The project focus was to organize public dialogues on the sustainability of providing pension coverage to the informal sector, and the attractiveness of several pension schemes and options to the informal sector workers.
The majority of non-salaried informal sector individuals is excluded from formal pension arrangements. They include, but not limited to daily wage workers, domestic helps, unpaid workers, street vendors, transport workers, self-employed professionals, and farmers. These citizens will be unable to sustain themselves after retirement without a pension cover. This also implies that old-age poverty will continue to increase especially for the country’s unpaid workforce.
