All partners are invited to operate a focus group discussion according to a common format and to address the same issues and questions as indicated here. For each country, no more than three focus groups distributed geographically are scheduled, even for the large countries. Every group meets once for two to three hours and produces a report. The statistician is not expected to lead the meetings. The meeting facilitator does not have to be the same for all groups; she or he should, hopefully, be a prominent person familiar with informal worker’s organizations and with gender and informal economy issues, preferably but not necessarily a woman union member.
The group would include between 20 and 30 persons:
1. 5 informal women workers in leadership within the union
or another workers’ association.
2. 5 informal women union members not in leadership.
3. 5 informal women workers not engaged in any organization.
4. 2 or three successful women leaders in politics, business.
government, art, literature, or other cultural activities.
5. 5 men in leadership, not all in informal worker’s
organizations.
6. 3 young women and 3 young men (less than 24 years old)
workers or students.
7. Up to 5 middle-aged men informal workers with at least
secondary education.
The minutes of each meeting must be recorded by a notetaker. The report should focus on the main ideas and recommendations.