Publications and tools
2020
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Social Protection Monitor: Social Protection Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis around the World - Second edition
08 April 2020
This note summarizes the results of the Social Protection Monitor that tracks announcements of social protection measures responding to the possible impacts of the COVID-19 crisis - Updated on 6 April 2020
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Towards Universal Health Coverage: Social Health Protection Principles
26 March 2020
Social health protection provides a rights-based approach to reaching the objective of universal health coverage that ensures financial protection and effective access to health care services.
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Social Protection Monitor: Social Protection Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis around the World
26 March 2020
This note summarizes the results of the Social Protection Monitor that tracks announcements of social protection measures responding to the possible impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Global Social Protection Week. A call to achieving SDG 1.3 and universal social protection in the context of the future of work
25 February 2020
This document presents the outcome of the discussions of the Global Social Protection Week, held under the auspices of the ILO from 25 to 28 November 2019 in Geneva.
2019
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Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region
31 December 2019
The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes recommendations to the regional and national policy debates on the extension of social protection coverage from legal, administrative and financial perspectives.
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How to extend social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region
31 December 2019
This policy brief is based on the findings and recommendations of the report, Expansion of Social Protection to Workers in Informal Employment, from the International Labour Organization. The report outlines recent trends in informal employment as well as the challenges and opportunities for extending social protection to all workers across the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It describes the gaps and needs of specific groups of workers who are more likely to be excluded from social protection coverage. Structured around a proposed typology of strategies, the report documents relevant country experiences and lessons from those experiences, drawing conclusions and proposing recommendations to invigorate the regional and national policy debates on the extension of social protection coverage.
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Improving social protection for internal migrant workers in China
12 December 2019
The report further argues that the social security coordination mechanism used among EU Member States could be a useful reference for China. It suggests to: 1) enhance the centralized management of social security funds at the national level; 2) eliminate household registration restrictions to allow migrant workers to register in the social security schemes for urban and rural residents at the place of employment; 3) upgrade the social security information system; and, 4) improve the efficiency of the transfer of social security records and benefits between provinces.
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Improving the social protection of workers migrating between China and the EU countries
12 December 2019
With fast growing international trade and exchanges, international migration between China and EU countries has increased greatly in recent decades. Past experiences in a number of countries have shown that the conclusion of bilateral social security agreements (SSAs) is an effective way of improving the social protection of migrant workers.
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Maternity income protection in Southern and Eastern Africa. From concept to practice
02 December 2019
This publication is part of a collaboration of the ILO with the Eastern and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to encourage the move from employer liability systems to social insurance based systems and to provide universal and comprehensive coverage.
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Measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3: Global estimates and strategies for developing countries [Executive summary]
25 November 2019
Social security is a human right but it is not yet a reality. Only 45 per cent of the global population are effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit, while the remaining 55 per cent – as many as 4 billion people – are unprotected. Closing the coverage gap will require additional investments in social protection, which can and should be achieved by increasing the “fiscal space” for social protection.
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Measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3: Global estimates and strategies for developing countries
25 November 2019
Social security is a human right but it is not yet a reality. Only 45 per cent of the global population are effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit, while the remaining 55 per cent – as many as 4 billion people – are unprotected. Closing the coverage gap will require additional investments in social protection, which can and should be achieved by increasing the “fiscal space” for social protection.
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Summary note on options for the design of a multi-tier pension system in Viet Nam
20 November 2019
The report aims to summarize the rational to reform the pension system in Viet Nam while providing recommendations on the design of a multi-tier pension system in Viet Nam aligned with the objectives established by Resolution No. 28.
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Fiscal Space for Social Protection. A Handbook for Assessing Financing Options
07 November 2019
This practical handbook is an essential companion to assess financing options to extend social protection coverage and benefits.
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Agenda of the Global Social Protection Week
31 October 2019
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Global social security and economic development: Retrospect and prospect
09 October 2019
This Working Paper is the result of a joint research project between the China Association of Social Security, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
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Social protection among Vietnamese SMEs: Implications for firm performance, 2012–16
29 September 2019
The paper aimed to observe the connection between social security provision and firm-level performance among Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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To what extent is social protection associated with better firm level performance?: A case study of SMEs in Indonesia
30 July 2019
The relationship between social protection and enterprise performance is much debated in the literature, and evidence is particularly limited in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies. This paper examines how the provision of social security influenced business performance in Indonesia using census data from 2010 to 2014.
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Reversing Pension Privatizations. Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America
31 March 2019
From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries privatized fully or partially their public mandatory pensions; as of 2018, eighteen countries have reversed the privatization.
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General Survey concerning the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
28 February 2019
The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations has just published its annual General Survey on member States' national law and practice concerning social protection floors.
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Social security gap in the coffee sector in Indonesia
27 February 2019
This study aims to provide policy recommendations for improving social security coverage (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan or BPJS TK), by exploring how social security schemes are implemented in different sectors and revealing the attitude in social security between different types of employment and different chains.