December 2016

 
 
 

SEASON'S GREETINGS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!

2016 was another thrilling year… Thanks for all efforts to bring social protection to the forefront of the development agenda!

Highlights in 2016:

From the G20 in China, the South-South high level event to achieve the SDGs on Universal Social Protection.

The launch of the Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection to achieve the SDG's at the UN General Assembly.

The ILO's Flagship Programme Building Social Protection Floors for All in 21 countries launched in January 2016 is making its way to realizing the human right to social protection (Preliminary Results).

The ILO Social Security Inquiry is collecting data to monitor the implementation of the SDGs in all world countries.

The Social Protection Inter-agency Cooperation Board launched the Inter-Agency Social Protection Assessment Tools.

The High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth appointed in March 2016 published the report of the Expert Group.

The Global Coalition for the Social Protection Floor presented the Social Protection Floor Index: Monitoring National Social Protection Policy Implementation.

The Social Protection Monitor was launched to show advances in social protection, though austerity threatens progress worldwide.

Many publications opened new frontiers in areas such as social protection for domestic workers, the health workforce in global supply chains, maternity benefits, schemes protecting people and the environment... Check many others in our publications page.

Most important, countries continue to show that social protection works! See more than 50 successful country experiences to build social protection floors in the Global South in our 3 new volumes:

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Volume 1

Universal Schemes

Volume 2

Innovations to extend coverage

Volume 3

Governance and financing

Season's Greetings from the ILO Social Protection Team. We look forward to our continued work with you in 2017!