Publications and tools

2022

  1. Old-age pension models worldwide from an ILO perspective: What workers’ organizations need to know

    14 September 2022

    This policy brief aims to show evidences that workers’ organizations can make a vital contribution to informed discussions on pension reform policies and their implementation at the national level.

  2. Closing gender gaps in social protection: What workers’organizations need to know

    14 September 2022

    This policy brief provides an overview of the root causes of gender-related social protection gaps and the ILO’s strategy for filling them.

  3. Creating fiscal space for financing social protection: What workers’ organizations need to know

    14 September 2022

    This policy brief intends to provide workers’ representatives with a better understanding of the challenges related to the creation of fiscal space for social protection financing and the different policy options to overcome these challenges with a view to effectively contributing to policy discussions on mobilizing resources for adequate investments in universal social protection at country level.

  4. Extending social protection coverage to informal economy workers: What workers’ organizations need to know

    14 September 2022

    This policy brief aims at helping workers' representatives to better understand the complexity of and the challenges for extending social protection coverage to workers in the informal economy, and the different policy choices which countries have implemented to overcome these challenges.

  5. Workers’ guide to ILO Conventions concerning minimum standards of social security

    14 September 2022

    The guide aims to help workers’ representatives to promote the ratification of ILO standards, and in particular Convention No. 102, and to ensure their application at national level as a basis for progressively extending adequate and sustainable social protection to all.

  6. 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.

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

    17 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

  13. Roadmap: Youth - Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

    01 August 2022

  14. World Social Protection Report 2020-22. Regional companion report for Africa

    27 June 2022

    This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22.

  15. Targeting by proxy: An assessment of targeting efficiency of the proxy means test in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

    17 June 2022

    Technical Paper, June 2022

  16. Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies

    13 June 2022

    This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.

  17. Making the right to social security a reality for domestic workers: A global review of policy trends, statistics and extension strategies [Executive summary]

    13 June 2022

    This ILO report provides data on social protection deficits experienced by domestic workers and identifies the barriers standing in the way of their effective social protection coverage.

  18. Long-term care for the elderly in Albania: Challenges and key policy issues

    23 May 2022

    This report presents the key challenges and issues in the long-term care policy in Albania.

  19. The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour: Evidence review and policy implications

    18 May 2022

    This new ILO-UNICEF report provides a rigorous review of what the latest research says about the power of social protection to combat child labour. Providing families with direct assistance to help them weather crises can help reduce negative coping strategies like child labour and child marriage.

  20. UN collaboration on social protection: Reaching consensus on how to accelerate social protection systems-building

    05 May 2022

    The objective of this publication is to work towards a consensus among UN agencies on how best to support countries to achieve progress towards universal social protection in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.