Publications and tools

2023

  1. Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All: 2021-22 Report

    24 March 2023

    Launched in 2016, the ILO’s Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All (SPF Flagship Programme) supports ILO member States in developing sustainable social protection systems, including floors, and contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on social protection (in particular targets 1.3 and 3.8), through a coherent structure to mobilize resources and achieve impact.

  2. Extending contribution-based social security schemes for workers in the informal economy and self-employed in Nepal

    23 February 2023

    The policy brief builds on the technical support provided by the ILO to the Social Security Fund (SSF) on the extension of social security to all workers and expands on proposing key aspects to be considered during the design and implementation of contribution-based social security schemes for workers in the informal economy and self-employment.

  3. Policy note: Fiscal space for social protection in Albania - 2022 UPDATE

    07 February 2023

  4. Effects of digitalization on the human centricity of social security administration and services

    06 February 2023

  5. Social protection for a just transition

    06 February 2023

    This policy brief is part of the ILO Just Transition Policy Briefs series and is intended to present the linkages between just transition and social protection, providing stakeholders with information and recommendations for implementation.

2022

  1. Case studies on digital transformation of social security administration and services

    28 December 2022

    This report is part of series of country and case study analysis developed as a part of the Study on the digital transformation of social insurance administration and services to ensure universal social security coverage in the People’s Republic of China.

  2. Child labour and social protection in Nepal

    16 December 2022

    This policy brief looks at the extent to which social protection is supporting the reduction and prevention of child labour in Nepal and provides recommendations on how to further leverage the national social protection system to better protect children.

  3. Administrative barriers, capacity constraints and solutions for the inclusion of agricultural workers in social insurance schemes in the Middle East and North Africa

    10 December 2022

  4. Financing social insurance schemes for agricultural workers in the Middle East and North Africa

    01 December 2022

  5. The role of social insurance schemes in addressing the risks faced by agricultural workers in the Middle East and North Africa

    01 November 2022

  6. Long-term care in the context of population ageing: a rights-based approach to universal coverage

    20 October 2022

    With the acceleration of population ageing, the achieving of healthy ageing is becoming a global imperative and social protection policies and social security systems have an important role to play in this endeavour.

  7. Assessment of social security coverage of workers in diverse forms of employment and in platform employment in China

    12 October 2022

  8. Plans for the implementation of health benefits by the Social Security Corporation of Jordan

    29 September 2022

    Observations and considerations in light of ILO’s social security standards

  9. World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific

    30 August 2022

    This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22. It includes a section summarizing the status of social protection worldwide, followed by a section highlighting key social protection developments, challenges and priorities for this region from a life-cycle perspective.

  10. Position Paper: Building Iraq’s Social Protection Floor: Framework and Recommendations

    17 August 2022

  11. Roadmap: Jobs and just transitions - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  12. Roadmap: Care economy and health workers - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  13. Roadmap: Financing social protection - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  14. Roadmap: Financing - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  15. Roadmap: Informality - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022