Eight of every ten workers in the Indian economy are in informal employment. In Rajasthan, this pattern is no different. While their work is pivotal for their households as well as the economy as a whole, it is often unrecognised, precarious and unsupported. This precarity is mirrored in the conditions of everyday life for workers in the vulnerability of their housing, access to social protection, as well as a narrowing of the possibilities of socioeconomic mobility. We present a framework to recognise, secure and support informal work and workers, provide a statistical estimation of the size and nature of the urban informal economy in Rajasthan and then detail selected elements of the framework to show how they could be implemented as state policy and programmes. To be able to step back from this complexity to re-imagine our approaches while remaining rooted enough to suggest implementable programmes and schemes, the proposed framework uses three components. ? First, it outlines five vision statements that present the long-term horizon we wish to reach. ? Second, within each vision it offers a set of pathways that outline approaches through which we can proceed towards the vision. ? Third, it offers examples of specific practises that are immediate and recognisable to policy makers as possible schemes, missions, programmes or policies.