Resources on social protection

  1. Community development through employment creation and improved migration management in Tajikistan

    01 June 2007

    The proposed project aims to improve the overall security situation in Tajikistan with particular emphasis on socio-economic and personal security needs of people on the move and of women who were left behind without income.

  2. World Conference “Social Protection and Inclusion: converging efforts from a global perspective”

    The International Labour Office, the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity of Portugal, and the European Commission organized jointly this Conference, which will be held within the framework of the common objective established between the three organizing bodies, to promote "Decent Work for All" and to contribute to a minimum floor of social protection.

  3. Towards Universal Coverage: China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance Experience

    01 February 2007

    This project space shares China’s rural cooperative health insurance experience with experts and specialists from other parts of the world and assists our Chinese counterparts in broadening their horizon and upgrading their schemes.

  4. Creating a "socialist harmonious society in the countryside": Towards universal health insurance in rural China

    30 January 2007

    In 2003, the government launched a New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NRCMI) with an ambitious objective of covering all rural residents by 2010. The new health insurance system is seen as a central pillar of the government's plan to improve the working and living conditions of the country's huge agricultural workforce and eliminate poverty in the countryside. Will it be feasible?

  5. HIV doesn't mean rejection at work - We help prevent the spread of HIV - We help staff living with HIV/AIDS

    01 January 2007

    3 posters on: HIV doesn't mean rejection at work (Our workplace policy forbids stigma and discrimination) - We help prevent the spread of HIV (Our workplace programme provides information and education) - We help staff living with HIV/AIDS (Our workplace programme provides care and support)

  6. Social protection and inclusion: Experiences and policy issues

    18 November 2006

  7. Social protection for all: challenges and policies

    03 November 2006

    In 1948, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations proclaimed that "Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security…". Yet today, only 20 per cent of the world's population enjoys access to adequate social protection, while more than half have no cover whatsoever. As part of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All launched by the ILO in 2003, a study group has been examining the extension of social protection in the world ( Note 1) so that what is recognized as a universal right can become a reality for everyone. ILO Online spoke with Emmanuel Reynaud, Senior Adviser on the Informal Economy, in the ILO's Social Protection Sector.

  8. Freedom of association - Digest of decisions and principles of the Freedom of Association Committee of the Governing Body of the ILO. Fifth (revised) edition, 2006

    01 November 2006

    Summarizes the decisions and principles of the Committee on Freedom of Association up to its 339th report (November 2005).

  9. Costing of basic social protection benefits for selected Asian countries: First results of a modelling exercise Issues in Social Protection Discussion Paper 17

    01 September 2006

    This study, outcome of joint ILO/DfID collaboration, offers a first estimate on the feasibility of basic social protection in low-income countries in Asia with a view to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and as a contribution to the construction of a Global socio-economic floor.

  10. Needs Assessment Survey for Income Recovery (NASIR)

    01 September 2006