Resources GESS

Thailand's Universal Coverage Scheme: Achievements and Challenges

Migrant Workers Right to Social Protection in ASEAN:

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:19:27 GMT

This study is on migrant workers and social protection in ASEAN. Mahidol Migration Center (MMC) undertook this study for FES and Migrant Forum in Asia. Case studies for this research include Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and the Phillipines.

Building a Social Protection Floor in Thailand

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:51:11 GMT

Addressed issues:

Governance to tackle the root causes of health inequities: Implementing action on social determinants of health
Promoting participation: Community leadership for action on social determinants
The role of the health sector, including public health programmes, in reducing health inequities
Global action on social determinants: Aligning priorities and stakeholders
Monitoring progress: Measurement and analysis to inform policies and build accountability on social determinants

The UN Social Protection Floor Initiative is also addressed.

Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Expresses determination to achieve social and health equity through action on social determinants of health and well-being by a comprehensive intersectoral approach.

To strengthen global governance and collaboration, the Declaration supports, inter alia, social protection floors as defined by countries to address their specific needs and the ongoing work on social protection within the United Nations system, including the work of the International Labour Organization.

World Social Security Report 2010/11. Providing coverage in times of crisis and beyond. Résumé exécutif

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Piso de Protección Social para una globalización equitativa e inclusiva

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Piso de Proteção Social para uma Globalização Equitativa e Inclusiva

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

ILO-UN Social Protection Floor Initiative: The role of social security in crisis response and recovery, and beyond

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The crisis has reinforced the perception that the extension of social security should be a high priority. While in many developing countries social security systems were previously considered unaffordable, they are now regarded as important investments to support sustainable economic growth. Furthermore, in times of crisis, social security systems are playing an essential role as economic stabilizers. Interview with Michael Cichon, Director of the ILO’s Social Security Department, about the UN Social Protection Floor Initiative and social security in times of crisis.

L'Initiative OIT-ONU pour un socle de protection sociale: le rôle de la sécurité sociale dans les réponses à la crise, la reprise et l'après-crise

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Assessment Matrix - Indonesia

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The SPF Assessment matrix describes the social security situation in Indonesia with regards to the four guarantees of the Social Protection Floor. It was developed during the Assessment Based National Dialogue Exercise conducted in 2011 in Indonesia.

Health page- pic 1

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Agenda of EU/ILO Workshop: Review and Valuation of the Employment and Social Protection Studies in Cambodia

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cambodia: Toward a National Employment Strategy for Sustained Poverty Reduction

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

EU/ILO Workshop: Review and Valuation of the Employment and Social Protection Studies in Cambodia

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The EU/ILO project “Improving social protection and promoting employment” organised a workshop in Cambodia on 7-8 November 2011 to present the social protection and employment studies produced in the framework of the project to the representatives of Cambodian workers, employers and government. The workshop was designed to foster the development of a national consensus-building process on the topic of policy choices in social protection and employment.

The programme consisted of presentations of the project’s findings by ILO’s social protection and employment experts, as well as of panel discussions, group work and debate with the participation of the representatives of the three social partners.

The presentations of the workshop (in English and Khmer) as well as the analyses of the social protection and employment situation and policies in Cambodia produced in the project can be accessed through the links below.

Read the agenda of the workshop

Presentations of the workshop:

Day 1: Monday 7 November 2011

Schwarzer, H.: ILO/EU Project “Improving Social Protection and Promoting Employment” (English)(Khmer)
Schwarzer, H.: Results of the Recurrent Item Discussion on Employment (2010) and Social Protection (2011) (English) (Khmer)
Dasgupta, S. and M. Matsumoto: Cambodia: Toward a National Employment Strategy for Sustained Poverty Reduction (English)

Day 2: Tuesday 8 November 2011

Hennicot, J.C.: Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) & Social Budgeting in Cambodia (English)

Supporting Rural Development through Social Protection Floors

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Briefly explores how the Social Protection Floor (SPF) can contribute in developing countries, where the vast majority of rural populations that operate in the informal economy are unprotected, to support rural development and empower people to meaningfully participate in the development of their societies.

Cash or in kind benefits from SPF mechanisms, for instance, raise the incomes of poor households, helping them fulfill certain household needs. Such mecanisms also generate local consumption and create local economic multiplier effects in rural areas that often experience limited cash flows, thereby expanding domestic markets and promoting growth.

Social protection floor for a fair and inclusive globalization

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

South Africa Government Services - Social benefits

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

"Envejer con Derechos", Boletín CORV, No. 14, Año 3, Julio-Septiembre 2011

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Austerity MeasuresThreaten Children and Poor Households

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In the wake of the food, fuel and financial shocks, a fourth wave of the global economic crisis began to sweep across developing countries in 2010: fiscal austerity. Serving as an update of earlier research by UNICEF, this working paper:

examines the latest IMF government spending projections for 128 developing countries, comparing the three periods of 2005-07 (pre-crisis), 2008-09 (crisis phase I: fiscal expansion) and 2010-12 (crisis phase II: fiscal contraction);
discusses the possible risks for social expenditures;
assesses the most common adjustment measures being considered by developing countries in 2010-11 and their potentially adverse impacts on vulnerable populations; and (iv) summarizes a series of alternative policy options that are available to governments to expand fiscal space and ensure a Recovery for All, including children and poor households.

Identifying Fiscal Space

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Offers an array of possibilities that can be explored to expand fiscal space.

These include:

(i) re-allocating public expenditures,
(ii) increasing tax revenues,
(iii) lobbying for increased aid and transfers,
(iv) tapping into fiscal and foreign exchange reserves,
(v) borrowing and restructuring existing debt, and/or
(vi) adopting a more accommodative macroeconomic framework.

To serve as a general advocacy resource, the annex provides a summary of the latest fiscal space indicators for 182 countries.

The need to increase fiscal space for social and economic investments has never been greater. Just at a time when populations are most in need of public assistance, fiscal contraction is intensifying and spreading quickly across the developing world. Analyzing IMF data for 128 countries, UNICEF's earlier paper Austerity measures threaten children and poor households shows that 91 developing countries are planning to reduce public expenditures in 2012 - many undergoing excessive contraction, defined as cutting expenditures below pre-crisis levels in terms of GDP.

It is essential to find fiscal space to ensure social spending and investments necessary for sustained equitable results for children and human development. Given the significance of public investment in enhancing the prospects for equitable, inclusive economic growth and social development, including the achievement of the MDGs, it is critical that governments explore options to ramp up social spending and employment-generating economic investments during - and in support of - the recovery. Each country is unique, and fiscal space options should be carefully examined - including the potential risks and trade-offs associated with each opportunity - at the national level and considered in an inclusive dialogue of alternatives to ensure a Recovery for All.

Revista de la Red de Expertos Iberoamericanos en Seguridad Social, Número 8. 1er Semestre 2011

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection: a life cycle continuum investment for social justice, poverty reduction and development

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Workshop on the "Review and Valuation of the Employment and Social Protection Studies in Honduras" took place in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on September 5 and 6 of 2011 and was followed by the “Training workshop on the Diagnostic Tools for Social Protection Extension and Employment Promotion” on September 7 to 9 of 2011.

The objectives of the SPER are to identify the scope of social protection in terms of risks and needs covered as well as existing gaps; determine the expenses and their financing structures; and analyze the effectiveness of the performance of existing social protection schemes regarding their coverage. Both studies were achieved in the framework of the UE/ILO “Improving social protection and promoting employment” project. The findings will form the basis for the drafting of a proposal for a national policy integrating the goals of promoting employment and extending social protection. This drafting will take place in the subsequent stages of the project in 2012.

For more information (All documents in Spanish, except the synthesis of the two main documents, which are available in English).

Read the agenda of the workshop

Read the agenda of the training workshop

More material associated to these events:

Monday September 5, 2011

Inauguración, introducción y metodología [Press release], Schwarzer, H. 2011 [PowerPoint]

Schwarzer, H. 2011. Informe sobre Conclusiones de la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo [PowerPoint]

Panel 1: Diagnóstico de las Políticas de Empleo

Comunicado de prensa: Dr. Emilio Klein “Política de empleo para disminuir la pobreza en Honduras” [Press release]
Klein, E. 2011. [PowerPoint]
Klein, E. 2011. Reflections on the Construction of an Anti-Poverty Employment Policy for Honduras. [Synthesis]
Klein, E. 2011. Consideraciones para definir una política de empleo para disminuir la pobreza en Honduras [Final report]
Anexo 1. Evolución del PIB Sectorial [Excel]
Anexo 2. Ocupados [Excel]
Anexo 3. Ocupados (porcentajes) [Excel]
Anexo 4. Pobres Urbanos ocupados [Excel]
Anexo 5. Pobres Rurales ocupados (porcentajes) [Excel]
Anexo 6. Incidencia de la pobreza [Excel]

Tuesday September 6, 2011

Panel 2: Diagnóstico de las Políticas de Protección Social

Perdomo, R. and Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. [PowerPoint]
Perdomo, R. 2011. Social Protection in Honduras [SPER synthesis]
Perdomo, R. 2011. Informe para discusión. Protección Social – Honduras [SPER draft report]
Comunicado de Prensa: Dr. Rodulio Perdomo [Press release]

Trabajos de Grupo: Consideraciones para una política de protección social en Honduras:Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. [PowerPoint]

Presentación Trabajos de Grupo/Conclusiones parciales: Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. [PowerPoint]

Wednesday September 7

Fortuny, M. and Dierckxsens, M. 2011. Diagnóstico y proceso de elaboración de políticas de empleo [PowerPoint] [PowerPoint]
Fortuny, M. 2011. Indicadores para monitorear políticas de empleo y los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio; sistemas de indicadores de empleo desarrollados por la OIT [PowerPoint]
Fortuny, M. 2011. Ejemplos de intervenciones en materia de empleo en otros países [PowerPoint]
Muela, R. 2011. Elementos de empleabilidad y emprendedurismo juvenil en Honduras y opciones de coordinación interinstitucional [PowerPoint]
Comunicado de prensa: Mariangels Fortuny “Ejemplos y lecciones aprendidas de la experiencia internacional” [Press release]

Thursday September 8, 2011

Comunicado de prensa: Helmut Schwarzer “Expansión de Cobertura y el Piso de Protección Social” [Press release]
Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. Metodología del SPER – “Social Protection Expenditure Review” [PowerPoint]
Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. Metodología y Uso de Herramientas de Costeo de un Piso de Protección Social [PowerPoint]
Schwarzer, H. 2011. Ejemplos de Políticas de Expansión de Cobertura/ Piso de Protección Social en otros países [PowerPoint]
Acuña-Ulate, A. 2011. Disciplina Actuarial en Seguridad Social y Necesidades de Información para Proyecciones [PowerPoint]
Comunicado de prensa: Rafael Muela [Press release]

See some photos taken during the event [pictures - zip folder]

Consideraciones para definir una política de empleo para disminuir la pobreza en Honduras

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones para definir una política de empleo para disminuir la pobreza en Honduras. Síntesis

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Protección Social en Honduras. Resumen SPER

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Réunion technique UE/BIT: Revue des dépenses et des performances de la protection sociale (SPER) et Etude d'impact des fonds d'appui à la promotion de l'emploi au Burkina Faso

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

CIPS News 11, August 2011

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In this issue:

Guinea Bissau: the Ministry of Women, Family, Social Cohesion and Povery Reduction discusses its operational plan priorities for 2012-16.
Mozambique: the IMF publishes reports on the discussions held with the country related to the extension of social protection.
East Timor: launches the Strategic Development Plan 2011-30, which includes social protection, e.g. the implementation of a universal contributive social security system by 2015.

Déclaration tripartite de Yaoundé sur la mise en oeuvre du socle de protection sociale. Le plan d'action

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Understanding chronic non-communicable diseases in Latin America: towards an equity-based research agenda

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Although chronic non-communicable diseases are traditionally depicted as diseases of affluence, growing evidence suggests they strike along the fault lines of social inequality. The challenge of understanding how these conditions shape patterns of population health in Latin America requires an inter-disciplinary lens. This paper reviews the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in the region and examines key myths surrounding their prevalence and distribution. It argues that a social justice approach rooted in the idea of health inequity needs to be at the core of research in this area, and concludes with discussion of a new approach to guide empirical research, the ‘average / deprivation / inequality’ framework.

Yaoundé tripartite declaration on the implementation of the social protection floor. The action plan

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Following the discussions during the 2nd African Decent Work Symposium and those during the 100th ILC, this document sets out a plan of action as requested by the Yaoundé Tripartite Declaration. The document was presented to the ILO constituents at the 12th African Regional Meeting in Johannesburg, 11-14 October 2011. It will be reviewed according to comments provided by government, employers and workers.

Please send your comments to: gess@ilo.org

Sécu: objectif monde

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Poverty Reduction Database

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The IHSP is currently in the process of finalizing a unique database focused on mechanisms aimed at lifting individuals and families out of poverty. This database consists of five components, each of which examines a different category of social protection policies. The five policy areas that form the focus of the database include: minimum wage policies, which are meant to provide a lower limit for wages to protect the workers who earn the least; family allowances, which provide financial assistance to those caring for dependent children; unemployment insurance and assistance programs, which provide temporary income security in the event of job loss; old-age pensions, which provide a source of income to elderly individuals; and disability and work injury benefits, which provides income replacement in instances where an individual’s working capacity has been diminished by illness or injury. Further, supplemental data has been gathered on the social security benefit entitlements of disabled children, and statutorily guaranteed rights to severance pay.

The social transfers evidence base

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Social Transfers Evidence Base is an Internet-based database system that enables users to extract bullet-point summaries on programme impact from over 140 studies. Programmes from over 40 countries are represented, and more than two-thirds of the records are from papers or reports produced in the past five years. A linked database provides a reference list indicating the full details for each paper or report cited.

The system is powered by a user-updateable database, with programme impacts summarised in bullet-point format and classified by country, programme type and impact type. Users are encouraged to register for the system, which allows them to add entries to the database and comment on other entries.

Towards national social protection floors

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This note briefly explains how basic social protection – through national social protection floors – can allow countries to extend social coverage to their population, and ensure the sustainability of their systems in a context of crisis and fiscal constraints. It provides an overview of social protection policy measures worldwide, with specific examples towards a social protection floor approach.

It also stresses the leading role the G20 could play in G20 countries and low-income countries to make further concrete progress with the introduction of national social protection floors. To this end, the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, chaired by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, addresses the G20 a series of recommendations listed in this note.

Bolsa família

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Recommendations of the sixth ASEAN GO-NGO Forum for social welfare and development

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The participants of the 6th ASEAN GO-NGO Forum for Social Welfare and Development held on 20 September 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand, agreed on the need to strengthen cooperation amongst ASEAN Member States towards universal coverage of social protection to the peoples of ASEAN. This document presents the Recommendations of the participats to the Forum.

Making globalization socially sustainable

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication consists of contributions by leading academic experts who analyse the various channels through which globalization affects jobs and wages. Together, the nine chapters in this volume summarize state-of-the art knowledge on themes related to the social dimension of globalization. Contains a chapter on social protection in labour markets exposed to external shocks.

Social security. Three lessons from the global crisis

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article focuss on three lessons that can be drawn from responses to the global crisis:

People covered by different social security arrangements with respect to financing, design and coverage are exposed to economic shocks in different degrees.
With adequate financing, design and coverage, social security acts as an economic and social stabilizer during a crisis.
While the crisis has opened a window of opportunity for the extension of social security, particularly in low-income countries, more political will is needed both nationally and internationally to create the necessary fiscal space.

Education and solidarity network

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Ley General de Desarrollo Social

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Programa de educación en seguridad social. Uruguay

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Programa seguridad social para todos

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security education programme in Brazil

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presenta el programa de educación en seguridad social de Brasil

Social security education. The Uruguayan experience

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Burkina Faso. Mise en place d'un socle de protection sociale

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Caisse nationale de Sécurité sociale, Burkina Faso

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie, Burkina Faso

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Protection social au Burkina Faso / Social Protection in Burkina Faso

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This site has been developed by the UNICEF Burkina Faso. It contains all the presentations and documentation related to the Social Protection National Technical Workshop, organized in Avril 27-29 2010 by the ministère de l'Economie, et le ministère du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale, le ministère de l'Action sociale et de Solidarité nationale and the 'UNICEF, with the support of other ministries and partners, included the World Bank, the ILO and the WFP.

Addressing inequities in access to health care for vulnerable groups in countries of the European region

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper highlights issues that contribute to persisting inequalities in access to health care of vulnerable groups in the broader European region, including countries of the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and selected countries of Central Asia. It focusses on key determinants of vulnerability, primarily labour market impacts such as income, employment, and related gaps in access to social protection, and to social health protection in particular. Moreover, it concentrates on stratification of vulnerability looking at specific population groups, including women, the elderly, migrants, and ethnic groups, mainly Roma, who are often disadvantaged in regard with determinants of vulnerability as focused on here. Special attention is also given to rural and urban inequities.

The precariat: the New dangerous class

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This book claims that a new class, the precariat, characterised by common precarious work experiences, is emerging due to neoliberal and institutional policies. Their lack of organisation would render them sensible to producing societal instability. The book supports that re-engaging the precariat into civil society would benefit society, in which an unconditional state-provided basic income for everyone would be coupled by earned incomes, by addressing labour insecurity and civic disengagement.

Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación para el Ejercicio Fiscal 2011

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Health Insurance for the Poor: Targeting and Impact of Indonesia's Askeskin Program

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A first step towards meeting Indonesia’s ambition for universal health insurance was made in 2005 with the introduction of the Health Insurance for the Poor (Askeskin) program, a subsidized social health insurance for the poor and the informal sector. This scheme covered basic healthcare in public health clinics and hospital inpatient care. In this paper we investigate targeting and impact of the Askeskin program using household panel data. We find that the program is indeed targeted to the poor and those most vulnerable to catastrophic out-ofpocket health payments. The public health insurance improves access to healthcare in that it increases utilization of outpatient healthcare among the poor, while out-of-pocket spending seems to have increased for Askeskin insured in urban areas.

Social Protection Reform in Indonesia. In Search of Universal Coverage

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Provides an overview of the necessity to reform the Indonesian social protection system, mentioning inter alia Law No. 40/2004 on the National Social Security System, which provides the legal basis for the objective of social protection coverage for all.

The report also analyses the linkages between social protection and a social market economy. Whithin this context, collaboration between the Governement of Indonesia and Germany (through the GTZ) is briefly described.

Social Security Pension in Indonesia over 2003-2009: Causal Relationship Analysis

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Empirically, there was no study on social security pension in Indonesia as related to causal relationship analysis. Quantitatively, progress in social security pension should be seen from the changes in its asset. Basically, base money in circulation, government revenue and banking investment credit are defined as exogenous variables which probably need to be examined whether the variables can explain significant changes in pension asset or not. Methodology used in this study is predictive combined with quantitative research using linear regression model to analyze causal relationship while conducting statistic-test to identify how much is the significance of each variable to the contribution to changes in pension asset. The end of this study concludes that pension asset grows significantly due to the increases in base money, government revenue and banking investment credit in such a way to note that job-creation in formal sector employment is required absolutely to extend pension coverage.

Résolution concernant la discussion récurrente sur la protection sociale (sécurité sociale)

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Bono 10 000

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

CIT 100. Conclusiones relativas a la discusión recurrente sobre la protección social (seguridad social)

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

CIT 100. Resolución relativa a la discusión recurrente sobre la protección social (seguridad social)

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Country Study: Assessing Honduras' CCT Programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar

National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and the Vulnerable

In the publication Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty from 2005 to 2015, UNICEF stresses the importance of tracking global poverty and describes some changes in the composition of global poverty with a prognostic about where poverty will be concentrated in the future.

UNICEF forecasts that many households have successfully broken out of the extreme poverty trap. To maintain this success, however, large scale, long-term and sustainable programs, which provide for children’s basic needs in education, health, nutrition and social protection are required.

Cash transfer programs have shown to be effective tools for this purpose. UNICEF’s results indicate that providing every person in the world with a minimum income of $1.25/day – in other words guaranteeing the right not to live in absolute poverty – is rapidly becoming feasible. The cost of supplementing the income of a poor person to reach the minimum of USD1.25 a day would have cost USD96 billion; while in 2010, the cost would be USD66 billion. Moreover, conditional transfers which encourage families to keep children in school and ensure they receive regular medical care can compound the development impact of a global safety net. While the logistics of distributing cash to poor populations would not be without challenges, recent advances in biometric identification technologies – such as fingerprint and iris scanning – have greatly expanded the promise of implementing large-scale social welfare programs in poor countries.

Pisos de protección social para la justicia social y una globalización equitativa

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Governing Body has placed a standard-setting item on the agenda of the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference (ILC) on social protection (social security), with a view to the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor (single discussion). In this context, this summary report provides information on the law and practice concerning the establishment of a social protection floor or elements thereof at national level, including an overview of the main developments and emerging trends worldwide. This report, accompanied by a questionnaire, was communicated to governments of the member States of the ILO which were invited to send their replies to the Office no later than 1st November 2011.

Socles de protection sociale pour la justice sociale et une mondialisation équitable

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

UNCEB summary of conclusions of the first regular session of 2009

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The first regular session of 2009 of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (UNCEB), chaired by the Secretary-General, was held at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris on 4 April 2009. The summary of conclusions includes the report of the High-level Committee on Programmes which prepared an action framework for the UNCEB in response to the crisis. This framework is aimed at meeting the needs of those the UN system serve and at ensuring economic, social and environmental sustainability. Nine joint initiatives for action at the global, regional and country levels were articulated as a coherent United Nations system response to the crisis, including the Social Protection Floor Initiative that ensures access to basic social services, and the empowerment and protection of the poor and vulnerable.

Etablir un socle social face à la crise

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Responder a la crisis: Construir una protección social básica

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Responding to the crisis: Building a "social floor"

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Discussions about ‘social protection’ have gained in importance within development politics over the last two decades. During this time, various new instruments to increase the social protection of people in developing countries have been implemented. These include so-called ‘conditional cash transfers’ with which policy makers have tried to reach the poorest and most vulnerable who were not previously covered by state mechanisms of social protection. Several bi- and multilateral donor organisations have supported the implementation and the extension of such systems.

The author analyses the state of social protection in both urban and rural contexts in the Ecuadorian province of Orellana, which lies in the Amazon region. Based on empirical research carried out in 2008, the ways in which the population in this region seek to achieve social protection in every day life are examined. Adopting a ‘functional approach’, governmental as well as non-governmental forms of social protection are incorporated into the analysis.

The Ecuadorian cash transfer program ‘Bono de Desarrollo Humano‘, implemented in 1998, is at the centre of this investigation. Within the government of the current president Rafael Correa the program has become the most important tool of national social policy. As a result, the monthly cash transfer paid out to poor households plays a crucial role in the provision of social protection in the province of Orellana. However, the program also has its limits and even in its present form it does not provide an answer to all the risks the population faces on a day-to-day basis because it remains unable to adequately cope with many of the administrative, cultural, social and economic conditions in this region.

Informal forms of social protection based upon the family, neighbourhood, community networks and other forms of self organisation therefore continue to provide the bulk of social protection in the province of Orellana. In this study it is shown how these networks are organised, who benefits from them, how they adapt to social change and which roles the various people involved in them play. At the same time the analysis demonstrates how different governmental and non-governmental forms of social protection interrelate and how people draw upon them to improve their own social protection. Consequently, this analysis provides a framework to enhance discussions about new approaches which could improve the situation of social protection for the population in Ecuador’s Amazon region.

Speech by Sir Roy Trottman, General Secretary of the Barbados Worker's Union

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

On May 12th and 13th, the Social Security Department of the ILO in collaboration with the Decent Work Country Team and Office for the Caribbean in partnership with the Cave Hill School of Business of the University of West Indies delivered an Executive Training Course on Social Security and the Social Protection Floor.

The activity was inaugurated by Sir Roy Trottman, General Secretary of the Barbados Worker’s Union, member of the ILO’s GB and spokesperson of the ILO worker’s group. Sir Roy Trottman, among other issues, stressed the importance of addressing what he called two major multidimensional issues: governance of social security institutions and the establishment of a social protection floor for all.

Becas a la Capacitación para el Trabajo

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Borrador de resolución sobre la educación para la protección social

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Catálogo Universal de Servicios Esenciales de Salud

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Diconsa

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Draft Resolution on Social Protection Education

Aplicación del Programa de la OIT en 2008-09

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Exécution du programme de l'OIT en 2008-09. Rapport du Directeur général

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

ILO Programme Implementation 2008-2009. Report of the Director-General

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report provides an overview of ILO's performance and programme implementation for the biennium 2008-2009. It provides detailed reporting and analysis under each strategic objective, focussing on results achieved.

Financing Social Protection in the Light of International Spending Targets:

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study explores the ‘affordability’ of development targets in six key sectors (health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture and infrastructure), by means of an empirical study examining sectoral expenditure in five low income case study countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda) and comparing them with target levels of expenditure set out in recent international agreements to which sub-Saharan governments are signatories. The study has a particular focus on social protection in response to growing government and donor interest in the affordability of provision in this sector. This approach is taken in order to assess the limitations of the current ‘silo’ approach to sector financing which characterises much of the development financing discourse, and which results in the abstraction of one sector from the broader fiscal whole, to the detriment of overall fiscal coherence and realism. While this study looks at total expenditure per sector, it does not look at efficiency or outcomes of this spending.

G20: les enjeux de la présidence française

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The social dimension of the Europe 2020 Strategy: A report of the Social protection committee

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Social Protection Committee (SPC), a policy forum for EU countries and the Commission, has issued a report on the "Social dimension of the Europe 2020 strategy" that examines actions to promote inclusion and reduce poverty, in line with the strategy's headline targets.

The report details the challenges in fighting poverty and social exclusion in the EU and assesses policy options for addressing them. It analyses actions focusing on:

sustainable and adequate reforms of social protection systems
active inclusion strategies
well-designed universal and targeted benefits for families and groups at risk
future pension adequacy and long-term financial sustainability of pensions
increased effectiveness of health care and long-term care

It also outlines findings of the SPC work carried out in 2010 on:

following the social consequences of the crisis
deepening the policy dialogue on the issue of pension sustainability and adequacy
social services of general interest

A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Government of Zambia has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension. This brief outlines the perceptions of recipients, their families and the community towards the pension, and the impacts which have been observed on areas such as nutrition, health, education and the local economy. It also outlines the practical benefits and challenges of implementing the scheme. It finds that, while some technical issues remain, the model being used in Katete is a popular, administratively simple and cost-effective option to scale up to national level.

Duration: 00:13:45

The Global Social Crisis

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Report on the World Social Situation 2011: The Global Social Crisis, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), finds many governments did not pay sufficient attention to the social implications of the global economic crisis. The report says economic policies considered in isolation from their social consequences often create dire results for people’s nutrition, health and education, which, in turn, adversely affect long-term economic growth.

“The economic crisis reminds us that it is essential for people to be healthy, educated, adequately housed and well fed to be more productive and better able to contribute to society,” said Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN-DESA Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development.

Recovery has been uneven and still remains fragile, and, the report says, wide-ranging negative social outcomes linger from the global economic downturn.

What does Social Justice mean to YOU?

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Featuring eminent voices from Kofi Annan to Shakira, this video asks what is social justice and what does it mean for people the world over.

Duration: 00:01:54

BIG idea for SADC

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article puts forward the case for a regional tax on the extraction industry in Southern Africa. The proceeds from this tax can be used by the countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to create a basic income grant that meets the needs of citizens and migrants.

The Promise of Protection

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Evaluation of retirement systems of countries within the Southern African Development Community

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presents a review of the retirement systems and informal mechanisms of all Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, focused on describing the retirement systems of each country with a view to understanding the effectiveness and coverage in different systems and the importance of informal approaches to long-term provision.

ILO basic social protection costing models and policy implications

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The presentation (ODI International Conference on Financing Social Protection in LICs: Finding the Common Ground, London, 26-27 May 2011) gives an overview on the development of ILO basic social protection costing models and protocols.

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Labour Standards

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Building decent societies. Rethinking the role of social security in development

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This book makes the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries, including the poorest ones, in order to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, to reverse growing inequality and to sustain economic growth.

Determinantes de las tasas de reemplazo de pensiones de capitalización individual. Escenarios latinoamericanos comparados

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

G-20 Mendorong Pengembangan Sistem Jaminan Sosial

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Symposium on social protection in Southern Africa, List of resources

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

There is growing recognition globally that a basic set of social transfers is a key element to realizing human rights. UN agencies, with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the lead, is promoting the social protection floor, which suggests that countries need to provide cash or in- kind social transfers to create minimum income security and access to essential services. At the same time, many countries in Africa have expanded social protection dramatically – whether it is social pensions in Lesotho, the child support grant in South Africa or the productive safety net programme in Ethiopia.To take stock of these recent developments and discuss ways forward, the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) hosted an International Symposium themed Social Protection in Southern Africa: New Opportunities for Social Development at the University of Johannesburg from 23-25 May 2011. The symposium brought together specialists from the ILO and other UN and donor agencies, Northern scholars and experts as well as African researchers and practitioners from countries such as South Africa, Uganda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Source: Symposium on social protection in Southern Africa Brief

To read the brief from this Symposium, click here

List of powerpoint presentations

Bockstal, C. The Social Protection Floor Global Initiatives
Chikadza, K. F. Civil society support support for government led social cash transfer schemes in Malawi
Freeland, N. Social protection: The way forward for development partners?
Kruger, J. and Modise, B. Evaluation of Retirement Systems of Countries within SADC
Kurbiel, L. Searching for equity within the Cesta Básica: The emerging social protection debate in Mozambique
Laryea-Adjei, G.; Devereux, S.; Motepe M. Impact evalation of South AFrica's Child Support Grant
Lund, F. Working poor in the informal economy.
Marius, O. Social Protection in Lesotho: Innovative Developments and reform challenges
Murungi, I. Expanding social protection in Uganda
Mushunje. From Welfare to transformative social protection for OVC: A livelihoods based perspective
Mupedziswa, R.; Ntseane D. The role of Social Protection in promoting social development in Botswana
Nyenti MAT & Mpedi LG. Impact of SADC Social Protection Instruments on the setting up of a minimum social protection floor in Southern African Countries
Patel, L.; Hochfeld, T. Gender, Social protection and child well being: A Gendered Analysis of the Child Support Grant in Doornkop
Piachaud, D. Social protection, redistribution and economic growth
Ulriksen, M. Financing soical protection in Southern Africa: Status and Implications
Vitic, I. Social World Regions: A comparison of EU, ASEAN and SADC
Zibagwe, S. Poor Child Focus in Social Protection and Resultant Unsustainable Social Development in Ethiopa

The ILO’s Strategy to Extend Social Security: An Independent Evaluation Report examines the ILO’s strategy for Social Security, and evaluates its success in implementation. The ILO’s operational approach to social protection consists of four key elements:

Improving access to social protection: Social protection schemes should be universal, allowing informal workers and vulnerable populations to have access to formal systems of social protection.
Implementing a step by step approach: The advancement of social protection is a long and often involved process. The universal provision for a basic benefits package is a first step.
Working within the social, economic and historical framework of each nation: There is no single “right” model or path to obtain provisions for social protection.
Focusing on performance: A well designed social protection scheme will lead to improvements in health and living standards and lessen poverty.

This report gives a favourable grade to the ILO. By effectively utilizing technical (actuarial etc.) support for social security financing, governance, and management of schemes, the ILO has provided valuable assistance. The ILO has been especially effective due to:

Its clear policy position based on adherence and commitment to international labour standards and open dialogue between employers, employees and Nations.
Its simple, transparent and technically sound models and methods assessment.
Its relationship with partners around the World.

This is very good interactive discussion on the Indonesian context of SPF that involved Mr. Tauvik Muhamad (ILO- Jakarta), Christian Jacquer (ILO-Geneva) and Christine Labarme (France Government) at Smart FM radio programme.

Annexe: quelques données statistiques sur l'organisation financière de la Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale du Cameroun.

Wed, 25 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Expert Meeting on Building Social Safety Nets for Employment - Strategies in Asia

Tue, 31 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objectives of the Meeting were as follows:

To deepen the understanding of the concept of social safety nets;
To deepen the understanding of the evolution and current status of social safety nets in Asia;
To share knowledge regarding social safety nets for employment, drawing on the experience of the response to the Asian financial crises and the recent economic crises;
To share the most recent findings on the challenges and strategies for the implementation of unemployment insurance and active labour market policies.

Investissement des réserves de sécurité sociale: possibilités et performances

Wed, 25 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

L’organisation financière d’un régime de sécurité sociale, définie comme étant la méthode suivie pour percevoir et gérer les recettes qui sont destinées au paiement des prestations et au financement des dépenses administratives, permet de mieux comprendre la nature, les caractéristiques ou l’objet des réserves de sécurité sociale.

Les ressources ou recettes de sécurité sociale proviennent en majeure partie des cotisations versées par les salariés et/ou les employeurs et, dans une certain mesure, du produit des réservess placées pour le compte de chaque branche de risques.

Cette organisation exige alors, à travers ses divers systèmes de financement, pour les différentes branches, et en fonction de la structure des risques, que chaque branche jouisse d’une autonomie financière: les recettes de la branche de prestation doivent permettre, outre la couverture des dépenses techniques et administratives inhérentes à la branche, la constitution des réserves prévues par les textes organiques de celle-ci.

Six month review report of the implementation of the Vietnamese Unemployment Insurance scheme

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

FMI e o Sistema de Proteção Social em Moçambique

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Naamacha, Mozambique, on the social security system in Mozambique and the joint work of undertaken by the IMF, the ILO and the World Bank.

Social Security Summer School: a modular approach for individual learning needs

Mon, 23 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In 2011, the ITC is organising a larger event encompassing important aspects of social security policy. By launching its first Social Security Summer School, the ITC intends to go a step ahead in providing diversified and needs-driven training courses. The Social Security Summer School will offer parallel courses on the extension of social protection, governance, financing and reforms. Over a two-week period, participants will have the opportunity to take advantage of a rich and flexible learning environment with some of the best international lecturers on these topics. The Summer School will allow participants to acquire an international perspective on social security policy issues through comparative analysis and experiences, sharing as well as providing a unique opportunity for networking with a large pool of social security experts.

The IMF and the Social Protection System in Mozambique

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Innovation developed in Rwanda to support social protection interventions

Mon, 30 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This short article presents the the Ubudehe project targeting approach and its recent developments.

Ministry of Public Service and Labour Official Website

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

National Employment Policy 2007

Sun, 22 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This Policy document highlights employment generation related constraints and then proposes
solutions as follows;

Constraints:

Low investment level;
Limited employment opportunities;
High unemployment and underemployment levels, especially for the youth;
High illiteracy rate;
Under-representation of women in wage-earning jobs;
Insufficient data on the labor market, etc

Proposed solutions

Rural sector development;
Private sector and entrepreneurship development support;
Youth employment promotion;
Women employment promotion;
Employment promotion for vulnerable groups.
Strengthening the labour intensive approach in economic and social infrastructure programs;
Human resource development and employability;
Promotion of tripartism and social dialogue;
Social security promotion;

For this policy to be effectively implemented, the existing Partnership between the public and the private sector will be reinforced and incentive mechanisms to make financial facilities accessible will be established.

National Social Protection Strategy, Rwanda

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In recent years Rwanda has managed to achieve a good level of economic growth. However there is still much to be done if the government‟s aspirations for poverty reduction are to be achieved. In 2006, almost 57 percent of the population still lived in poverty, while levels of inequality were on the rise. A number of categories of the population are particularly vulnerable to poverty including older people, those living with disabilities, young children, female-headed households, genocide survivors and the historically marginalised. Young people are a group that also need support, given the difficulties many have in finding jobs due to low skill levels.

