{"id":85501,"date":"2026-04-06T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=85501"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:29:58","slug":"livelihoods-and-universal-health-in-africa-ishi-africa-taskforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/livelihoods-and-universal-health-in-africa-ishi-africa-taskforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Informality Is Africa\u2019s Reality, And Its Policy Challenge: Takeaways from the ISHi\u2014Africa Task Force."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Lawrence Were, PhD, chairs the Taskforce on Informality, Sustainable Livelihoods. Supported by<\/span><span> Boston University\u2019s Global Development Policy Center, the task force recently met in Nairobi, Kenya. The informal workforce worldwide, especially in Africa, provides income for millions. However, many informal workers face unstable conditions and lack the social and health protections of the formal sector. For<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/2026\/03\/17\/informality-is-africas-reality-and-its-policy-challenge-takeaways-from-the-ishi-africa-taskforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> more information, visit the GDP Center\u2019s website.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Were, PhD, chairs the Taskforce on Informality, Sustainable Livelihoods. Supported by Boston University\u2019s Global Development Policy Center, the task force recently met in Nairobi, Kenya. The informal workforce worldwide, especially in Africa, provides income for millions. However, many informal workers face unstable conditions and lack the social and health protections of the formal sector. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25565,"featured_media":85502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85508,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85501\/revisions\/85508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}