Ngola Kiluanje, one of the administrative areas in the municipality of Sambizanga, is 8 km from the centre of Luanda on the main road north of the city. Before independence the area was primarily an industrial zone with a low density population. One long-time resident says that between 1972-73 there were small cultivated fields located in the area now known as Ngola Kiluanje. After the war intensified, peoples displaced from the north and south of the country began to arrive and today, population density is high with no developed infrastructure. (JA 17.05.92)

As is the case throughout Angola, the informal sector in Ngola Kiluanje is an important, indeed key, part of community life. Everything from day-to-day purchases of basic consumer goods to shoe shines to car maintenance to health care and education is available in the informal sector.  And yet, there is little information available on the range of socio-economic activities within this sector.  This report, based on a preliminary inventory conducted on the informal sector in Ngola Kiluanje, is a first attempt to provide a more informed insight into the functioning of this sector as well as some of its problems and potential.

This informal sector and micro-enterprise survey was carried out as part of the Sambizanga Project by activistas working with this project. The survey was done in the commune of Ngola Kiluange which consists of four sectors: Central, Sao Jose, Sao Pedro da Barra and Val Saroca. 

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The target group analysis for the present project focuses on a group of thirty women entrepreneurs from the informal sector working and living in the district of N’Gola Kiluange, which is an urban musseque community in Sambizanga Municipality, located at 8km from the centre of Luanda. Before independence the area was zoned as an industrial district with a low density population. Today the population of the area has grown dramatically and is fuelled by an increasing rate of rural urban migration and presently is estimated to be over 100,000.

As is the case throughout Angola, the informal sector in N’Gola Kiluange is an important part of community life. Everything from day to day purchases of basic consumer goods to shoe shines to car maintenance to health care is available in the informal sector. And yet, there is no precedent, either NGO or governmental for a planned intervention to provide technical assistance or training to improve/develop or support entrepreneurial activities within the informal sector. However, with the recent creation of a small-enterprise programme which is part of Development Workshop’s Musseques upgrading work in Sambizanga Municipality, DW is aiming at coordinating a pilot project for women entrepreneurs working in the informal sector of the district of N’Gola Kiluange.

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The present progect proposal is situated within the context of DW’s Luanda Women’s Enterprise Development Programme which is a micro-enterprise pilot programme using a participatory subsector approach within the informal sector of the Luanda. The programme focuses on peri-urban communities where the majority of the internally displaced live. The sub-sector focus was selected in hope that the two key improvements would occur within micro-entrepreneurs’ survival strategies: a) Increase returns to labour and b) Empowerment through information sharing, organizing and/or training.

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This report is the first component of the Women’s Enterprise Development Project and uses a participatory sub-sector approach. The purpose of the research component is to determine interventions that will benefit women in the informal sector and to contribute to the information base on the informal sector. This study is a Participatory Sub-sector Analysis of the commercialization of fish undertaken by Development Workshop during the first quarter of 1996.

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The present progect proposal is situated within the context of DW’s Luanda Women’s Enterprise Development Programme which is a micro-enterprise pilot programme using a participatory subsector approach within the informal sector of the Luanda. The programme focuses on peri-urban communities where the majority of the internally displaced live. The sub-sector focus was selected in hope that the two key improvements would occur within micro-entrepreneurs’ survival strategies: a) Increase returns to labour and b) Empowerment through information sharing, organizing and/or training.

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