NISR: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda

Thu, 19 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Radical Efficiencies: Different, better, lower cost public services - Practical Guide

Sun, 22 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report shows how service leaders can develop better and lower cost social programs. It uses examples from around the world where radical efficiency has led to improved outcomes. One of the case studies detailed in this report is the innovative participatory program in Rwanda, Ubudehe, which gives wages to poor villagers to complete community projects. According to this report, Ubudehe has improved the lives of a quarter of Rwanda’s population.

Rwanda National Health Insurance Policy

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In many African countries a considerable proportion of the population faces problems of financial access to essential health care services. This holds especially true for the informal sector and people living in rural areas.

In order to enhance healthcare coverage and provide financial protection against impoverishment due to the costs of catastrophic illness, the Government of Rwanda has implemented several financing mechanisms. Apart from social health insurance schemes covering employees in the formal public and private sectors, a community based health insurance was established to improve access and offer financial protection to the majority of the Rwandan population working in the formal economy. In addition to the Community Based Health Insurance Policy, the present policy has been elaborated to provide a comprehensive guiding framework for a National Health Insurance system in Rwanda.

Rwanda, Community Based Health Insurance Policy

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The new initiative for community based health insurance contributes to the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals. It integrates system experience and is flexible enough to adapt to future challenges. Furthermore, this orientation guarantees access to quality care for the Rwandan population and in particular the most vulnerable.

Social Security Policy 2009

Sun, 22 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objective of this policy document is to analyze the current social security programin Rwanda in order to identify the gaps in different areas and to propose how to improve the program. The central goal is to provide adequate protection for all against the adverse consequences of various “life cycle” events and risks.

The Common Development Fund

Thu, 19 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN)

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Ministry of gender and familiy promotion (MIGEPROF)

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2010

Fri, 20 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Declaración de Brasilia sobre el Piso de Protección Social

Sun, 22 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Declaration of Brasilia on the Social Protection Floor

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Declaration in favour of the Social Protection Floor, signed on May 10, 2011 by the representatives of the three Latin America and the Caribbean countries in the G20 - Brazil, Argentina, Mexico - during a meeting in Brasilia.

States coordination of these countries' position within the discussions of the G20 process and promotion of the following proposals, inter alia:

a commitment of the countries of the G20 to promote the extension of social protection;
a call upon the international organizations to work together in supporting countries to build sustainable social protection systems.

Etude sur l'état des lieux et les perspectives de protection sociale au Bénin

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

CIPS News 09, April 2011

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In this issue:

Angola: The Declaration of Luanda was signed at the XI Meeting of Ministers of Labor and Social Affairs
East Timor: Approval of transitional social security scheme
Cape Verde: Building a statistical system on social security
Mozambique: Approval of regulation of social facilities for vulnerable children

La efectividad de las redes de protección social. El rol de los sistemas integrados de información social en seis países de América Latina

Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Inter-agency Show and Tell Meeting 2011. Social Protection (dossier)

Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Access to the agenda of the meeting and to presentations.

Agency activities in social protection/social security

Thematic exchange: Comprehensive social protection systems

G 20 Development Group "Growth with resilience"

France G20 and Development: Growth with resilience agenda

Show and Tell_BMZ 2011_Social Protection in German Development Cooperation

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Shows a map locating BMZ programmes with social protection components and social protection projects in the world.

Show and Tell_DFIDs social protection work in 2011

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presents, inter alia, the "Cash Transfers Evidence Paper 2011" produced by DFID.

Show and Tell_FAO_Social Protection in the FAO

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_Finland

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_France G20 and Development. Growth with resilience agenda

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_GIZ_Perspectives on comprehensive social protection

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Provides a comprehensive picture of social protection and includes further details on the following country projects/programmes:

Indonesia
India
Kenya

Show and Tell_HelpAge International's social protection activities

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Includes information about the following country projects:

Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Sudan
Latin America: Peru, Paraguay
Asia: Philippines, Thailand, Nepal
Caucasus, Caribbean: Tajikistan, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize.

Show and Tell_ILO1_Social security update on ILO activities

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_ILO2 Extending Social security to all

Thu, 26 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Includes developments at country level concerning the Social Protection Floor activity, providing a detailed example of Viet Nam.

Show and Tell_OECD Povnet

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_Save the Children1 activities

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Includes information about:

Flaghsip publications
Cash transfers
Projects in different countries

Show and Tell_Save the Children2 Transfer Project (short presentation)

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presents the transfer project "Learning how Transfers work in Africa".

Show and Tell_UNICEF social protection work

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This presentation includes the following regional/country examples:

Latin America and the Caribbean: Haiti
Middle East and Northern Africa
East and South Africa: Mozambique
South Asia: NEPAL

Show and Tell_WFP and social protection

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Mentions several examples of social protection programmes in the world, included specifi social transfers projects.

Show and Tell_WHO Health Systems Financing.The path to universal coverage

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Show and Tell_World Bank1 Activities

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This presentation presents:

the four global gaps in social protection and labor:
- Integration: fragmented and unharmonizedprograms
- Coverage: major programs are mostly in middle-income countries
- Weak connection to productivity: insufficient links to human capital accumulation, skills formation and labor market insertion
- Global knowledge: inadequate data, results-focus and transmission of good practice

and

The need for the World Bank to deepen work in four areas:
1. Build appropriate, context-specific social protection &labor systems
2. Expand coverage, especially in lower-income and fragile states
3. Promotelinks to human capital, skills and labor market insertion
4. Expand investment in results and knowledge

Show and Tell_World Bank2 Thematic exchange comprehensive social protection systems

Sun, 08 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security System in India: An International Comparative Analysis

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper examines selected components of social security system in India and compares them with their OECD counterparts. Historically, the Indian policy makers have viewed the pension system as a welfare measure and therefore, it lacks in financial professionalism, diversification, and in the belief that pension funds can also be treated as an asset. The Indian system is biased towards the organized formal sector as workers in this sector are benefitted with the provisions under various labor laws. Even then the pension provisions in India are way far behind the OECD benchmark. In the unorganized sector, old age income remains mainly confined to voluntary savings. The New Pension System although makes the pension amount an old age asset, is silent on the social security provisions to the poor. The average income earners are not able to replace their pre-retirement earnings with pensions compared to most of the OECD countries. In terms of the gross pension wealth, India is nearer to the OECD average only in the low income category for men. Out of 5% of health care expenditure as a percentage of GDP, government’s share in India accounts even less than 1% which is significantly lower than the OECD benchmark.

ILO banner meeting Brasilia

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

ASEM forum on social safety nets: Enhanced cooperation to address post crisis challenges. Summary Report

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Indonesia. Response to the crisis

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Japan's response to the crisis

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

China. Response to the crisis

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Costa Rica. Respuesta a la crisis

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Colombo Declaration

Thu, 26 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

By signing this declaration, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Nepal pledged to improve social protection in their countries.

Les pensions sociales au Cap-Vert: L'histoire de Nha Liza

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Pensiones sociales en Cabo Verde. La historia de Nha Liza

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Pensões sociais em Cabo Verde: História de Nha Liza

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Pensions in Cape Verde: The Story of Nha Liza

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Shows how non-contributory social pensions can improve the everyday life of elderly women in rural Cape Verde.

Centro Nacional de Pensões Sociais (CNPS)

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The National Centre for Pensions (CNPS) is a public establishment, under the supervision of the Minister responsible for Social Security. It is based in Praia.

The CNPS is a major actor in the field of social protection by ensuring the strengthening of social safety net aimed at the provision of basic social security for sections of the population in poor conditions and / or risk of social exclusion, especially elderly and disabled persons.

This service is responsible for ensuring - in an independent and profesional manner - the management of the non-contributory pension scheme, recognized and funded entirely by the state, the database of pensioners and the Mutual Fund.

La sécurité sociale pour une justice sociale et une mondialisation équitable

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social para la justicia social y una globalización equitativa

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Expert meeting on building social safety nets for employment: 21-22 February 2011, Niigata, Japan

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Summary: Expert meeting on Building social security in Asia

Agenda: Building Social Safety Nets for Employment: Stategies in Asia

Resources: Expert Meeting Materials

Impact of mutual health organizations: evidence from West Africa

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Mutual health organizations (MHOs) are voluntary membership organizations providing health insurance services to their members. MHOs aim to increase access to health care by reducing out-of-pocket payments faced by households. Multiple regression analysis of household survey data were used from Ghana, Mali and Senegal to investigate the determinants of enrolment in MHOs, and the impact of MHO membership on use of health care services and on out-of-pocket health care expenditures for outpatient care and hospitalization. Strong evidence was found that households headed by women are more likely to enrol in MHOs than households headed by men. Education of the household head is positively associated with MHO enrolment. The evidence on the association between household economic status and MHO enrolment indicates that individuals from the richest quintiles are more likely to be enrolled than anyone else. No evidence was found that individuals from the poorest quintiles were excluded from MHOs.

MHO members are more likely to seek formal health care in Ghana and Mali, although this result was not confirmed in Senegal. While evidence that MHO membership is associated with higher probability of hospitalization is inconclusive, MHO membership offers protection against the potentially catastrophic expenditures related to hospitalization. However, MHO membership does not appear to have a significant effect on out-of-pocket expenditures for curative outpatient care.

An Evaluation of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study examines the impact of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on women in two Ghanaian Districts. Ghana’s health system has undergone many changes since its independence in the late 1950s. Ghana was originally committed to social protection but abandoned its efforts in the early 1980s due to financial constraints and an IMF imposed Structural Adjustment Plan. In 2003, the government introduced the NHIS to reduce out-of-pocket expenses. The results of this insurance scheme have been good. The statistical analysis of this study shows that beneficiaries of the NHIS have relatively better health outcomes than non-beneficiaries. The creation of this insurance system was a positive step towards accomplishing the health Millennium Development Goals.

Mensah, J., Oppong, J.R., Bobi-Barimah, K., Frempong, G. & Sabi, W. An evaluation of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme in the context of the health MDG's. (The Human Science Resource Council: Commissioned by the Global Development Network (GDN), March 2010.) http://www.hsrc.ac.za/Research_Publication-21974.phtml

DFID Cash Transfers Evidence Paper

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper provides a synthesis of current global evidence on the impact of cash transfers in developing countries, and of what works in different contexts, or for different development objectives. Cash transfers are direct, regular and predictable non-contributory cash payments that help poor and vulnerable households to raise and smooth incomes. The term encompasses a range of instruments and a spectrum of design, implementation and financing options. While the primary purpose of cash transfers is to reduce poverty and vulnerability, the evidence shows that they have proven potential to contribute directly or indirectly to a wider range of development outcomes.

Ghana-Luxembourg Social Trust

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This website, managed by the NGO of Luxembourg workers union, OGBL, gives detailed information on the Ghana Luxembourg Social Trust Project, which aims to improve social protection for pregnant women through cash transfers in the Dangme West District in Ghana. (Information available in French.)

(If the link above is not active, please click here: http://www.solidaritesyndicale.lu/glst.php)

Growth, employment and decent work in the least developed countries

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study examines the relationship between GDP growth, employment and decent work in the LDCs within a longer term perspective but focusing on the last decade. It addresses a number of key issues in growth and development across the three main regions of Africa, Asia and the Island countries, also highlighting challenges and opportunities for structural changes, job creation and poverty eradication.

Pour une mondialisation équitable, un socle de protection sociale. Cohérence des politiques et coordination au niveau international

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection floor for a fair globalization. Policy coherence and international coordination

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper contains information about the United Nations Chief Executive Board initiative to enhance UN-wide policy coherence and institutional coordination around the concept of the Social Protection Floor.

Un piso de protección social para una globalización equitativa. Coherencia de las políticas y coordinación internacional

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

2. Excel data file | for hands on exercises (Solved)

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

3. Powerpoint presentation | Impacts of social protection on poverty reduction

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

G20 country brief: Brazil's response to the crisis

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report details several recent socio-economic trends in Brazil. It focuses on growth, employment and government actions to stimulate development. It also details Brazil’s most recent attempts to promote social protection by increasing the scope of the Bolsa Familia Program which provides cash transfers to poor families, and by creating the program Minha Casa, Minha Vida which provides housing to vulnerable groups.

G20 country brief: China's response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report details several recent socio-economic trends in China. It focuses on growth, employment and government actions to stimulate development. China has recently attempted to reduce enterprises’ social protection burden by lowering insurance contribution rates for basic medical care as well as unemployment, work injury and maternity insurance for employees.

G20 country brief: South Africa's response to the crisis

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report details several recent socio-economic trends in South Africa. It focuses on growth, employment and government actions to stimulate development. South Africa has recently revamped its social protection scheme increasing expenditures for the poor, including direct food relief, access to free basic services, such as water and electricity, and an extension of the Child Support Grant to age 18.

International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

ICSW and its members are active in a wide range of fields within the general areas of social development, social welfare and social justice. This includes issues such as food and nutrition, welfare and health services, social protection, education and housing, as well as many issues relating to economic development, human rights and community participation.

ICSW web site is also available in French and Spanish

L'Afrique: les dépenses en santé

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La République démocratique du Congo. Budget de l'Etat 2011

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The concept of the social protection floor

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This explanatory note discribes how the social protection floor (SPF) provides a minimum income and livelihood security, and an essential level of goods and social services for all people. It also describes how the creation of the SPF is part of the overall strategy of improving social protection.

Centro Interamericano de Estudios de Seguridad Social (CIESS)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Inter-American Center for Social Security Studies (CIESS) is the educational, training and research organ of the Inter-American Conference of Social Security (CISS).

Among the main activities performed by CIESS are education, research and spreading of social security issues. The CIESS carries out academic activities at its headquarters in Mexico City, remote academic activities, and it also carries out academic activities in the American countries that may request so.

The CIESS has developed 1149 academic activities at its headquarters and since 1987 up to 2007 it has co-sponsored 277 academic activities off-site in 28 countries, including one in Turin, Italy. Such activities are jointly organized with one or several institutions, under the Center academic guidance.

G20 country brief: Argentina's response to the crisis

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report details several recent socio-economic trends in Argentina. It focuses on growth, employment and government actions to stimulate development. It also details Argentina’s most recent attempts to promote social protection by creating cash transfer programs such as Programa Jóvenes con Más y Mejor Trabajo (PJMMT) and Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social. These programs often have a double role: Providing important support to vulnerable groups while improving access to jobs, education or healthcare.

G20 country brief: India's response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report details several recent socio-economic trends in India. It focuses on growth, employment and government actions to stimulate developmet. It also details India’s most recent attempts to promote social protection by signing two new laws in 2008 to improve health care access and the overall welfare of vulnerable groups.

La sécurité sociale et la primauté du droit

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security and the rule of law

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This is the report of the commiittee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (articles 19, 22 and 35 of the Constitution). It is structured in five main parts:

Part I. The right to social security in international law

Part II. Towards a rights-based approach to social security

Part III. Three dimensions of strengthning legality in social security: Extension, enforcement and due process

Part IV. Making up the deficit in social security regulation

Part V. Normative action and technical cooperation

Social security for social justice and a fair globalization

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report seeks to inform the debate during the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference by providing: (i) an overview of the present state of social security around the world; (ii) an identification of the main social security challenges; (iii) an overview of national and ILO responses to the challenges; and (iv) suggestions for the direction of future ILO action

High Performance in social security administration by innovation, change management and risk management

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This report, which was written for the 2010 World Social Security Forum in Cape Town, details some of the most important enablers of efficiency and performance in social security systems. These enablers include implementing innovation centered on citizens and embedding risk management in the organisation and processes.

CO-Islamabad: ILO Country Office for Pakistan

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Proceedings of the first microinsurance conference in Pakistan

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2002

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Gateway Paper. Financing health insurance in Pakistan (abstract)

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This paper evaluates the different methods that Pakistan uses to finance social security and, in particular, medical care. It concludes that the promotion of transparent financial administration, budgeting and cost controls as well as greater financial procedural clarity should be a priority.

A heterogeneity analysis of Bolsa Familia programme effect on men and women's work supply

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil's Conditional CashTransfer Programme), by way of an "income shock" on the labour supply of beneficiaries asmeasured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men andwomen. Bolsa Família transfers are viewed as an income shock because they alter the incomecomposition in terms of earned and unearned income. The analysis is undertaken using thevalues of the transfers as the treatment indicator to show how the Average Treatment Effecton the Treated (ATT) varies according to the amount received. ATT estimates obtained fromthe Propensity Score Weighting method lead to the conclusion that PBF marginallydiminishes the supply of weekly work hours of working adults. The heterogeneous impactsof the cash transfers on men and women depending upon how they are placed in formal andinformal sectors, agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and wage rate ranges are alsoassessed. The results indicate a nil average effect on probability of working and a marginalreduction in the supply of labour hours for men and women. The impact is greater for informalworkers and unpaid workers and is more significant for higher values of the transfers.

Are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income?

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve. There are two main findings. First, the authors show that households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that have both adult males and females, but not among households that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men and women is likely to be important in mixed-adult households, but not among female-only households, where there are no men to bargain with. Finally, the authors show that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only significant in households in which the initial bargaining capacity of women was likely to be weak. This pattern of results is consistent with an increase in the bargaining power of women in households that received BDH transfers.

Change and continuity in social protection in Latin America. Mothers at the service of the state?

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This paper has three main objectives. First, to describe the principal elements of new approaches to social policy in Latin America, in order to further understanding of the new forms of social protection that are evolving in the South. Second, to examine and contrast new and older models of poverty relief with specific reference to Latin America; and third, to ask what the implications of these polices and programmes are for those who have been among the most actively engaged in them, and who constitute a good proportion of their beneficiaries, namely low-income women.

Conditional cash transfer programmes and gender vulnerabilities. Case studies of Brazil, Chile and Colombia

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper analyses Brazilian, Chilean and Colombian experiences with conditional cash transfer programmes and how they have helped tackle gendered economic and social vulnerabilities. It is argued that Bolsa Família, Chile Solidario and Familias en Acción should be analysed within the broader social protection strategies in which they are meant to be components. Such an approach can help generate thinking on ways to improve the impacts of the programmes in terms of gender equality. A detailed description of the programmes’ design and implementation features is provided in order to understand both their rationale and their impacts. We conclude that the programmes do tackle a number of gendered vulnerabilities but also have clear limits with regard to a more decisive role in tackling gender inequities.

Conditional cash transfers and female schooling: The impact of the Female school stipend program on public school. Enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Instead of mean-tested Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments.

This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan – Did the intervention increase female enrollment in public schools? To address this question, we draw upon data from the provincial school censuses 2003 and 2005. We estimate the net growth in female enrollments in grade 6-8 in stipend eligible schools.

Impact evaluation analysis, including difference-and-difference (DD), triple differencing (DDD) and regression-discontinuity design (RDD), indicate a modest but statistically significant impact of the intervention. The preferred estimator derived from a combination of DDD and RDD empirical strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in terms of absolute change and an increase of 9 percent in female enrollment in terms of relative change. A triangulation effort is also undertaken using two rounds of a nationally representative household survey before and after the intervention. Even though the surveys are not representative at the sub-provincial level, the results corroborate evidence of the impact using school census data.

OECD Social insurance brief: What issues of equality between women and men are raised by social insurance schemes?

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Revolution: From food aid to food assistance

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This book looks at how innovative food assistance can be used avert starvation during humanitarian crises. It looks at ways in which food assistance over the long term can promote development and thereby break the deeply rooted hunger-poverty cycle. Chapter 7 in particular focuses on a cost benefit analysis of the food and aid transfer program in Malawi.

Gender and Land Rights

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to design better policies to effectively address this situation.

The state of food and agriculture 2010-11. Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Agriculture is underperforming in many developing countries for a number of reasons. Among these is the fact that women lack the resources and opportunities they need to make the most productive use of their time. Women are farmers, workers and entrepreneurs, but almost everywhere they face more severe constraints than men in accessing productive resources, markets and services.

This “gender gap” hinders their productivity and reduces their contributions to the agriculture sector and to the achievement of broader economic and social development goals. Closing the gender gap in agriculture would produce significant gains for society by increasing agricultural productivity, reducing poverty and hunger and promoting economic growth.

Vietnam. National gender profile of agricultural households, 2010

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

It is widely recognized that women’s contribution to agricultural production is of great importance. However,
their contribution is in most cases inaccurately reported and often underestimated. On the whole, agricultural
statistics under-represent data items that are crucial for understanding women’s role in the agricultural sector. The
lack of relevant data on women in agriculture constraints planners’ understanding of the real situation in rural
economies and hence the integration of women in agricultural planning.

Nevertheless, the agricultural census
has great potential for studying and understanding gender issues in agricultural and rural development, like the
distribution of agricultural work within households, the interactions between different household members in the
management and operation of agricultural holdings, and gender inequalities in access to productive resources.

CIPS News 08, February 2011

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Information Centre on Social Protection (CIPS) is a website that provides information in Portuguese on the social protection area (www.cipsocial.org). CIPS purpose is to respond to the knowledge needs of the Portuguese Speaking Countries and to make available information on their social protection realities.The CIPS News was created to serve this last purpose. Every two months it will provide you with information about relevant social protection news and events in those countries.

Trends in health coverage

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Keeping the promise of social security in Latin America

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

At present, nations around the world (both large and small, rich and poor) are engaged in debate over how to reform their social security systems and care for the aged. For many countries this debate requires speculation on hypothetical scenarios, but in Latin America a rich body of experience on social security reform has been accumulating for more than a decade (for Chile, more than two decades). Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America takes stock of those reforms, evaluates their successes and failures, and considers the lessons that can be drawn for the future of pension policy in the region. The authors draw on a series of background papers and surveys commissioned specifically for this inquiry, as well as existing research conducted by themselves and other pension experts. The report was also enriched by discussions with policymakers, pension fund industry managers, and academics at a regional conference held in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 22–23, 2004.

Pension Reform: Issues and prospects for non-financial defined contribution schemes

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This book presents 24 state of the art papers on the conceptual foundations and issues surrounding non-financial, or notional, defined contribution plans (NDCs), country implementation of NDCs (Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden), and case studies for countries where NDCs are figured in the reform debate. This book is intended as a handbook for academics and policy makers who want to become informed about what NDC is and to learn about the pros and cons of this attractive reform proposal.

Building on experience: Improving social protection in Uruguay and the Plan for Social Equity

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This report evaluates the Uruguayan cash transfer program Equidad. It comes to the conclusion that Equidad is an effective and efficient program and that the scope should be widened to include more of the poor and extreme poor.

Old-age income support in the 21st century: an international perspective on pension systems and reforms

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The past decade has brought an increasing recognition to the importance of pension systems to the economic stability of nations and the security of their aging populations. During this time, the World Bank has taken a leading role in addressing this challenge through its support for pension reforms around the world.

Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century attempts to explain current policy thinking and update the World Bank's perspective on pension reform. The Bank has been involved in pension reforms in nearly 60 countries, and the demand for its support continues to grow. This book incorporates lessons learned from recent Bank experiences and research that have significantly increased knowledge and insight regarding how best to proceed in the future.

The book has a comprehensive introduction and two main parts. Part I presents the conceptual underpinnings for the Bank's thinking on pension systems and reforms, including structure of Bank lending in this area. Part II highlights key design and implementation issues where it signals areas of confidence and areas for further research and experience, and includes a section on regional reform experiences, including Latin American and Europe and Central Asia.

Expert Panel Emerging Issues: Social Protection

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

High Level Panel on Poverty Eradication, Keynote Speech

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Agenda of the event "Achieving Social Protection for All"

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Sharing Innovative Experiences: Successful Social Protection Floor Experiences

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Video of the press conference of the pre-release in New York, 17 February 2011

The present publication was produced in partnership between the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Social Protection Floors (SPF) are one of the most successful tools in reducing social vulnerabilities and making progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Every country has some elements of social protection already in place and provides certain levels of benefits for a segment of the population in the areas of income security, health, water and sanitation, education etc.

The volume highlights 18 case studies on social protection policies from 15 countries of the global South. It is the first to bring together examples of good social protection floor practices for South-South learning. The knowledge, expertise and experience that these countries have gained in their own efforts of establishing an SPF represent a valuable source for other countries interested in planning, expanding, extending or reorienting their own SPF systems.

The case studies were written by representatives from national and local governmental agencies, scientific institutions and national practitioners as a learning tool. They were selected out of 36 submissions from 24 different countries by a committee from ILO, UNICEF and the Special Unit. The cases were peer reviewed and discussed before the publication during an international workshop in Turin with all the participating authors.

We hope that this collection of good practices will be a useful tool for all stakeholders involved in decision-making or in the process of building and implementing national social protection floors.

Content

1. Extension of the Universal Family Allowance: The Universal Child Allowance – Argentina

2. The Dignity Pension (Renta Dignidad): A Universal Old-age Pension Scheme – Bolivia

3. Broadening Social Protection and Integrating Social Policies – Brazil

4. The Rural Social Insurance Programme – Brazil

5. Building a Social Protection Floor – Burkina Faso

6. The National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable: Process of Development – Cambodia

7. The Red Protege, the Social Protection System, 2006-2010 – Chile

8. Developing a Basic Rural Medical Security System – China

9. The Subsidized Health-care Scheme in the Social Protection System – Colombia

10. Towards a Universal Pension Protection Scheme – Ecuador

11. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana – India

12. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act – India

13. A Social Protection Floor – Mexico

14. Setting Up a Social Protection Floor – Mozambique

15. Social Protection: An Ongoing Process – Rwanda

16. Child Support Grants – South Africa

17. The Universal Coverage Scheme – Thailand

18. The 500 Baht Universal Pension Scheme – Thailand

ISSA strategy for the extension of social security coverage

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This report, published by the International Social Security Association for the World Social Security Forum in Cape Town outlines their goals for the extension of social security. These objectives include the extension of healthcare, pensions and unemployment benefits so as to create a social protection floor that reaches even the most marginalized residents.

Video of Mr. Sagren Govender, Government representative of South Africa at the Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Strategies for the Extension of Social Security Coverage, Geneva, 2-4 September 2009

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Video of Mr. Sagren Govender, Government representative of South Africa at the Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Strategies for the Extension of Social Security Coverage, Geneva, 2-4 September 2009

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Long-Term Social Protection for Inclusive Growth

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Inputs from the IPC-IG South-South Dialogue from 11 to 14 October 2010, Johannesburg.

Content:

- The Boundaries of Social Protection (Armando Barrientos)

- Income Security in Brazil: Achievements and Challenges (Maria Paula Gomes dos Santos)

- Social Safety Nets in Botswana (Chada Koketso)

- Financial versus Demographic. Social Protection in Mozambique (António Francisco, Rosimina Ali and Yasfir Ibraimo)

- Addressing Rural Poverty in Malawi: The Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme (Ephraim W. Chirwa, Andrew Dorward)

- New Challenges of Cash Transfers in Namibia (Sebastian Levine)

- The Story of Cash Transfers in Indonesia (Vita Feberiany)

- Improving the Design of Bolsa da Mãe in Timor-Leste (Ricardo Dutra)

- Engaging Parliamentarians in the Social Protection Agenda (John Rook)

- Development Policy’s Missing Link (Giorgia Giovannetti)

- Social Protection Programming: The Need for a Gender Lens (Rebecca Holmes and Nicola Jones)

- Changing the Face of Development in India: the NREGA experience (Ashok Pankaj)

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

An aim of government and the international community is to respond to global processes and crises through a range of policy and practical approaches that help limit damage from shocks and stresses. Three approaches to vulnerability reduction that have become particularly prominent in recent years are social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). Although these approaches have much in common, they have developed separately over the last two decades. However, given the increasingly complex and interlinked array of risks that poor and vulnerable people face, it is likely that they will not be sufficient in the long run if they continue to be applied in isolation from one another.

In recognition of this challenge, the concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) has been developed. ASP refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of SP, DRR and CCA in programmes and projects. The aim of this paper is to provide an initial assessment of the ways in which these elements are being brought together in development policy and practice. It does this by conducting a meta-analysis of 124 agricultural programmes implemented in five countries in south Asia. These are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.

The findings show that full integration of SP, DRR and CCA is relatively limited in south Asia, although there has been significant progress in combining SP and DRR in the last ten years. Projects that combine elements of SP, DRR and CCA tend to emphasise broad poverty and vulnerability reduction goals relative to those that do not. Such approaches can provide valuable lessons and insights for the promotion of climate resilient livelihoods amongst policymakers and practitioners.

Social Protection in Health Schemes for Mother, Newborn and Child Populations

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Due to the wide variety of interventions in place, the task of identifying and describing social protection in health schemes (SPHS) for mother, newborn and child populations in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region is an arduous one. While nearly all Latin American countries have implemented immunization and nutrition programs that are standardized according to a global consensus based on worldwide experience on what works best, health protection schemes aimed at guaranteeing access to health care to mothers and children are heterogeneous and have achieved varying degrees of success. Along with those factors within the health sector that hinder the timely delivery and quality of health services, a number of conditions outside the health sector play a key role in determining access to care and health outcomes in LAC countries. The political situation and social determinants of health are of paramount importance in the performance of SPHS in the region, given the fact that political instability and inequity shape the social landscape of many countries.

The role of social security privitization in Argentina's economic crisis.

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This study explores the role of social security privitization in Argentina's 2002 debt crisis. Baker and Weisibrot believe that privitization may have cost Argentina a revenue stream equal to 1% of its GDP per year.

Facilitation of Building the SPF - Experiences in Asia in the course Extension of social protection: towards a universal social protection floor, 1-12 November 2010, ITC ILO Turin, Italy

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

I. Context

1) Growing with inequity

2) Social protection did not play its role of redistribution role

3) Major shift with the crisis

II. Country situation

1) Social protection for Asia. Country examples

2. Relevance of social security staircase

III. Cross cutting issues

Facilitation of Social Protection Floor and Employment in the course Extension of social protection: towards a universal social protection floor, 1-12 November 2010, ITC ILO Turin, Italy

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation on Contribution of the SPF to employment and employability at ILO Dialogue on informal economy and decent work, 29 September 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. Social protection is a preconditon for employment and increases employability.

2. SPF removes barriers of access to employment and vocational training.

3. SPF can be used as a tool for activating Labor Market Policies.

Presentation on Extending social protection: an ILO Perspective at ILO Dialogue on informal economy and decent work, 28 September 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. The concept of social security, social protection and social protection floor.

2. ILO promotes the right to social security.

3. The problem : a major coverage gap

4. How to extend social security?

5. What is the situation and what do we do at country and regional level?

Presentation on Extending social protection: an ILO perspective at Information Sharing on Social Protection for UNDP and Colleagues in Cambodia, 19 October 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. ILO Mandate

2. Definitions and rights based approach

3. ILO conventions

4. Coverage gap(statistics)

5. How to extend social security: the staircase

6. Social Protection Floor

7. Linking SP with employment

8. Experience in Asia: Situation and ILO's intervention

Presentation on Extending Social security in East and South-East Asia: the 2 dimensions ..., at ILO DWT team meeting, 14 September 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. The concept of social security, social protection and social protection floor

2. ILO promotes the rights to social security.

3. The problim is a major coverage gap.

4. How do we extend social security?

5. What is the situation and what do we do at country and regional level?

Presentation on Extending social security: an ILO Perspective at ILO/Korea Fellowship Training on Employment Insurance (EI) and Employment Injury Insurance (EII), 11 October 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. Definition of Employment Insurance

2. Situation and Challenges, how to expand coverage?

3. Definition of EII, Situation and Challeges in Asia

Presentation on Linking the social protection floor with green jobs, at the Consultation meeting on Green Jobs Policy Formulation, 12 November 2010, Beijing, China

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. What is social protection floor?

2. Linking the SPF with Green jobs: adaptation and mitigation strategies

Presentation on Social protection floor and return to employment at ILO DWT team meeting, 7 December 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

1. What is the Social Protection Floor concept and approach?

2. Linking SPF with employment

Presentation on Social protection floor for the UN country team, 22 September 2010, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

It is on the general brief of social protection initiative and examines its relevance to Vietnam.

Social Protection Floor, A UN Joint crisis initiative, Experience from Thailand in a joint UN SPF team and TDRI meeting, 10 August 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection is a human right and has a redistribution function, etc. in a time of economic downturn. This presentation shows the general role of social protection, the UN CEB Social Protection Floor-Initiative and SPF joint team in Thailand.

Social protection in the context of sustainable development, its interdependencies and relevance for Asia, at GTZ working group meeting EPA and PSD in the Sector Network Sustainable Economic Development Asia, 9 June 2010, Singapore

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

I. Definitions: social protection and sustainable development

II. Growing interest at international and regional level

III. The reality is different: lack of SP coverage, inequity despite high growth rates in Asia

IV. SP and sustainable development

1) Interrelations with economic policy & the crisis

2) Interrelations with enterprise development

3) Interrelations with environment

4) Integrated approach: economic / social / environment

"The SPF initiative" at the meeting on UN Joint Crisis Initiative on national Social Protection Floor in Thailand, 19 January 2010, Bangkok, Thailand

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This presentation is on social protection initiative and its brief case of Thailand. It was given at the Meeting on UN Joint Crisis Initiative on national Social Protection Floor in Thailand, 19 January 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.

Report of DCS on "Social Protection: Towards Universal Coverage in Thailand"

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Report of the Development Cooperation Seminar co-organized with NESDB and the UN on "Social Protection: Towards Universal Coverage in Thailand” on November 5.2010

Assurance maladie sociale

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Assurance maladie sociale. Formulaire de candidature

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Integrated Social Policy. Visions and Strategies in the ESCWA Region

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report presents a comprehensive overview of how social policy is envisioned in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region and how it is integrated into the broader context of economic and social development. The report ponders important questions relating to the current development trajectories in ESCWA member countries, namely, how national development strategies address fundamental concerns with regard to equity, equality and balanced development; and how they tackle issues relating to poverty reduction and risk mitigation. The analysis revisits the way social and economic structures shape the institutions which govern social policy, as well as the importance of values and traditions in the manner with which societies organize roles and responsibilities across societal actors. It further reiterates the need to make social development an explicit goal of public policy along traditional public policy goals relating to economic expansion and growth.

Social health insurance

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social health insurance. Nomination form

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Information Centre on Social Protection (CIPS)

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Information Centre on Social Protection (CIPS) is a participative electronic platform that provides information on social protection in Portuguese. It is a joint iniative from the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), the ILO Lisbon Office and ILO/STEP Portugal Project.
CIPS responds to the social protection information needs of the Portuguese-speaking countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste) and makes avaiable information on the existing social protection realities of these countries.
The website is directed to the international community, national public and civil society stakeholders, as well as all those involved with, and interested in, social protection.

Information you can find in CIPS

News: Updated information on social protection issues in the Portuguese-speaking countries and around the world.
Events: The announcement of training, conferences and other social protection-related initiatives taking place around the world.
Country Pages: A page for each Portuguese-speaking country providing information and resources on their respective social protection system.
Thematic Pages: Information on different social protection themes: contributory social security, social assistance and social services, among others.

Resources you can find in CIPS

Library: Different kinds of documentation on social protection (e.g. plans, legislation, research) avaiable for free download.
Glossary: Definition of more than 100 social protection terms and concepts.
Social Assistance Programs: A database characterizing over 90 social assistance programs around the world.
Social Protection Experts: an open data base containing relevant information and how to contact worldwide experts on social protection.
Links: The electronic addresses of the main institutions in the social protection domain.

Social Welfare in Thailand

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation made by the Office of the National Commission on Social Welfare Promotion of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security on the policy to implement welfare society for all by 2017

Labour and Social Trends in Viet Nam 2009/10

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Labour and Social Trends in Viet Nam 2009/10 is a rich information source that can be used as an advocacy tool for advancing decentwork in Viet Nam. The report provides an overview of recent labour market trends in the country, followed by thematic chapters on the impacts of the global economic crisis and labour market issues for Viet Nam during the Asian Decent Work Decade.

