HIGLIGHTS: Recent major social protection events:

• Workers, employers and governments from 185 countries adopt a historic labour standard to tackle the informal economy in International Labour Conference. Read the news here, Read the Recommendation 204 here
• Launch of ILO's flagship World Employment and Social Outlook 2015, May 2015

Publications

Social protection for children. Key policy trends and statistics, ILO, May 2015

Social protection for maternity. Key policy trends and statistics, ILO, May 2015

Country note: People's Republic of China: Universal pension coverage, ILO, May 2015

Country note: South Africa: ICROP. Reaching out to rural poor through mobile service units, ILO, May 2015

Country note: Colombia: SISBEN. A unified vulnerability assessment and identification system for social assistance, ILO, May 2015

Country note: Philippines. DOLE's Integrated livelihood and emergence employment programme, ILO, April 2015 

Income inequalities in perspective, Jomo Sundaram and Vladimir Popov, ILO, April 2015

Fiscal space for social protection. Options to expand social investments in 187 countries, Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins and Kalaivani Karunanethy, ILO, April 2015

Global evidence on inequities in rural health protection, New data on rural deficits in health coverage for 174 countries, Xenia Scheil-Adlung (ed.), ILO, April 2015

Country note: Cambodia. A mechanism to deliver coordinated social protection services, ILO, April 2015

Rwanda: Feasibility study of the introduction of a new maternity cash benefits scheme in Rwanda, ILO, April 2015

Data & Tools

Main statistical resources

Statistics & indicators of the World Social Protection Report 2014/2015

Social protection assessment based national dialogue: A good practices guide

The ILO/UNICEF Costing and Assessment Tools

Social Protection Floor Initiative: Manual and Strategic Framework for Joint UN Country Operations

Inter-agency social protection assessment (ISPA) tools

Financing social protection

Actuarial practice in social security

News

Bangladesh: Rana Plaza victims' compensation scheme secures funds needed to make final payments, ILO Newsroom (08.06.2015)

Madagascar: Protection sociale - Quarante mille familles bientôt boursières, L'Express de Madagascar (23.05.2015)

Italy: Renzi announces one-off payment to 3.7 million pensioners, ANSA en politics (18.05.2015)

Brazil: Câmara aprova MP que concede seguro-desemprego a trabalhador rural, CenarioMT (10.05.2015)

Cabo Verde: On the road to universal pension coverage, ILO Newsroom (17.04.2015)

US: Obama signs largest healthcare bill since Obamacare into law, retcom (17.04.2015)

Ecuador: Con la aprobación de la Ley de Justicia Laboral las amas de casa accederán a la seguridad social, desarrollosocial.gob.ec (14.04.2015)

Thailand: Strengthening the roots of society, bangkokpost.com (14.04.2015)

Rwanda: Kagame Approves Bill Seeking 100 Percent Payment for Mothers On Maternity Leave, allafrica.com (23.03.2015)

Training

Estrategias para la implementación de pisos de protección social en América Latina, 13 - 17 julio 2015

G20 E-learning on social protection, 7 September - 4 December 2015

Academy on Social Security, 21 September - 2 October 2015

Designing and implementing unemployment benefits integrated with active labour market policies, 19 - 28 October 2015

Actuarial modelling of public pension schemes, 23 November - 4 December 2015

ILO international Training Centre: Training catalogue 2015

Videos

Mongolia: Universal social protection, ILO (26.05.15)

Nairobi learning event on non-contributory social protection, ILO (26.05.15)

People's Republic of China: Universal Pension Extension, ILO (21.05.15)

Rana Plaza Legacy. Employment Injury Insurance for All, ILO (24.04.2015)

How to achieve equitable growth and Social Protection for all?, ILO (14.04.2015)

Cabo Verde: Social pensions. Guaranteeing income security for older persons, ILO (2015)

Social protection floors, ILO (2015)

Thailand: Why is social protection important to me, ILO (2014)

Working mother. Maternity protection at work in Mozambique, ILO (2015)

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