Formal training for the informal sector

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has schooled the informal sector on financial literacy and how to better manage their business in a bid to help small enterprises recover from the crippling effects of Covid-19.

In a two-day Skills and Development training course held in Maun last week, Botswana’s UNDP Technical Advisor on informal sector, Kefhilwe Mokotedi explained the programme is part of a bigger, three-tiered economic plan for the country. As well as the informal sector, the part of an economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government, it includes private ...