Engaging the Informal Sector - A Proposal for State and Non-State Engagement

• Continue the discussion which followed the latest PIDE forum on ‘Excluding the Urban Poor’ • Unpack the implications of informality which are impacting governance and urbanization across Pakistan’s larger cities. • Revisit the Late Akhtar Hameed Khan’s approach to state and non-state engagement, as pioneered by the OPP. • Frame the engagement of street vendors utilizing the process mapping method and better practices observed in large municipalities. • Roadmap a pilot project for sharing ‘public spaces’ with urban informal sector vendors on the streets of our large cities.