From September 2007 to June 2009 Development Workshop has carried out its proposal to expand and build upon its experience of both sector-specific and broad baseline research to develop a comprehensive and cross-sector integrated study of the Angolan informal economy. More specifically this research programme has aimed to: significantly increase quantitative and qualitative understandings of important sectors of the informal economy; conduct a literature review of all previous research and policy documents on the informal economy in Angola and a selective review of international research relevant to the three themes developed in the current programme; carry out a cross-sector study that documented the strategic relationships, interactions, and inter-dependencies among different sub-sectors of the informal economy; foster knowledge-based approaches to public policy making through data organization, analysis, and dissemination activities that enhance knowledge access and utilization capacity of a broad range of public and policy-maker stakeholders and by generating new knowledge about the mechanisms of governance that prevail in the vast peri-urban informal sector where both formal state and customary institutions are either absent or have lost legitimacy and relevance.
Post-Conflict Transformation in Angola’s Informal Economy Final Report
This report is a description of the research carried out by Development Workshop, funded by IDRC, between September 2007 and June 2009. The report accompanies the reports of the three …
Read moreInformal Trading in Luanda’s Markets, Streets and at Home Report
The informal trading economy began to develop in Luanda in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The second wave of returnees from the Congo/Zaire in the early 1980s appears to …
Read moreAngolan Informal Peri-Urban Water Sector Report
This report is of a study of the informal water sector in Luanda in the post-war context. The research was an applied research project with a view to advocacy for …
Read moreAngolan Informal Rental Housing Market Report
To date, there has been no research done on rental housing in Angola and as this report will show, there is no government policy concerning rental housing, nor any legal …
Read moreProject Proposals and Narratives
Over the next 24 months DW proposes to expand and build upon its strong record of both sector-specific and broad baseline research to begin to develop a comprehensive and cross-sector …
Read moreInformal Economy
The breadth of Angola’s “informal sector”—and its role in the lives of most Angolans— cannot be overstated. Throughout the vast urban musseques of peri-urban Luanda in which approximately 1 in …
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DW’s Research Unit guides programme decision-making and policy influencing while contributing to the growth and improvement of the organisation’s learning process. The unit also enhances accountability of the organisation to …
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