ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with schemes that are relevant to those sections of the informal labour force that are willing and able to undertake waged employment. Analysis of public works projects set up to deal with the effects of the Asian financial crisis in Indonesia found an extremely low percentage of female participation. The analysis of employment-generation schemes from different parts of the world carried out in this chapter highlights the fact that employment-generation projects take place in specific contexts in which local economic and social factors serve to mediate the outcomes achieved as well as wider intended and unintended impacts. It also describes how taken-for-granted assumptions on the part of public officials as well as private actors regarding who is eligible and on what terms can impose an additional set of constraints to the participation of women.