It also includes an annex of internationally comparable and sex-disaggregated labour market statistics. In addition, the report provides a number of policyconsiderations for the Government of Viet Nam in planning the Socio-Economic Development Strategy for 2011-2020 aswell as the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015. This report was developed by a research team from the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA).

Rural poverty report 2011

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

IFAD's Rural Poverty Report 2011 ¿ New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation, is an in-depth study of rural poverty. The findings in the report come from a collaboration among dozens of experts in the field of poverty reduction ¿ both inside and outside IFAD. They also come from the poor rural people themselves.

The result of this collaboration is a comprehensive resource for policymakersand practitioners, especially those in developing countries. The report looks at who the poor rural people are, what they do and how their livelihoods are changing. It explores the challenges that make it so difficult for rural people to overcome poverty, and identifies opportunities and pathways that could lead towards greater prosperity ¿ now and in the future. Finally, it highlights policies and actions that governments and development practitioners can take to support the efforts of rural people themselves, today and in the coming years.

Social protection for rural-urban migrants in Vietnam: current situation, challenges and opportunities

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This paper presents the findings of a research project entitled Social Protection for Rural-Urban Migrants in Vietnam. The central discussion of this research is that the lack of adequate policies and institutional programs for social protection for migrants in general, and the residence-based nature of the current social policies are largely responsible for the vulnerability and marginalization of rural-urban migrants. Unless the gaps in this policy and legal framework are effectively addressed, migrants will continue to be socially excluded, creating a growing urban poor stratum.

Policy implications should therefore rest first on the recognition of the legal status of the migrants themselves in the places of destination and second on increasing migrants access to key social and economic resources. In most instances, a strategy based on this proposition should call for a significant departure from current approaches, practices and institutional arrangements underlying the government's social protection policies.

Nepal | Labour force survey 2008/2009 - Some tables on social security coverage

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Country report of the asean assessment on the the social impact of the global financial crisis. VietNam

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Fiscal space for social protection policies in Viet Nam

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper evaluates the fiscal implications of Viet Nam's current social protection strategy. It also gives estimates of the cost of policies that would rapidly increase the coverage of social insurance so that, intime of recession, the social protection sector is efficient in reducing poor and ordinary workers' vulnerability to income shocks.

Strengthening Social Protection for Children

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This report, the first in a series of regional thematic reports produced for a study on social protection and children in West and Central, seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection and programming initiatives in the region and to assess the extent to which these address the particular manifestations of childhood poverty and vulnerability that characterise different countries in the region. It highlights challenges in the design and implementation of child-sensitive social protection and offers a number of policy recommendations based on the analysis and lessons learned.

Institute of Labour Science and Social Affaires (ILSSA)

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

UN population prospects data | total and by gender (Annual basis)

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Comparative Study of (Un) employment Insurance

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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Crisis impact and justification for UI
A few definitions
Coverage gap in Asia
Comparative study of UI schemes at country level

Employment insurance: Experience from Japan

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Characteristics of the scheme
A system with two functions
Performance of the scheme
Facing current challenges

The ILO Social Security Inquiry database

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Unemployment Insurance : Case study from Korea

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Brief description of the EI scheme
Progressive development of the scheme
Detailed description: Job security program, Job capacity development program, Unemployment benefit
Crisis impact and role of the EI scheme

Vietnam | AIS, 2005 - Final Report

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The 2005 Vietnam Population and AIDS Indicator Survey (VPAIS) was designed with the objective of obtaining national and sub-national information about program indicators of knowledge, attitudes and sexual behavior related to HIV/AIDS.

The survey obtained information on knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS. Inaddition, in Hai Phong province, the survey also collected blood samples from survey respondents in order to estimate the prevalence of HIV. The overall goal of the survey was to provide program managers and policymakers involved in HIV/AIDS programs with strategic information needed to effectively plan, implement and evaluate future interventions. This report presents the major findings from the 2005 VPAIS

Vietnam | Demographic and health Survey (DHS), 2002 - Final Report (English)

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The 2002 Vietnam Demographic and Health Survey (VNDHS 2002) was the third DHS survey to be implemented in Vietnam, following similar surveys in 1988 and 1997.

The main objective of the VNDHS 2002 was to obtain current information on demographic conditions,family planning, infant and child mortality, and health-related information about breastfeeding, antenatal care, child immunizations, common children¿s diseases, and HIV/AIDS. A major goal of the survey was to measure changes in family planning indicators since the 1997 survey, especially in areas covered by the CPFC project.This report presents the major findings from the VNDHS 2002 survey.

Vietnam | Households Living Standards Survey (VHLSS), 2008. Questionnaire

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Bangladesh | Demographic Health Survey Report 2007

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

India | Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in India Report (based on NFHS-3)

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The survey provides trend data on key indicators of family welfare, maternal and child health, and nutrition, and includes information on several new topics such as use of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, HIV prevalence, attitudes toward family life education for girls and boys, men¿s involvement in maternal care, high-risk sexual behaviour,and health insurance coverage. NFHS-3 collected information from a nationally representative sample of 124,385 women age 15-49 and 74,369 men age 15-54 in 109,041 households. This report presents key findings on gender equality and women's empowerment in India.

India | NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY 2005-2006 - Volume 1

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection for all. A challenge

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This document presents the background notes for the discussions on social protection undertaken during the ILO 17th American Regional Meeting, Santiago de Chile, December 2010.

Public health equity in refugee and other displaced persons settings

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Addressing concerns about public health equity in the context of violent conflict and the consequent forced displacement of populations raises operational and ethical issues for the United Nations for High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Priorities of service delivery, the allocation choices, and the processes by which these choices are arrived at are now coming under renewed scrutiny in the light of the estimated two million refugees who fled from Iraq since 2003. This discussion document explores key questions of cost and equity as they arise in the context of providing health services to a number of refugee and other populations of concern to UNHCR including those from Iraq. Interviews were conducted with a number of informed and experienced humanitarian practitioners at field, country, and headquarter levels. These interviews helped frame major operational questions that need to be addressed including the status of health care delivery as a relative priority for UNHCR, allocations of resources for health between and within different populations, and strategies for transition and exit.

Summary Report: 2nd SPF interagency Meeting

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report summarizes the presentations, discussions and results of the meeting in chronological order.

2008 Annual Report: Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Since 2007, the Thematic Fund for Reproductive Health Commodity Security [RHCS]—which finances the Global Programme to enhance RHCS—has helped UNFPA work with national governments to carry out the diverse and multi-faceted work needed to achieve Reproductive Health Commodity Security. Previous efforts responding to ad-hoc requests from countries for technical assistance and supplies failed to generate country-driven, sustainable approaches to commodity security.
UNFPA developed the Global Programme, specifically to help countries plan for their own needs in the sphere of RHCS. The Global Programme is designed to act as a catalyst to national action and the prioritisation and subsequent mainstreaming of Reproductive Health Commodity Security into national health policies, programmes, budgets and plans. As a result, countries are beginning to move towards more predictable, planned and sustainable country-driven approaches to securing essential supplies and ensuring their use.

Mongolia | Household Socio-Economic Survey 2007-2008 questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Development and the next generation

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The time has never been better to invest in young people living in developing countries—that is the message of this year’s World Development Report, the twenty-ninth in the series. The number of people worldwide aged 12–24 years has reached 1.3 billion, the largest in history. It is also the healthiest and best educated—a strong base to build on in a world that demands more than basic skills. Today’s youth are tomorrow’s workers, entrepreneurs, parents, active citizens, and, indeed, leaders. And, because of falling fertility, they will have fewer children than their parents as they move through adulthood. This in turn may boost growth—by raising the share of the population that is working and by boosting household savings. Rich and poor countries alike need to seize this opportunity before the aging of societies closes it. Doing so will enable them to grow faster and reduce poverty even further.

This Report examines fi ve pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young people’s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within each of these transitions, governments need not only to increase investments directly but also to cultivate an environment for young people and their families to invest in themselves. The Report identifi es three policy directions for helping youth develop themselves and contribute to society: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances.

Equity and Development

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different forms of inequality. It presents evidence that the inequality of opportunity that arises is wasteful and inimical to sustainable development and poverty reduction. It also derives policy implications that center on the broad concept of leveling the playing field—both politically and economically and in the domestic and the global arenas. If the opportunities faced by children like Nthabiseng are so much more limited than those faced by children like Pieter or Sven, and if this hurts development progress in the aggregate, then public action has a legitimate role in seeking to broaden the opportunities of those who face the most limited choices.

Making ServicesWork for Poor People

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Implementation of Vietnam Unemployment Insurance (UI). A Concept Paper on Future Development

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Income support in times of global crisis. An assessment of the role of unemployment insurance and options for coverage extension in Asia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Is Asia adopting flexicurity? A survey of employment policies in six countries. Economic and Labour Market Papers

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

To evaluate living standards for policy-making and socio-economic development planning, the General Statistics Office (GSO) conducts the Viet Nam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS). In particular, from 2002 to 2010, this survey has been conducted regularly by the GSO every two years in order to systematically monitor and supervise the living standards of different population groups in Viet Nam; to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy; and to contribute to the evaluation of achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Vietnam¿s socio-economic development goals.

Vietnam | Labour force and employment survey questionnaire

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Briefing note of the National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

CARD Social Protection Strategy

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

CBHI in Vientiane Capital : The way forward

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Objectives of the Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI):

Provide the non-insured population with protection against the high costs of health care - decrease out-of-pocket payment health care, and reduce financial barriers to care;
Increase the utilization of health care by the population of Lao PDR Improve the quality of health care;
Channel health care expenditure to the public health care system in a stable and predictable way;
Accelerate achievement of MDG goals;
Reduce maternal, infant and child mortality.

Decree on Health Insurance

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Draft paper of Social protection for poor and vulnerable in Cambodia : process of development

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Lao People's Democratic Republic. Health financing reform and challenges in expanding the current social protection schemes

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Law on Health Insurance

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation of Developing Social Protection Strategy and Action Plan 2011-2020

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Report on Round Table Implementation Meeting

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Table of contents (split document for lighter downloads)

First Part (572 KB)

       I. Summary of key RTIM discussion
       II. Proceedings
           1. Opening Ceremony
           2. Presentation, Joint Statements and Discussion
           3. Conclusion
       III. Follow up meeting with H.E. the Prime Minister

Annex 1 to 5 (661 KB)

Agenda of RTIM 2009
Welcome Remarks, Minister of Planning and Investment
Remarks, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative
Keynote Address, Prime Minister of the Lao PDR
Presentation on Progress in the 6th NSEDP implementation and 7th NSEDP direction and priorities, Vice-Minister of Planning and Investment

Annex 6 to 10 (845 KB)

Statement Progress in the 6th NSEDP implementation and 7th NSEDP direction and priorities, Asian Development Bank
Presentation on Accelerating progress towards the MDGs, Director General of Department of International Organization, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
UN Statement on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Presentation on Recent developments within Public Finance Management, impact of the global crisis and outlines of the National Budget for FY 2009-10, Minister of Finance
Statement Recent developments within Public Finance Management, impact of the global crisis and outlines of the National Budget for FY 2009-10,World Bank

Annex 11 to 15 (239 KB)

Joint statement, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on behalf of Chair and Co-chairs of the SWG: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, AFD, SDC and SIDA
Joint statement, Vice-Minister of Industry and Commerce on behalf of Chair and Co-chairs of the sub-SWG: Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Australia and GTZ
Joint statement, Minister of Public Work and Transportation (MPWT) on behalf of Chair and Co-Chairs of the SWG: MPWT, Japan and ADB
Joint statement, Vice Minister of Education on behalf of Chair and Co-chairs of the SWG: Ministry of Education, Australia and UNICEF
Joint statement, Minister of Health on behalf of Chair and Co-Chairs of the SWG: Ministry of Health, Japan and WHO

Annex 16 to 24 (359 KB)

Joint statement, Vice Chairman of Public Administration and Civil Service Authority on behalf of Chair and Co-Chairs of the SWG: Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Civil Service Authority, UNDP, EC and SDC
Joint statement, Chief of Cabinet National Regulatory Authority on behalf of Chair and Co-Chair of the SWG: National Regulatory Authority and UNDP
Joint statement, Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Lao National Commission for Drug Control on behalf of Chair and Co-Chairs of the SWG: Lao National Commission for Drug Control, United Nations Organisation for Control of Drugs and Crime, Japan and Australia
Presentation on Natural Resource Management, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Head of Water Resource and Environment Administration
Presentation on Natural Resource Management, Vice-Minister of Energy and Mines
Statement on Natural Resource Management, World Bank
Joint Statement on Outcomes of Provincial Conference in Xayabouly and Update on the VDCAP, Director General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Planning and Investment
Concluding remarks, UNDP Resident Representative, UN Resident Coordinator
Closing speech, Minister of Planning and Investment

Appendix (1.99 MB)

Invitation letter to the RTIM 2009
Group Photo Sessions
List of Participants

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF country brief Vietnam (Draft)

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Toward the Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable in Cambodia

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Towards a social protection strategy for the poor and vulnerable. Outcomes of the consultation process

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Given the extent of poverty and vulnerability in Cambodia, the need for social protection support is immediate and widespread. It is stated that the key question is how to target better the very limited resources that are available to ensure maximum coverage and provision for the poor and vulnerable. This issue is addressed in the study.

WHO report of Health Care in Lao PDR

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

CIPS Newsletter 06, October 2010

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Promoting research on social protection and translating their findings into policy recommendations, which are then communicated to policy makers;
Providing technical assistance to member States in the implementation of these recommendations and facilitating cooperation, in particular South-to-South;
Advocating a shift in thinking on social protection, from supporting individuals or communities to empowering them in order for them to develop their capability to cope with risks;

Such a comprehensive approach based on human rights is crucial for building resilient communities, able to reduce their own vulnerabilities.

The provision of protection to asylum-seekers in destination countries

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The percentage of asylum-seekers awarded refugee or humanitarian status varies considerably across destination countries. It is improbable that the variance can be explained simply by the merit of each asylum-seeker’s claim. A broad range of factors that have the potential to influence recognition rates are investigated in this study. These include: the conditions in the countries of origin; the destination countries’ asylum-burden, political ideology, openness to outsiders, diplomatic relationships, economic conditions, need for population replacement, the ten year average refugee recognition rate, domestic refugee legislation and administrative considerations. The findings suggest that conditions in the origin countries known to produce refugee outflows influence the way in which destination countries allocate protection to asylum-seekers. However, the amount of protection provided by destination countries is found to be impervious to refugee-generating conditions in origin countries. It will be suggested that the supply of protection is pegged at a level deemed acceptable to the destination country, with fluctuations occurring as a result of a change in domestic factors such as increasing asylum applications and growing numbers of foreigners.

UN Economic Commission for Africa - Gender and Social Development

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

ECA's work programme now focuses on achieving results in two related and mutually supportive areas: promoting Regional Integration in support of the African Union vision and priorities and meeting Africa's special needs and emerging global challenges. It aims to provide significant technical support to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and also to promote peer learning and knowledge sharing in a range of development areas. Within these two pillars, the Commission focuses on the following thematic areas:

Regional Integration, Trade and Infrastructure;
Meeting the MDGs with a special emphasis on Poverty Reduction and Growth, Sustainable Development and Gender;
Promoting Good Governance and Popular Participation;
ICT, Science and Technology for Development;
Statistics and Statistical Development.

UN ESCWA - Social Development Division

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

SPS works with member countries and other stakeholders to advance a common understanding of integrated social policy in the region. It supports governments in designing social policy frameworks and instruments that mainstream social equity and pro-poor policies throughout the policy cycle.

The programme areas include:

(i) advocating integrated social policy approaches that mainstream equity concerns into public sector decision-making;

(ii) assisting governments in developing a national vision for social policy through an open dialogue with relevant stakeholders;

(iii) cooperation with member countries in analyzing policy gaps and challenges, and devising policies on the basis of regional and international best practices;

(iv) identifying appropriate instruments that allow for successful institutionalization and monitoring of social policy.

Through its publications, projects and advisory work, as well as partnership with organizations within and outside the UN system, SPS assists member countries in their efforts to achieve people-centered development.

Contribution des Mutuelles de Santé à l'accès des populations aux soins de santé de base au Mali: cas de la MIPROMA dans les quartiers de Magnambougou, Sogoniko et Sokorodji en Commune VI du district de Bamako

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Where is the "education" in conditional cash transfers in education?

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

A new ‘silver bullet’ is whizzing across the desks of policymakers and officials in development organizations: the conditional cash transfer (CCT) in education. There is a powerfully simple idea at its heart – to alleviate poverty, strategies must blend short- and long-term objectives. Specifically, cash transfers allow people who are poor to buy food and other necessities, thus improving their short-term choices; with immediate needs better met, the conditions attached to cash transfers act as incentives for poor households to support the education and health of their children. For the longer term, the resulting increase in the children’s human capital helps break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The growing acceptance of CCT derives both from its simplicity and from study evidence that indicates it works, in some ways. This paper critically examines some of that evidence, focusing on the documentation of educational effects.

Cash, food, payments and risk: a review of the productive safety net programme

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The year 2008 saw unprecedented inflation in Ethiopia. This coincided with a period of global food price inflation. The crisis severely affected Ethiopia and it continues to have an impact on the poorest people's ability to meet their basic food needs. The Productive Safety Net Programme grew out of the sense that the country's emergency system was failing to stabilise livelihoods.

This report:

assesses the success of the PSNP in delivering appropriate and timely transfers;
reviews some of the impacts of the programme;
considers the events of 2008 and their influence on programme implementation and outcomes.

How cash transfers can improve the nutrition of the poorest children: Evaluation of a pilot safety net project in southern Niger

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report presents key findings from an evaluation of Save the Children’s pilot project to give cash transfers to 1,500 of the poorest households in Tessaoua district, Maradi region, Niger. Its findings will be of interest to NGOs, governments and donors involved in planning and implementing food security and safety net programmes. Every year, at least 200,000 children under five are treated for acute malnutrition in Niger. Despite concerted efforts by the government and aid agencies to tackle the problem since the 2005 food crisis, one in seven children under three years of age is still acutely malnourished. And half of all children under five are chronically malnourished, which hinders their physical and mental development.

This report sets out what we learned through our evaluation of the cash transfer pilot project. The report findings show how targeted cash transfers can affect the food intake and earning power of the poorest households. The evaluation also looked at the links between increased income during the hunger gap, and young children’s food intake and nutritional status.

Hungry for change: An eight-step, costed plan of action to tackle global child hunger

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Every year, 3.1 million children die from malnutrition-related causes. The risk of hunger and malnutrition is deepening as food prices remain high, the economic downturn pushes millions more into poverty and the effects of climate change on livelihoods worsens. But the solutions have become clearer. The 2008 food price spike put world food security firmly on the international agenda. The political moment has come - now it's time for governments to take a fresh look at their national plans. With this in mind, this report proposes to governments an eight-step package to improve the diets of pregnant women and children under the age of two, and thereby to help prevent hunger and malnutrition.

Investing in the future: Save the Children UK position paper on the role of cash transfers in reducing child malnutrition

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This paper outlines why Save the Children UK believes that providing cash directly to poor people could rapidly speed up progress towards achieving the first UN Millennium Development Goal - to halve the proportion of people living in poverty and hunger by 2015.

The paper explores evidence of the impact of cash transfers on improving households' access to food and reducing child malnutrition. Common concerns around cash transfers are explored. Finally, the paper presents Save the Children position on cash transfers as a strategy to reduce child malnutrition.

Lasting benefits: The role of cash transfers in tackling child mortality

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Over the past decade, an increasing number of developing country governments, working with donors and NGOs, have been implementing cash transfer programmes – regular transfers of cash to individuals or households. These programmes are united by common assumptions: that income poverty has a highly damaging impact on people’s health and nutrition, and that cash empowers poor individuals and households to make their own decisions on how to improve their lives.

This report examines three key questions:

What contribution can cash transfers make to reducing child mortality?
What are the broader economic benefits of investing in cash transfers?
How can child-focused cash transfers be affordable in developing countries?

Social protection and child survival

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Evidence shows that social protection policies can help tackle child mortality most immediately by reducing malnutrition and poor health. Social protection policies are, therefore, critical to child survival efforts in countries with high rates of child and maternal mortality.

This policy brief outlines:

the definition and rationale of social protection;
Save the Children's position in key debates;
recommendations for effective programme design that maximises benefits for children.

Social Protection Policies in South Asia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The research meeting on Social Protection Policies in South Asia was jointly organized by UNESCO New Delhi and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) on March 18-19, 2010 in New Delhi. It was organized within the framework of UNESCO‟s Management of Social Transformation (MOST) Programme and its flagship activity, the Regional and Sub-regional Fora of Ministers in charge of Social Development, launched in 2001 in Latin America to enhance dialogue between Ministers, researchers and the civil society. The South Asian Forum of Ministers in charge of Social Development was launched in 2006 and the Second Ministerial Forum held in New Delhi in 2008 stressed the importance of research for evidence-based policy-making. Accordingly, the research meeting of March 18-19, 2010 was held with the objective of providing support material and expertise to the next Forum of Ministers in charge of Social Development from South Asia, expected to take place in Bangladesh in 2010 on Social Protection and Safety Nets in South Asia. The research meeting specifically addressed the following questions: What are the social policies that work under which conditions and what lessons can such experiences offer to other countries? How can such policies be further strengthened to enhance the transformative potential? How can a regional perspective be built on issues of social protection?

Financial Literacy Center Partners

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The mission of the Financial Literacy Center is to develop and test innovative programs to improve financial literacy and promote informed financial decisionmaking.

Spain: Unemployed receiving unemployment benefits

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon inequality

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This working paper decomposes changes in the Gini coefficient in order to investigate whether Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. Its technique is the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor components. Its main finding is that CCT programmes helped reduce inequality between the mid-1990s and roughly the mid-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs has been very small: about 0.5 per cent in Mexico and Brazil and a very small 0.01 per cent in Chile. But since their targeting has been outstanding, their equalizing impact was responsible for about 21 per cent of the fall in both the Brazilian and the Mexican Gini index, each of which fell by approximately 2.7 points during the period that this paper reviewed. In Chile the effect was responsible for a 15 per cent reduction in inequality, although the total reduction in inequality was very modest: a mere 0.1Gini point. The difference was due to the small size of the Chilean programme relative to the larger Mexican and Brazilian programmes.

Enabling transition to formalization through providing access to health care: The examples of Thailand and Ghana

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This paper presents the country experiences of Thailand and Ghana in improving access to health care for the workers in the informal economy and their families. The evaluation of the financing mechanism experience of these two countries and the lessons that can be gathered from their experiences to craft recommendations are the focus of this paper.

The experience of the two countries shows that countries can successfully invest in affordable social health protection for the informal economy. Though they may have common health financing goals, their experiences varied due to their social, economic, historical and cultural contexts, proving that replication of experiences are not easily possible. However, the lessons learned regarding the process, the involvement and roles of key stakeholders and the policy content could be useful for other countries when choosing and designing health-care financing mechanisms to achieve universal coverage.

Another key conclusion is that the use of coordinated pluralistic financing mechanisms rather than one single scheme is important for achieving universal coverage and access to affordable health services. In addition, since targeting workers in the informal economy create enforcement challenges, related coverage plans need to be developed. The necessity to increase public funds, invest in good governance and create public awareness are important challenges to be anticipated. Likewise, strengthening national capacities for sustainable social health protection are prerequisites for success.

Sri Lanka: Technical support to the development of national health financing strategy for universal coverage and social health protection

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

As a partner of the Providing for Health (P4H) initiative, ILO participated in a P4H mission to Sri Lanka in October 2010, upon the request of the country’s Ministry of Health. This report outlines the outcomes of the scoping mission to support in developing a health financing strategy and health financing options for universal coverage and social health protection. Despite Sri Lanka’s remarkable economic growth, improvements in the public health sector have been insignificant. Substantial inequalities in access and in the delivery of health services exist for the rural and urban population. Further, out-of-pocket payments exceeding 50% of total health expenditure indicate low quality of health services and present considerable financial barriers which may impoverish those most in need.

During the mission, areas were identified for further P4H support related to health, including:

analytical work (such as pooling options for high OOP, efficiency issues, coordination of various existing schemes and the regulation of private insurers),
capacity building to strengthen the Ministry of Health (for example, in health economics),
developing a national forum on social health protection, a multi-sectoral committee with the mandate of developing a national health protection strategy, as well as implementing country group to drive these processes.
policies and programmes in the context of the Social Protection Floor were identified as an important area of support.

Next steps were also conceptualized, including the development of a roadmap for technical support from P4H to Sri Lanka in developing a National Strategy for Universal Coverage and Social Health Protection, as well as the establishment of a core country team.

2nd Interagency Technical Meeting of the Social Protection Floor Initiative

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Introduction: The concept of the Social Protection Floor and the SPF initiative

SPF Flagship Report

Presentation by Vinicius Pinheiro, Fabio Bertranou and Christian Jacquier , ILO, Social Security Department

Overview: Ongoing SPF activities at global, regional and national levels

Presentation by Richard Morgan, UNICEF
Presentation by Christian Jacquier and Christine Bockstal, ILO, Social Security Department
Presentation by Dr. Varatharajan Durairaj, Health Financing Policy Unit, WHO
Presentation by Jean-Yves Barcelo,UN-HABITAT
Presentation by Astrid Walker-Bourne, HelpAge International
Presentation by Nicola Hypher, Save the Children
Presentation by Dr. Nishant Jain , GTZ
Presentation by Jean-Philippe Huchet, Education and Solidarity Network
Presentation by M. Amacodou Diouf, ICSW CWA Region

Group Work: Improving the collaboration at global, regional and national levels

Data and statistics for the Social Protection Floor

Data collection and SPF indicators: issues for discussion, Krzysztof Hagemejer and Florence Bonnet, ILO

Strengthening capacities to build Social Protection Floors

Presentation by Alejandro Bonilla Garcia, Ginette Forgues and Victoria Giroud-Castiella, ILO

Meeting summary report

From Social Safety Net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and inclusive set of social policies. At the same time, particular CCT features risk promoting the further residualisation and fragmentation of safety nets. Drawing on the experience of six countries in Latin America, this paper identifies the variations and recent trends in CCT design and implementation. Based on this review, it considers the contribution of CCTs to the potential transition from a largely absent or minimal safety net to a coordinated system of social policies.

South-South Learning on Social Protection (UNDP)

Thu, 26 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The South-South Learning on Social Protection gateway is an online collaborative platform for policy dialogue and knowledge-sharing amongst social protection practitioners in the Global South. It is an initiative of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth to foster South-South collaboration, aiming to expand the knowledge base and capacities of developing countries to design and implement nationally-owned poverty reduction strategies, bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse social protection information, as well as providing a space where practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources. The website has been set up as a "virtual bookcase" where you can find a searchable database of social protection materials from across the world. The collection includes tools, case studies, policy papers and research.

How Cash Transfers Boost Work and Economic Security

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

There has long been a minority view that providing people with cash is an effective way of combating poverty and economic insecurity while promoting livelihoods and work. The mainstream view has been that giving people money, without conditions or obligations, promotes idleness and dependency, while being unnecessarily costly. Better, they contend, would be to allocate the available money to schemes that create jobs and/or human capital and that produce infrastructure. This paper reviews recent evidence on various types of scheme and on several pilot cash transfer schemes, assessing them by reference to principles of social justice.

A Social Protection Agenda for Asia Pacific

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Governments of the Region of the Americas jointly establish this Health Agenda to guide the collective action of national and international stakeholders who seek to improve the health of the peoples of this Region over the next decade.

Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Kenya. Developing an integrated national social protection policy

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report aims at assisting the Government of Kenya in designing an integrated National Social Protection Policy, and is based on an assessment of the existing social protection schemes for both formal and informal economy workers and their families. The report identifies that there are i) significant gaps in social protection coverage, particularly for informal economy workers and their families ii) important deficits in access to benefits in kind and cash for those who are covered and iii) insufficient levels of benefit provided.

Focusing on the areas of health insurance, old-age pensions and social assistance, the report outlines possibilities for reform and an approach for the development of a national social protection policy which i) focuses on key principles of social protection, mainly affordability at national and household level, accountability and sustainability ii) maximizes fiscal space, iii) increases capacity for implementation and monitoring of reforms and iv) improves social dialogue. Based on preliminary ILO projections and the promising economic situation in Kenya, it determines that a comprehensive national social protection policy could be successfully implemented and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals significantly accelerated.

Second African Decent Work Symposium. Yaounde, 6-8 October 2010

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

PROMOTING JOBS

Panel 1 - Prospects for labour market recovery: Policies for employment and development

Information Note A - Panel 1> (6 pp.) Français
Information Note B - Panel 1 (3 pp.) Français
Statement delivered by Wiseman L Nkuhlu, President International Organization of Employers (6 pp.)

PROTECTING PEOPLE

Presentation and discussion of the ILO Report "Building a Social Protection Floor with the Global Jobs Pact"

Presentation by Michael Cichon "Building a Social Protection Floor with the Global Jobs Pact"(25 slides) Français

Panel 2 - The right to social security and the relevance of ILO instruments

Roundtable - The UN Social Protection Floor Initiative

Panel 3 - The social security extension challenge in Africa: Income security and health benefits

Panel 4 - The financing and the governance challenges

Note pour le panel 4(4 pp.)
Presentation by Theopiste Butare "Financing and governance challenges" (7 slides)

World Social Security Report 2010/11. Providing coverage in times of crisis and beyond. Executive summary

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Joint statement on advancing child-sensitive social protection

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Child-sensitive social protection is an evidence-based approach that aims to maximize opportunities and developmental outcomes for children by considering different dimensions of children's well-being. It focuses on addressing the inherent social disadvantages, risks and vulnerabilities children may be born into, as well as those acquired later in childhood due to external shocks. It is thus best achieved through integrated social protection approaches.

Linking social protection and support to small farmer development

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This project aims to facilitate debate among bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, policy-makers, farmers’ organisations and NGOs on synergies and conflicts in the design and implementation of social protection and smallholder policies in Africa, aiming at eradicating hunger and poverty and reaching the MDG goals: What synergies and conflicts exist, actually and potentially? Why it is important to maximise synergies and avoid conflicting incentives? How can this be done in practical terms? A second objective is to provide inputs to FAO in terms of the types of policies that can be promoted through national food security strategies and programmes.
The project has six substantive outputs: a conceptual paper, three country case study papers (Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi), this synthesis paper, and a workshop report, which will follow a meeting at FAO in Rome on 17-18 January 2008, at which the project outputs will be presented and issues arising will be discussed.

Paid sick leave: Incidence, patterns and expenditure in times of crisis

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Policy Paper on Social Protection

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This paper argues that well designed social protection can have a positive rather than a restraining impact on economic growth (and therefore on the first MDG) and can help to shape the pattern of economic growth in favour of the poor, such that the poor benefit at least as much as, if not more than, the average (reflecting on the inequality indicator for the first MDG). It states that social protection for the less active poor can be affordable even in low-income countries, and that it has significant positive economic externalities. The paper also argues that the difficulties for poor people in recovering from shocks purely or largely through their own efforts, especially when shocks are multiple or sequenced, should not be underestimated: recovery takes longer for the poor and usually benefits from external help, whether from public policy or private support. Informal protection is important and, where it is equitable in its burdens, should be facilitated.

Poverty Traps and Social Protection

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper demonstrates that there are potentially large returns to social protec- tion policy that stakes out a productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty trap. Much of the value of the productive safety net comes from mitigating the ex ante e¤ects of risk and crowding in additional investment. The analysis also explores the implications of di¤erent mechanisms of targeting social protection transfers. In the presence of poverty traps, modestly regressive targeting based on critical asset thresholds may have better long-run poverty reduction e¤ects than traditional needs-based targeting.

Please go to:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOCIALPROTECTION/Resources/SP-Discussion-papers/Social-Protection-General-DP/0804.pdf

Recovering from Economic and Financial Crisis: Food Security and Safety Nets

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This paper examines national and international efforts to address and recover from the impacts of the economic and financial crisis. Given the widespread and deepening impacts of the crisis on the world’s hungry, the focus is on food security, and on the safety nets and related social protection interventions that national governments are striving to put in place to protect vulnerable populations. The need for such programmes is increasingly urgent. Hunger and food insecurity retard growth and development; large groups of vulnerable people raise risks of humanitarian crises, which undermine public and private investments. Examples of how the United Nations system as a whole, and UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP in particular, are working to support and strengthen national safety nets and related social protection interventions are provided. Strategic priorities for promoting food security and reducing vulnerability during the recovery are outlined, drawing implications for the four agencies and the United Nations system at large.

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure that all people can use health services, while being protected against financial hardship associated with paying for them. In this report, the World Health Organization maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can move more quickly towards this goal - universal coverage - and sustain the gains that have been achieved. The report builds on new research and lessons learnt from country experience. It provides an action agenda for countries at all stages of development and proposes ways that the international community can better support efforts in low income countries to achieve universal coverage and improve health outcomes.

CIPS Newsletter 05, August 2010 (also available in Portuguese)

Tue, 10 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Read the latest news from CIPS on the following:

Cape Verde: Prime Minister sets goals for the next decade of social protection;
Timor-Leste: MTSS of Portugal supports creation of universal social protection system;
Ratification of a Social Security Pact between Angola and Cape Verde.

Aportes para la construcción de un piso de protección social en Argentina. El caso de las asignaciones familiares

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This book conducts an analysis of the transfer program for children and adolescents (AUH) established by the Argentine government in 2009. This program extends the contributory family allocation system to families in the informal economy, to the unemployed and to domestic workers. The book contextualizes the AUH program within the "Social Protection Floor Initiative" as a strategy for the extension of social protection coverage. In addition, this publication presents the program's potential effects on citizen welfare and the challenges it faces.

Development Co-Operation Directorate (DCD-DAC): Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Social Protection (also available in French)

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The report Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Social Protection, prepared by the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET), shows that social protection programmes can be affordable, including in the poorest countries, when they are well designed and well implemented. Countries can start off small and expand coverage and benefits over time, on the basis of emerging evidence and expanding support. But social protection needs strong and long-term political will and commitment as well to deliver lasting benefits. Aid donors can help by committing to a long-term partnership with developing countries to provide the technical and financial support needed to underpin developing countries’ efforts.

El Piso de Protección Social. Desarrollo conceptual y aplicación a América Latina y el Caribe

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

EuropeAid: Employment and Social Protection (also available in French)

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

To achieve social inclusion and cohesion, income, employment and social protection are essential. Developing countries are typically characterized by unemployment, underemployment, lack of social protection, large informal economies and increasing working poor and marginalization, especially among women and young people. Reducing poverty by enhancing employment, employability, social protection as well as promoting decent work, feature high in the EU development and cooperation policies.

Inter-American Development Bank(IDB): Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network (also available in Spanish)

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

In December of 1999, the Regional Policy Dialogue was created as an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank's Board of Directors to establish a space of dialogue between borrowing member countries. The Bank created seven different forums or networks that serve as the mechanism to exchange experiences and identify opportunities of horizontal cooperation between the members. Through the Regional Policy Dialogue, IADB members share experiences, learn about practices outside the region, and explore opportunities for regional cooperation in areas that are pivotal in their particular sectors.

Overseas Development Institute: Social Protection

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The ODI website has two main sections on social protection: this page highlights key issues and flagship outputs whilst the full body of our work and information about our team are found on the Social Protection Programme pages.

