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)
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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
A Universal Health Care programme was launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinceOutcome achieved
A Universal Health Care (UHC) programme launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province achieving coverage of 100% of the households in December 2020. In 2021, UHC is being replicated in Punjab Province, which will be followed by Baluchistan province in 2022.ILO's contribution to the outcome
ILO has undertaken strong advocacy for Universal Social Protection since 2016-including through a national conference in November 2020. ILO undertook a technical actuarial study for the first phase of the Social Health Programme in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province(KP) in 2018-19 and was requested a similar study in 2021 for expanding this programme to Punjab.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