1. Social protection floor

Publications and tools

2022

  1. 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.

  2. Legislative and Policy Coherence on the Extension of Social Security Coverage in Jordan

    12 December 2022

    The objective of this report is to identify options to strengthen legislative and policy coherence on the extension of social security in Jordan through an in-depth analysis of the national legal and policy frameworks.

  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. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

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

    17 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022

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

    01 August 2022