The Social Protection Floor. Conceptual development and application to the Americas

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Points:

“Everyone, as a member of society, has a right to Social Security”
Everybody needs Social Security: People, States, economy
Social risks within the life cycle
Social Security ILO principles (2001)
The resulting double Social Security expansion strategy
The double strategy of the Campaign to Extend Coverage to All
Conceptual evolution within ILO
What is the Social Protection Floor?
The 4 fundamental SPF guarantees
Integration of Floor + social/supplem. insurance
Examples of advances on the 4 guarantees
Social Security branches covered (2008-09)
Effective pension coverage (around 2005)
Coverage of unemployed workers

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 10

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.

A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Why social protection?

Social protection is an important policy tool to tackle social exclusion, inequality and poverty. It encompasses both social insurance and social assistance. The latter can be delivered in the form of income maintenance and/or in-kind transfers as well as social services. Social protection programmes significantly contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

There is a growing interest on how social protection and cash transfer programmes (CTs) impact poverty, inequality and social inclusion. The surge of CTs in Latin America, such as Oportunidades in Mexico and Bolsa Familia in Brazil triggered debates on their potential as well as limits. It has been shown that CTs encourage greater use of public services, such as education and health, and provide vitally needed income to poor households.

United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF): Social Protection

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Making social protection more child-sensitive has the potential to benefit not only children, but also their families, communities and national development as a whole. Child sensitive social protection systems mitigate the effects of poverty on families, strengthen families in their child care role, and enhance access to basic services for the poorest and most marginalized. Since the most at-risk children live outside family care, child sensitive social protection systems must also be responsive to this vulnerable group, as well as to children facing abuse or discrimination at home.

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 1

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:

Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual

Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress

Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 2

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:

Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual

Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress

Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 3

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.
A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.
Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:
Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual
Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress
Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 4

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.
A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.
Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:
Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual
Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress
Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 5

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.
A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.
Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:
Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual
Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress
Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 6

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.
A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.
Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:
Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual
Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress
Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

Thailand. Health care reform. Financial Management. Report 7A

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Since May 2003 the European Union (EU) has been committed to supporting health care reform in Thailand through the Health Care Reform Project. The support and assistance of the EU followed Thailand bold initiative towards achieving full population coverage in health care when, in 2001, Universal Health Care was written into law with the introduction of what became popularly known as the "30 Baht" scheme. Under this scheme full access to health services became available to all Thai citizens.
A separate component was established within this project to address issues relating to the Financial Management of the Health Care System to be executed by the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office. Technical assistance activities under the project have been on-going since spring 2006 and continue until end 2009.
Specific activities undertaken under the ILO component of the project are documented in a series of 12 technical reports:
Report 1: Statistical reporting. Structures, methodologies, data and outputs. Initial review

Report 2: The calculation of capitation fees and the estimation of provider payments. Initial review

Report 3: A financial coordination framework. A first general outline

Report 4: Proposal for a revised capitation calculation and financial equalisation system

Report 5: An international course in health finance for South-East Asia

Report 6: A common health care financing model (I) for CSMBS, IHPP, NHSO and SSO. Terms of reference

Report 7A: A common health care financing model (II). User manual
Report 7B: A common health care financing model (II). Documentation of work and progress
Report 8: A common health care financing model and proposal for a financial management structure. Note on implementation

Report 9: A Data reporting framework

Report 10: Indicators for the financial coordination group for monitoring the UC scheme and national health budget

Report 11: Contents and structure for annual reporting on the financial development of the pubic health system

Report 12: Structure and implementation of an integrated financial monitoring system and project synopsis

L'enquête sur la sécurité sociale | Aperçu en 4 pages

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Rapid overview of the ILO social security inquiry
The objective of the ILO Social Security Inquiry (SSI) is to collect, store and disseminate comparable statistical data on social security worldwide. This includes expenditure and receipts of social protection schemes as well as data on protected persons, recipients of social benefits and benefit amounts.

Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes and Gender Vulnerabilities: Case Studies of Brazil, Chile and Colombia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper analyses Brazilian, Chilean and Colombian experiences with conditional cash transfer programmes and how they have helped tackle gendered economic and social vulnerabilities. It is argued that Bolsa Família, Chile Solidario and Familias en Acción should be analysed within the broader social protection strategies in which they are meant to be components. Such an approach can help generate thinking on ways to improve the impacts of the programmes in terms of gender equality. A detailed description of the programmes’ design and implementation features is provided in order to understand both their rationale and their impacts. It is concluded that the programmes do tackle a number of gendered vulnerabilities but also have clear limits with regard to a more decisive role in tackling gender inequities.

Empowering or reinforcing traditional roles: Can CCTs address gender vulnerabilities?

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This paper explores the rationale behind most of Latin American conditional cash transfer programmes: money spent by women tends to be concentrated more on goods and services that are more likely to have a positive effect on the children’s well-being.

SSI | Formulaire simplifié de collecte

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

SSI | Simplified form for data collection

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The ILO social security inquiry | presentation in 4 pages

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT
Rapid overview of the ILO social security inquiry
The objective of the ILO Social Security Inquiry (SSI) is to collect, store and disseminate comparable statistical data on social security worldwide. This includes expenditure and receipts of social protection schemes as well as data on protected persons, recipients of social benefits and benefit amounts.

Burkina Faso | Enquête Annuelle sur les conditions de vie des ménages au Burkina Faso en 2003 (Report)

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Burkina Faso | Enquête Annuelle sur les conditions de vie des ménages au Burkina Faso en 2007 (Report)

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Costa Rica | Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (Annually) (EHPM). Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Costa Rica | Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples EPHM. Main report 2009

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Palestinian territories | Working condition survey 2004 Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Philippines | 2008 Informal Sector Survey Phase 1 - Questionnaire ISS

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Philippines | 2008 Informal Sector Survey Phase 1 - Results (informal employment)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Thailand | The health and welfare survey 2007: Table 1 Health insurance coverage

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

El Salvador | EPMH - 2008 ISSS coverage (Urban). Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement. Rapport 2010

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Questionnaire | El Salvador | EPMH - 2008 Questionnaire

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Questionnaire | El Salvador | EPMH - Survey report 2008 (includes questionnaire)

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Building a social protection floor with the Global Jobs Pact

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report sets out the context in which African countries seek to develop their social protection policies and offers an overview of the prevailing situation of social security provision. It presents topical issues regarding social health protection and the schemes designed to provide income security for different groups of the population. The report contains a number of country case studies together with a compilation of key statistics.

Burundi. Projet de document de politique nationale de protection sociale

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Construire un socle de protection sociale avec le Pacte mondial pour l'emploi

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Costa Rica. Informe sobre la validación de la valuación actuarial del régimen de invalidez, vejez y muerte (RIVM) efectuada por la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Form A902508 ESP_EN

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Nomination form to register to the course on "Extension of Social Protection: towards a Universal Social Protection Floor", ITC-ILO, Turin.

Form A902508 ESP_FR

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Key resources SPF agencies

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

MDG progress is measured in terms of national averages but these statistical averages often disguise that progress has not accrued to those at the bottom -- arguably those who need it most. Social protection is essential to accelerate MDGs with equity by facilitating access to essential services and decent living standards. Specifically, there is strong evidence that social protectin contributes to MDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 -- with stronger impacts for the disadvantaged. In the aftermath of the global crisis there is a historical opportunity to expand social protection in developing countries.

Extension de la protection sociale: vers un socle universel de protection sociale (brochure)

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Extension of Social Protection: towards a universal social protection floor (flyer)

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The main objective of this interregional training activity is to strengthen the capacity of key actors and stakeholders to design and implement strategies to extend social protection, within the framework of the social protection floor initiative and other extension channels.

Social assistance grants: analysis of the NIDS wave 1 dataset

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report summarizes the initial findings of the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) regarding social assistance grants in South Africa. A comparison to various other data sources is also included in order to highlight any shortfalls or strengths in the NIDS data in comparison to previous surveys. This report considers social assistance for children, the elderly and the disabled in turn. It then provides some simple analysis of the importance of social assistance to poor households.

Trends in South African income distribution and poverty since the fall of apartheid

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report presents a detailed analysis of changes in both poverty and inequality since the fall of Apartheid, and the potential drivers of such developments. Use is made of national survey data from 1993, 2000 and 2008. These data show that South Africa’s high aggregate level of income inequality increased between 1993 and 2008. The same is true of inequality within each of South Africa’s four major racial groups. Income poverty has fallen slightly in the aggregate but it persists at acute levels for the African and Coloured racial groups. Poverty in urban areas has increased. There have been continual improvements in non-monetary well-being (for example, access to piped water, electricity and formal housing) over the entire post-Apartheid period up to 2008.

Building social protection systems and protecting people

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This presentation includes:

Brief presentation of social security and social protection in Indonesia

Social security extension has 2 dimentions: horizontal and vertical. It is feasible and affordable to provide at least a minimum level of social protection for all

In Indonesia social security and social protection face many challenges

National priorities in social security and social protection (including the indonesian jobs pact under preparation) try to address these issues

It is suggested that the ILO could support the implementation of the national strategy for social protection in Indonesia through policy work, piloting, capacity building, increasing coordination (e.g. establishing a social protection floor team)

Colombia mission report

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report describes the Colombian Social Health Security System, namely the subsidized scheme and provides, inter alia, information about the legal framework, covered persons, service packages, costing and financing process as well as the information system and management process.

Informe de misión en Colombia

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport de mission en Colombie

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

ISSA Country Profile for Jordan

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF Country Brief India

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This short note describes the Indian experiences with building to core elements of the Social Protection Floor: access to health services and public works scheme for the active age groups.

Social security for all: Trade union policies

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This issue of Labour Education focuses on unions and their role in developing social security policies, particularly protecting and reforming national pension systems. Included are several country studies by union activists which describe the reforms, challenges and union campaigns surrounding pension systems in their countries. The context for these country studies and the other articles in this issue is the joint ILO, European Commission and Government of Portugal World Conference “Social protection and inclusion: Converging efforts from a global perspective”, held in Lisbon in October 2006.

Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti (PDNA)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti (PDNA) that we are presenting to our partners in the international community indicates the requirements to be fulfilled so that the earthquake, devastating as it was, turns into a window of opportunity so that, in the Head of State’s words, the country can be reconstructed. This is a rendezvous with history that Haiti cannot miss. We must obtain results; we owe it to our children and our children’s children.
The plan that we are putting forward is based on a joint effort of reflection and consultation. In diplomatic circles, formal and constructive talks have made us aware of the expectations of our international partners and allowed us to explain to them our choices for the future. On technical issues, national officials, supported by international experts, have carried out an assessment of damage and losses as part of the PDNA (Post Disaster Needs Assessment), which is an integral part of this plan.

Assessment report of the ILO Performance Indicators in Chinese

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Performance Indicators (PIS) of Statutory Social Insurance Schemes is a new quantitative management tool recently developed by the International Labour Office (ILO), aiming at, primarily, assisting the Board Members or Management Team of statutory social insurance fund / agency to systematically monitor the operational of its scheme and to improve its effectiveness and efficiency in terms of, mainly, the coverage of personal scope, the adequacy of benefits, the financial health of the fund and the sound administration.
Currently, there is a need for testing and evaluating the ILO PIS before its application worldwide. Although in the developing world, few countries have developed a monitoring tool of this kind, China has introduced a similar indicator system in the field of health insurance since 2007 based on local experiments and would be in a good position to assess the ILO PIS. Eventually, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) designated the Bureau of Health Insurance of Hunan Province for this work, because it had developed its own indicator monitoring system as early as 2000. The assessment was carried out in 14 health insurance funds operating in the province and the evaluation report, in Chinese, was completed and submitted to the ILO Beijing Office at the end of 2009.

Assessment Report on the ILO Performance Indicators (PIS)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Performance Indicators (PIS) of Statutory Social Insurance Schemes is a new quantitative management tool recently developed by the International Labour Office (ILO), aiming at, primarily, assisting the Board Members or Management Team of statutory social insurance fund / agency to systematically monitor the operational of its scheme and to improve its effectiveness and efficiency in terms of, mainly, the coverage of personal scope, the adequacy of benefits, the financial health of the fund and the sound administration.
Currently, there is a need for testing and evaluating the ILO PIS before its application worldwide. Although in the developing world, few countries have developed a monitoring tool of this kind, China has introduced a similar indicator system in the field of health insurance since 2007 based on local experiments and would be in a good position to assess the ILO PIS. Eventually, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) designated the Bureau of Health Insurance of Hunan Province for this work, because it had developed its own indicator monitoring system as early as 2000. The assessment was carried out in 14 health insurance funds operating in the province and the evaluation report, in Chinese, was completed and submitted to the ILO Beijing Office at the end of 2009.

Brief on the Macroeconomic Situation

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This brief prepared by the Ministry of Economy and Finances (MEF) presents the macroeconomic situation before and after January 12, 2010; it discusses the main emergency measures needed to facilitate the re-launch of economic activities and concludes by advocating for budget support to strengthen financial stability and to reactivate the economy.

Cash transfers - To condition or not to condition?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The document collects eight articles on cash transfer dealing with the following topics:

Cash transfers : To condition or not to condition?

Are conditional cash transfers the way out for poor people?

Do cash transfers discourage work?

Is a universal ‘Basic Income Grant’ feasible in Namibia?

Can cash transfers prevent inter-generational poverty in South Africa?

Even if conditionalities work, do women pay the price?

Can cash transfers improve gender relations?

Are cash transfers susceptible to high food prices?

CIPS Newsletter 04, June 2010

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Read the latest news from CIPS on the following: Brazil and ILO signing a cooperation pact to assist East Timor in social protection; Cape Verde releasing the results of the forum on the Social Security Extension Plan; the Social and Economic Studies Institute (IESE in Portuguese) making available the results of the Productive Social Action Seminar in Mozambique.

Haiti Earthquake PDNA: Assessment of damage, losses, general and sectoral needs

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This reports represents the results of the post-disaster needs assessment conducted in Haiti from February 18 to March 24 2010, at the request of and under the direction of the Government of the Republic of Haiti, with the technical support of the UN, the IDB, the ECLAC, the World Bank and the European Commission.
In order to respond to a catastrophe of this scale, this assessment has been designed to go further than traditional post-disaster assessments. The objective has been to lay the foundations for a fresh start in the country’s development efforts, as well as to reconstruct the damaged areas and contribute to a longterm national strategic development plan, in order to begin rebuilding Haiti.
In addition to the damage and loss assessment which usually constitutes the central part of this type of assessment, an analysis of short-term rehabilitation needs and an analysis of the needs to rebuild the country have led to costed assessments for eight essential themed sectors: governance, the environment, disaster risk management, social sectors, infrastructure-related sectors, the production sector, a macroeconomic analysis, and cross-cutting sectors (youth, gender, vulnerable persons, employment).

Haïti PDNA du Tremblement de Terre - Evaluation des dommages, des pertes et des besoins généraux et sectoriels

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La promotion du travail décent dans la reconstruction et le développement d'Haiti après le tremblement de terre de 2010

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Le défi de la reconstruction économique en Haïti: cadre stratégique intégré de court, moyen et long terme (Résumé)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Performance Indicators Of Statutory Social Insurance Schemes

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Performance Indicators (PIS) of Statutory Social Insurance Schemes is a new quantitative management tool recently developed by the International Labour Office (ILO), aiming at, primarily, assisting the Board Members or Management Team of statutory social insurance fund / agency to systematically monitor the operational of its scheme and to improve its effectiveness and efficiency in terms of, mainly, the coverage of personal scope, the adequacy of benefits, the financial health of the fund and the sound administration.
The ILO PIS has three sub-sets, namely PIS of long-term cash benefit schemes, short-term cash benefit schemes and health insurance schemes respectively.

Plan d'Action pour le revèlement et le développement d'Haiti (PDNA)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

First Meeting on the Re-foundation of Social Protection in Haiti

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Mr. Yves CRISTALIN and Mr. Nigel Fisher, Special Deputy Representative of the Secretary General and Coordinator of the UN System in Haiti, launched the “First Meeting on the Re-foundation of Social Protection in Haiti” organized jointly by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MAST), the Ministry of Planning and External Collaboration (MPCE) and the ILO.

Extending Social Security Coverage to Informal Economy Workers. Way Forward

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Joint Statement on Decent Work Country Programme of Cambodia (2008-10)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

1. Country Context
2. Linkage with National Social and Economic Development Framework
3. Working with tripartite constituents
4. Management and implementation framework
5. Monitoring and evaluation framework

Lao PDR. Report on Round Table Implementation Meeting

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report is about a consultative meeting between development partners and the Government of Lao PDR on the
development agenda and the coordination mechanism. The Round Table Implementation Meeting has been
acknowledged as an appropriate platform to prepare the groundwork for the high level Round Table Meeting.

Social security for informal economy workers in Indonesia. Looking for flexible and highly targeted programmes

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This paper looks into the demand for social security measures; the current coping mechanisms of informal workers;
and the impact of the current global financial crisis on the informal economy based upon a guiding principle of "Social
security should not be seen as a cost, but as an investment in human capital", through methodolgies of:

interviews with key stakeholders;

a survey among 2,068 informal workers;

case studies among 15 laid-off formal sector workers;

a case study of innovative local policy in Solo aiming to formalize the informal economy.

Toward the social protection strategy for the poor and vulnerable in Cambodia

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Approaches, vision and goal of social protection in Cambodia

Objectives,targeting and institutional arrangement of social protection strategies in Cambodia

Lesson learned

Human resource impacts of the global economic crisis. What is working in APEC members' social safety nets and labour market system policies?

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

General impacts of the global economic turmoil on Vietnam

Specific labour market impacts of the recession

State responses

Social Security in Indonesia: Advancing the development agenda

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report summarises the recent developments in social security in Indonesia and identifies areas where additional
ILO input could be helpful to Indonesia. The scope of the report will cover the following key issues in social security:

Implementation of the National Social Security (SJSN) Law

Reform of Jamsostek, in particular changing its legal status to Trust Fund

Extension of social security coverage for the informal economy workers

Social assistance targeting the poor
Most of the policy analyses and recommendations have been drawn from the product of the technical assistance
projects that the ILO has provided to Indonesia since 2000.

Summary report. Strategy on social protection and master plan on social protection for rural population for period 2011-2020

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

1. Preparation process for development of the strategy and Master plan
2. Issues for Government's consideration

The relationship between old age and poverty in Vietnam

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Viet Nam is presently putting in place new social security structures more suited to an open, competitive economy. Old
age pensions are an important part of the social security system. This UNDP Policy Dialogue Paper presents a careful
analysis of the relationship between old age and poverty in Viet Nam, and identifies the central issues that policy
makers must consider as they redesign the pension system. Like the other papers in this series, this UNDP Policy
Dialogue Paper seeks to contribute to key policy debates in Viet Nam through an impartial consideration of the
country's development situation and potential implications for the future. Our aim is to encourage informed discussion
and debate through the presentation. of information and evidence collected and presented in a clear and objective
manner.

UNDP Viet Nam Policy Dialogue Paper 2005/01. Beyond HEPR: A framework for an integrated national system of social security in Viet Nam

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This paper analyses key social security issues in Viet Nam and proposes a conceptual framework for the
development of an integrated national social security system. The main objective is to consider how specific
components of the existing National Targeted Programme on Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (NTP) could
evolve or be incorporated with existing formal sector social security programmes to form an integrated national
system. Key institutional, fiscal and macroeconomic prerequisites to the development of a national social security
system are discussed. The analysis draws heavily on international experience and is not intended as a programmatic
blueprint, but rather as an exploration of key issues requiring further research.

UNDP Viet Nam Policy Dialogue Paper (2). How progressive is social security in Viet Nam?

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This UNDP Policy Dialogue Paper examines existing social security policies and analyzes the relationship between
social security, consumption and income. The paper finds that when social policy is considered as a whole-including
user fees as well as transfers-current policies do not contribute to the important goals of reducing poverty and
inequality.
Although poor households do receive transfers, they pay out equal or greater amounts in user fees to receive basic
services like health and education.

Vietnam Development Report 2008: Social Protection

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report was prepared in partnership by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, the European Commission (EC), the German Development Cooperation (GDC), and the World Bank. A major contribution by all these donors was to finance or conduct studies in areas related to the content of the report over the months and years preceding its writing. Such studies, listed in the bibliography section, were conducted as part of each donor's own country program. All these donors also contributed staff time to the preparation of the report, through their active engagement in workshops and discussions.

Social protection floor: An ASIAN perspective

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Asian countries' recognition of SPF

National responses of SPF

Concept of SPF

UN Joint Works for SPF in Asia

The roles of Civil Society in the promotion of SPF

Social protection floor. A UN joint crisis initiative (pdf)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The issue: low level of social protection coverage, although many arguments to justify the extension

The UN CEB Social protection floor initiative as a response to the crisis

The SPF is affordable and feasible

What can be done to support the Social Protection Floor initiative? : Global / Regional / Country level

Social protection floor. A UN joint crisis initiative (ppt)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The issue: low level of social protection coverage, although many arguments to justify the extension

The UN CEB Social protection floor initiative as a response to the crisis

The SPF is affordable and feasible

What can be done to support the Social Protection Floor initiative? : Global / Regional / Country level

Market alternatives for smallholders farmers in food security initiatives: lessons from the brazilian food acquisition programme

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Policies that support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers are crucial in efforts to tackle poverty and hunger, especially when they are designed to combine different sectors of public intervention. Small farmers account for a significant share of developing countries? rural poor, who in turn account for 75 per cent of the total poor population in those countries (World Bank, 2008). Smallholdings are typically operated by the poor, who make substantial use of labour from their own households and from their equally poor or even poorer neighbours. Moreover, much of their income is usually spent on locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating the rural off-farm economy and creating additional jobs (Hazell et al., 2007). They are also vital for food production and can play a significant role in increasing the availability of and access to food (United Nations, 2008).
Small farmers use several different strategies to secure their livelihoods, with a view to ensuring that their food requirements are met and that they generate enough income for their immediate consumption needs, social purposes and investments. Interaction with agricultural markets is an essential part of these strategies. Markets are where, as producers, smallholders buy their agricultural inputs and sell their products; they are where, as consumers, smallholders use income from the sale of crops or from their non-agricultural activities to buy food and other consumption goods. Improved market access, therefore, is not only important for better-off producers or for the production of cash crops rather than food crops; it is also very important for smallholder farmers (IFAD, 2003).

Public works and employment programmes: towards a long-term development approach

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Public works and employment programmes have long been considered a staple of social assistance. For the most part, though, they have been designed as short-term ‘safety nets’. While, in some cases, the focus has also been on reducing poverty or addressing structural unemployment challenges, their implementation has seldom been on a scale that would make a dent in structural poverty. The fact that large scale programmes such as India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which was initiated prior to the recent economic crisis, could also be effective in responding speedily to and mitigating the effects of the crisis has elicited interest in such policies as a component of inclusive growth paths.
In making the case for a longer-term development approach, the paper points out that such an approach would not only allow these programmes to act as shock absorbers without being ‘too little, too late‘ but would also enable the state to strengthen its capacities to provide support to livelihood strategies of the poor through addressing critical public goods and service deficits while creating jobs. In this context, the paper assesses the desirability and feasibility of adopting a universal or a partial Employment Guarantee (EG) to make such programmes a more stable complement to market-driven employment creation in situations where levels of poverty, in particular, working poverty, and underemployment are high.
The paper also explores the complementarities and interactions with various social assistance and cash transfer programmes with a view to fostering a more comprehensive approach to social protection for the poor. The paper concludes with a section on implementation issues with a view to strengthening learning on how to plan, design and implement long-term and Employment Guarantee types of public employment programmes.

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report presents an accounting to date of how far the world has come in meeting the goals using data available as of May 2010. Progress towards the eight Millennium Development Goals is measured through 21 targets and 60 official indicators. The Millennium Development Goals Report, an annual assessment of regional progress towards the Goals, reflects the most comprehensive, up-to-date data compiled by over 25 UN and international agencies. Produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the report has been designated by the UN General Assembly as an official input to the MDG summit.
The UN report cites big gains in getting children into primary schools in many poor countries, especially in Africa strong interventions in addressing AIDS, malaria and child health; and a good chance to reach the target for access to clean drinking water. But disadvantages that hurt the poorest, those living in remote areas or with a disability or due to ethnicity or gender, have sapped progress on many other fronts.
Among the findings are that only half of the developing world’s population has access to improved sanitation, such as toilets or latrines; girls in the poorest quintile of households are 3.5 times more likely to be out of school than those from the richest households, and four times more likely than boys from this background; and less than half of the women in some developing regions benefit from maternal care by skilled health personnel when giving birth.
The share of people in the developing world who subsist on less than $1.25 a day, in constant US dollars, dropped from 46 per cent in the baseline year of 1990 to 27 per cent in 2005 – led by progress in China and Southern and South Eastern Asia – and is expected to tumble to 15 per cent by the target year of 2015.
But the MDG Report 2010 also indicates that progress against hunger has been impacted more severely by economic troubles. The ability of the poor to feed their families was hit consecutively by skyrocketing food prices in 2008 and falling incomes in 2009, and the number of malnourished, already growing since the beginning of the decade, may have grown at a faster pace after 2008.

Broad categories of data needed | note (word)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Decent work indicator | Social security pension beneficiaries. Explanatory note

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Decent work indicator | Social security dimension 1

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Formulaire de collecte de données simplifié

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection in Africa: an overview of the challenges

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study provides an overview of different models of social protection measures currently in use in African Union member states. This framework is designed to enable policymakers in Africa to make informed choices on the issues, needs and social development priorities affecting people and limiting the growth and development of the region.
Some challenges and progress are identified and policy direction on the promotion, strengthening and sustaining of social protection in Africa forms part of the recommendations and conclusions.
The main method used to carry out the study was a desk top review of research studies, literature, official policy and documentation to survey the current status of social protection in Africa. In addition a set of questions were sent to government departments dealing with social security in AU Member States to verify and update information and data on social protection.
Key demographic data for each country, human development and poverty indicators and employment and unemployment trends in Africa were obtained through desk top reviews and databases of the United Nations Development Programme-Human Development Report data base and the World Population Bureau Data Base.
The study also draws on recent research undertaken on social protection in the region.

Extending social protection to migrant workers and their families Course Brochure

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The World Bank: Social Protection and Labor Sector

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The World Bank’s Social Protection (SP) sector is part of the Bank’s Human Development Network and one of the youngest of its 19 sectors. Created in 1996, the sector offers information and toolkits on disability, labor markets, pensions, safety nets and transfers, and social funds.

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Centre for Social Protection

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS)'s Centre for Social Protection presents research, news, events and IDS projects on social protection mechanisms. It also monitors the impacts of the recent economic crisis and methodological innovation in the area of rapid impact assessment.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Employment and social protection

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

UNDP helps developing countries to work towards full employment as a way to achieve macroeconomic stability. The organization provides policy advice, carries out applied policy research and connects stakeholders through policy dialogue. Through this work, UNDP enhances countries’ capacity to ensure that labor markets and social protection policies are more interlinked – and more effective for poor people.
As part of the UNDP's Inclusive Development Focus Area, this website section presents a brief overview of employment and social protection as well as links and related UNDP publications and resources.

India | The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mongolia | Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Protection in Germany: Current challenges and lessons learnt from an ongoing reform process

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper aims to provide an overview of Germany's current social protection system with a strong focus on unemployment benefits, especially regarding the conditional cash transfer instrument.
It discusses the main arguments and lessons learnt from the last decade of social policy reform in Germany. By doing so, it aspires to provide relevant insights about the trade-offs between costs and benefits of the current system that hopefully could enrich the ongoing discussions and reform processes within developing and emerging economies.

Haiti at a glance

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti key indicators: poverty and social, economic ratios and long-term trends, structure of the economy, prices and government finance, trade, balance of payments, external debt and resource flows.

Republic of Haiti: Public Expenditure Management and Financial Accountability Review (PEMFAR)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document addresses the main developments achieved by the Haitian government since 2006, in particular the strengthening of political and economic governance, the improvement of security and infrastructure and its impact on poverty reduction and sustainable growth.

Social Resilience and State Fragility in Haiti

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This document describes and analyses key social and political characteristics of Haiti: e.g. demographics, poverty, socioeconomic outcomes and risks, governance and institutions, and political forces and actors.

Compilation des données sanitaires de routine 2

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquete sur les soins obstetricaux et neonataux d'urgence en Haiti

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti: Options and Opportunities for Inclusive Growth

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This document addresses growth and poverty reduction in Haiti and provides a detailed analysis of the type of policies that should be implemented in this matter.

La Plate-forme Haïtienne des Associations de PVVIH (PHAP+)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Labor Markets in Rural and Urban Haiti

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper addresses labor markets in Haiti, including farm and nonfarm employment and income generation.

Mexico | Encuesta Nacional de Empleo y Seguridad Social (ENESS). Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mexico | Encuesta Nacional sobre Niveles de Vida de los Hogares (ENNViH)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mexico | ENCUSTA NACIONALES INGRESOS Y GASTOS DE HOGARES

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Renforcer la protection sociale par l'institutionnalisation des mutuelles de santé au Bénin

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Tremblement de terre du 12 janvier - Bilan de dégâts

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Vers l'objectif d'accès universel

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Achieving MDG 4 through Decent Work

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Achieving MDG 5 through Decent Work

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Chile | Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN), 2006. Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Ecuador | Encuesta de Empleo, Desempleo y Subempleo (ENEMDU), 2009. Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Ecuador | Encuestas de Condiciones de Vida - 5th Round (ECV), 2006. Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

La maternidad en el trabajo: Examen de la legislación nacional

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

La maternité au travail: Une revue de la législation nationale

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Maternity at work: A review of national legislation

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report reviews national legislative provisions for maternity protection in 167 member States with a particular focus on how well countries’ provisions conform to the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183), and its accompanying Recommendation (No. 191). The study found legislation on maternity protection in all of the 167 member States studied, and no member State has yet been identified without any legislation.
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Nicaragua | Encuesta Nacional de Hogares sobre Medición de Nivel de Vida (EMNV), 2001. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Panama | ENCUESTA DE NIVELES DE VIDA. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Peru | ENCUESTA DEMOGRÁFICA Y DE SALUD FAMILIAR (ENDES), 2006. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Peru | ENCUESTA NACIONAL DE HOGARES (ENHAO), 2008. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Peru | Encuesta Permanente de Empleo (EPE), 2009. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social security and reforms in Ukraine

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This note presents the system for each social security branch in Ukraine.

Ukraine Poverty Alleviation

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report reflects the situation of poverty as one of the most acute problems of Ukraine during the last years.
It gives an overview on the income strutcure and the situation of unemployment in Ukraine and makes a prospect and recommandation on poverty reduction of Ukraine which is facing important economic changes.

Uruguay | Encuesta Continua de Hogares (Questionnaire), 2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Uruguay | Encuesta Continua de Hogares (Questionnaire), 2009

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Collection of maps of Haiti related to the earthquake 2010

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Map of comprehensive building damage assessment for Carrefour Commune, Haiti (Version 2)

Map on the intensity of building damages in Delmas Commune, Haiti

Map on th Intensity of building damages downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Map on the comprehensive building damage assessment for Port-au-Prince commune, Haiti (Version 2)

Port-au-Prince Situation weekly Report Feb 12 - Feb 19, 2010

Map of population movements out of Port-au-Prince 17 Feb, 2010

Haiti. Shelter Distribution: Beneficiaries and coverage (as of 11 February 2010)

Map on Haiti Earthquakes: Potentially affected population 2010

Map on Haiti earthquake: Topographic detail

Map of Port-au-Prince

Conoce tus derechos y obligaciones en seguridad social en el Uruguay

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Enquête sur la jeunesse d'Haïti (présentation)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquête sur la Jeunesse d'Haïti 2009 (rapport)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Fondo para la Educación Previsional

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti Youth Survey 2009

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document presents the main results of the 2009 Haiti Youth Survey: e.g. school attendance, labour force, migration, security, household economy, dwelling and infrastructure.

Iniciativa del piso de protección social (Nov. 2010)

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Initiative du socle de protection sociale (Nov 2010)

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Plan Ceival

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport sur l'activité économique et le marché du travail

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquête sur les conditions de vie en Haïti

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haïti. Indicateurs sociodémographiques

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Malaysia. Report to the Government. Relief fund for the loss of employment. Programme design and actuarial assessment

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The report has two main aims:

a design proposal for a new social protection system that addresses the loss of employment in Malaysia;

an actuarial assessment of the proposed scheme.

Taux de prévalence du VIH/Sida en Haïti

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

ABC sur la protection sociale et études de cas

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Analyse de la fréquentation scolaire et du niveau d'instruction de la population

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Analyse de la mortalité

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Analyse de la natalité-fécondité et des besoins en planification familiale

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Développements et tendances de la sécurité sociale 2001-2004

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquête sur les conditions de vie en Haïti (ECVH). Woman and child questionnaire (WCQ)

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquête sur les conditions de vie en Haïti. Logement et infrastructure

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Etude sur l'extension de la protection sociale en milieu communautaire en Haïti

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti Living Conditions Survey notes

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This two-page document reports on a number of serious flaws found in the 2000/2001 Haiti Living Conditions Survey (HLCS) questionnaire of the national Haitian statistical agency, Institut Haitien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI). The most important flaw relates to the variable describing the metropolitan-urban-rural status of a household/individual.

Haiti: Social Security Profile

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This document provides a brief description of the regulatory framework, coverage, source of funds, qualifying conditions and administrative organization of the different branches of the social protection system in Haiti. The branches hereby described include the retirement scheme (old age, disability and survivors) and the worker's compensation scheme.

Haïti. Document de Stratégie Nationale pour la Croissance et la Réduction de la Pauvreté

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haïti. Déterminants de l'emploi

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

HLCS 2001. Les conditions de vie en Haïti 2001. Person questionnaire (RSI)

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Lancement du PDNA. Allocution du Premier ministre Jean-Max Bellerive, Karibe Convention Center, Port-au-Prince, 18 février 2010

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Les Cahiers du DSNCRP. Volume 1, Numéro 6, novembre 2008

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Pour réussir le saut qualitatif

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Poverty in Haiti

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

An abbreviated version of a poverty profile for Haiti.

Programme national de Promotion d'Emplois productifs et de Lutte contre l'Exclusion sociale 2000

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Projet de relance du dialogue tripartite, salariat, patronat, secteur public pour la rationalisation et la modernisation de la sécurité sociale en Haïti

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Propositions pour une politique nationale de développement des ressources humaines

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Protection sociale en santé (PSS) : une réponse efficiente, équitable et durable pour lutter contre la mortalité materno-infantile

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Protection sociale en santé: quelques éléments de base pour enrichir la discussion

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Qui a le pouvoir? Transformer les systèmes de santé pour les femmes et les enfants (extrait)

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report assesses progress on Goal 4 (on child mortality) and Goal 5 (on maternal health) and proposes best strategies for reaching them .
The report builds on a strong foundation of epidemiological data and analysis generated over the past several decades. This evidence base provides an increasingly refined picture of who dies or suffers poor health and why. It provides crucial information about the efficacy and safety of interventions to address those causes. It also generates insights about the effectiveness of different delivery systems for making interventions available, accessible, appropriate, and affordable.

Rapport du Sous-Groupe Thématique: Protection Sociale

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport sur les mesures et les mécanismes d'accompagnement à privilégier pour la promotion de la création et du développement de micros, petites et moyennes entreprises en Haïti

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Territoires, développement et emplois productifs sur l'espace haïtien

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Vers un schéma de Protection Sociale en Santé (PSS) en Haïti

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Éléments pour la formulation de stratégies d'extension de la protection sociale en santé

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

2005-2006 Enquête Mortalité, Morbidité, et Utilisation des Services IV (EMMUS-IV)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

4ème Recensement général de la Population et de l'Habitat. Migrations

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Aide-mémoire IMF staff visit, August 2008

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Inflation, budget, revenues, fuel price mechanism, net external financing, expenditures, structural conditionality, expected resources, financing gap.

