Publications and tools

2022

  1. Roadmap: Youth - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  2. World Social Protection Report 2020-22. Regional companion report for Africa

    27 June 2022

    This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22.

  3. Targeting by proxy: An assessment of targeting efficiency of the proxy means test in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

    17 June 2022

    Technical Paper, June 2022

  4. Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies

    13 June 2022

    This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.

  5. Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies [Executive summary]

    13 June 2022

    This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.

  6. Long-term care for the elderly in Albania: Challenges and key policy issues

    23 May 2022

    This report presents the key challenges and issues in the long-term care policy in Albania.

  7. The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour: Evidence review and policy implications

    18 May 2022

    This new ILO-UNICEF report provides a rigorous review of what the latest research says about the power of social protection to combat child labour. Providing families with direct assistance to help them weather crises can help reduce negative coping strategies like child labour and child marriage.

  8. UN collaboration on social protection: Reaching consensus on how to accelerate social protection systems-building

    05 May 2022

    The objective of this publication is to work towards a consensus among UN agencies on how best to support countries to achieve progress towards universal social protection in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

  9. Social Protection & Cooperatives Spotlight - Mobilizing social and solidarity economy units towards universal social protection

    29 April 2022

    This ILO Spotlight brief is jointly developed by the Social Protection Department and the Cooperatives Unit in the Enterprises Department. It focuses on mobilizing social and solidarity economy units towards universal social protection. The brief builds on the related section of the Office Report on “Decent work and the social and solidarity economy” prepared for general discussion at the International Labour Conference 110th Session, 2022 (paras 73 et seq.).

  10. Policy brief: Social Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina: challenges and key policy issues

    22 April 2022

    This policy note summarises the key challenges in the social protection financing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and presents recommendations for action.

  11. Issues in Social Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina: coverage, adequacy, expenditure and financing

    22 April 2022

    This report presents the core problems in the existing social protection system in Bosnia and Herzegovina based on evidence-based analysis and identifies the key issues requiring action.

  12. World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Latin America and the Caribbean

    11 April 2022

    This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22.

  13. Accessing medical benefits under ESI Scheme: A demand-side perspective

    06 April 2022

    This study brings together comprehensive primary evidence from four states of India supplemented by an analysis of relevant secondary data, to identify obstacles and incentives faced by beneficiaries in accessing the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) services.

  14. Digital innovations in social health protection for India: Technical resource document

    17 February 2022

  15. Intervention Model: For extending social protection to migrant seasonal agricultural workers

    04 February 2022

  16. Investing more in universal social protection. Filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination

    14 January 2022

    Large and persistent gaps in social protection coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy are linked to many barriers, including high levels of informality, institutional fragmentation of the social protection system and significant financing gaps for social protection in a context of limited fiscal space.

  17. Investing better in universal social protection. Applying international social security standards in social protection policy and financing

    13 January 2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant gaps in the coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy of social protection systems worldwide. These gaps have jeopardized the health, incomes and jobs of billions of people. Closing these protection gaps, facilitating faster and inclusive socio-economic recovery and enhancing resilience against future shocks requires more investment in social protection.

2021

  1. Complaint and appeals mechanisms: Protecting the right to social security

    20 December 2021

    Access to complaint and appeal mechanisms, as well as effective remedies, is core to any human rights-based social protection system. Every human being has a right to social security and it is up to the state to adopt measures that enable protected persons to effectively exercise and claim their rights.

  2. Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis: Continuity and change

    10 December 2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses.

  3. Reserch paper Assessment of the Social Protection Floor in Armenia

    10 December 2021

    The assessment of a social protection system in the Armenia was carried out by UN Women in collaboration with the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It applied lifecycle perspective using social security standards ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation No. 202 (2012); and Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention No. 102 (1952) as benchmarks when analysing national system. The assessment identifies areas that need to be strengthened to build comprehensive and adequate programmes with particular attention to gender equality and reiterates the importance of national social protection floors to protect people in case of different risks across the lifecycle and covariate shocks. The publication was prepared with the support of UN Women, in the framework of the project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus”, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC).