Social Protection

Building social protection floors
and comprehensive social security systems

July 2014

 
 
 

At the time of publishing the Social Protection OUTLOOK the main international issues on social protection are:

  1. The launch of ILO's World Social Protection Report 2014/15, a comprehensive source of information on social protection systems, policy trends and social protection statistics in 182 countries.
  1. The launch of the World Bank's State of Social Safety Nets 2014, using data from 146 countries, including detailed household survey data from 69 countries in the World Bank ASPIRE database, the report provides new estimates on social safety net programs and highlights emerging innovations.
  2. World Day Against Child Labour 2014 draws attention to the role of social protection in keeping children out of child labour.
  3. At the International Labour Conference in June 2014, government, employer and worker delegates of the ILO's 185 member States discussed social protection as a key element of national policies that facilitates transitions from the informal to the formal economy. The results of this discussion may lead to the adoption of a new international labour standard (recommendation) in 2015
  4. Fifth meeting of the Social Protection Inter-agency Cooperation Board, held in Geneva, May 2014.

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Building social protection floors
A good practices guide: Assessment based national dialogue

Building social protection floors (SPFs) starts by an Assessment based national dialogue (ABND) exercise, the first step towards the achievement of nationally defined SPFs. It helps formulate relevant and feasible policy options, based on an assessment of the social protection situation, cost estimations and national dialogue.

The ABND guide provides step-by-step support for conducting an ABND exercise. It can be used for self-learning, delivering training workshops and conducting full-fledged ABND exercises. The guide proves most useful for line ministries, social security institutions, social partners, civil society organizations, UN agencies and development partners, social protection taskforces and experts in the field.

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Publications

  1. World Social Protection Report 2014/15, ILO, June 2014
  2. Can productivity in SMEs be increase by investing in workers¿ health? Taking stock of findings on health protection of workers in small and medium-sized enterprises and their impacts on productivity, Scheil-Adlung, X. (ed.), ILO, June 2014
  3. Access to and effects of social protection on workers Living with HIV and their households, ILO, June 2014
  4. Reversing pension privatization. The experience of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Hungary Mesa Lago, C., ILO, February 2014
  5. Coordinación institucional y pisos de protección social. Experiencias de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México, Uruguay), Schwarzer, H.; Tessier, L.; Gammage, S., ILO. February 2014. Also available in French
  6. Innovative experiences: Thailand. Universal Health Coverage, Tessier, L.; ILO; April 2014
  7. Social protection for all. Social protection floors in the Post-2015 Agenda. Targets and indicators, ILO, March 2014
  8. "Investing in people: Implementing the extension of social security through national social protection floors", Behrendt, C., in David Kucera and Iyanatul Islam (eds.): Beyond macroeconomic stability: structural transformation and inclusive development, ILO, March 2014 (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
  9. A social protection floor for India, Srivastava, R.; ILO, 2013
  10. More publications here

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