Construction de protection sociale en santé: quelques évidences à considérer

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Contacts santé et nutrition par département

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

CWGER update on Haiti: 18 February 2010

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The ER (Early Recovery) Cluster is led by UNDP and is one of twelve clusters currently operating in Port-au-Prince. A field-based ER Cluster is now operating in Jacmel (led by UNDP), while in Leogane the cluster is composed of a group of early recovery partners working with a local coordination cell under the local Mayor. A “shadow” ER Cluster has been established in Santo Domingo to support ER operations in Haiti, with particular emphasis on activities within a 20 kilometre border area in Haitian territory.

Dynamiques locales et emploi en Haiti

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Espace urbain haïtien (défis et perspectives)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estadísticas económicas - Economic statistics (Haiti)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Etude des impacts socioéconomiques des changements climatiques en Haïti et réponses d'adaptation 2009

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti : Proposition pour une politique de l'aménagement du territoire et la décentralisation

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti : Questions relatives au développement à court et à long terme

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti earthquake: Flash appeal 2010

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report provides a first context and humanitarian consequences of the earthquake in Haiti and gives response plans.
This rapid first edition of the flash appeal is based to a greater degree than usual on remote sensing, background information, estimation and inference. Moreover, because of the disaster’s scale and severity, it is being published faster than usual. For these reasons, much of the information and plans herein must be understood as very approximate.
The latest version of this document is available on http://www.humanitarianappeal.net

Haiti situation update

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Actions performed and planned
On 26 January 2010, the UN entrusted Handicap International with the mission of coordinating, for the whole of Haiti, all rehabilitation activities for injured persons, the fitting of orthopaedic materials and support for people with disabilities, in partnership with the German organisation, CBM (Christian Blind Mission). As part of its role, Handicap International is organising the coordination of international aid stakeholders, while the CBM is coordinating Haitian organisations working in these fields, under the general coordination by the WHO of the Health cluster.
HEALTH
• Support for people with injuries and disabilities, in hospitals and communities: injury care, hospital referrals, post-operative follow-up, rehabilitation, follow-up in communities and camps
• Distribution of orthopaedic materials and mobility aids
• Psychosocial support: individual support and discussion groups for traumatised victims
• Fitting of temporary emergency orthopaedic materials (end February) then fitting of permanent orthopaedic materials (from July) for amputees

HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS
• Transport of humanitarian aid by the inter-agency logistics platform
• Distribution of emergency kits for the homeless (while facilitating access to aid for people with disabilities and the vulnerable)
• Setting up of temporary shelters (taking into account the specific needs of people with disabilities and the vulnerable)
• Clearance operations / “Cash for work” project

Haiti: Short and long-term development issues

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This deliberately brief document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the request of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Its primary purpose is to help nurture the domestic debate on long-term development issues. A second purpose of the document is to offer the Government of Haiti a framework for a medium term prospective development strategy for Haiti. The document outlines some of the major issues that warrant further discussion, and points in the direction of possible policy orientations.

Haiti: Sixth Review under the Extended Credit Facility, Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion, and Augmentation of Access

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Background, recent developments, impact of the earthquake and proposed augmentation, performance under the ECF arrangement.

Haïti. Institutions médicales par département

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

La bonne gouvernance: un defi majeur pour le developpement humain durable en Haïti. Rapport National sur le Developpement Humain

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Les comptes économiques en 2007, Haiti

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Les conditions de vie en Haïti

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Les pôles de concentration urbaine et les schémas de migration interne

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Map on th Intensity of building damages downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Migration interne et aménagement du territoire

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Preliminary findings about persons with injuries

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report presents initial findings from Handicap International’s hospital and community actions for persons with injuries. It does not aim to present a comprehensive account and analysis of conditions following the earthquake in Haiti. It aims to provide an overview of the patterns of injuries and the available management, to aid in planning the needed physical rehabilitation and related services, and to guide the development of an appropriate strategy of short and long term follow-up.
Key points:
• To date, HI has assessed / supported more than 600 persons with injuries at hospital and community level in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, at risk of developing secondary disabilities
• Earthquake-related injuries appear to affect all ages and appear to be equally distributed between males and females
• Approximately 80% of persons presenting to hospital have orthopaedic injuries, with lower extremity fractures predominating
• There appears to be a high prevalence of amputations, both as primary and now secondary interventions
• Complete or partial damage to almost all existing health facilities has significantly impacted on the availability of emergency surgical and medical care
• Quick and unclear discharge & referral procedures of persons with injuries in addition with poor follow-up at community level raises major concerns about the immediate future of these injured persons, many whom are now homeless and have lost family members
• Immediate intervention is required at community level for a proper injury surveillance mechanism and coordinated care and support for persons with injuries and disabilities
• Persons with specific conditions such as spinal cord injuries, amputations, and burns will require long-term support to prevent premature death and promote a good quality of life

Rapport sur l'etat de lieux de la protection sociale en Haiti

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Republic of Haiti. Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP) 2008-2010

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Growth vectors (agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, science and technology), human development (basic services), democratic governance (justice and security), targeted and cross-cutting policies and strategies. Macroeconomic policy framework.

Répartition spatiale de la population et urbanisation

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

République d'Haïti. Plan d'Action Stratégique octobre 2008-septembre 2010

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haiti. Population feminine, nombre de grossesses, d'accouchements et de naissances vivantes estimé par département en 2008

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haití. Evolución económica durante 2006 y perspectivas para 2007

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haití. Evolución económica durante 2008 y perspectivas para 2009

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haití: antecedentes económicos y sociales

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haïti. Evolution économique de l'année 2006 et les perspectives pour 2007

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Haïti. Guide des indicateurs sur les données de la population

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La jeunesse haïtienne. Un groupe cible d'une extrême importance stratégique

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Méthodologie d'évaluation de l'impact socioéconomique des désastres. Impact sur le secteur agriculture et élevage

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Méthodologie d'évaluation de l'impact socioéconomique des désastres. Impact sur les secteurs industrie, commerce et tourisme

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Report on human rights, extreme poverty and cash transfer programmes

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 8/11. In this report, the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty has chosen as her thematic focus cash transfer programmes (CTPs). These are non-contributory programmes providing payments in the form of cash to individuals or households. The primary objective of CTPs is to increase the real income of beneficiaries in order to enable a minimum level of consumption within the household. CTPs have been identified as effective tools for poverty eradication due to their capacity to reduce economic inequalities and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet these programmes have seldom been discussed or analysed from a human rights perspective.
The independent expert recognizes that CTPs are a tool that can assist States in fulfilling their obligations under national, regional and international human rights law. The transfers may have an impact on the exercise of a number of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights. In particular, CTPs have the potential to assist in the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing.
Nonetheless, CTPs are not necessarily the most appropriate and effective means of tackling extreme poverty and protecting human rights in all contexts. CTPs should be seen as only one component of social assistance policies. As such, they must be integrated within social protection systems and grounded by solid legal and institutional frameworks framed by human rights standards and principles. This report aims to promote further analysis of the impact of CTPs on the fulfilment of the human rights of beneficiaries.

Répartition de la population totale par groupe d'âges et sexe selon le milieu de résidence 2010

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Répartition des ménages, de la population par sexe

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Répartition des ménages, de la population par sexe selon le département et la commune

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sources et Données SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIQUES

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sources et Données SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIQUES

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sources et données socio-démographiques

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Tendances et Perspectives de la Population d'Haiti 2010

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Transition démographique, inégalités et pauvreté

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

A Social Protection Floor for all: The UN initiative, the ILO and the South-South dialogue

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enhancing social security for unorganized workers in India

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La Proteccion social en Brasil

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Un Piso de Protección Social para todos: La iniciativa de las Naciones Unidas, la OIT y el Diálogo Sur-Sur

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Un socle de protection sociale pour tous: l'Initiative des Nations Unies, l'OIT et le Dialogue sud-sud

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La protection sociale de la santé. Stratégie de l'OIT pour un accès universel aux soins de santé

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF Country Brief Brazil

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Piso de protección social. Una actualización de la agenda de la OIT e internacional

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF Country Brief Cape Verde

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Summarizes recent developments in Cape Verde regarding the National Basic Social Security Strategy and related UN support.

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF Country Brief Mozambique

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Summarizes recent developments in Mozambique regarding the National Basic Social Security Strategy and related UN support.

Iniciativa del piso de protección social. Argentina

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Iniciativa del piso de protección social. Piso de protección social en Argentina

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sierra Leone. Technical Note. Assessment of health insurance options for Sierra Leone. Assessment, conceptual remarks and recommendations

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report focuses on the request for technical assistance on policy and actuarial aspects in the context of the extension of social health protection in Sierra Leone. It concentrates on the assessment of health insurance options with a view to achieving universal coverage and access to health services for the most vulnerable population as regards design, financing mechanisms, benefits and administration and reflects the intense discussions held in the country at the national and local level including a broad-based validation process.
For more information on Social Health Protection in general click here.

Social Health Protection. An ILO strategy towards universal access to health care

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection floor initiative Brochure (Nov 2010)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection floor initiative. SPF country brief Argentina

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection floor initiative. SPF country brief Argentina (short)

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Initiative: SPF Country Brief China

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The proposed National Health Insurance Scheme and promotion of Social Health Protection in Uganda

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Providing for Health (P4H) is an initiative established and mandated to implement decisions taken by the G8 Summit 2007 in support of strengthening social health protection. ILO is a core partner of the P4H Initiative.
The following report was developed by a team of representatives of P4H partners upon request of the Government of Uganda. The report is currently formally tabled to Interministerial Committee (Ministers of State for Health, Labour, Finance and Planning and Public Service) for adoption.

Wage continuation during sickness: Observations on paid sick leave provisions in times of crises

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Paid sick leave plays a crucial role especially in times of crises where many workers fear dismissal and discrimination when reporting sick. In fact, the absence of paid sick days forces ill workers to decide between caring for their health or losing jobs and income, choosing between deteriorating health and risking to impoverish themselves and often their families. Without social health protection that includes paid sick leave many people working in the formal or informal economy and living in developed or developing countries cannot afford to choose.
Limited evidence is available for governments, employers and workers’ unions on the consequences of gaps in providing for paid sick leave and costs of failing to address the needs of the vulnerable. Developing reliable internationally comparable data is constrained by the complex interplay of health and socio-economic conditions including regulations, labour market structure and vulnerability when taking up paid sick leave. Against this background, this paper seeks to focus on the existing national and international evidence and provides some insights into the concepts, patterns and affordability of paid sick leave in countries throughout the world. Further, it is argued that providing for sick leave and related income replacement is a key component of decent work and should be considered within national social protection floors.

World social security report 2010/11. Covering people in times of crisis

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Extending social security to all. A guide through challenges and options

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This document, which is a “Guide” to the ILO approach to social security policy development, has been compiled largely from the materials and deliberations of the Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Strategies for the Extension of Social Security Coverage (September 2009). It includes the contents of the Background Paper prepared for the meeting, together with the Chairperson’s Summary, as formulated at the closing of the meeting.
The document has two major parts:

Part A sets out the development of a paradigm for the extension of social protection on the basis of an analysis of existing needs, existing old and new coverage patterns and the internationally recognized right to social security.

Part B provides the evidence and information base for the policy consideration in Part A. It includes:

a statistical analysis of the existing global coverage gap and describes a wide range of recent country experience with alternative methods to close the global coverage gap.

an analysis, in the form of a compendium-synthesis, drawn from a new publication of the Social Security Department entitled “Effects of non-contributory social transfers in developing countries: a Compendium”.

Feuille de route pour l'élaboration d'un socle de protection sociale au Burkina Faso

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Nepal Labour force survey Report 2008-2009, CBO

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nepal Labour Force Survey 2008 is the second important step in the arena of labour force statistics in Nepal. It updates various indicators of labour force statistics derived from the Nepal Labour Force Survey 1998/99, which was the first of its kind in Nepal. Both surveys provide essential statistics for monitoring employment and labour market developments in Nepal. The surveys of this kind try to address the various labour related issues of the country as well.

This survey counts the whole set of questions to measure employment in the informal sector and informal employment, including a few questions specifically on social security

Nepal | Labour force survey Questionnaire 2008-2009

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nepal Labour Force Survey 2008 is the second important step in the arena of labour force statistics in Nepal. It updates various indicators of labour force statistics derived from the Nepal Labour Force Survey 1998/99, which was the first of its kind in Nepal. Both surveys provide essential statistics for monitoring employment and labour market developments in Nepal. The surveys of this kind try to address the various labour related issues of the country as well.

This survey counts the whole set of questions to measure employment in the informal sector and informal employment, including a few questions specifically on social security

Social protection and governance

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This discussion paper points out the political role of social protection for democratic governance and the establishment of security in a country.
Social protection programmes can contribute towards strengthening governance systems and enhancing state legitimacy, which in turn can positively affect democratisation and nation building processes. Democratisation and development are therefore no longer seen in terms of one being a prerequisite for or means of obtaining the other but as necessary and parallel processes which must be simultaneously pursued so that they can reinforce each other. This is particularly applicable for so-called fragile states, such as Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo or Somalia.

Microinsurance. An innovative tool for risk and disaster management (table of contents)

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The book in hand contains fifteen papers, elaborated by 26 experts among academics, insurance and development professionals, and practitioners in the field, all focusing - from different perspectives - on an integrated approach in risk and disaster management. Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America reveal the enormous potential of Microinsurance in particular in disaster management.

Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Will the Green Shoots Blossom?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two main "models" of social protection in the region: theSouthern Africa and Middle Africa models. It then assesses the contrasting policyprocesses behind these models and examines the major challenges they face as regardsfinancing, institutional capacity and political support. It concludes that, for an effectiveinstitutional framework for social protection to evolve in sub-Saharan African countries, thepresent focus on the technical design of social protection programmes needs to beaccompanied by analyses that contribute to also "getting the politics right."

Maldives Pension Act (unofficial translation)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Regulation of Old-Age Basic Pensions under the Maldives Pension Law (unofficial translation)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Regulation On Participation in and Contributions to the Maldives Retirement Pension Scheme (unofficial translation)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Protection in Asia

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In 2009, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility published, in its Briefing Notes series, the results of a study that revealed the current landscape of microinsurance in Africa. The study, conducted in partnership with the MicroInsurance Centre, identified over 14 million low-income people in Africa who were covered by microinsurance at the end of 2008, almost double where this figure stood in 2004. Even with such growth, substantial parts of the continent remain almost barren of microinsurance.
This paper is an expanded version of those briefing notes, presenting more detailed results of the study and setting them in context. Market opportunity and demand are covered in depth, along with the African regulatory environment and other important enabling factors. The current outreach of microinsurance in Africa, including insurers, products, and delivery channels, is then presented from a practice-based perspective, with case studies and input from expert practitioners. The paper concludes with a discussion of challenges that must be overcome in order to facilitate broader, high-quality expansion in the years to come.

Initiative des Nations Unies pour un socle de protection sociale. Manuel et cadre stratégique pour les opérations conjointes des Nations Unies au niveau national

Mon, 31 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Historia de la reforma previsional en Chile. Una experiencia exitosa de política pública en democracia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reforma previsional en Chile. Protección social para todos

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Effects of non-contributory social transfers in developing countries. A Compendium.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Fiche d'information. Initiative pour un socle de protection sociale

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Iniciativa del Piso de Protección Social. Manual y marco estratégico para las actividades nacionales conjuntas de las Naciones Unidas

Thu, 27 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge management and information sharing on the SPF initiative. GESS platform: SPF country guide

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Web pages dedicated to the construction of the SPF at national levels were created to give to GESS users the opportunity to follow SPF-I national processes from around the world. This guide aims to show members of the country joint teams how to access and use specific sections available in the platform.

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

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Thailand. Pension reform in times of crisis

Thu, 27 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report reflects the findings of the mission by social security experts of the ILO to undertake a review of recent proposals to reform the pension system in Thailand. During a number of technical co-operation projects and technical missions over the last two decades the ILO has built-up a substantial degree of familiarity with the social security system in Thailand. Thus this mission has to be seen as one more element in a long-standing process of policy dialogue between the government and social partners in Thailand with the ILO.

Hoja informativa: Iniciativa del Piso de Protección Social

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

India's Report on Health Micro-Insurance Schemes: Diversity, innovations and trends

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

As the largest democracy in the world, India is still striving to extend basic human rights, including social protection, to all its citizens.
However, a growing perception of the necessity to extend social protection to all excluded groups has recently been observed in India, together with a wider commitment to actively contribute to this extension through various strategies, including the promotion on new micro insurance schemes.
As a direct result, numerous actors of the civil society (community based organisations, women's groups, informal economy trade unions, NGOs, micro finance institutions, etc.) have already designed and set up in-house tailor-made micro insurance schemes, to answer the priority needs and contributory capacity of their target groups.
The objective of the present report is to provide an across-the-country review of the various on-going health micro-insurance schemes targeting the disadvantaged groups of the society. To this day, there are only a few fully documented initiatives all over the world. India may become a new reference with the present work reviewing 100 on-going health micro-insurance schemes spread all over the country.
View the report. It is divided into five parts:

Index, introduction, analysis and main findings (43 pp., 2.20 MB)

Comparative Data (34 pp., 278 KB)

National Review Part I (231 pp., 1.32 MB)

National Review Part II (227 pp., 1.30 MB)

Annexures (30 pp., 185 KB)

Labour Law, Saudi Arabia (unofficial translation)

Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Conoce tus derechos y obligaciones en seguridad social

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Factsheet - The UN Social Protection Floor Initiative

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This flyer, available in several languages, is designed as a promotional tool for a broad public, to get the social protection floor known and to get people interested in the Initiative. It can be distributed during meetings and conferences to governments, NGO’s, social partners, UN-agencies,… . It is easy to print it yourself (just use a color printer and print it recto/verso).

Inter-Agency Show and Tell Meeting 2010 - Social Protection

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Inter Agency Show and Tell Meeting 2010 on Social Protection took place May 12, 2010 at the International Labour Office in Geneva.
Agenda
Agenda of the Inter-agency Show and Tell Meeting 2010 Social Protection, 12 May 2010, ILO
Panorama of agency activities in the area of Social Protection

ILO Social Security Department: Activities in 2009 and 2010

WHO - Health financing and Social Health Protection

Providing For Health (P4H)

Social protection and labor work at the World Bank

UNICEF Social Protection Work an overview

Social protection in development cooperation: EC perspective

Social Protection - current DFID engagement

MFA-FINLAND

Social Protection in German Development Cooperation
Social Protection data, statistics and tools

ILO Measuring Social Protection - Taking stock of our statistical knowledge

World Bank The social protection atlas

Existing WHO approaches - frameworks - tools relevant to Social Health Protection

ISSA International Barometer of Social Security Administrations
Thematic Exchange: Social Protection Floor and Safety Nets

World Bank: Safety Nets Today

ILO: The Social Protection Floor and Social Safety Nets: Two alternative concepts?

ISSA: International Barometer of Social Security Administrations

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Micro-assurance santé : Guide d'introduction aux mutuelles de santé en Afrique

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Réunion tripartite d'experts sur les stratégies d'extension de la couverture de la sécurité sociale, Genève, 2-3 septembre 2009, Agenda provisoire

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Safety Nets Today

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage, Geneva, 2-4 September 2009. Provisional Agenda

Wed, 12 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Iniciativa del piso de protección social (folleto)

Tue, 11 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Initiative des Nations Unies pour un socle de protection sociale (brochure)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

World social security report 2010
Statistical Annex | Part B: Social security coverage and expenditure

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A basic income grant for South Africa

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Comprises seven papers which explore the possible implementation of a solidarity grant or basic income grant paid to every individual as right of citizenship, without conditions. Analyses the social, economic and fiscal impact of such a grant and assesses its effectiveness in reducing poverty and eradicating destitution. Examines the financing of the grant, discusses the political aspect and considers the need for a civil society campaign for the grant.

Iniciativa Piso de Protecção Social (fact sheet)

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security Act Thailand

Sun, 09 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Act (Thailand) was passed in Sep. 1990 and came into force on 1 Mar. 1991. The Act provides the basis and framework for the gradual development of a comprehensive social security system in stages.

Building adequate social protection systems and protecting people in the Arab region

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

As one of the thematic background papers for the Arab Employment Forum (Beirut, 19-21 October 2009), this paper reviews the status of social security in the Arab region in the context of the global financial and economic crisis, and identifies four priority areas for discussion at the Arab Employment Forum. First, one of the main challenges for the Arab region is to build an effective social protection floor which would guarantee a minimum level of social protection for the population, and which would contribute to realizing the universal right to social security. In many Arab countries there is increasing recognition that the yields of economic growth need to be distributed in a more effective and equitable way in order to foster broad-based and sustainable economic and social development, and that more effective protection from poverty is indispensable. Second, effective social protection policies requires a coordinated and comprehensive approach which takes account of the complexity of social policies and its interlinkages with related policy areas. Bringing different types of programmes, target groups and modes of provision under one common policy framework ensures better coordination and integration between the different elements of the national social security system, and enables countries to realize the right to social security in a more effective and efficient way. Third, the extension of social security coverage is not only a social imperative, realizing human and social rights, but also a precondition for the effective functioning of labour markets and for productive employment. Labour market distortions can arise where workers are not covered under the same regulations with respect to their social security coverage, or where the existing regulations are not fully enforced. Appropriate measures need to be found to minimize such distortions and to ensure that fundamental rights at work are ensured for all workers. In the Arab region, the extension of social security is particularly relevant for three policy areas: pensions, unemployment protection and maternity protection. Fourth, ensuring the good governance of social security is one of the key challenges for future operations and reform of social security. Good governance nurtures trust in the systems, which in turn fosters popular support and helps to increase levels of compliance. International labour standards provide a globally accepted and tested framework for ensuring good governance and realizing rights at work.
Arabic version: http://www.ilo.org/public/arabic/region/arpro/beirut/downloads/aef/social_ar.pdf

Encuesta de Seguridad Social de la OIT. Primera encuesta 2005

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Enquête du BIT sur la Sécurité sociale - Manuel 2005

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

ILO Social Security Inquiry 2005 Manual

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The objective of the ILO Social Security Inquiry is to collect statistical data on social security around the world. This includes social security expenditure and receipts of social protection schemes as well as data on protected persons, recipients of social benefits and benefit amounts.

The manual gives an overall presentation of the survey, guidelines on which data to collect and definitions of terms and concepts.

ILO social security inquiry: Jordan

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This link provides access to all available indicators available, other related information is also accessible

An inventory of schemes under the Scheme information section

Some agregate indicators | More

Access to sources and notes

Kingdom of Bahrain. Technical note. Social protection for the unemployed. Preliminary findings on unemployment insurance and assistance.

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Provides preliminary findings only on the issue of unemployment insurance and social protection measures for non-qualifying unemployed persons.

Kuwait. Appraisal of the commutation process of the Kuwait Public Institution for Social Security as of March 2004.

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The objectif of this appraisal is to ensure equity among pensioners through periodic financial evaluations of the commutation process.

Kuwait. Report to the Government. The eighth actuarial valuation of the Kuwait Public Institution for Social Security as of March 2001.

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report should be considered as transitory, between the Seventh and the Ninth actuarial valuation of 2004. Therefore, detailed analysis through sensitivity tests and cohort simulations are reduced to a minimum. The core of the report is composed of only two parts - the first (Sections I and 2) deals exclusively with the system for civilian employees, with results, explanations and a cohort analysis. The second relates to other components of the social security structure, i.e. the Self-employed scheme (Section 3), the Military scheme (Section 4), and the Commutation system (Section 5). Several annexes complete the report.

Kuwait. Report to the Government. The ninth actuarial valuation of the Kuwait Public Institution for Social Security as of 31 March 2004

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The report is composed of two parts. The first part (sections 1 to 4) deals exclusively with the Civilian scheme and presents findings and major issues regarding actuarial valuations. The second part (sections 5 and 6) relates to the Self-employed and the Military schemes.

Kuwait. Technical note. Database and assumptions for the actuarial valuation of the Kuwait Public Institution for Social Security as of 30 June 2004.

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Outlines the demographic, macroeconomic and actuarial bases used for the forthcoming valuation.

Liban. Rapport au gouvernement. Analyse du projet de loi de 2004 sur la réforme des pensions et propositions du BIT

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Promoting Social Security in Palestine

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Reducing Poverty in Yemen

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security in Kuwait

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Programs throughout the World: Bahrain

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Sultanate of Oman. Report to the Government. Peer review of the actuarial valuation of the Public Authority for Social Insurance as at 31 December 2005

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The impact of the financial and economic crisis on Arab States: Considerations on employment and social protection policy responses

Thu, 06 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The paper reviews the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on Arab states until early 2009 and offers a number of policy considerations on employment and social protection policies.

Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social (AISS)

Wed, 05 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

International Social Security Association (ISSA)

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The International Social Security Association (ISSA) is an international organization which essentially brings together institutions and administrative bodies dealing with one or more aspects of social security in different countries of the world, namely all forms of compulsory social protection which, by virtue of legislation or national practice, are an integral part of the social security system of these countries.

Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD)

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The OECD brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to:
• Support sustainable economic growth
• Boost employment
• Raise living standards
• Maintain financial stability
• Assist other countries' economic development
• Contribute to growth in world trade
The OECD also shares expertise and exchanges views with more than 100 other countries and economies, from Brazil, China, and Russia to the least developed countries in Africa.

Thailand | the 2007 health and welfare survey (health coverage in Table 1)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Thailand Common Country Assessment

Tue, 04 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This Common Country Assessment (CCA) is a key document for the United Nations in Thailand. It aims to summarize the principal aspects of the development situation, identify the priority concerns and prepare the ground for the United Nations Partnership Framework for the period 2007-2011.

Well-being, sufficiency and equity. UNPAF (UN Partnership Framework) 2007-2011 Thailand

Tue, 04 May 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Over the last decades, Thailand has made remarkable progress in advancing human development and now stands ready to share its experiences with other middle-income and developing countries. At the same time, Thailand continues to address internal disparities, both regionally and among social groups.
The UN System has developed this United Nations Partnership Framework (UNPAF) with the Royal Thai Government (RTG). The UNPAF builds on the Common Country Assessment (CCA) drafted by the UN Country Team (UNCT) in consultation with the RTG and other development partners. It is fully aligned with national development policies and aims to reduce disparities in the Kingdom and enhance Thailand’s capacity to fully realize the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the eighth MDG on global partnership for development.
This UNPAF is based on a mutually beneficial partnership between the UN and the RTG in areas of strategic importance to Thailand as a middle-income country. Moving beyond the traditional donor-recipient relationship, the UN Country Team in Thailand is engaged in a two-way exchange of knowledge and expertise.The UN is now positioned as an international gateway for Thailand to access international expertise and policy advice; equally, the UN learns from Thailand and shares development successes and lessons learned from other countries. To reflect this new strategic approach, this document is referred to as the UNPAF instead of the traditional United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
The UN will support national efforts in making the MDGs a reality for all by reaching out to those areas and groups who are not benefiting from the country’s rapid economic progress. Taking a human-rights approach to programming, the UNPAF aims to empower the most vulnerable people in society to claim their rights to live in dignity, free from fear and want; and to build the capacity of people in responsible positions to fulfill their societal obligations. Focused interventions will be undertaken in the following five areas of cooperation:
1. Access to quality social services and protection;
2. Decentralization and provincial/local governance;
3. Access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support;
4. Environment and natural resources management; and
5. Global partnership for development – Thailand’s contribution.
The implementation of this UNPAF is designed to maximize impact while minimizing transaction costs. Joint programmes fully aligned with national priorities will be developed wherever possible.

Social Protection and Poverty

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In the last decade, social protection has emerged as a policy framework employed to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. This report has two main aims: to provide an overview of social protection, and to provide an assessment of its potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in developing countries.

Section 1 provides some preliminary definitions and tracks the emergence of social protection as a policy framework against a context of poverty and vulnerability trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Rising poverty and vulnerability following the 1980s in Latin America —known as the “lost decade”— the financial crises in 1997 in Asia and the rapid economic transformation in transition economies demonstrated the need to establish strong and stable institutions directly concerned with reducing and preventing poverty and vulnerability. Social protection provides a policy map, linking policy interventions to an understanding of poverty and vulnerability as multidimensional and persistent.

Section 2 reviews poverty and vulnerability concepts and measures. It pays particular attention to the growing influence of multidimensionality in poverty analysis. Duration and dynamics are important dimensions of poverty and contribute to an understanding of vulnerability, which is the likelihood that individuals or households would be in poverty in the future. Research into multidimensional aspects of poverty and vulnerability has made a very important contribution to the development and formulation of social protection.

Section 3 examines different approaches to social protection and traces them to underlying development perspectives. There are different versions of social protection, emphasizing either risk, rights or needs as the organizing concept. However, they all share common ground, an important feature of which is the broader developmental role of social protection in developing countries and its focus on (extreme) poverty reduction. This discussion opens a window on the conceptual and ethical bases of social protection.

Section 4 examines trends and key issues in the development of social protection programmes and policies in developing countries. The focus of this section is on social assistance, as the component of social protection which addresses poverty most directly, but reference is made where relevant to the other components of social protection, social insurance and labour market regulation. The extension of social protection in developing countries has focused on social assistance, as opposed to social insurance or labour market regulation. The section then traces the main features of regional pathways in the development of social protection and assistance, contextualizing the analysis of the resulting social protection programmes.

In the last decade and a half, there has been a great deal of innovation in social assistance programmes, and a marked increase in their reach. Regular and reliable social assistance programmes based around income transfers, but increasingly combining access to basic services and investment in human development, now reach a significant proportion of those in poverty in the South. Social assistance programmes are classified into four categories: (i) pure income transfers; (ii) income transfers conditional on work; (iii) income transfers conditional on investment in human capital; and (iv) integrated poverty reduction programmes. The section discusses key features and objectives of these categories of programmes. Where impact evaluation results are available, they show that new forms of social assistance have reduced poverty and raised human development.

The extension of social protection in developing countries will require overcoming a number of constraints, which are more acute for low-income countries. Among these constraints is finance—a key barrier to the extension of social protection. The issue is long-term sustainability, as developing countries are not in a position to finance the extension of social protection through payroll taxes that was crucial to the emergence of the welfare state in developed countries. Alternative forms of resource mobilization will be needed. Capacity constraints are a problem in low-income countries, but this is a more tractable issue than finance.

The final section summarizes the main points and discusses possible linkages to wider institutional models. Examining the implications of following different social protection pathways to reduce poverty and vulnerability and to establish long-term social protection institutions remains an urgent question to be tackled by researchers. The likely impact on poverty and vulnerability of the extension of social protection under way in developing countries is not in doubt. Investment in social protection and social assistance can be extremely effective in reducing current poverty and vulnerability, as well as poverty persistence across time and generations. Countries with stronger social protection and assistance institutions show lower rates of poverty and vulnerability, and are more resilient in the face of economic and social transformation.

Arab Employment Forum, 19-21 October 2009

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection floor: A UN Joint crisis initiative

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Structure of the presentation

Social security is a human right, a social and economic necessity, a stabilizer in times of crisis... (937 Kb)

However the coverage is still low worldwide (included in part I)

The UN CEB Social protection floor initiative as a response to the crisis (266 Kb)

The SPF is affordable and feasible, as shown by many country experiences (1125Kb)

What can we do to support the Social Protection Floor? (388 Kb)

a) Global level
b) Country level

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ILO social security inquiry: China

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This link provides access to available indicators available from the social security inquiry database as well as to other related information

An inventory of schemes under the Scheme information section

Some agregate indicators | More

Access to sources and notes

Extension de la protection sociale: vers un socle universel de protection sociale

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Garantir un socle de sécurité sociale

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Barriers to health care for the poor and ethnic minorities in Northwest Vietnam

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report presents the results of two studies undertaken by Bettina Schwind in Vietnam around barriers to health care services for poor and ethnic minority people inhabiting mountainous Northwest Viet-nam. It shows how issues such as distance to the next health facility or the quality of information campaigns can impact the quality of health services the poor receive.
The objective is to reflect upon what may need to be done in order to improve their situation and to achieve greater equitable access to health services. In conclusion, it highlights some of the implications for the tailoring of responsive and inclusive health policies that take into account challenging geographical terrains and diverse socio-cultural environments. This is of relevance to neighbouring Asian countries as well, which feature similar conditions.

Entrevista con John Woodall

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Extensión de la seguridad social para todos. Resumen de los desafíos, practicas actuales y opciones de estrategias

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Interview with John Woodall

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Description of the advantages of transforming provident funds into defined benefit schemes in in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and description of past and ongoing technical cooperation activities in Sri Lanka in the field of social security.

Promoting synergies between child protection and social protection

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

At the core of social protection is a concern for addressing vulnerability and risk. It is increasingly understood that social protection policy frameworks and programmes must be informed by a recognition of the diversity of vulnerabilities and risks, and the way in which these evolve across the lifecycle. This report focuses on children’s vulnerabilities and risks related to an absence of protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and the ways in which measures to address such vulnerabilities and risks can be more effectively integrated into social protection policy frameworks in the West and Central Africa region. The analysis is based on a desk review as well as the findings from five in-depth country cases: Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali and Senegal.

South-South dialogue on the Social Protection Floor Initiative - A Social Protection Floor for all

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Presentation of the Social Protection Floor (SPF) activities at the high level special event South-South dialogue on the SPF-I (New York, 2 February 2010)

The SPF-I was adopted in April 2009 by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board (CEB) as one of its nine key priorities to cope with the current global crisis. The SPF corresponds to a set of essential transfers, services and facilities that all citizens everywhere should enjoy to ensure the realization of the rights embodied in human right treaties.

中国养老保险个人账户历史经验

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

德国法国医疗保险体系简介

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study summarizes the health care system in Germany and in France. The main purpose is to provide assistance for the research on the cost control of health care system to the Social Insurance Administration Department of Chinese Ministry of Human Ressources and Social Security.

2010 Report on the work of the Chinese government

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The author, Prime Minister, summarizes the difficulties arose in the economical and social fields, as well as the results achieved. He reviews works of the Government in 2009 and points out works which should be focused on in 2010.

China Development Report 2008/09

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The China Development Report is a comprehensive research report compiled and released regularly by China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), based on its efforts.
The report touches up themes of importance to China's economic and social development. This 2008/09 report is titled Constructing a Developmental Social Welfare System for All, which proposes to set up a social welfare system adapted to China's particular context and stage of development, and provides policy recommendations on the pension system, education, healthcare, employment, housing and minimum living allowance.

China: Towards universal coverage by the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT
The Governement of China implemented the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NRCMI) in 2003. This is a community-based scheme that targets the rural population, it plans to give access to basic health care in the space of seven years. The Government has assumed a central leadership in policy, guidance, financing (highly subsidized system), design and implementation of the scheme. Membership is voluntary and benefit packages are generally focused on catastrophic-illness and inpatient-treatment.
The scheme is developing quite quickly, risk prevention and redistribution have improved thanks to the extension of resource and risk pooling. However there remain some concerns, such as the fact that costs are still too high for poor households (members have to pay 80 per cent of medical services); voluntary membership may open the door to adverse selection; since the scheme has not a health insurance system status, legal guarantee, supervision and quality control are hardly feasible.
Investigation on site may be needed in future, if a thourough and comprehensive evaluation is to be carried out.

Health care in China: The role of non-government providers

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

While China's health services are primarily financed by out-of-pocket spending (private financing), health care providers, especially the hospital industry, are still dominated by state ownership and government control (public provision). Even though the private sector plays an increasing role in the ambulatory sector, private services are not included in the social insurance benefit package, and thus, it primarily serves self-paying patients. The ambiguity of the government policy toward private provision stems from concerns that an increasing private sector would drive up costs and its services may be of questionable quality. This paper tries to gather evidence on the relative performance of private and public sector in China. Neither literature review nor our primary data analysis provides any support for the notion that the private sector charges a higher price and they serve primarily the better-off people. Quite on the contrary, available data seem to suggest that not only the private sector tends to serve disproportionately the low-middle income groups (this may well be due to its relative lower direct and indirect costs), consumer satisfaction also seems to be higher with regards to certain dimensions of the private than public sector.

