in Tanzania
Godbertha Kinyondo

Chapter 5. Informal transport worker organizations and social protection provision in Kenya
Anne W. Kamau

Chapter 6. Informal trader associations in Tanzania – providing limited but much needed informal social protection
Lone Riisgaard

Chapter 7. Access to social protection: The role of micro-traders’ associations
Raphael Indimuli

Chapter 8. Social protection and informal construction worker organizations in Tanzania: How informal worker organizations strive to provide social insurance to their members
Aloyce Gervas

Chapter 9. Construction workers in Kenya: Straddling with formal and informal social protection models
Winnie Mitullah

Chapter 10. Convergence and divergence of workers’ environment, associations, and access to social protection: Sectoral and country comparisons
Winnie Mitullah, Lone Riisgaard, Nina Torm, Aloyce Gervas, Raphael Indimuli, Anne W. Kamau, and Godbertha Kinyondo

Chapter 11. Concluding reflections
Lone Riisgaard, Winnie Mitullah, and Nina Torm

Biography

Lone Riisgaard, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Winnie Mitullah is a research professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi with a background in political science and public administration.

Nina Torm, PhD, is postdoc at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark.