| Policy Instrument/Plan | Key provisions in the policy/Plan |
| Vision 2036 Theme: “Achieving Prosperity for All” | “Botswana will have a vibrant micro and small enterprise sector that contributes significantly to the economy creating decent jobs and providing sustainable livelihoods for our people. Necessary support structures will be developed to encourage the firms in the informal sector to be organized and formalized” |
| National Development Plan 11 Theme: “Inclusive growth for the realization of sustainable employment and poverty eradication” | Broad strategy of NDP 11 is to “develop diversified sources of economic growth; the use of domestic expenditure as a source of growth and employment creation and pursuing an export-led growth” |
| Botswana Domesticated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Theme: Leave No One Behind | Goal 8: Target 8.3 “Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-small and medium sized enterprises, including through access to financial services” |
| Botswana National Social Protection Framework | Priority 3: “Strengthen linkages between social assistance and active labour market programmes and use social registry for this purpose” Priority 5 “Design comprehensive pension arrangements that will extend the legal coverage to all workers whether in the formal or informal sectors and their dependents” |
| Botswana National Social Protection Recovery Plan Theme: Sustainable Resilient Recovery towards High Income Status | Recommends the need for the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to design and implement social insurance programme accessible to workers in the informal sector |
| Guidelines for Botswana COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund | The Relief Fund provided a wage subsidy to enable eligible business affected by COVID-19 to keep workers employed and to provide some cash flow for citizen employees operating in the informal sector. Food hampers were also provided to those in need |
| Botswana National Informal Sector Recovery Plan | The Informal Sector Recovery Plan was launched in August 2020 to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the informal sector workers. The plan has two (2) goals: Goal 1: Establishment of Informal Sector Agency; Goal 2: Economic revitalization of the informal sector |
| Theme: Build Back Better | The ERTP was prepared to respond to the severe impact of COVID-19 on the economy. The goal of ERTP is to support economic recovery post COVID-19; accelerate economic transformation into sustainable growth path |