Articles
2022
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Routes to success for youth through digital skills and apprenticeship
28 October 2022
The ILO’s digital skills training and apprenticeship programmes have provided two young Indonesians with a better opportunity for skilled jobs in animation industry.
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Despite some improvements needed, Indonesia’s unemployment benefit helps laid-off workers during the transition period
26 September 2022
The ILO continues to support initiatives taken by the Indonesian government to improve its unemployment benefit programme (JKP). Two workers shared their stories participating in the JKP programme.
2021
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ILO: Employment Insurance (JKP) – A step to deliver the integrated assistance for job seekers
19 July 2021
The implementation of the employment insurance or Jaminan Kehilangan Pekerjaan (JKP) requires smooth integration and synergy between the provision of cash and non-cash benefits to provide effective protection for the unemployed workers.
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Actuary or actor?
30 March 2021
Behind the scenes of social protection: managing risk and uncertainty in social security.
2020
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Supporting Burkina Faso and Senegal to promote social protection
16 December 2020
The Government of Belgium and the International Labour Organization will support the strengthening and extension of national social protection systems in Burkina Faso and Senegal to increase coverage of informal economy workers and their families, facilitate their access to health care and enable them to face the challenges of tomorrow.
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The European Union and ILO joins forces to promote social protection systems in Sudan
09 November 2020
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Universal social protection floors are a joint responsibility
26 October 2020
Building back better from the pandemic so that we have greater resilience against future crises’ requires international solidarity and better social protection for all, that covers the poorest and most marginalized as well as those who currently have resources to pay.
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Social Security in Chile: the Future of Pensions and the Proposal to Withdraw 10 Per Cent
17 July 2020
The proposal to withdraw up to 10 per cent of total individual pension fund savings responds to households’ need to ensure income during the COVID-19 crisis as well as to the wider discussion of the future of the pension system in Chile, according to the ILO experts in this brief.
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© Ploy Phutpheng / UN Women 2023
Building back better: Equality at the centre
16 July 2020
We must put equality and environmental sustainability at the centre of the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19: Social protection systems failing vulnerable groups
25 March 2020
Governments must use the momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic to make rapid progress toward collectively financed, comprehensive, and permanent social-protection systems.