Social Protection Policy Paper. Paper 16
10 March 2016
This policy paper: (i) provides an overview of the global situation of social security
provisions for domestic workers in 163 countries; (ii) analyses trends, policies and gaps in
terms of legal and effective social security coverage for domestic workers; (iii) describes
and analyses the configuration of social security schemes for domestic workers, such as
their institutional organization, financing and administration; (iv) informs on challenges to
extending coverage; and (v) provides a compilation and description of international
practices of social security schemes for the domestic work sector, including comparative
information.