Research report on issues concerning the expansion of social security coverage in China

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This is an overview of the Chinese government's efforts to the extension of social security coverage. The article includes a brief overview on Social Security System in China, the current situation, major challenges and the reform and future of social insurance coverage.

中国的社会转移支付项目及其宏观经济效应

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

全球各国社会保障体系养老保险调节机制

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Referring to Social Security Programs Throughout the World : Europe, 2008/Asia and the Pacific, 2008/Africa, 2009 published by ISSA, this article sumarizes the benefit adjustment mechanism for old-age pension system of 136 countries around the world in the last 4 years. The aim of this document is to assist the All China Federation of Trade Union in preparing a report for the Chinese State Council.
The introduction is in Chinese; the description of mechanisms, in English.

Constructing a social welfare system for all (extract)

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

In this report, six objectives for the development of an initial welfare system until 2012 and six objectives for the development of the developmental social welfare system until 2020 are established.

Six major policy recommendations are explained into detail, such as:

The old get cared

The sick get cured

Learners get taught

Workers get paid

Inhabitants get accommodated

The poor get assisted

Guide for the method of settlement of basic health care insurance for urban residents (including elderly residents, non-practitioners and infants) in Ningbo, China

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Guide for the method of settlement of medical care insurance for urban employees in Ningbo, China

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Guide for the method of settlement of serious illness medical care insurance for migrant workers in Ningbo, China

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Macro impact of social transfer schemes in China

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper reviews the development of social transfer schemes in China since 2000 and investigates the impacts of these transfer schemes on poverty, income distribution, and consumption. An analysis of the 2003 and 2007 rural household data in six provinces and a municipality shows that these programs significantly reduce poverty. Analysis based on data from China Statistical Yearbook shows an insignificant effect of social transfer schemes on mitigating income distribution in rural areas, as against a growingly visible effect in urban areas. The analysis also shows an obvious positive correlation between the income derived from transfer schemes in both urban and rural areas and households’ consumption of education, health care, and housing. In urban areas, transfer income and expenditures on human capital related items even show a higher correlation coefficient than non-transfer income. In rural areas, the positive correlation between transfer income and total consumption and human capital related consumption becomes stronger over time.
Powerpoint presentation in Chinese: 中国的社会转移支付项目及其宏观经济效应

Policy of basic old age insurance for employees in Ningbo, China

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social old age insurance for urban and rural residents in Ningbo, China

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

C102 Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), is the flagship of all ILO social security Conventions, as it is the only international instrument, based on basic social security principles, that establishes worldwide-agreed minimum standards for all nine branches of social security: medical care, sickness benefit, unemployment benefit, old-age benefit, employment injury benefit, familiy benefit, maternity benefit, invalidity benefit, and survivors′ benefit. By October 2010, 47 countries have ratified the Convention.

Campagne mondiale sur l'extension de la sécurité sociale pour tous

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Evaluation des politiques sociales

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Global campaign on the extension of Social Security for all

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Topics:
The Global Campaign in retrospect
Situation and trends in social security coverage
Challenges
A new strategy
Issues for discussion

Hoja de ruta para la extensión de la seguridad social, con ejemplos de Mozambique y Cabo Verde

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

International leadership training: social security

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The training course is designed to enable leading personnel in the field of social security, in partner countries to learn about effective macro policies and strategies in the social sector and to become familiar with modern management instruments relevant for Social Security Institutions (including business and administration procedures, mathematics and IT tools). Individual achievements in the training will increase effective, efficient and needs-oriented management in governmental policy making and insurance/health care systems management. The participants are supposed to take on a multiplier role in implementing reform in the social security sector in their home countries.

Interview: Roadmap pour l'extension de la sécurité sociale, avec des exemples du Mozambique et du Cap Vert

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Interview: Roadmap to extending social security with examples on entry points from Mozambique and Cap Verde

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

In this interview, the social security expert, shares his views about the usefulness and relevance of a roadmap in the process of extending social security. The author mentions two examples of action undertaken in Mozambique and Cape Verde.

Standards for the XXIst century - social security

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT
International labour standards are by nature universal in their vocation. They are intended to be applied by the 175 member States of the ILO, irrespective of their legal system or their level of economic development. It should also be recalled that ILO Conventions are international treaties of a specific nature. They are adopted by the Conference, which is composed of representatives of the governments of member States, as well as representatives of workers and employers.

Up-to-date ILO social security standards and their status of ratification

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT
One of the ILO's principal means of action to achieve the realization of this basic human right is the setting of applicable international labour standards. Since the establishment of the ILO, the ILC has adopted 31 Conventions and 23 Recommendations on social security. In 2002, the ILO Governing Body confirmed eight out of these 31 Conventions as up-to-date social security Conventions.

Ley no. 20.255 sobre el sistema de pensiones solidario en Chile

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Cash and Food Transfers: A Primer

Mon, 23 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Interest in safety nets and social protection is growing exponentially. Ways of strengthening them are called for in high-level statements, researched in academic articles, and implemented by practitioners. Such developments are encouraging and may help to shed light on some long-standing humanitarian and development challenges. The concept remains controversial, however, and several issues must be clarified. This paper delineates core areas of tension, and lays out key issues underpinning them at the analytical, policy, institutional and implementation level. It conveys the following five messages:

1. Social protection is a broader concept than safety nets. Although there is no universally agreed definition of social protection, there is growing consensus that it includes safety nets, mostly in the form of cash or food transfers; social services, such as health clinics; and insurance options. Safety nets are therefore only one of the many components of a social protection system.

2. All countries have some form of social protection, but models differ greatly. Social protection is largely about public action, and all countries deploy some form of public measures against hunger. However, countries’ different capacities and objectives lead to diverse models of social protection. These include contexts where social protection systems are limited, such as in Bangladesh; emerging, as in Brazil; and consolidated, as in Sweden. Such diversity must be recognized, and interventions tailored to meet context-specific challenges.

3. Social protection policy cannot be formulated in isolation. Longstanding debates should be included more explicitly in the formulation of social protection policies. These include the debates on public versus market interventions to address hunger, the effectiveness of foreign aid, and the growth effects of social protection.

4. Social protection raises important institutional, financial and administrative challenges. Most developing countries face critical institutional and financial challenges that can only be met gradually and progressively. However, some actors advocate for an immediate institutionalization of social protection. Inadequate attention is often paid to competing priorities and trade-offs, bringing the risk of misinforming or misguiding decision-makers.

5. Specific implementation issues inspire lively debate. Social protection programming typically evokes debate over traditional programming areas, including the appropriateness and design of conditionalities – whether or not to link transfers to certain activities; the type of transfers – cash, food or vouchers; or targeting mechanisms. It is not unusual to find dogmatic positions in these areas.

Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Contents

Climate, poverty and index insurance

Climate and poverty

Climate risk management

A brief introduction to index insurance

Index insurance for development

Index insurance for disaster management

Climate change and index insurance

Next steps – this publication

Case studies I

Unlocking development potential in Malawi

Disaster insurance in Ethiopia

Scaling up index insurance: The contract

Scaling up in context

Identifying and quantifying the risk

Measuring index parameters

Establishing probabilities

Estimating the price

Understanding impacts

Case studies II

National-level drought risk management in Malawi

A farmer-centric approach in Ethiopia

Insurance for contract farming in India

Disaster relief in Mexico

Catastrophe risk insurance in the Caribbean

Insuring development goals in the Millennium Villages Project

Vietnam: Flood insurance in the Mekong Delta

Scaling up index insurance: Operational issues

Demand for the product

Local ownership and capacity

Legal and regulatory issues

The challenge of subsidies

Case studies III

Central America – a different approach for launching index insurance

Barriers to implementation in the Ukraine

The private sector builds a market in India

Laying the foundations for farm-level insurance in Ethiopia

Supporting farmers – and a government seed program – in Brazil

Stakeholder communication is key in Thailand

Scaling up in India: The public sector

Livestock insurance in Mongolia

Lessons learned and recommendations

What is the potential of index insurance for development and disaster management?

Lessons learned and recommendations

Global initiatives on financial risk transfer

Strengthening social security in economic crisis. The need for a social protection floor

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This briefing paper seeks to analyze the role of social security in crises and argues that investment in such may well be a substantial means to fight the negative impacts of financial and economic crises.

Unveiling Social Safety Nets

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Interest in safety nets and social protection is growing exponentially. Ways of strengthening them are called for in high-level statements, researched in academic articles, and implemented by practitioners. Such developments are encouraging and may help to shed light on some long-standing humanitarian and development challenges. The concept remains controversial, however, and several issues must be clarified. This paper delineates core areas of tension, and lays out key issues underpinning them at the analytical, policy, institutional and implementation level. It conveys the following five messages:

1. Social protection is a broader concept than safety nets. Although there is no universally agreed definition of social protection, there is growing consensus that it includes safety nets, mostly in the form of cash or food transfers; social services, such as health clinics; and insurance options. Safety nets are therefore only one of the many components of a social protection system.

2. All countries have some form of social protection, but models differ greatly. Social protection is largely about public action, and all countries deploy some form of public measures against hunger. However, countries’ different capacities and objectives lead to diverse models of social protection. These include contexts where social protection systems are limited, such as in Bangladesh; emerging, as in Brazil; and consolidated, as in Sweden. Such diversity must be recognized, and interventions tailored to meet context-specific challenges.

3. Social protection policy cannot be formulated in isolation. Longstanding debates should be included more explicitly in the formulation of social protection policies. These include the debates on public versus market interventions to address hunger, the effectiveness of foreign aid, and the growth effects of social protection.

4. Social protection raises important institutional, financial and administrative challenges. Most developing countries face critical institutional and financial challenges that can only be met gradually and progressively. However, some actors advocate for an immediate institutionalization of social protection. Inadequate attention is often paid to competing priorities and trade-offs, bringing the risk of misinforming or misguiding decision-makers.

5. Specific implementation issues inspire lively debate. Social protection programming typically evokes debate over traditional programming areas, including the appropriateness and design of conditionalities – whether or not to link transfers to certain activities; the type of transfers – cash, food or vouchers; or targeting mechanisms. It is not unusual to find dogmatic positions in these areas.

The paper’s conclusions can be summarized in the following three interlinked remarks:

i) Approaches need to be fully compatible with prevailing cultural, social and economic factors. Countries have followed different pathways to introduce and expand social protection systems. Context-specific factors should be fully recognized, and approaches tailored accordingly. There is scope for learning from each other, but it is not appropriate to simply replicate models developed in other contexts.

ii) In developing countries, the debate tends to overemphasize conceptual issues and underplay administrative and implementation constraints. Decision-makers face difficult tradeoffs, some of which can be minimized while others are more difficult to reconcile. Introducing and expanding social protection systems do not allow for shortcuts or easy choices. Ignoring possible trade-offs makes debates naïve at best, and misguided at worst.

iii) Rhetoric has often prevailed over evidence. There is a need to inform decision-makers more fully, and not merely to convince them. This is true for both the advocates and the critics of social protection. A more balanced and pragmatic approach is required – based on technical partnerships, free from pre-packaged agendas, and genuinely owned and demanded by national governments and actors.

Ethiopia | 2004, Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure Survey (HICES questionnaire)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Policy Framework for Africa

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Drawing upon the strategic objectives of the AUC social programme, and within the context of its objectives of promoting sustainable development, the SPF aims to provide an overarching policy structure to assist African Union Member States to strengthen and give increasing priority to their national social policies and hence promote human empowerment and development. The framework treats social development as subordinate to economic growth, but justifies social development as a goal in its own right. It acknowledges that while economic growth is a necessary condition of social development, it is not exclusively or sufficiently able to address the challenges posed by the multi-faceted socio-economic and political forces that together generate the continent’s social development challenges.

"Aneh Dhivehi Raajje" The other Maldives

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report has pointed out 5 key fields as well as their public grievances, policies, short term goals and long term goals which are directly or indirectly related to the social security in Maldives:

Nationwide Transport System

Affordable Living Costs

Affordable Housing

Affordable and Quality Health Care for All

Prevention of Narcotics Abuse and Trafficking

CIPS Newsletter 02, February 2010

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

In this issue:

The 10th Meeting of Labour and Social Affairs Ministers of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) that took place in Fortaleza, Brazil, between the 22nd and 24th of February

Mozambique: Basic Social Security Regulation approved by the Government

Cabo Verde: Adopted new legislation for the extension of social protection

Training

QUATRAIN NOTÍCIAS No 8. Formação em protecção social para as Américas

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Heterogeneity analysis of the Bolsa Família programme effect on men and women's work supply

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an ‘income shock’ on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família transfers are viewed as an income shock because they alter the income composition in terms of earned and unearned income. The analysis is undertaken using the values of the transfers as the treatment indicator to show how the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) varies according to the amount received. ATT estimates obtained from the Propensity Score Weighting method lead to the conclusion that PBF marginally diminishes the supply of weekly work hours of working adults. The heterogeneous impacts of the cash transfers on men and women depending upon how they are placed in formal and informal sectors, agricultural and non-agricultural sectors and wage rate ranges are also assessed. The results indicate a nil average effect on probability of working and a marginal reduction in the supply of labour hours for men and women. The impact is greater for informal workers and unpaid workers and is more significant for higher values of the transfers.

Un piso de protección social en América Latina. Costos fiscales e impactos sociales

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

2010年国务院总理温家宝政府工作报告

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Empleo y protección social en el nuevo contexto demográfico

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Emploi et protection sociale dans le nouveau contexte démographique

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Employment and social security protection in the new demographic context

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This report analyses the implications of the new demographic context for economic performance and for labour markets, in particular, for employment and social protection in different development contexts. It reviews policy solutions that are being developed and debated, specially in industrialized countries. It also discusses the challenges of demographic transition in countries which continue to experience higher levels of poverty and of informality. It also presents the possible policy directions from a forward-looking perspective. It emphasized the need for policy solutions to address demographic change from a life-cycle and intergenerational perspective.

The UN Social Protection Floor Initiative - Brochure

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Trabajadores independientes y protección social en América Latina

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This document is the Executive Summary of the final Social Protection Expenditure Performance Review and Social Budget of the ILO-DFID projet "Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All - As a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia for Zanzibar". The main report sets out the current situation of existing social transfers within the social protection system in Zanzibar. This Executive Summary highlights key issues and findings rather than to summarize the main SPER and SB report chapter by chapter.

Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report focuses on six key issues with respect to the objective of extending social protection coverage:

demographic and economic framework

working conditions and prevailing patterns of informality in the labour market

social and living conditions of households with a focus on the overall situation of poverty and key vulnerable groups

coverage and performance of existing public social protection interventions, both contributory and non-contributory

current resource allocations to social protection within the current fiscal environment and future trends in the Zanzibar social budget

illustrative policy options for a minimum package of social protection benefits

ABC del sistema de protección social. Deberes y derechos

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Bolsa Família Programme: Context, concept, impacts and links with employment policies

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La salud, la seguridad social y las mutuales en Argentina

Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reunión Regional Tripartita sobre el futuro de la protección social en América Latina. Santiago, Chile, 12 al 14 de diciembre de 2007

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor SPF activity table overview

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Overview of ongoing activities in the context of the Social Protection Floor Initiative at country, regional and global level.

Trabajadores independientes y el sistema de pensiones en Chile

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Minutes High level special event South-South dialogue on the Social Protection Floor Initiative

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

During the meeting, it was emphasized that Social Protection technical expertise which can be exchanged through south-south co-operation are in many cases those most suitable to meeting the development challenges faced by others in the South. This is particularly true for flagship programes that have been remarkably succesful in extending social security in various countries like Brazil, Mexico, Rwanda, Colombia, South Africa, China etc. During the meeting, high-level participant presented their experiences and expressed their support for the social protection floor initiative.

For the powerpoint slides on the Social Protection Floor presented during the meeting, click here.

Mesures prises par les pouvoirs publics pour remédier aux problèmes d'emploi et aux conséquences sociales de la crise économique et financière, notamment sur l'égalité des sexes

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Policy responses on employment and the social consequences of the financial and economic crisis, including its gender dimension

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Promoción de la Integración Social. Informe del Secretario General

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Promoting social integration. Report of the Secretary-General

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The present report was prepared in response to Economic and Social Council resolution 2008/19, in which the Council decided that the priority theme for the 2009-2010 review and policy cycle of the Commission for Social Development should be “Social integration”, taking into account its relationships with poverty eradication and full employment and decent work for all. The report provides an overview of current social integration policies and obstacles to their implementation. It focuses on redistributive, anti-discriminatory and participatory policies promoting social integration and concludes with recommendations for future action.

Promotion de l'intégration sociale. Rapport du Secrétaire général

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Respuestas de política en relación con el empleo y las consecuencias sociales de la crisis económica y financiera, incluida su dimensión de género

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

A Presentation on South Africa's Basic Social Protection Floor to the Special Event on South-South Cooperation

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Mr. Vusi Madonsela (Director General of the Department of Social Development, South Africa) presented during the High level special event South-South dialogue on the Social Protection Floor Initiative (2 February 2010, New York) Africa’s Basic Social Protection Floor. He focused on Pillar 1 of South Africa’s Social Protection Framework: ‘Providing a basic SPF as promoted by the United Nations’. The scope encompasses targeted social assistance, targeted free healthcare, targeted free basic education, universal free basic services (water, electricity and sanitation), public works programmes and a tapestry of free welfare programmes. He stressed that South-Africa is convinced that a SPF (cash transfers, complemented by basic services, including health and education) will in the fullness of time, brake the cycle of inter-generational transmission of poverty.

How economic shocks affect poor households and children

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, coupled with food and fuel price volatility, are likely to affect developing countries, and within them the vast majority of the world’s poor population in profound ways. Based on both experiences in previous crises and the information that is available thus far on the current crises, this working brief will examine the channels through which this combination of crises will affect households and their children.

LOGOS Boletín de ACYM Nº 5

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 22a Indicators of effective coverage: unemployment benefits (annual data)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Child poverty: a role for cash transfers

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report, the third in a series of regional thematic reports produced for a study on social protection and children in West and Central Africa, focuses specially on one type of social protection mechanism – social assistance in the form of cash transfers – and explores how this can contribute to addressing specific risks and vulnerabilities faced by children in the region.

Fiscal space for strengthened social protection

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report examines the current situation in five countries in West and Central Africa with regard to fiscal space, with a view to identifying scope for the sustainable financing of additional spending on social protection. It starts from the premise that, although such programmes may be desirable from the point of view of poverty reduction and politically and institutionally possible at sector level, spending decisions need to be taken from a ‘whole of government’ perspective, explicitly taking into account the need to maintain fiscal and macroeconomic stability.

Human development in crisis

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The dramatic slowdown in global economic growth could begin to erode human development gains and that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is likely to be undermined. In order to prove these conclusions, this paper contributes in three ways:
First, it briefly reviews the empirical literature and outlines the possible transmission of the crisis from the broader global economy to the national economy, and eventually to households, children and women.
Second, it summarizes some of the emerging accounts from the field based on reports and interviews of poor people, suggesting that households—and in particular children and women—face severe strain as the crisis has begun to unfold.
A third contribution is an empirical analysis of the historical relationship between episodes of growth accelerations and decelerations with country level aggregate indicators of human development (e.g. life expectancy, infant and under-5 mortality and school enrolment), using data covering the period between 1980 and 2006.

Introduction to the Social Security Inquiry online - powerpoint presentation

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Maternal and child health: the social protection dividend

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This report examines arguments and reviews the evidence on the relative effectiveness of the different types of health financing mechanisms from the perspective of equity and the aim of achieving universal access to essential health services.

Policy responses on employment and the social consequences of the financial and economic crisis, including its gender dimension. Note by the Secretariat

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The Commission for Social Development of UN Economic and Social Council addresses in this report the impact of the global crisis and the policy responses to the crisis and recent initiatives are reviewed at the national level and international level. In order to build long-term investments in social protection and the improvement of social services, the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination promote the establishment of social protection floor which is under the leadership of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization.

Statistical annex | Table 15: Indicators of effective coverage: old age

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Statistics | Demographic trends: Dependency ratios

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

World social security report 2010: Statistical Annex | Part A

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Inquiry | powerpoint 2009

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Aggregate shocks, poor households and children: transmission channels and policy responses

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The global financial crisis that erupted in 2008 coupled with food and fuel price volatility are likely to affect developing countries, and within them the vast majority of the world’s poor population in profound ways. This paper maps the different channels through which their effects could be transmitted to the developing world, and it illustrates a basic framework of shock transmission to a developing country from the macro- to the micro-levels—considering also possible adverse feedback effects.
Aggregate shocks are going to be an increasingly common feature of the global economic landscape; and these shocks could result in poverty traps, generating effects that harm not just present, but also succeeding generations. Social budgeting and social protection will be critical in order to shield poor households and vulnerable children from the worst effects of these shocks.
There is a strong moral imperative to advance children’s rights and take prompt action in these areas. Policy experience and empirical evidence also suggest that investments in children and policy interventions to protect them during periods of economic volatility and crises are eminently affordable and provide strong social and economic returns.
In responding to the presently unfolding financial crisis as well as future ones, continuing and further strengthening investments in children, and in addition, protecting them from the adverse impact of these crises will be critical, not just in breaking the cycle of poverty, but also in safeguarding countries’ future economic growth and human development.

Global economic prospects 2010

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth explores both the short and medium term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries.
Even if, as appears likely, a double-dip recession is avoided, the recovery is expected to be slow. High unemployment and widespread restructuring will continue to characterize the global economy for the next several years. Already, the crisis has provoked large-scale human suffering.
Over the medium term, economic growth is expected to recover. But increased risk aversion, a necessary and desirable tightening of financial regulations in high-income countries, and measures to reduce the exposure of developing economies to external shocks are likely to make finance scarcer and more costly than it was during the boom period.
In the longer term, however, developing countries can more than offset the implications of more expensive international finance by reducing the cost of capital channeled through their domestic financial markets.

Internship position (Social Protection) - Support GESS

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The GESS team is looking for interns to support its work on extending Social Security. See job description attached.

Internship position (Webdesign) - Support GESS

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The GESS team is looking for support to improve the internet platform.

Social protection in South Asia: a review

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This Review presents the findings of a desk study on social protection interventions in South Asia. Its primary purpose is to provide an overview of existing government policies, schemes and programmes in social protection and to display country and regional trends and issues relevant to expanding social protection. It assesses the extent to which South Asian countries are engaged in efforts to build integrated, comprehensive and inclusive social protection systems, and examines whether social protection as currently delivered addresses the needs of the entire population – especially of the poor, those who are systemically excluded, and the vulnerable.
The Review also attempts to assess whether each country’s social protection interventions are part of a larger, overarching national strategy. To the extent information is available, it examines the level of coordination among government agencies and programmes; the adequacy and predictability of budgetary allocations; the proposed versus actual coverage of beneficiaries; and delivery mechanisms in place to ensure beneficiaries are reached. It also reports on existing mechanisms to monitor outcomes, especially poverty reduction outcomes.

Australia - Response to the crisis (report)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Brazil national response to the crisis

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Germany national response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

India response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La respuesta de España a la crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Russia response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Réponse nationale de l'Australie face à la crise

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Réponse nationale du Canada face à la crise

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

South Africa national response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

United States national response to the crisis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Global Social Policy Digest Jan 2010

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Digest providing information on a broad range of issues relating to Social Policy. This edition includes a section on the Social Protection Floor (p. 11 following).

ODI letter on social protection for the 48th session CSD supporting the SPF

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Social Protection Floor Initiative - A decision of the UN System Chief Executives Board (CEB) in response to the global financial and economic crisis

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

UN Economic and Social Council Resolution (ECOSOC) 2010/12. Promoting Social Integration

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In 2010, the United Nation Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) adopted a resolution on promoting social integration in order to eradicate poverty, promote full and productive employment and achieve stable, safe, peaceful harmonious and just societies for all ‑‑ goals set forth in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and its Programme of Action. In this text, the Economic and Social Council urges Governments to develop and broaden national Social Protection Floors.

UNESCO MOST support to the Social protection Floor

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Summarizes upcoming events on Social Protection organized by the Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST), especially MOST Ministerial Fora of Ministers of Social Development to take place in 2010/11. For more information, visit the MOST website.

World Day of Social Justice - Message of the UN Secretary General

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Extensão da segurança social: Desafios para Cabo Verde

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Formulaire de candidature (A102501) pour le séminaire "Régimes de pension et financement de la sécurité sociale"

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Piensa implantar un seguro social de salud? Diez preguntas

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Séminaire: Régimes de pensions et financement de la sécurité sociale

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Thinking of introducing social health insurance? Ten questions

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Vous envisagez de mettre en place une assurance maladie sociale? Dix questions à vous poser

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Extensión de las prestaciones no contributivas para la niñez (asignaciones familiares) en Argentina

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The new program is an extension of the contributory family allowance program. It is projected to reach initially 2.7 beneficiaries under the age of 18 (1.3 new beneficiaries) of a total number of 5 million potential beneficiaries.

Programas sociales - Fichas técnicas

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Seguro Popular (Popular Insurance Scheme)

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social Programs - Fact Sheet Booklet

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Living Better - the social policy strategy of the Federal Government

Living Better is a strategy that encompasses all federal governmental programs with the aim of directing them towards the same objective- Sustainable Human Development- in order to enhance the efficiency of public resources and avoid dispersion.
Living Better is legally based upon the 2009-2012 National Program for Social Development, which, along with the 2007-2012 Sectorial Plan for Social Development, constitutes the normative instrument by which the social development objectives stated in the National Development Plan can be monitored and fulfilled. These programs are drawn from the provisions stated in the General Law for Social Development and the Law on Planning.

Financial inclusion opportunities for micro health insurance in Nepal

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Flyer of the report Financial inclusion opportunities for micro health insurance in Nepal: An exploratory analysis of health incidence, costs and willingness to pay in Dhading and Banke districts of Nepal.
Executive summary

Financial inclusion opportunities for micro health insurance in Nepal

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The study analyses the data collected from a household survey of 2,008 households, 40 focus group discussions with potential beneficiaries and 51 key informant interviews with healthcare providers in two districts of Nepal (Banke and Dhading) in early 2009. With its 150 pages rich with tables and first-hand data, this is the first published study available on the viability of microinsurance that tackles holistically and in full detail the socioeconomic status of the target population, incidence of illness and health-seeking behavior, the cost of healthcare, and the willingness to pay for health insurance. The study concerns the launch of community-based micro health insurance units for members of Nirdhan and DEPROSC, two Nepali grassroots microfinance NGOs.
Executive summary
Flyer

International and Swedish experts on the Swedish pension reform and related matters

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT
Gives an overview of the Swedish Pension Reform – considered as a model worldwide, providing a list of the main features. It also gives access to a series of experts' articles that deepen the subject.

Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article reviews two round of pension reform in ten Latin American countries to determine whether they are moving away from individual retirement accounts.

Pension Reform in Serbia from international and regional perspectives

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This document is a collection of the presentations delivered at the Conference on Pension Reform in Serbia organized by the ILO on 24-25 September 2009 in Belgrade. The Conference aimed at providing a forum for advocating the need of social security for sharing experiences of different countries in the region, for identifying the challentges of the current pension system, for discussing strategies to reform the system, and for consolidating the views of tripartite contituents in Serbia.
The presentations included are:

Reforming pensions: Principles, analytical errors and policy directions (Nicholas Barr)

Challenges to social security pensions in times of global financial and economic crisis (Krzysztof Hagemejer)

Pension reforms in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe: A comparative overview (Tine Stanovnik)

National Reports

Pension Reform in Serbia: Challenges and directions for reform (Kenichi Hirose)

Policy and process aspects (John Woodall)

Pension System: Challenges and reforms (Snezana Lakicevic-Stojacic)

Voluntary Pension Fund in Serbia (Kristian Vukojcic)

Reasons for changes, options and dilemmas (Gordana Matkovic)

Macro-financial analysis of 2nd pension pillar in emerging Europe: Lessons for Serbia (Nicola Altiparmakov)

Preliminary baseline survey report: Nepal

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Executive summary of the report Financial inclusion opportunities for micro health insurance in Nepal: An exploratory analysis of health incidence, costs and willingness to pay in Dhading and Banke districts of Nepal.
Flyer

¿Está Latinoamérica alejándose de las cuentas individuales de pensiones?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

中国社会保障扩面相关问题研究报告

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Botswana's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Botswana.

Coverage | Regional estimates of legal and effective old age coverage (Graph)

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Lesotho's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Lesotho.

Malawi's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Malawia.

Mozambique's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Mozambique.

Namibia's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Namibia.

Swaziland's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Swaziland.

Tanzania's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Tanzania.

The Microinsurance Trilogy

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Global warming is projected to lower the level and growth of GDP and thus increase poverty, undermining progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Within the populations that will be most affected by global warming, the plight of many individuals is linked to the ability of microfinance institutions to adapt to the consequences of climate change. Global warning will create covariate risk on a scale never seen before and microfinance institutions will need to reconfigure their insurance products to deal with its consequences.

Lack of familiarity with potential products and slow adoption of known ones has limited the use of insurance by microfinance institutions. Insurance for themselves and their clients can protect both groups from the worst financial consequences of flood, drought and disease. Insurance could become one of the most important tools in microfinance institutions’ climate change arsenals. At the same time, the increased burdens of disease and death caused by global warming will strain the insurance funds of microfinance institutions. This double edged sword needs to be managed appropriately.

Trilogie Micro-Assurance

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Trilogía Microseguros

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Zambia's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Zambia.

Zimbabwe's country page on Wahenga

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This country page aims to reach a wide and diverse audience and to encourage that audience to engage in the hunger and vulnerability debate by promoting awareness, understanding and advocacy on social protection and social transfers, as well as build knowledge and understanding of the multi-dimensional character of poverty, hunger and vulnerability in Zimbabwe.

Linking Social Protection and Employment Policies in the Decent Work Agenda: the case of Bolsa Família

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Quatrain News N. 8. Training in social protection for the Americas

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Buenas prácticas de recaudación de la seguridad social (Lima, Perú)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Cash transfer programmes in Africa

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This website provides in its Social Protection section an overview and backgrounds of cash transfer programmes in Africa. Furthermore, it provides resources and links to other relevant websites and resources.

Curso a distancia sobre la formulación de políticas y gestión de la seguridad social

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Curso de formación en técnicas actuariales aplicadas a la seguridad social para funcionarios del Gobierno de Chile. Lista de participantes

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Curso de formación en técnicas actuariales aplicadas a la seguridad social para funcionarios del Gobierno de Chile. Programa

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Descripción de la Actividad

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Extensión de la protección social a trabajadores temporeros del sector agrícola (Belem, Brasil)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Gestión de informaciones para la fiscalización y el control de contribuciones (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Health and social protection: experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao PDR

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Download the document from ITG Press

Informalidad y protección social (México, D.F.)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Innovative financing mechanisms to improve fiscal space for social spending (presentation)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social security not only alleviates poverty but also enables individuals to take economic risks and thus unlocks economic activity. Countries with developed social security systems have been less affected by the economic crisis.

However, the traditional social insurance model has been shown to have difficulties in reaching the poorest people, the International Labour Organization has estimated that about 80% of the world population is not properly covered. In the context of the global financial crisis, the Social Protection Floor supported by the United Nations has proposed several ways to create fiscal space for social security, such as: revenues from minerals, privatization of public goods and companies, VAT, etc.

Summary of the presentation

Innovative financing mechanisms to improve fiscal space for social spending (summary)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social security not only alleviates poverty but also enables individuals to take economic risks and thus unlocks economic activity. Countries with developed social security systems have been less affected by the economic crisis.

However, the traditional social insurance model has been shown to have difficulties in reaching the poorest people, the International Labour Organization has estimated that about 80% of the world population is not properly covered. In the context of the global financial crisis, the Social Protection Floor supported by the United Nations has proposed several ways to create fiscal space for social security, such as: revenues from minerals, privatization of public goods and companies, VAT, etc.

Powerpoint presentation

Jornadas actuariales de la seguridad social (Río de Janeiro)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Métodos atuariais e financiamento dos sistemas de segurança social - Recife

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

One Pager No. 97. Têm os Países mais Pobres menos Capacidade de Redistribuição?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

One pager No. 98 ¿Los programas de TMC tienen un efecto indirecto favorable a los pobres?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

One Pager No. 98. Têm os programas TCR um efeito colateral pró-pobres?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

One pager No.97 ¿Los países más pobres tienen menos capacidad de redistribución?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Poverty in Focus. El acceso equitativo a los servicios básicos.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The MDGs and beyond. Pro-poor policy in a changing world

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reviews the experience of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to date and asks what we can do to accelerate MDG progress in the years 2010–2015 and beyond.

Técnicas actuariales y financiamiento de la seguridad social (Quito)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 14 Ratification of ILO social security Conventions (Word)

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 15 Global statutory provisions (Excel)

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 20 Maternity social security legal provision

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 22b Indicators of effective coverage: unemployment during the financial crisis 2008-2010

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Latest monthly data on unemployed receiving unemployment benefits (updated in August 2010)

Annex | Table 25 Public social security expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This indicator is one of the main decent work indicators selected for its social security dimension.

Annex | Table 26 Public social security expenditure by branch (percentage of GDP)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 27 Total health care expenditure not financed by private household's out of pocket payments

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 28 Health coverage and access to medical care: births attended by skilled health staff & Child immunization

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 29 Multiple dimensions of health

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Tables 23-24 Indicators of effective coverage: Employment injury - active contributors (23) and occupational injuries (24)

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cash transfer programmes in Asia and the Pacific

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This website provides in its Social Protection section an overview and backgrounds of cash transfer programmes in Asia and the Pacific. Furthermore, it provides resources and links to other relevant websites and resources.

Innovations in insuring the poor

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth.
This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings together briefs written by businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers that document innovations, lessons learned, and areas of future work and action.

Brief 1 - Innovations in insuring the poor : Overview
Ruth Vagas Hill and Maximo Torero

Brief 2 - Risk and the rural poor
John Hoddinott

Brief 3 - Risk, poverty and insurance
Stefan Dercon

Brief 4 - Microinsurance for health and agricultural risks
Richard Leftley

Brief 5 - Sustainability and scalability of index-based insurance for agriculture and rural livelihoods
Ulrich Hess and Peter Hazell

Brief 6 - Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
Michael R. Carter

Brief 7 - Experience with weather index-based insurance in India and Malawi
Xavier Giné

Brief 8 - Providing weather index and indemnity insurance in Ethiopia
Eyob Meherette

Brief 9 - Index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia
Olivier Mahul, Nathan Belete and Andrew Goodland

Brief 10 - Health insurance for the rural poor
David I. Levine

Brief 11 - Innovations in health insurance
Johannes Jütting

Brief 12 - Microfinance and unexpected consumption expenditures
Richard Hornbeck

Brief 13 - Providing insurance through microfinance institutions
Rupalee Ruchismita and Sona Varma

Brief 14 - Social protection and risk
John Hoddinott

Brief 15 - Index insurance applied to agriculture
Amado Villarreal González

Protecção social e inclusão. Experiências e políticas

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Rethinking poverty. Report on the world social situation 2010

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Fifteen years ago, global leaders at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen described poverty eradication as an ethical, political and economic imperative, and identified it as one of the three pillars of social development. Poverty eradication has since become the overarching objective of development, as reflected in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals which set the target of halving global extreme poverty by 2015.
Judging from statistics, there has been some success in reducing global poverty levels. Improvements in overall poverty levels have largely depended on growth. Countries or regions that have experienced strong growth during the last two decades have managed to reduce poverty levels, particularly in urban areas. However, not every region or country has recorded such remarkable progress. Viewed in terms of the wider definition of poverty adopted by the 1995 Social Summit, the situation today may be even more deplorable than a money income poverty line would suggest.
The Report on the World Social Situation 2010 seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. Following the review of global poverty trends contained in chapter II, chapters III and IV reflect on broader issues of measurement, with a view to widening the understanding of poverty in its various dimensions. They underscore the fact that the issue of poverty reduction is a great deal more nuanced and complex than the narrow technocratic vision underlying the conventional wisdom. Chapters V through VIII critically examine the conventional policy framework and popular poverty reduction programmes in the context of the persistence of poverty, rising inequality and lacklustre growth performance in many developing countries until very recently. Chapter IX argues that a commitment to eradicating poverty and to enhancing equity and social integration requires consistent actions directed towards sustainable economic growth, productive employment creation and social development, entailing an integrated approach to economic and social policies for the benefit of all citizens. Moreover, it calls for more developmentally oriented and progressive State activism and universalism in this approach.

