Result achieved
A social protection scheme to extend coverage, enhance comprehensiveness and/or increase adequacy of benefits has been adopted or reformed (Step 2)
Number of countries that have adopted or reformed social protection schemes to extend coverage, enhance comprehensiveness and/or increase adequacy of benefits (Step 2)
09.09.2021 PAK226 Public 2020-21 | 8.1.1 employers organizations with UN Agencies, excluding IFIs workers organizations (e) social inclusion, including of persons in the informal economy
Linked projects
- PAK/21/01/DEU - Technical Assistance – Monitoring Support and Actuarial Analysis
- PAK/21/01/RBS - Expanding Social Protection to Dometic Workers in Pakistan.
- PAK/16/01/KIK - Settlement of the funding gap for the compensation to be delivered to the victims of the fire at the Ali Enterprises in Baldia.
- RAS/18/01/UNS - Achieving SDGs and ending poverty through Universal Social Protection
- PAK/16/06/DEU - Implementation of the agreement concerning additional employment injury benefits to the victims of the Ali Enterprises fire and strengthening of the employment injury insurance and benefit system in Sindh Province.
- PAK/16/04/ITA - Promotion of Decent Work Opportunities for the economic empowerment of vulnerable segments of society
Outcome summary
The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa extended social security coverage to construction workers and to workers earning 60% higher than the minimum wageOutcome achieved
On 9 September 2021, the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adopted the amended KP Employees Social Security Act 2021, which extends coverage of social security to ‘Construction Workers’ (both in public-funded projects and private projects), and to workers earning 60% higher than the prescribed Minimum Wage in the Province.ILO's contribution to the outcome
In 2020-21, ILO strongly advocated for expanded coverage through ‘Social Security Coordination Forum’. ILO undertook a study on the feasibility of extending social security to Construction Workers (under the German-funded Baldia Project). During 2018-19, the ILO Baldia Project and the South-South facility facilitated exposure visits for Social Security Institutions to Malaysia, including SOCSO, to study how informal economy workers were covered by social security. ILO is providing strong support to Governments of KP, Punjab and Pakistan Administered Kashmir(PAK) in developing draft Social Protection Policies to align with aspirations of Employers and Workers in-line with international standards C102 and R202. In KP, ILO is updating a 2014 Draft SP Policy. In Punjab, technical inputs are provided and participation of employers and workers organizations is supported in policy dialogue. In PAK, various seminars were facilitated (jointly organized with other UN Agencies including UNDP and UNICEF).Partnerships
Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan; Sindh Employees Social Security Institution, Provincial Social Security Institution, Employees Old-age Benefits institutions, Workers Welfare Fund, Employers Federation of Pakistan; Pakistan Workers Federation;SDG
Goals
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Targets
- 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
- 8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on highvalue added and labour-intensive sectors
- 8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms