Southem African Development Community (h) ensure coherence between labour migration, employment policies and other development strategies within the member states; (i) reach an agreement on a common approach towards immigration within the Region; (j) establish an autonomous regional agency to address cross-cutting issues pertaining to social protection such as: streamlining and facilitation of portability of social security benefits across borders; stipulating applicable regional minimum standards; and regulating institutional mechanisms that guarantee relevant entitlements, rights and obligations across borders; and (k) promote labour migration data collection, analysis and exchange at regional and national levels. ARTICLE 20 INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND RURAL WORKERS 1. State Parties shall ensure the: (a) adoption of a comprehensive regulatory mechanism to promote decent work in both infonmal and rural employment; (b) promotion of productivity of informal and rural enterprises, among others ,through access to capital, sector-specific business development services, infrastructure and inputs, and supportive regulations and policies; (c) promotion of organised membership-based informal economy and rural organisations that can participate in relevant policy-making and rule-setting bodies or processes; (d) protection of informal and rural workers, through the promotion of their business, labour, social protection and property rights, including the adoption of a regulatory framework promoting decent working conditions and appropriate and adequate labour law protection for informal and rural workers; and (e) adoption of a regulatory framework promoting appropriate and adequate social security protection of informal and rural workers, through the provision or recognition of amongst others formal and informal social insurance and micro-insurance mechanisms, universal schemes, social assistance measures, and dedicated savings instruments; Protocol on Employment and Labour -20-