All publications: social protection + social assistance + social security + pension schemes + social security financing + social security legislation + social security policy + social services

Social Protection Budget Brief

The Social Protection Budget Brief is a flagship annual publication produced by the ILO and UNICEF since 2013 to provide key information about fiscal space for social protection in Mozambique, including budgetary trends, budget sources, expenditure...

Social insurance for herders

A handbook for herders contains comprehensive information about social protection. The handbook is available only in Mongolian.

Communication Strategies on Child Labour: From awareness raising to action

A desk review with preliminary design ideas for campaigns in Africa and Europe

Adapting social insurance to women’s life courses: A gender impact assessment of Viet Nam

This comprehensive report was developed by the ILO in partnership with the Viet Nam Women’s Union. This report provides an overview of the gender gaps in social protection outcomes, particularly pensions, arising from labour market inequalities and...

Report

Social Protection Spending in Lebanon: A deep dive into State Financing of Social Protection

To understand how social protection spending and financing is structured in Lebanon and who its main beneficiaries are, this Budget Spending Review on government spending on social protection for 2017-2020 aims to inform an evidence-based policy...

PEPs

Public Employment Initiatives and the COVID-19 crisis

A compendium of Infrastructure Stimulus, Public Employment Programs (PEP), Public Works programs case studies

Manual for labour inspection during the pandemic

The pandemic shall not stop the implementation of labour inspection activities; thus, innovations are needed by making the best use of existing facilities and infrastructures as well as technologies.

Flagship Report

World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future

This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of recent developments in social protection systems, including social protection floors, and covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive summary

World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future

This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of recent developments in social protection systems, including social protection floors, and covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social Protection

Knowledge-sharing event on extension of coverage to workers in new forms of work in Asia and Pacific, 18 May and 26 May 2021

Study on the design of business incubation centres - For the Government of Pakistan's Kamyab Jawan Programme

This study provides a composite analysis of the need to establish business incubation centres in Pakistan, in order to support a vibrant entrepreneurial landscape.

Practical information for participants of digital social security hackathon

Information note of digital social security hackathon

Timetable (online phase) of digital social security hackathon

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 6 August 2021)

Countries, including Indonesia, are taking unprecedented measures to combat the spread of the disease, while ameliorating its pernicious effect on the economy and labour market.

Gender gaps in the social insurance system

This policy brief is number 1 in a series of technical notes based on the report Adapting social insurance to women’s life courses: A gender impact assessment of Viet Nam. It was prepared by the ILO Social Protection team in Viet Nam as an input to...

Policy Brief

Building Forward Fairer: Women’s rights to work and at work at the core of the COVID-19 recovery

This policy brief provides an outlook of where women stand in the labour market after more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Financing social protection through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

This briefing note is produced for the G20 Development Working Group by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. It demonstrates the key role that social...

Project brief

Project Fact Sheet: Supporting the Implementation of Sustainable Social Protection Floors for Workers and their Families in ASEAN – Phase...

The project is a continued partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Korea through the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL). This project focuses on creating conditions in the target country and the...

Actuarial analysis of a proposed unemployment insurance scheme in Indonesia -- Policy brief