General Activities  Social Protection

ILO Operational Objective:
"Member States broaden the scope and the instruments of social security systems (including the informal economy and working poor), improve and diversify benefits, strengthen governance and management, and develop policies to combat the adverse effects of social and economic insecurity.

ILO, Strategic policy framework, 2002-05

General Information ILO Conventions on Social Security ILO Social Security Department Social security: An obstacle to full employment ? Social security expenditure and the economy Social security for the informal sector Gender Issues in Social Security and Social Protection Income security in old age World Labour Report 2000: Income security and social protection in a changing world ILO: development and reform of social security pensions East European Healthcare in Crisis (ILO Press Release 10.12.01)

Links (not ILO Sites) ICFTU: Strengthening social security in the 21st century

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