Health Care Financing in the Context of Social Security

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In view of increasing cost pressures, this paper aims to provide guidance to national EU policy-makers faced with the challenge of reconciling financial sustainability of health systems with the safeguarding of the key underlying values of these health systems; namely universal coverage, solidarity in financing, equity, efficiency and quality of care.
The paper provides an overview of the current state of health care financing in the European Union, identifying broad trends and evolutions that have occurred since the 1990s. An annex to the paper offers descriptive summaries of healthcare financing in each of the EU member states.
The first part of this paper seeks to clarify the nature of the sustainability problem, laying emphasis on the distinction between economic and fiscal sustainability. The second and third parts provide analysis of a variety of current financing arrangements in terms of both their ability to fulfil health financing functions and in terms of their commitment to the "policy goals" or key values considered vital to uphold health systems as developed by the WHO. Identifying the different stages of the healthcare financing process; from the initial collection of funds to pooling to the purchasing of health services and finally coverage of the population, this paper highlights the variables affecting key values at each stage. On the basis of this analysis, it is argued in this paper that public financing of healthcare is superior to private financing on three accounts: in terms of sustainability, contribution to the value of equity and in terms of efficiency.
The fourth and final part of the paper provides general policy recommendations drawn from the conclusions of the analysis.

Establecimiento de normas de seguridad social en una sociedad global. Análisis de la situación y de la práctica actuales y de las opciones futuras para el establecimiento de normas de seguridad social globales en la Organización Internacional del Trabajo

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social para todos. Una inversión en la justicia social y en el desarrollo económico.

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage. Geneva, 2-4 September 2009

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Report on Proceedings (35 pp.)

Report to the Governing Body (8 pp.) Français - Español

Technical report: Extending Social Security to All. A review of challenges, present practice and strategic options. Draft for discussion (Updated version, Sep. 2009)

Technical note

Agenda

Experts' presentations (ILO and Government representatives):

1. Introduction of the ILO Technical Report, by M. Cichon, ILO
2. Introduction, objectives, key issues and expected outcomes of the meeting
    by A. Diop, Executive Director, Social Protection Sector, ILO (in French only)

3. How to give effect to the human right to social security? Introduction by U. Kulke, ILO;
    Panel: The Netherlands and Peru

4. The need for social security. Introduction by K. Hagemejer, ILO; Panel: Sweden and
    Zambia
5. How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefits levels in health care?
    Introduction by X. Scheil-Adlung, ILO; Panel: Senegal and Thailand
6. How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefits levels for the protection
    of children, poor workers and the unemployed? Introduction by P. Marcadent, ILO;
    Panel: Brazil and India

7. How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefits levels for persons in old
    age, for persons with disabilities and for survivors? Introduction by J. Woodall, ILO;
    Panel: South Africa and the United States

8. How to finance, deliver and govern investments in social security? Introduction by
    M. Cichon, ILO; Panel: China and Romania

Chairperson's summary

Canada - Response to the crisis (report)

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

中国发展报告2008/09：构建全民共享的发展型社会福利体系(摘要)

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

To set up a social welfare system adapted to China’s particular context and stage of development is one of the most important policy objectives that will help ensure the benefits of China’s social and economic development are better shared and that will contribute to the implementation of the concept of Scientific Outlook on Development. Since the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Government has invested increasing resources in the construction of the social welfare system, seeking for innovative practices, and this has led to significant progress. In order to further improve the Chinese welfare institutions and build a well-regulated and sustainable social welfare system for all, the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) set up a research team to work on this topic. The main research findings and policy recommendations of the resulting report, “China Development Report 2008/09: Constructing a Developmental Social Welfare System for All”, are summarized in this paper.

Nomination form for the Social Health Insurance course 2010

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social health insurance course

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Flyer of the course "Social health insurance", from 8 to 19 March 2020, Turin Italy.

Annex | Table 10 Unemployment as a percentage of the labour force

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 11 Poverty and income distribution (Excel)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 13 GDP and Human Development Index (Excel)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 2 Demographic trends: Ageing

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 3 Fertility, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy at birth

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 4 Life expectancy at 20 or 60 years old

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Annex | Table 9 Status in employment

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

CIPS News 01, October 2009

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The Information Centre on Social Protection (CIPS) is a website that provides information in Portuguese on the social protection area (www.cipsocial.org). CIPS purpose is to respond to the knowledge needs of the Portuguese Speaking Countries and to make available information on their social protection realities.
The CIPS News was created to serve this last purpose. Every two months it will provide you with information about relevant social protection news and events in those countries. This is the first issue of CIPS News. You can subscribe to CIPS News by sending an email to lucas@ilo.org.

CIPS Angola country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Angola country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Brazil country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Brazil country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Cape Verde country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Cape Verde country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Guinea-Bissau country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Guinea-Bissau country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Mozambique country page

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Mozambique country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Portugal country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Portugal country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS São Tome and Principe country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS São Tome and Principe country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

CIPS Timor-Leste country page

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The CIPS Timor-Leste country page provides – in Portuguese – general data on the country, an overview of the Social Protection system as well as publications and relevant institutions and contact persons.

Social protection and inclusion: Experiences and policy issues

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This book focuses on the role of social protection in the process towards inclusion in economic, social and political life. It presents some of the most innovative and promising experiences worldwide in this field. Some chapters examine the role of new social assistance programmes in the fight against poverty and combating exclusion. They stress the need for the development of social assistance schemes that act on several dimensions of poverty simultaneously.

Quatrain News N. 2

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

QUATRAIN AMERICAS, the actuarial and financial training programme of the ILO's Social Security Department and the International Training Centre in Turin, achieved some notable successes betweenMarch and June 2008. This issue of QuatrainNews provides information on some of the most significant of these, as well as reviewing the new and more ambitious plans for this year. This issue also contains an updated list of the training courses offered by QUATRAIN AMERICAS in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Quatrain News N. 4

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The December edition of QUATRAIN NEWS focuses on the range of activities of the QUATRAIN AMERICAS Program during the last four months of the year and provides a brief annual report of what was a very fruitful 2008.

Quatrain Noticias No. 1

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Quatrain Noticias No. 2

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Quatrain Noticias No. 3

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Quatrain Noticias No. 4

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Quatrain Noticias No. 8. Formación en protección social para las Américas

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

WSSR 2010/11 | Figure 8.1 Social security expenditure by region, weighted by population, latest available year (percentage of GDP) (Excel)

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Egypt. ILO considerations on the social health insurance reform project in Egypt

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The report focuses on the assessment of the social health insurance reform proposal with a view to achieving nationally and internationally agreed objectives as regards the design, financing mechanisms, benefits and administration proposed in the draft laws n° 8 and 11 on social health insurance.
For more information on Social Health Protection in general click here.

Maternity Protection and Health Insurance in Africa

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The report describes and analyzes the maternity protection arrangements in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. It finds that all four countries under consideration introduced exemptions and fee waivers for common maternal care (i.e., ante- and postnatal care, and simple delivery), but that inconsistencies, ambiguities and poor knowledge about the exemption policies frequently result in payment of official and unofficial fees often also resulting in catastrophic maternal payments. The report concludes that Maternal mortality is inextricably linked to the health care system and cannot be improved in isolation from the context of health care. National health insurance schemes, by making maternal health care economically accessible and reducing catastrophic payments for delivery complications, can help to reduce maternal mortality, but insurance schemes alone, without the supporting health infrastructure including emergency transport and geographically accessible health facilities staffed by qualified personnel, is unable to reduce maternal mortality for those who need it most—poor rural women.
For information on Social Health Protection in general click here.

G-News 5 (English)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

In this issue:

Topics related to the global crisis and social security schemes

New features in GESS

News about the extension of social security worldwide

Training

Conferences

New resources in the online library

G-News 5 (español)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

G-News 5 (français)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Algérie Enquête emploi auprès des ménages

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Angola Inquerito aos agregados familiares sobre despesas e receitas questionnaire

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Burkina Faso | Enquête Burkinabé sur les conditions de vie des ménages QIBB 2003 questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cameroun | Deuxième enquête camerounaise auprès des ménages ECAM2. Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Comores Enquête Intégrale auprès des ménages (2). Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Comores | Enquête Intégrale auprès des ménages (1). Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Côte d'Ivoire | Enquête Niveaux de Vie des Ménages. Questionnaire

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Djibouti | Echantillon maître et enquête préliminaire sur la pauvreté

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Gambia | Integrated household survey on consumption expenditure and poverty level assessment

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Guinée | Enquête Intégrée de base pour l'évaluation de la pauvreté EIBEP (avec module budget-consommation) questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Madagascar | Enquête auprès des ménages, 2001. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Malawi | Second Integrated Household Survey, 2004. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Malawi | Welfare Monitoring Survey, 2001. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mali | Enquête Permanente Emploi auprès des Ménages. Questionnaire individuel

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nigeria | Living Standards Survey (NLSS) 2003-2004 household questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nigeria | Living Standards Survey (NLSS) household questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

South Africa | Living Conditions Survey 2008 household questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Recovering from the crisis - A Roadmap for the implementation of the Global Jobs Pact in Africa

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Surmonter la crise - Une feuille de route pour la mise en oeuvre du Pacte mondial pour l'emploi en Afrique

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Impact of the global financial crisis on social integration

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

News by the International Council on Social Welfare that discusses the impact of the crisis and supports the Social Protection Floor Initiative as an important response to the crisis and step to alleviate poverty.

Agence française de développement (AFD)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Developing social protection in Lao PDR

Mon, 02 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Tanzania | Integrated Labour Force survey questionnaire 2006

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cyprus EUROSTAT data: population, economic, labour and social spending

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Cyprus IMF data: macro-economic data 1980-2014

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Cyprus Statistical Office data: inflation, consumer price index and foreign trade

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ghana | Living Standard Survey GLSS 5 household questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nigeria | General Household Survey 2006 questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

South Africa | Quarterly Labour Force Survey questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Ethiopia Report on the 2005 National labour Force Survey

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Interview with Anna Lucila A. Asanza

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Interview with Annal Lucila A. Asanza, social security expert and physician with more than ten year experience in the Philippines

Law on social security schemes for persons defined by the provisions of the labour law

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Older People and Climate Change

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Website of HelpAge International explores the linkages between climate change and ageing as two of the biggest issues facing humanity this century. The pages present information on how climate change affects older people in a multitude of ways and an agenda for action how to address the issue of older people and climate change.

South Africa | Survey of Employers and Self-employed questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Witness to climate change: Learning from older people's experience

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This paper looks at older people’s experience of climate change, their awareness of it and how it makes them vulnerable. It highlights older people’s exclusion from climate change debates, identifies opportunities for influencing policy-making at the national level and makes recommendations for including older people’s perspectives in discussions and adaptation strategies.

Formulaire d'inscription / Nomination form (A901258)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Graph

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide G-Forum pour l'administrateur et le modérateur

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Harvard school of public health program in health care financing

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

HDI and its Components in Pakistan (2)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact and response

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

HIV/AIDS, Social protection and chronic poverty

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

HTML guide for GESS

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Interview of C. Jacquier on the role of health mutual organizations in the extension of social security

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Power Point

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La place de la mutualité dans les systèmes universels de protection santé

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La politique économique du Cambodge

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This document contains the speech delivered by Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, Secretary General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, at the Royal University of Economic Sciences and Law in Phnom Penh, 17 November 2006. In his speech, Dr. Naron shares some thoughts on economic policy and macroeconomic development in Cambodia. It focuses in particular on the challenges Cambodia faces in its development. In this spirit, he speaks of industrial policy needed for sustainable economic growth.

Pakistan | Labour Force Survey Questionnaire

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Paying for pensions. How important is economic growth

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pensiones y la crisis financiera

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Políticas de seguridad social (Praia, Cabo Verde)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Descripción de la actividad sobre Políticas de Seguridad Social (Praia, Cabo Verde)

Press Release: The ILO/Brazil Multi-annual Partnership Agreement 2009 - 2011 signed

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil has signed a new Partnership Agreement with the ILO for the promotion of South-South cooperation in Latin America and African countries.

Protección social para las poblaciones rurales: Necesidades, restricciones y posibilidades

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Réforme des retraites en Tunisie

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Scaling up of the social protection index for committed poverty Reduction

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The primary objective of this study, which was also undertaken by Halcrow, was to construct an internationally comparable Social Protection Index (SPI) that provides a realistic and acceptable summary of the overall level of social protection activities in the country. The SPI provides a summary measurement tool of the extent to which Asian countries provide welfare, social security, health insurance, micro-credit, child protection, targeted education and health support programs to their citizens, and especially those living below the poverty line. The SPI was designed to be a starting point for diagnostic evaluations of national Social Protection (SP) programs, to enable the monitoring of changes in SP provision over time, and to facilitate international comparisons of SP provision. The SPI, conceptually based on the Human Development index (HDI), was derived from four component indicators (SP expenditure, SP coverage, SP distribution/ poverty targeting and SP impact on incomes).

Social security extension: The ILO/STEP programme of the social security department

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation of October 7, 2009 at the International Institute of Social Studies to students of Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

The speaker emphasized the low levels of social protection within developing countries and explained various international strategies to extend social protection coverage - such as subsidized health regime in Colombia, the system of conditional transfers in Brazil, the systems Employment Guarantee in India or social pensions in South Africa.

The framework for the protection, care of support of Orphans and vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The global plan for recovery and reform. 2 April 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Final communiqué. Conclusions of the leaders of the Group of Twenty.

The Impact of Social Cash Transfers on Children Affected by HIV and AIDS

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Role of the Mutual Benefit Society in Universal Health Protection Systems

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This document presents the position taken by the Association Internationale de la Mutualité (AIM) on the role of the mutual benefit society in universal health protection systems, at the occasion of the conference organized by the European Commission on the 23-24 March 2009 on the theme "The Financing of Health Systems and Health Risk Coverage in Developing Countries."

Towards understanding social protection in Cambodia. Cambodia Development Review, vol. 8, issue 4

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Analysis on how risk and vulnerability are addressed through social protection efforts in Cambodia

Trabajo decente en las Américas: una agenda hemisférica, 2006-2015

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Training description - Scaling Micro Insurance in Developing Countries

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Who's really fighting hunger?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Advancing child-sensitive social protection

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A "Joint statement on advancing child-sensitive social protection" has been agreed upon by several international organizations: DFID, HelpAge International, Hope & Homes for Children, Institute of Development Studies, International Labour Office, Overseas Development Institute, Save the Children UK, UNDP and UNICEF.
The joint statement aims to build greater consensus on the importance of child-sensitive social protection. It lays out the particular vulnerabilities that children and families face and the ways in which social protection can affect children even when not focused on them, and outlines principles and approaches for undertaking child-sensitive social protection. In the time to come, the hope is that the statement will support further dialogue among stakeholders on the evolving policy and programming aspects of child-sensitive social protection.

Ajuste complementar ao acordo entre o Governo da República Federativa do Brasil e a Organização do Trabalho (OIT) para cooperação técnica com outros países da América Latina e países da África para a implementação do Programa de Parceria OIT/Brasil para a Promoção da Cooperação Sul-Sul

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Application Form - Training: Scaling Micro-Insurance in Developing Countries

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Application form for the training: Scaling Micro-Insurance in Developing Countries

Children on the brink 2004

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Decent Work Country Programme for Jordan, 2006-2009

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Decent Work Country Programme for the Syrian Arab Republic

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Declaración regional sobre las nuevas orientaciones de la atención primaria de salud

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Eliminación del trabajo infantil: La promesa de las transferencias en efectivo condicionadas

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Macro Economic and Social Spending Data Cyprus

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

2019: Colombia país saludable. Propuesta sectorial

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Actualización de los criterios para la determinación, identificación y selección de beneficiarios de programas sociales

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Analysis of health sector reforms. Region of the Americas

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Anexo: Programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas en América Latina por año y cobertura

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Avances y desafíos de la equidad en el sistema de salud colombiano

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Avances y desafíos de la equidad en el sistema de salud colombiano (presentación)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Avanzando en salud por el camino de la equidad, mirando a los objetivos del Milenio

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluación de impacto del programa Familias en Acción. Subsidios condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Lao PDR: Social Security

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presenting first of all the key geographic, demographic and socio-economic features of the Lao PDR, this paper provides a detailed examination of the terms and conditions of social security provision under the two main Statutory Social Security Schemes operating in the country; the system for public sector employees and the system for private sector employees. These systems are compulsory and contributory and are administered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
The paper also provides an overview of the current role and organisation of the Community Based Health Insurance system targeting informal workers (over 80% of the population) under the Ministry of Public Health. The possibility for the development of a Health Equity Fund (HEF) designed to finance CBHI cards for poor families is mentioned.

The Lao Social Security Organization

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Set up in 2000 following the enactment of the underlying Decree 207/PM in December 1999, SSO guarantees the provision and management of social security benefits for employees of private sector companies and their dependents, including state-owned enterprises. Thus, the organization offers enterprise employees a benefit package, which comprises health care, financial allowances in case of illness, work accident benefits and pension benefits. In consequence, SSO largely contributes to the social welfare of its members.

A Case for Global Social Security Floor

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Presentation given at the Interregional Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Social Security in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, 6-8 May 2008

Asistencia social en Colombia. Diagnóstico y propuestas

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Paper that studies the effect of the Familias en Acción Programme implemented in rural areas of Colombia, over school enrollment and child labour.

El sistema de protección social en Colombia

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

FAO Contributions and Tools to Support the SPF Initiative

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

IMF SPF presentation Interagency Meeting Turin

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social Protection Floor Initiative, UNDESA Contribution

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection system. Background, advancement and challenges

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Presentación que muestra la estructura del sistema de protección social colombiano y las prestaciones que este otorga.

SPF resources related to food and nutrition

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Below is a list of resources that are relevant for food security as one element of the Social Protection Floor. For more information on the Social Protection Floor Approach in general, click here.

Feeding Hunger and Insecurity, ACF International Network, 2009

The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO/WFP, 2009

Who's Really Fighting Hunger? ActionAid, 2009

SPF-Initiative manual. Strategic framework for joint UN country operations

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

UNFPA - SPF

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

WFP, Social Protection & the SPF Initiative

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

WMO and the Social Protection Floor Initiative

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Cidadania: O principal ingrediente do Fome Zero

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Cobertura previdénciaria e mercado de trabalho

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Cobertura previsional en Argentina, Brasil y Chile

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Complementary agreement to the agreement between the government of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on technical cooperation with other Latin American and African countries for the implementation of the ILO/Brazil partnership programme for the promotion of South-South Cooperation

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Partnership Agreement between the ILO and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the promotion of South-South cooperation in Latin America and African countries.

Concepção e gestão da proteção social não contributiva no Brasil

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Evaluating the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família. Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document analizes the Brazilian Bolsa de Familia cash transfer programme and its impact over the poverty rate, the health and education level achieved by the programme beneficiaries. At the same time, the authors compare the programme design and targets achieved by this progamme in relation to similar programmes implemented in other Latin American countries.

Measuring the impact of Bolsa Familia Program based on data from Health and Nutrition Days (Brazil)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Protección social, pensiones y género en Argentina, Brasil y Chile

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reforma previsional en Brasil. La nueva regla para el cálculo de los beneficios

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Cash transfer programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This website provides an overview and backgrounds of cash transfer programmes in Latin America. Furthermore, it provides resources and links to relevant websites and articles.

Do CCT programmes work in low-income countries?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article discusses the potential of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) in low-income countries. It is argued that in low-income countries the limited supply of social services is as important as stimulating demand of these through CCTs.

Implementation Plan for the Recent Priorities of the China Health Care System Reform (2009-2011)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Five programs on Deepening the China Health Care System Reform are to be carried out with emphasis from 2009 to 2011. Firstly, accelerate the establishment of the basic medical security system. Secondly, preliminarily set up the national essential medicines system. Thirdly, improve the grass-roots health care services system. Fourthly, gradually press ahead with the equalization of basic public health services. And fifthly, push forward pilot projects for public hospital reform.

Legislation on cash transfer programmes. Selected countries

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Legislation on Cash Transfer Programmes in 21 selected countries all over the world.

Do CCTs Lessen the Impact of the Current Economic Crisis? Yes, but...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article discusses the potential of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) to make families less vulnerable to the impact of the crisis. It is argued that CCTs have this potential, but only “as long as they are integrated in a broader social protection strategy whose goal is not solely to work as a minimal and temporary safety net”.

Global Financial and Economic Crisis - UN system joint crisis initiatives

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In crisis conditions, social security benefits, public health and nutrition programmes, and social services act as social, health and economic stabilizers thereby curtailing the potential social and economic depth of the recession, through avoiding poverty, ensuring continuity in services, and stabilizing aggregate demand.
The international community should not just repair the problems identified by the crisis in global financial, monetary and economic systems, but should be advocating and supporting the development of a social protection floor to protect people during the crisis, and thereafter.
A social protection floor could consist of two main elements that help too realize respective human rights:
* Essential services : ensuring the availability, continuity, and access to public services (such as water and sanitation, health, education, and family-focused social work support); and
* Social transfers : a basic set of essential social transfers, in cash and in kind, paid to the poor and vulnerable to enhance food security and nutrition, provide a minimum income security and access to essential services, including education and health care.

Métodos Actuariales aplicados a la seguridad social (Santiago de Chile, Chile)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Workshop on Actuarial Methods on Social Security Financing for English-speaking Caribbean Countries (Kingston, Jamaica)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Extending social security to all. A review of challenges, present practice and strategic options. Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage. Draft for discussion

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La sécurité sociale pour tous. Un investissement dans la justice sociale et le développement économique.

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Report on Proceedings. Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Report to the Governing Body. Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reunión tripartita de expertos sobre estrategias para la extensión de la cobertura de la seguridad social, Ginebra, 2-4 de septiembre 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Réunion tripartite d'experts sur les stratégies d'extension de la couverture de la sécurité sociale, Genève, 2-3 septembre 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security for All. Investing in social justice and economic development

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This paper sets out the policy vision of the ILO that underpins its activities in the context of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All. The objective of this policy briefing is to contribute to the global debate between social security stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers as to how to provide a meaningful form of social security to the majority of the world's population and to ensure that the human right to social security can be made a reality in the shortest possible time.

Manual for the Ghana District health insurance budgeting model

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This manual is a step by step guide for the use of the Ghana District Health Insurance budgeting Model. The Model consists of a tool to develop the budget projection at a district level.

Republic of Cyprus. Report to the Social Insurance Services, Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. Peer review of the actuarial valuation of the Cyprus Social Security Scheme as at 31 December 2006

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This peer review attemps to ensure the practice guidelines for social security actuarial practice as promulgated by the International Actuarial Association are met as much as possible.

República del Ecuador. Informe al Gobierno. Análisis actuarial y financiero del sistema público de pensiones, al 31 de diciembre de 2007

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Technical Note. Systems of governance of main social security schemes in the Arab States and selected countries France, Germany, United Kingdom and United States

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The social budget of Germany

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This study addresses core issues of the future financial affordability of the German welfare state. In applying standard formal analysis, it focus on estimating future revenue and expenditure of Germany's main public retirement systems, public health and long-term care insurance, unemployment insurance and subsistence allowances, and family benefits which, together, account for around 90 per cent of the total social budget.

هيئة تنظيم سوق العمل بحرين

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

العمل غير المحمي في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة: منظور المساواة بين الجنسين وحقوق العمال Unprotected Employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Gender Equality and Workers' Rights Perspective

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Achieving health insurance for all. Lessons from the Republic of Korea

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Republic of Korea [Kwon, 2002] which has gradually extended compulsory health insurance to all workers over a period of 12 years (from 1977 to 1989): wage earners of large corporations with more than 500 workers were first to be covered, government employees and teachers came next, followed gradually by workers in increasingly small enterprises. Extension to the self-employed began through pilot programmes before being generalized.

Administración de la seguridad social

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Administration de la sécurité sociale

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Administration of social security

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This manual deals with an aspect of social security which is clearly one of the most important for any social security institution, scheme, or administration. It provides a general overview and looks at policy, structures, common features, and examines the principles of good management. It also examines levels of administration, coverage, registration procedures, collection and recording of contributions, and the award and payment of benefits. A joint publication of the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Administração da segurança social

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Anti-poverty programmes in Costa Rica. The non-contributory pension scheme

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study provides an overview of the main problems facing the Costa Rican Government's poverty reduction programmes, with particular emphasis on the management of resources. In particular, it provides a detailed analysis of a specific programme, the Non-Contributory Scheme for Basic Pensions –also known as the Non-Contributory Pension Scheme–(the NCP Scheme, the Programme) which is administered by the Social Insurance Fund of Costa Rica (CCSS).
The main problems facing the NCP Scheme fall into two categories: financing, and management. The granting of pensions to persons who do not require assistance, since they do not qualify as "poor", together with the failure on the part of the respective authorities to make timely and complete transfers of resources, which by law belong to the Scheme, limit the real prospects of the programme for broadening its effective coverage and increasing the amount of the pensions it grants.
In spite of this, some estimates presented in the study indicate that 15 per cent of all NCP beneficiaries are able to reduce their level of poverty thanks to the pension they receive.
Likewise, 62 out of every 100 colones spent on these pensions have a positive effect in terms of narrowing the poverty gap for the beneficiary and his or her family. On the other hand, almost 45% of the country's elderly poor does not receive any pension at all.
The basic recommendations proposed revolve around three core aspects: strengthening the scheme's finances, improving beneficiary selection processes, and lastly, possibly modifying the manner in which pensions are calculated so as to provide proportionally greater amounts to persons living the furthest below the poverty line.

El Bono Solidario en Ecuador. Un ejercicio de focalización

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Etendre l'assurance santé au Sénégal : possibilités à travers les régimes statutaires et les organisations mutualistes

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Etendre la sécurité sociale. Politiques pour les pays en développement

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extending health insurance in Senegal: options for statutory schemes and mutual organisations

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security in Senegal covers less than 20 per cent of the population in terms of both personal and derived rights. The list of persons excluded also includes temporary workers and day labourers as well as workers in the informal sector.
Furthermore, it has transpired from studies conducted that the absence of protection is caused by problems of equity between protected workers and those who are not protected, which are related to the yield management strategies of undertakings related to international competition. A consequent challenge is that of finding relevant solutions that are balanced and that take account of the interests of all of the parties involved in labour relations.
Initiatives have been taken in Senegal, both at State level and in civil society, which have been designed to extend social security beyond the "formal" sector. These have included community initiatives developed since 1990 within the mutual health organisations (MHOs), offering separate coverage to essentially non-wage-earning population groups.
A survey conducted in May 2000 provided a better understanding of the socio-demographic characteristics of the persons concerned by social security in one way or another. The survey data reveal the needs in the social security field. The absence of contact with the social security institutions is to be explained by the lack of promotion and by the general lack of interest of the persons concerned. The overwhelming majority of the survey group wanted protection against short-term social risks -health, maternity, unemployment, employment injury- and some opt for coverage against long-term social risks - old age, disability and death. The problem is that the income of those desiring coverage gained from seasonal activities, and therefore cyclical in nature. The irregular income pattern and the relatively high contributions can prevent people from joining mutual organisations; on the other hand, when contributions are too low the mutual organisations do not ensure effective coverage of hospital care, which is costly for members. Furthermore, the mutual organisations generally lack negotiating power and do not have the management capacities for adopting the most efficient mechanisms for paying the service providers; 55 per cent offer only services relating to hospital care.
In the period from 1994 to 1998 the mutual organisations were extended throughout the various regions of the country. Their schemes, most of which are recent, are generally small or moderate in size in terms of membership. The mutual insurance activities concern only a small proportion of the population of the country. The likelihood of access to hospital services is greater when one is a member of a mutual insurance scheme than when one is not. Although very costly to cover, it is considered more advisable to focus efforts on financing life-threatening illnesses.
In conclusion, it is suggested that the State work together more effectively with the various institutions to create support services in order to complement statutory social security and voluntary insurance. The overall objective would be to involve the various trades, and then to focus efforts on developing a mutual-benefit savings and credit system (as a fundamental basis) and ultimately to incorporate social coverage (social services) into this system.
Furthermore, a solution would have to be found to the problem of financial barriers within the mutual organisations and the support structures.

Extending health protection in Tanzania. Networking between health financing mechanisms.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extending social security coverage in Africa

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper traces the development of social security in the continent and the links with colonial systems and concepts. It also identifies the elements which influence the development of social security and it highlights some country experiences which illustrate some level of success.

Extending social security. Policies for developing countries

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper reviews the main trends and policy issues with regard to the extension of social security in developing countries. It begins by defining the concept of social security, and it examines its linkages with the development process and its impact on poverty reduction. It then reviews the four main social security programmes, i.e. health insurance, pensions, unemployment protection and tax-based social benefits. It shows that in many middle-income countries, statutory social insurance can form the basis for the extension process. However, this is generally not so in the low-income countries, where only a small minority of the population is covered by social security. In particular for these countries, the paper pleads for experimentation with area-based schemes. It also recognizes the need for additional international financing of some basic social security schemes, if coverage is to be extended to everyone over the next 15 to 25 years. The paper also examines the gender dimension of the extension process. The paper concludes with outlining some key elements of national and international strategies. Social security should be recognized as a major instrument to deal with some of the negative social consequences of globalization. National policies should consist of improving and reforming statutory social insurance programmes, of promoting community-and area-based social insurance schemes, and of enhancing cost-effective tax-financed social benefits. At the international level, there is a need for a few simple indicators on social security coverage, for advocacy measures to get social security at the top of the development agenda, for experimentation with new mechanisms to reach workers in the informal economy, as well as for knowledge development and technical assistance. Many of these elements will be included in the "Global campaign on social security and coverage for all" that the ILO is to launch at the beginning of 2003.

Extending social security: Challenges for Cape Verde

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cape Verde gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. Initially, it was governed as a one-party state and the economy was largely controlled by the public sector. Social policy followed the welfare state model and in spite of limited natural resources a comprehensive range of social benefits was provided by the State. In 1991, the country underwent radical political change in response to an economic recession. The first multi-party elections were held and economic reform followed political change. The private sector tripled in size so that by 1997 there were over 6,000 private enterprises employing 30,000 workers. Social security policies have remained a Government priority in spite of a fragile economy in which unemployment is structural and accounts for 20 per cent of the economically active population. This corresponds with specific obligations set out in the 1992 Constitution, which establishes that everyone shall have a right to health care regardless of economic status and to social security with respect of a range of contingencies where there is incapacity for work. Government policies have however moved away from the welfare state model and are based on the notion that the State should not be the sole source of social security and that the private sector and civil society should play an important role. Thus, social insurance schemes financed by contributions from employers and workers have been established for private sector workers; they provide benefits in respect of old age, invalidity, survivors, maternity and employment injury, and there are additional allowances for children. There is a separate scheme for civil servants and for employees in the banking sector. The study notes the role of the Government as the basic guarantor of social security and the significance of its programmes for the poor who represent 30 per cent of the population. A non-contributory social security scheme provides cash allowances for those unable to work, and enrols those that can, in intensive public works programmes. But attention is drawn to the need to extend the scope of the social insurance scheme to the selfemployed and the informal sector. Devising suitable social security arrangements for these excluded groups remains an important challenge.

Financiación de la seguridad social

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Gender equality and the extension of social protecion

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Gender is rarely used as a differentiating lens by which to understand more fully the various experiences and ramifications of the social protection agenda. This paper takes as its starting point the overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities when compared to men from equivalent social groups, and that they are also far more likely to be excluded from the sphere of social protection strategies.
It is thought that female exclusion from such strategies is due to three main factors: an increasing casualization and feminization of the labour force; life cycle events; and gender-neutral effects that are likely to more severely impact women.
Adapting the idea of a hierarchy of social protected labour, it is believed that the extent that gender-related vulnerabilities are experienced is intimately related to the location in which workers find themselves in the labour market. This concept is further enhanced by the specific constraints that they experience as women and by gender biases in the institutional environment. Thus, attempts to extend social protection must first analyse the composition of the labour market within any one country and its relation to social protection.
A variety of successful social protection programmes and experiences are evaluated with the aim of recommending ways to extend social protection, in particular to women of working age. Based on commonalities that we identify across successful social protection programmes, it is recommended that future efforts to extend social protection initiatives should take these factors into account. Furthermore, due to lack of data and comprehensive research, impact evaluations on the range of social protection programmes for women need to be conducted.

L'assurance maladie de la sécurité sociale

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La protection sociale et les crises aux Congo. De l'aide humanitaire vers une protection sociale durable.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Labour markets and social security coverage. The Latin American experience.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Since coverage for social security in Latin America has typically been closely linked to formal sector employment, it has excluded the self-employed and those employed in irregular and temporary work. This paper looks at the extent to which social security reforms have been able to encourage and sustain a higher and wider level of coverage and takes the view that in this regard, little has been changed by the reforms. The paper concludes that the expansion of coverage is governed by the structure of the labour market and by the scope for redistribution based on the social and political characteristics of the state.

Les principes de la sécurité sociale

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Namibia's Universal Pension Scheme: Trends and challenges

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Namibia faces a number of challenges in reforming and providing for a comprehensive, affordable and sustainable pension system. At present, only about 6 per cent of the population is over 60. The World Bank estimates that this ratio is expected to grow to about 21 per cent over the next few decades. Consequently, the old-age dependency ratio is expected to rise from about 11 to 36 per cent. Existing pension arrangements are not well suited to meet the challenges of an ageing population. The Government is currently addressing these challenges by considering a process of policy formulation, which would take into account the full range of social protection needs, and balances those needs against national resources. Their aim is to create a balance in national policy, between public and social security schemes and individual and private provision, which ensures widespread coverage and achieves the desired level of income redistribution.
In future, the main focus of the Namibian Government with regard to social pensions will be on redistribution.

Non-contributory pensions in Brazil: Their impact on poverty reduction

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Despite labour market informality, Brazil has reached a remarkable benefit coverage among the elderly over the last decades. This coverage extension is, to a large extent, due to two basic pension programmes financed by tax revenues and some social security contributions. The rural scheme, with nearly seven million beneficiaries, comprises old-age, widow and invalidity pensions, as well as maternity and labour accident benefits, all equivalent to the official minimum wage level. People are entitled to their benefits, if they belong to the rural family economy and if they can document length-of-service in agriculture, fisheries, or similar activity instead of length-ofcontribution, thus breaking away from the Bismarckian contributive link. The financing of this programme is structurally dependent from either Treasury or an urban-rural cross-subsidisation. A second programme includes by 2.1 million people entitled to social assistance pensions, targeted at the indigent aged 67 or more and the disabled. On the basis of the 1999 PNAD Household Survey, the paper draws up a profile of the aged poor in Brazil, and finds that the impact of both programmes on poverty alleviation is large. Other positive effects, based on their research, are also reviewed. Finally, the study examines some key policy questions, such as the steps required to safeguard the rural programme¿s mid-term legal and financial continuity, targeting aspects, further legal improvements, and the differentiation between social insurance and social assistance.

