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Policy resource package

Extending social security to workers in the informal economy. Information and awareness

If workers and employers do not know what social protection schemes are available to them, what their rights and responsibilities are and how they can access such schemes, then social protection policies and programmes have little chance of...

Policy resource package

Extending social security to domestic workers

Key lessons learned from international experience

Policy resource package

Extending social security to workers in the informal economy

Key lessons learned from international experience

Summary report: Assessment-based national dialogue on social protection in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Assessment-based national dialogue (ABND) is a methodology to assess existing social protection provisions and develop recommendations for the extension of a social protection floor (SPF). An SPF can provide basic income security to all people in...

Extending social insurance for informal workers

Briefing note collection

COVID-19 and the world of work

COVID-19: policy responses in Indonesia (Last updated: 21 February 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.

World Employment and Social Outlook 2021

The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

This ILO flagship report explores how the contemporary platform economy is transforming the way work is organized, and analyses the impact of digital labour platforms on enterprises, workers and society as a whole.

World Employment and Social Outlook 2021

Summary: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

This report examines how digital labour platforms are transforming the world of work and how that affects employers and workers. It focuses on two main types of digital labour platform: online web-based platforms, where tasks are performed online...

Decent Work

Pakistan Decent Work Country Profile 2019

This report is part of a joint collaboration between the Government of Pakistan and ILO to measure changes to ascertain progress and sustainability toward achieving decent work. The report was carried out in close collaboration with ILO Technical...

Social protection

Quarterly Social Security Policy Monitor China - Issue 5

The Social Security Policy Monitor is produced by the ILO under the EU-China project “Improving China’s Institutional Capacity towards Universal Social Protection”. It captures latest social security policy development in China, EU and globally.

Protecting rural populations

Extending social protection to rural populations: Perspectives for a common FAO and ILO approach

Extending social protection for all is core to the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The present paper lays out the specific profiles, risks and vulnerabilities...

Executive summary: Opportunities for extending social security coverage in Jordan

The report aims to support Jordanian policymakers in the extension of social security to informal workers. It formulates typologies for informal workers outside the social security system, analyses the main constraints to coverage and outlines a...

Opportunities for extending social security coverage in Jordan

The report aims to support Jordanian policymakers in the extension of social security to informal workers. It formulates typologies for informal workers outside the social security system, analyses the main constraints to coverage and outlines a...

Report

ESTATÍSTICAS DA SEGURANÇA SOCIAL1990-2018

This statistical report harmonizes the evolution of the coverage of the social security system managed by the INSS since its creation in 1990 until today. This document is the result of a major effort by the INSS, with the support of the ILO, to...

Report

Reaching the most vulnerable in the social protection response to the COVID-19 crises in Mozambique: Opportunities and Challenges

The Government of Mozambique is responding to the negative socioeconomic impacts of Covid-19 by expanding its social protection system, prioritizing the population who are most vulnerable to the crisis: those living in urban, peri-urban and border...

Countering unemployment in the United Kingdom

This report charts the evolution of measures to combat unemployment in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the three decades 1970–2000.

Research Brief

Social Security Perception of the Youth in Pandemics

Research brief 3: Social Security of Platform Workers in China: findings and recommendations from two studies (2018-2019)

Joint UNDP/ ILO publication

Informality and Social Protection in African Countries: A Forward-looking Assessment of Contributory Schemes