Africa-Press – Cape verde. A study on Cape Verdean Social Security coverage, consulted today by Lusa, recommends that licenses for certain activities only be granted after registration and regularization of contributions.
Licenses can encourage registration with Social Security in Cape Verde – study
The work, by the Cape Verdean Institute for Gender Equality and Equity (ICIEG), suggests “conditioning exploration licensing to the registration and regularization of social security contributions”, making licenses an incentive, through “partnerships with entities licensors such as municipal councils, Land Transport Directorate and Maritime Authority”.
It is also suggested that registration with Social Security be mandatory to access financing for small businesses.
The recommendations appear in the work “Gender and Social Security in Cape Verde: the challenges and obstacles to access for informal workers”, whose final report (dated June) was released this month and consulted today by Lusa.
According to the document, there are 95,708 people working in the informal sector (including agriculture and fishing), representing 53.8% of jobs nationally.
On the other hand, at the level of the National Social Security Institute (INPS), the proportion of self-employed and registered domestic service workers, the employment niches where women are the majority, are the least covered in the INPS (1.7 % and 2.1% respectively).
“Gender inequalities” persist in the Cape Verdean labor market, which are “factors limiting women’s economic autonomy”.
“At the basis of inequalities, there are invisible discriminatory practices, but which are manifested in indicators of access and permanence in the job market, total workload and income”, the document reads.
Despite “significant progress” in recent years, 41.2% of Cape Verdean workers are still not registered with the INPS – with social benefits playing an important role in combating poverty, the study notes.
The increase in social security coverage is in line with the Government’s goals, including the elimination of extreme poverty by 2026.
Among the 19 recommendations made by the study are also the creation of facilitators for the transition from informal to formal, simplification of processes to deliver contributions at once and even collectively, as well as the promotion of a culture of citizenship in social security from school.
The ICIEG study was financed by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), within the scope of the project “Promoting the participation of women in democratic processes”.
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