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News | 04 December 2019
Making social protection fit for the future
At an Infopoint organized by the European Commission, Valérie Schmitt, Deputy Director of ILO’s Social Protection Department, welcomed the new EU-funded flagship programme which aims to increase social protection coverage in eight priority countries. Read more >
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News | 25 November 2019
More than 500 billion dollars a year needed to ensure basic levels of social protection worldwide
A new ILO report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed. Read more >
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ILO Centenary Event | 25-28 November 2019
This event will chart the way towards achieving universal social protection for all. It will provide a roadmap for the future of social protection within the framework of the recently adopted ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work .
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News | 04 November 2019
Belgian stakeholders reflect on Universal Social Protection by 2030
Veronika Wodsak from the ILO’s Social Protection Department adressed a conference on Universal Social Protection by 2030 (USP 2030), organized by the Belgian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, the Belgian Ministry of Social Affairs, Belgian social partners and World Solidarity. Read more >
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Conference paper. Report III (Part B) - General Survey concerning the Social Protection Floors
Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
04 March 2019
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Social Protection for Children
06 - 08 February 2019
This conference, convened by UNICEF, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), brings together national governments and policy practitioners, researchers and the international community to explore the arguments and the evidence emerging from the implementation of alternative cash transfer schemes and their implications for Universal Child Grants.
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Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection (USP2030)
06 February 2019
To end poverty, ensure social protection for all and make good on international commitments made in 2015, countries around the world have been urged at a ministerial-level conference at the International Labour Organization to take five actions towards universal social protection.
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Flagship Programme on Social Protection
25 October 2018
Two UN agency heads have signed a call for action for countries to expand social security and assistance to more than four billion people currently without protection.