Resources on social protection

  1. ILO's participation in the 20th International AIDS Conference

    The ILO is participating in AIDS2014, which is expected to gather over 10,000 delegates (including policy makers, programme implementers, practitioners, activists, scientists, journalists, people living with HIV) from nearly 200 countries on the theme: Stepping up the pace. The ILO and its partners will highlight the contribution of the world of work to the AIDS response through various events and activities held from 20 to 24 July in Melbourne, Australia.

  2. Rising to the Challenge: the ILO's Response to HIV and AIDS in Africa - Cooperation Results Overview 2005-2013

    01 February 2013

    This publication provides an overview of the ILO's contribution to the HIV response in Africa since 2005 and provides highlights of the ILO strategy to scale up and accelerate the HIV response in the future.

  3. Namibia: Delivering Pensions to Remote Communities

    02 June 2011

    In Namibia the government has found an innovative way to deliver its universal pension scheme to elderly people living in remote rural areas: a public private partnership that has seen pension money distributed using vehicles equipped with cash machines and a biometric recognition system. Nearly all elderly people over the age of 60 are now able to access their pension payment; money which is going a long way to alleviate poverty in Namibia.

  4. Michelle Bachelet Addresses the Second African Decent Work Symposium

    08 October 2010

    Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean President and current Head of UN Women addresses the Second African Decent Work Symposium, held in Yaoundé on 6-8 October 2010. She highlighted the importance of the role of social protection in national development and stressed how essential political will is in mobilizing the necesssary resources to reach the large part of the population currently excluded from social protection benefits.

  5. Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget

    14 January 2010

    Zanzibar's lack of social protection has left it vulnerable during the current financial crisis and economic downturn, and basic social services are urgently required. The ILO-DFID funded project sets out the current situation of existing social transfers within Zanzibar's social protection system.