O financiamento da segurança social

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pension scheme

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Pension Schemes manual looks at, and makes comparisons between, public and private pensions and methods of protection in public schemes. It examines old age, invalidity and survivor's benefits. This manual is of particular interest in countries considering transforming their existing provident fund scheme into one based on social insurance. A joint publication of the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Perspectives on the social security system of China

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The essential aim of the present study is an integrated understanding, in its relevant historical context, of the past, present and projected development of the social security system of China. In order to do so, an assessment is made of each of the benefit programmes administered either directly or indirectly under the auspices of the government, including both the social insurance programmes under the supervision of the MOLSS and the social assistance programme administered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MOCA). These aspects form the subjects of, respectively, Chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 3 offers a social protection development agenda, designed to address strategic issues and possible directions which policy makers may wish to consider for the optimal delivery of social protection to the people of China.

Principios de la seguridad social

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Princípios da segurança social

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Public-private partnerships in the health sector. Experiences from developing countries

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Theoretical foundations of the concept of public-private-partnership (PPP) are briefly discussed and different forms of cooperation are described. The major part of the paper discusses PPP health sector experiences in developing countries in different regions of the world. Following that, the case studies and the insights from the theoretical overview are presented in order to derive determinants for a successful PPP. The identification of conditions under which PPP can contribute to an increase in access to social protection at lower cost is helpful to design appropriate social policies. The paper closes with open questions for discussion and future research needs.

Regimes de pensões

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Regímenes de pensiones

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguro social de salud

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Sharpening the Focus on the Poor: Policy Options for advancing social health protection in Indonesia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Sixty per cent of Indonesia's population is working in the informal sector; most of them are poor and lack social health protection. Extending coverage to the informal sector will make the poor more productive and employable. Overcoming exclusion of the poor from social health protection and cutting links between poverty and health is a pre-requisite for social and economic development. It will contribute to achieving human dignity and social justice.

Social health insurance

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This manual provides an overview of social health insurance schemes and looks at the development of health care policies and feasibility issues. It also examines the design of health insurance schemes, health care benefits, financing and costs, and organization, and considers the operational and strategic information requirements.
A joint publication of the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Social programmes, food security and poverty in Peru

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Recommendations are aimed mainly at improving targeting by going beyond the isolated concept of poverty and by encouraging intersectoriality. In terms of how the programmes respond to public demand, there is a need to incorporate the perception of poverty and extreme poverty by the poor, as well as the means for overcoming these, as objectives and mechanisms of the social programmes.

Social protection and crises in the Congo. From humanitarian aid to sustainable development.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objective of providing emergency aid for needy people must not suffer from trial and error, strategies for integrating people into the economy must be devised and implemented by creating jobs and providing training and social protection in an integrated manner. This approach would help recipients to evolve beyond the dependency on welfare inherent in humanitarian programmes and empower them in a programme for development.

Social security financing

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social security glossary. English, French, Spanish

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Provides 250 terms with definitions and equivalents in three languages (English, French, Spanish) in the field of social security, an index in French and a list of references.

Social security pensions. Development and reform

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This is a valuable reference for anyone concerned with reforming or establishing pension programmes and for those looking to understand the practicalities and structure behind various pension schemes. By providing a balanced assessment and factual review of what various countries around the world have done, this book assists decision-makers in forming effective, viable pension policy.

Social security pensions. Development and reform. Executive summary

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

This is a valuable reference for anyone concerned with reforming or establishing pension programmes and for those looking to understand the practicalities and structure behind various pension schemes. By providing a balanced assessment and factual review of what various countries around the world have done, this book assists decision-makers in forming effective, viable pension policy.

Social security principles

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This manual provides an introduction to social security and gives a detailed explanation of what social security is and who it protects. Looking at the range benefits provided by social security schemes, the manual explains briefly how those schemes are financed and provides a very general introduction to the administration of social security. A joint publication of the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Social security schemes in Southern Africa. An overview and proposals for future development.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social security, poverty reduction and development. Arguments for enlarging the concept and coverage of social security in a globalizing world

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper has attempted to put forward a number of arguments for enlarging both the concept and the coverage of social security especially in developing countries. It argues that social security should address the twin problems of deficiency and adversity. As such the concept of social security has been enlarged to include, what may be called, Basic Social Security (BSS) to take care of deficiency and Contingent Social Security (CSS) to meet contingencies.

Socio-economic security in the context of pervasive poverty. A case study of India

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper defines socio-economic security from a wider perspective as constituting measures that enhance social capabilities, ensure economic security and enable the vulnerable sections of the population to survive. It is argued that the Government and the community constitute the two pillars that need to be strengthened for meeting the genuine need for socio-economic security of the masses in India, particularly during the period of economic reforms.

The Bono Solidario in Ecuador. An exercise in targeting

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The goal of social protection systems is to promote equal opportunities by granting benefits to the vulnerable segments of society who lack access to basic goods and services. This is an ongoing function, since the risk of marginalization and exclusion is always present, and may even increase during economic crises. These systems must ensure that situations of temporary poverty do not become permanent, thereby avoiding losses of human and material capital. They must also guarantee a basic level of consumption to the poor and indigent, while at the same time ensuring that these segments of the population are targeted by programmes and policies aimed at changing their living conditions in the long term. In 1999, the budget items "Total Social Spending", "Solidarity Fund" and "Other Specific Programmes" together accounted for 6.2 per cent of the country's GDP. The social protection programme (excluding social security) accounted for 29 per cent of social spending in the same year. The Bono Solidario (the Programme), which absorbed two-thirds of the resources allocated to the country's social protection programme, is a vast social programme that provides direct cash transfers to the population and functions as a large-scale social spending mechanism. It is precisely because of the large volume of resources it commands - within the context of severe restrictions such as that found in Ecuador - that the design and effects of the Bono Solidario deserve attention. While it was initially conceived as a means to compensate for higher prices following the withdrawal of a number of subsidies, it has been maintained in order to offset the scarcity of resources that has accompanied the spread of poverty. This report has sought to identify the main problems presented by the Bono Solidario and some possible areas for its redesign. The results obtained, although preliminary and subject to empirical comparison, suggest that it is possible to improve efficiency by developing mechanisms to target those persons whom the Programme itself has defined as eligible. In effect, optimal targeting would bring current costs down by one-third. It would also be possible to link the payment of this cash transfer to complementary programmes specifically designed to assist current beneficiaries in developing productive activities. Through job training and the establishment of a microcredit arrangement, the idea would be to link short-term needs to the challenge of creating the necessary conditions for overcoming poverty in the medium term. In short, the exercise proposed in this report suggests that the foregoing may be possible, and that greater efficiency in targeting goes hand-in-hand with the implementation, over time, of measures aimed at supporting beneficiaries in efforts to overcome their current status of poverty. The possibility exists that both prongs of the proposal could imply costs no higher than the current ones, since ultimately they would involve reallocating existing resources. The first section of the report provides information on Ecuador's economic trends over the past few years. The second section presents background information describing the Bono Solidario, with particular attention to aspects of targeting. The proposed criteria for redesigning the Bono Solidario, as well as the estimated cost entailed by the application of these criteria, are presented in the third section. The final section sets forth the main conclusions of the report.

The extension of social security coverage: The approach of the International Labour Office

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Without the introduction of effective measures to extend coverage, the proportion of the population excluded from all protection will increase considerably in the coming years. To meet this challenge, the ILO has developed a new strategy for improving and extending social security coverage. This consists in implementing three complementary forms of action: extension based on "classical" social security mechanism: social insurance, universal benefits and systems and social assistance programmes; the promotion of and support for the development of decentralized systems deriving from local initiatives, in particular micro-insurance; the design of linkages and bridges between decentralized systems and other forms of social protection and public initiatives.

The ILO social budget model. A technical guide (version 8/1999)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The impact of social health protection on access to healt care, health expenditure and impoverishment. A case study of South Africa

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objective of this study is to analyse the role of social health protection in access to care and poverty reduction in South Africa. More precisely, the study assesses the impact of health insurance coverage on the utilization of health care services and out-of-pocket health care expenditure given use. Special attention is paid to the determinants of catastrophic health care payments and their impact on impoverishment

The Non-Contributory Pension programme in Argentina: Assessing the impact on poverty reduction

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

There is increasing acknowledgement of the need to extend the scope of social protection to those segments of the population that have traditionally been excluded from social security.
Non-contributory pension programmes constitute an excellent alternative that merits examination. This report will describe and evaluate numerous aspects of the Non-Contributory Pension (NCP) programme in Argentina.
The NCP programme - much like other social security programmes in this country - developed in a disorganized manner, involving the grant of various categories of benefits.
These include assistance pensions for old-age, disability and mothers with seven or more children; auxiliary pensions (pensiones graciables) awarded by the national legislature; pensions for Malvinas (Falkland Islands) war veterans; pensions for families of persons who "disappeared" during the military regime (1976-83) and pensions granted through special legislation. The NCP programme developed in the context of a social policy characterized by a high degree of fragmentation between not only the national institutions (for example, the Social Security Administration and the Ministry of Social Development), but also between the various levels of government (national, provincial and municipal).
The NCP programme accounts for 3 per cent of the aggregate social security expenditure and 0.2 per cent of the GDP. The number of direct beneficiaries with pensions is 350,000 persons, but if health coverage provided for the families of some beneficiaries is included, coverage may be said to extend to 450,000 persons. The average benefit is $153, which is 57 per cent of the average benefit in the contributory system.
As regards the programme's effectiveness in reducing poverty, for those families with a member who receives the benefit, the incidence of poverty is reduced by 31 per cent, while that of extreme poverty or indigence is reduced by 67 per cent. The effect would be greater if inclusion errors were reduced and if the scheme of auxiliary pensions (pensiones graciables) granted by legislators was reformed, or eliminated altogether. Furthermore, the programme must be adapted to the proposed reform of the social security system scheduled for 2002, which provides for the possibility of granting a "universal benefit" to persons over the age of 70 with no source of income or other financial resources.

The role of social health protection in reducing poverty: The case of Africa

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Provides evidence that the poverty implications of ill health are clear. There is a strong case for expanding social protection in sub-Sahara Africa: an ethical reason (social protection is a human right), a social reason (there is a strong demand for unmet effective, affordable and non discriminating systems of social protection) and a technical reason (there is little documented evidence of social health protection on health status, poverty reduction and economic growth). If African social protection systems are to cover effectively more people than is the case today, they will need to take a multiform appearance.

The Welfare Fund for Construction Workers in Tamil Nadu

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Although there are some social security schemes of national application in India, such as the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, they focus on the organized sector, whereas there is a need for a national social security policy. Some states, however, have given greater priority to social security through the establishment of non-contributory social assistance schemes, and the national government has in recent years tried to reinforce these efforts through the National Social Assistance programme. Some states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala have also given priority to providing social security to unorganized workers through the development of welfare funds based on occupational groups. This study examines the Tamil Nadu experience in this respect with some comparative reference to Kerala. State legislation enacted in 1982 provided the basis for welfare schemes to be set up in Tamil Nadu for specified categories of workers and eight welfare boards have been established with worker, employer and government representatives. The study focuses on the Welfare Fund for Construction Workers (the Welfare Fund), which commenced in November 1994 and provides a range of welfare measures such as benefits for fatal and non-fatal accidents as well as grants for education, marriage and funerals. Manual workers over the age of 15 can register with the Board and pay Rs.25/- as an insurance premium to cover accidental death or disability. In practice, however, workers are registered through their trade unions but the level of registration is low, 18 per cent of two million workers in the sector. Of the 90,000 members identified in a survey conducted under the study, only 200 had received any monetary benefit from their membership. Employers pay 0.3 per cent of each construction contract to the Welfare Fund but compliance is a problem and the benefits are too small to make a difference to living conditions. The study recommends that the contribution rate can be increased to 1 per cent if the following two conditions are met: (i) there is in-depth study done on the reasons for the large current surplus of the fund, and (ii) there is a clear plan about how the current surplus and the increased future resources will be used for greater coverage and improved benefits. Moreover the Welfare Board should take direct responsibility for providing compensation for accidents, such as is done in Kerala. It concludes that there is a need for the various welfare funds to operate on a more uniform basis and that consideration should be given to achieving a greater degree of integration under one single board.

Towards the universalization of social security: The experience of Tunisia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In Tunisia, the number of persons liable to be covered under a social security scheme was estimated in 1999 as 85.5 per cent of the population in employment. The 16.5 per cent of the employed population not yet covered by social security legislation include the following: casual and seasonal agricultural workers, workers on development sites, domestic employees, home helpers, religious officials, the unemploed. The two social security schemes governing the formal sector have registered the best social coverage. However, coverage of other sectors such as self-employed, agricultural and non-agricultural workers and agricultural labourers have not experienced equal success. In order to increase coverage in these schemes measures have been taken with varying success. The objective is to extend and improve coverage of social security by conducting studies and adapting schemes to the needs and financial capacities of the categories of persons; modifying the conditions for determining and recovering contributions taking into account the specific characteristics of the populations concerned; and consulting the representatives of the target population and of employers at all stages during the establishment of the system.

Trainer's guide

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Trainers guide intended for use by those who have little or no experience as trainers; aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of social security planners and managers.

Técnicas actuariales de la seguridad social. Regímenes de las pensiones de invalidez, de vejez y de sobrevivientes

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Unprotected Employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Gender Equality and Workers' Rights Perspective

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper examines informal employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) and argues that the best way to convey the meaning and significance of informal employment in this context is to view it as unprotected or unacknowledged work. This type of employment is no longer confined to small, unregistered enterprises with non-contractual work; instead, it now includes larger, registered enterprises with contractual employment but little or no social protection and entitlements. Informal employment, understood as unprotected or unacknowledged employment, is studied from the perspective of gender equality and workers’ rights.

Uruguay. Empleo y protección social. De la crisis al crecimiento

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Vers l'universalisation de la sécurité sociale. L'expérience de la Tunisie

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

What is the impact of social health protection on access to health care, health expenditure and impoverishment? A comparative analysis of three African countries

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper summarizes the results of three individual research projects (Asfaw, 2005; Lamiraud et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2005) measuring the impact of membership in a health insurance scheme in three African countries, namely Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. The first section briefly outlines the health care systems in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa, followed by a short description of the methodology and data used in the research. The last two sections focus on empirical results and policy implications.

المنتدى العربي للتشغيل

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Actuarial mathematics of social security pensions

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Aims at establishing a link between social security financing methods and occupational pension funding methods.

Actuarial practice in social security

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presents technical material on valuation covering a wide-range of risks including old age, survivors, disability, sickness, maternity, employment injury, and unemployment. Provides concrete examples of work done by actuaries. It discusses the valuation of pensions, short-term cash benefits like sickness, maternity and unemployment insurance and examines the valuation of employment injury benefits as well. In addition, the book devotes special attention to what should be included in the actuarial report and presents a practical exercise to illustrate the important points discussed in the volume.

Financing social protection

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Designing social protection systems that are effective and equitable as well as fiscally, financially and economically efficient has been a challenge for many countries. Offers a comprehensive overview of the many financing options available while also provides a thorough analysis of their advantages and disadvantages and their financial and economic implications. The most important task of social protection systems is to alleviate and prevent poverty. The book presents a "methodological toolbox" from which social protection planners, managers and social policy analysts can work.

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Report to the Government, Feasibility study on the Implementation of a Maternity Cash Benefits Scheme

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This Report looks at the feasibility of implementing a maternity cash benefits scheme and thus extending the effective scope of the current social insurance programme in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in accordance with existing legal commitments. The Report focuses on the nature and coverage of paid maternity leave. Based on consultations with Jordanian stakeholders (Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Finance, Social Security Corporation and the Advisory Committee to the Working Women's Department of the Ministry of Labour, Employers' and Workers' Organisations) and taking into account the relevant maternity protection provisions under the current Labour Code, it aims at providing a sound basis for decision making regarding the establishment of a fair and affordable maternity protection scheme in Jordan.

Jobs for Iraq: An Employment and Decent Work Strategy

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La sécurité sociale. Guide d'éducation ouvrière

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Maternity Protection for Jordan

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Modelling in health care finance. A compendium of quantitative techniques for health care financing.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This unique book provides a solid understanding of the basics of modelling and assists health care professionals in grasping its uses in the policy-making process. A valuable guidebook for health system and health insurance managers alike, this volume offers the quantitative and analytic tools needed for sound resource allocation and financial governance of health systems. It creates synergies and bridges gaps between quantitative health economics, health financing and actuarial science while presenting methods for improving the efficiency, and lowering the costs, of current health systems. A joint technical publication of the ILO and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

Promoting Social Insurances and Expanding Insurance Coverage in Oman

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Protección e inclusión social: Experiencias y políticas

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social. Guía de educación obrera

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Setting social security standards in a global society. Presentation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social budgeting

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social health protection. An ILO strategy towards universal access to health care. A consultation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This discussion paper is the first in the Department's series of papers in the field of social health protection and is a contribution to the assignment bestowed on the International Labour Office by the International Labour Conference, namely to launch a major campaign for the extension of social security to all. It aims to set forth some basic notions about the ILO strategy on "Rationalization of the use of pluralistic financing mechanisms".

Social health protection. An ILO strategy towards universal access to health care. Draft for consultation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This draft paper is the first in the Department's series of papers in the field of social health protection and is a contribution to the assignment bestowed on the International Labour Office by the International Labour Conference, namely to launch a major campaign for the extension of social security to all. It aims to set forth some basic notions about the ILO strategy on "Rationalization of the use of pluralistic financing mechanisms".

Social protection for all men and women. A sourcebook for extending social security coverage in Solomon Islands. Options and plans.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication is a consolidation of the research papers and feasibility studies produced by the project "Subregional Initiative on Social Security for the Pacific Island Countries" that involved five Pacific island countries - Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu The scope of these reports covers areas of critical importance in extending social security coverage to all workers. These include overview of social security, extension of social security, formal employment sector and informal economy surveys, feasibility studies of pensions, unemployment insurance, traditional systems, workers' compensation, social assistance, maternity protection and health insurance. As a cross-cutting issue, focus on gender equality has been underpinned for all the feasibility studies.

Social security for all men and women. A source book for extending social security coverage in Vanuatu. Optionsv and plans

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication is a consolidation of the research papers and feasibility studies produced by the project. "Sub regional Initiative on Social Security for the Pacific Island Countries" that involved five pacific island countries - Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The scope of these reports covers areas of critical importance in extending social security coverage to all workers. These include overview of social security, extension of social security, formal employment sector and informal economy surveys, feasibility studies of pensions, unemployment insurance, traditional systems, workers' compensation, social assistance, maternity protection and health insurance. As a crosscutting issue, focus on gender equality has been underpinned for all the feasibility studies.

Social security in low and middle-income countries. The role of household survey data

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report assesses the possibilities of using household surveys to evaluate the performance of social security policies and provides an overview of the available information. Particular attention is paid to indicators on social security coverage and the impact of social security on the living standards of the population. As the data situation in industrialized countries is fairly well known, the focus of this study was on low- and middle-income countries where social security schemes are often immature and cover only small groups of the population. The report additionally includes information on other non- OECD countries, as well as on certain OECD countries that have undergone political and economic transformation over the last decade.

Sénégal : L'analyse des prestations et des indicateurs de résultats de la protection sociale

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This report analyses the figures from the ILO Social Security Inquiry for 2003 and 2004.
SPER Senegal is an eight-chapter analysis. The first chapter describes demographic and socio-economic conditions in Senegal. These factors have a large impact on the development and the implementation of social security policies. The next chapter defines social security and the different types of risks covered by the country's social security programmes. The rest of the report focus on existing programmes: the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh chapters analyse Senegalese social security programmes. The last chapter explains what is at stake for Senegal as a whole and gives a glimpse of future demographic trends and possible extensions of social security to the informal sector.

The Swedish Pension Reform

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Website of ILO Regional Office for Arab States

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ciclo económico y programas de compensación social. El caso del sistema Chile Solidario

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cobertura previsional en Chile. lecciones y desafíos del sistema de pensiones administrado por el sector privado.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Efectos fiscales de la reforma de la seguridad social en Uruguay

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Estudio comparativo de los costos fiscales en la transición de ocho reformas de pensiones en América Latina

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluación de las reformas a los sistemas de pensiones. Cuatro aspectos críticos y sugerencias de políticas.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Inserción laboral desventajosa y desigualdades de cobertura previsional. La situación de las mujeres.

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Inserción laboral, mercados de trabajo y protección social

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La reforma de pensiones en Colombia y la equidad de género

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La reforma de salud en Nicaragua

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La reforma del sistema de pensiones en Chile. Desafíos pendientes.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La sécurité sociale pour tous: un investissement dans le développement social et économique mondial. Document de nature consultative

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Las redes de protección social. Modelo incompleto

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Las reformas de pensiones en América Latina y su impacto en los principios de la seguridad social

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Política fiscal y protección social: sus vínculos en la experiencia chilena

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Políticas para la reducción de costos en los sistemas de pensiones. El caso de Chile.

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas. Experiencias en América Latina.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Questionnaire: Fiche d'inventaire permanent

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reformas pensionales y costos fiscales en Colombia

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reformas recientes en el sector salud en Centroamérica

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Relación de dependencia del trabajo formal y brechas de protección social en América Latina y el Caribe

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Saint Lucia. Report to the Government. Issues related to universal health care coverage in Saint Lucia

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This report focuses on bringing an international perspective, highlighting the pros and cons of proposed reform options and contributing some pragmatic tools on universal health insurance to the proposals already formulated by the Government Special Task Force. In line with the report's mandate, attention is paid to the design of a workable time-scale and the essential basics prior to implementing universal health insurance in Saint Lucia. Strategies concentrate on the introduction of a universal health insurance and on organizational prerequisites in the health care delivery system rather than on implementation.

Seguridad social para la mayoría excluida. Estudios de casos de países en desarrollo.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social para todos. Una inversión en el desarrollo económico y social mundial. Documento de consulta.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguros de desempleo, objetivos, características y situación en América Latina

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social security for all. Investing in global social and economic development. A consultation

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This paper seeks to explore the framework within which the International Labour Office should promote a principled, practical approach to social security policy in the new millennium. Integration has to be built around a joint coherent policy vision and building such a policy vision requires debate. This paper is a product of a joint effort of members of the ILO Social Security Department and social security specialists working in the ILO field offices.

Social security for the excluded majority. Case studies of developing countries.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The large majority of workers in developing countries are excluded from social security protection. This book examines this problem in Benin, China, El Salvador, India and the United Republic of Tanzania, and explores ways in which governments and organizations at national and local levels can work together to bring social security protection to all. Through a series of case studies, this volume reviews various approaches to the establishment of self-financed schemes, the extension of formal sector social insurance and the improvement of social assistance schemes, highlighting those that have been most successful.

Sécurité sociale pour la majorité exclue. Études de cas dans les pays en développement.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Brasil & Africa Newsletter 4

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Link to statistical agencies and national offices

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT
Useful links to
United Nations Statistics Programmes
United Nations Specialized Agencies Statistics Programmes, agencies
Other Autonomous Organizations Statistics Programmes and
National offices

Régimes de retraite de la sécurité sociale. Évolution et réforme. Résumé.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

L'accès à la protection sociale et aux soins de santé pour tous (brochure)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La protection sociale de la santé. Stratégie de l'OIT pour un accès universel aux soins de santé. Document de nature consultative.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Les prestations en espèces dans les pays à faible revenu: Simulation des effets sur la réduction de la pauvreté au Sénégal et en Tanzanie

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Luxembourg. Modélisation du Budget social.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Luxembourg. Évaluation actuarielle et financière du régime général d'assurance pension du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Remis au Ministère de la sécurité sociale.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Maroc. Note technique. Réforme des régimes e retraite au Maroc.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Matemática actuarial de sistemas de previdência social

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Panorama de la lucha contra la exclusión social - Conceptos y estrategias

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Panorama de la lutte contre l'exclusion sociale. Concepts et stratégies

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Paraguay. Evaluación actuarial del régimen de jubilaciones y pensiones administrado por el Instituto de previsión social (IPS). Proyecciones 2000-2050

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pensiones de seguridad social. Desarrollo y reforma. Resumen

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pensiones no contributivas y asistenciales. Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Costa Rica y Uruguay

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Protección social de la salud. Una estrategia de la OIT para el acceso universal a la asistencia médica

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Protección social en Argentina. Financiamento, cobertura y desempeño 1990-2003.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Protección social en Uruguay. Financiamiento, cobertura y desempeño, 1990-2002.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Protección social y mercado laboral

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Analyse d'un nouveau concept. La micro-assurance (pour combler le chaînon manquant des interventions sanitaires).

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Assessing local minimum income programmes in Brazil

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Analyses the factors which affect learning outcomes among children attending school under the Programme (Bolsa-Escola) and which impact upon the social vulnerability and economic welfare of the families benefited.

Assessing the impact of AIDS on social security pension schemes in developing countries

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Paper presented at the 27th General Assembly of the International Social Security Association, Stockholm, 9-15 September 2001.

Beneficios sociales y los pobres en Brasil: programas de pensiones no convencionales

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Beneficios sociales y pobreza en la Argentina. Estudio del programa de pensiones no contributivas

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Bénin. Protection sociale. Examen des dépenses. Évolution des indicateurs 1990-2000.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Cash benefits in low-income countries. Simulating the effects on poverty reduction for Senegal and Tanzania

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social cash transfers are increasingly recognized as an effective instrument in the reduction of poverty. The objective of the present study is to model the introduction of basic social cash transfer programmes on household welfare, poverty incidence and depth in two African countries: Senegal and Tanzania. Based on household budget survey data, a set of social cash transfers were modelled in terms of their impact on poverty reduction. In addition, a rough cost estimate of the simulated transfers is provided.

Changing employment patterns and the informalization of jobs. General trends and gender dimensions

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper argues that the processes of informalization of jobs observed during the past decades have affected both high and low-income countries. Starting at the micro level of the firm, it analyzes the factors in economic restructuring and globalization that tend to generate the growth of informal activities - resulting in a vicious circle of poverty and economic insecurity for an important proportion of the population. The second part of the paper analyzes the growth of women's participation in informal activities, emphasizing that there are contradictory forces at work regarding women's employment. The paper concludes by pointing out that poverty eradication programs must emphasize the need to generate decent jobs without which these programs will continue to be ineffective. In addition, re-distributive mechanisms and different forms of social protection are needed to counteract the forces and policies generating economic insecurity.

Concealed unemployment in Ukrainian industry. A statistical analysis

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Analyses not so much the situation of concealed unemployment, but rather its reasons, insisting on the different forms of employment flexibility within the enterprises, thus shifting the focus to the process at the interface between employed and unemployed.

Conclusions and recommendations concerning social security

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Report of the Committee on social security addressing issues, challenges and propects and establishing an ILO vision of social security. It provides conclusions and recommendations concerning social security.

Conditions of work and employment for older workers in industrialized countries. Understanding the issues

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Though the concept of raising the retirement age has received much attention in research and the popular press, the conditions of work and employment faced by older workers if they are expected or choose to continue working have received limited scrutiny to date.
Using the ILO Recommendation as a framework, this paper explores these conditions of work and employment issues in greater depth.

Coping with insecurity. The Ukrainian People's Security Survey.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper reports preliminary descriptive results of the UPSS. It considers not only the types and degree of insecurity, comparing various groups and regions, but also looks at the perceived and actual capacities to cope with adverse outcomes. It ascertains the attitudes and perceptions of people towards aspects of their working lives, forms of labour-related security.

Does informal credit provide security? Rural banking policy in India

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper deals with rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and with the effect of the current policy of financial liberalization on the credit portfolios of rural workers. It examines, first, the major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this activity in India since 1969. Secondly, it attempts to describe and analyse features of indebtedness of rural households, particularly rural worker households, in a south Indian village during different periods of national banking policy. Thirdly, it attempts to evaluate the potential of a new policy alternative micro credit projects controlled by non-government organizations - as a solution for problems of rural indebtedness.

El sistema de pensiones en Chile en el contexto mundial y de América Latina: Evaluación y desafíos

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Estudio financiero-actuarial y de la gestión de EsSalud. Análisis y recomendaciones técnicas

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Etendre la sécurité sociale à tous. Tour d'horizon des difficultés, des pratiques actuelles et des options stratégiques. Réunion tripartite d'experts sur les stratégies d'extension de la couverture de sécurité sociale. Document préliminaire pour discussion

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluación de la incidencia del SIDA en los regímenes de pensión de seguridad social de países en desarrollo

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluer l'impact du SIDA sur les régimes de pensions de la sécurité sociale dans les pays en développement

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Exclusión social en el mercado de trabajo en Mercosur y Chile

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Extension de la couverture de la sécurité sociale en Afrique

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extension de la sécurité sociale : la démarche du Bureau international du Travail

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extensión de la cobertura de la seguridad social. La actuación de la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extensión de la seguridad social a todos. Una revisión de los desafíos, de la práctica actual y de las opciones estratégicas. Reunión tripartita de expertos sobre las estrategias de ampliación de la cobertura de la seguridad social. Proyecto para discusión

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Globalisation and flexibility. Dancing around pensions

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objective is to set out some of the contextual issues around the pension reform debates. An underlying premise is that the "pensions crisis", as popularly depicted, is not primarily about the pension system but about the political, social and economic changes taking place around it.

Guia de gestão das mutualidades de saúde em África

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Informe sobre el trabajo en el mundo 2000. La seguridad social de los ingresos y la protección social en un mundo en plena transformación.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

International Experience with Social Assistance Schemes. Five Country Case Studies

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reviews international experience with social assistance schemes, which are expected to serve as a reference for future policy formulation in the field of social security in Kazakhstan. It was designed to provide a comprehensive overview of social assistance scheme within an overall social security framework.

Issues in social security financing in the Caribbean

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Selection of papers presented at the ILO regional meeting on social security financing for representatives of workers' organizations (Port of Spain, 23-25 June 1999).

La prise en compte de l'insécurité socio-économique dans les grandes enquêtes statistiques en France

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport sur le travail dans le monde 2000. Sécurité du revenu et protection sociale dans un monde en mutation.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

World Labour Report 2000. Income security and social protection in a changing world.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

An important flagship study from the International Labour Office, the World Labour Report 2000 examines the changing context in which women and men are trying to achieve income security for themselves and their families. Drawing from detailed, worldwide data, this edition assesses the impact of globalization and liberalization, and considers the vital role played by social protection in supporting, supplementing and replacing market incomes. The Report highlights the forces at work in creating greater insecurity for many income earners. It discusses the effects of rising unemployment and underemployment, and of labour market developments which have exposed a growing number of workers, especially women, to low pay and precarious conditions. It considers other factors, such as changing family structures and demographic trends that have created new needs and imposed new constraints. In addition, this wide-ranging study examines existing income protection measures to cater for major contingencies such as old age, incapacity for work, bearing and raising children, and unemployment. Also included are health care - without which many in the developing world are unfit to earn their living - and safety net measures such as social assistance. An efficient economy and an effective system of social protection are both essential for the attainment of income security and a stable society. The Report underlines the direct and immediate relationship between the provision of social protection and decent work, as underlined by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, in his first report to the International Labour Conference in 1999. The Report finds that the positive impact of social protection on the economy has often been neglected, and that this impact can be enhanced by a better coordination between social protection, labour market and anti-poverty policies. With many social security systems now under reform, future prospects are outlined and an alarm is sounded about the implications of pension fund growth for the instability of global financial markets. Top priority, the Report says, must be given - by civil society, as much as by the State - to finding the most effective means to bring social protection to the majority who still go without.

Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social (ANSES)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Association d'Entraide des Femmes, Benin

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Association d'Entraide des Femmes, or Women's Self-help Association (AssEF), is a microfinance institution that was created in 1995, with the aim of contributing to sustainable improvement of the socio-economic situation of women in Cotonou (Benin) and its periurban areas. AssEF today is a network of 112 savings and credit associations and 26 savings and credit funds, with an umbrella structure that provides management, training and financial support to these savings and credit associations and savings and credit funds. The network has approximately 25,000 members, who are primarily poor women engaged income-generating activities in the informal sector.

Evaluation Reports of Cash Transfer Programmes

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluation reports of cash transfer programmes:

Bolsa Familia Programme and Bolsa Alimentação (Brasil)

Familias en Acción (Colombia)

Bono de Desarrollo Humano (Ecuador)

Programa de Asignación Familiar (Honduras)

Others

Maroc | Analyse des résultats de l'enquête nationale sur les personnes âgées au Maroc 2006

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) Project

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) project, implemented jointly by UNDP and the World Bank, aims to develop national capacities to carry out PSIA studies and to help countries use the resulting analysis in designing their national development strategies.

Benefícios sociais e pobreza. Programas não contributivos da seguridade social brasileira.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security: The way of health in the 2010s

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Structure of the presentation:

ILO mandate

Social security is a human right

ILO norms for implementing this right
Why and how ratifying C102?

The reality: social security coverage deficit

Extending social security
It is affordable, possible, pluralistic approach, country cases

Knowledge sharing, monitoring

Social protection floor initiative

Australia: Highlights from OECD Pensions at a Glance 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Decent work and social protection in six countries. Umbrella paper. Executive summary. India, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Thailand and Viet Nam

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This is the Executive Summary of the Umbrella Paper, which presents a synthesis of six country papers - India, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Thailand and Viet Nam - prepared for the ILO in the past 12 months.

Decent work and social protection in six countries. Umbrella paper. India, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Thailand and Viet Nam

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document is a synthesis of six country papers - India, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Thailand and Viet Nam - prepared for the ILO in the past 12 months. The papers describe the social protection systems currently in place in each of the countries, relating them to the challenges that each country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. This paper follows the broad structure of the papers prepared for the ILO although in reality there are significant differences between them in style and content. The papers provide detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems. All six countries are reforming or are considering reforms to their social security systems.

Inter Agency technical Meeting on the CEB Social protection Floor Initiative II

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Inter Agency technical Meeting on the CEB Social protection Floor Initiative took place October 13-15 2009 in Turin.

UNESCO, The SPF-I – Entry points for UNESCO action

UNFPA and the SPF-I

UNAIDS, Social protection and HIV/Aids

WMO and the SPF-I

ILO Tool Box

WHO, Social Health Protection: some WHO tools

Working groups:

Information sharing and knowledge management

Training, Education, Capacity Building

Joint advocacy

Developing a Common Implementation Framework
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Inter-regional project. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. India. A case study

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Inter-regional project. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. Jordan. A case study

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Inter-regional project. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. Syrian Arab Republic. A case study

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Inter-regional project. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. Thailand. A case study

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Inter-regional project. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. Viet Nam. A case study

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Interagency Technical Meeting on the CEB Social Protection Floor Initiative

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Inter Agency technical Meeting on the CEB Social protection Floor Initiative took place from October 13-15, 2009 at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin.
Meeting presentations and support documents:

UN CEB Joint Crisis Initiative VI: A Social Protection Floor; Inter-agency technical meeting

Joint Crisis Initiatives of the UN CEB

SPF-Initiative manual, Strategic framework for joint UN country operations

IMF SPF-Initiative

UNICEF and the SPF Initiative

UNDESA, SPF-Initiative,

FAO Contributions and Tools to Support the SPF Initiative

WFP, Social Protection & the SPF Initiative
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Social Solidarity: the basis of social security in times of crises and beyond. Power Point presented by Michael Cichon

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presentation by Michael Cichon, director of the Social Security Department of the International Labour Office in Geneva, about the effects of the crisis on social security schemes and people and the possible solutions.
Structure of the presentation:
One: Effects of the crisis on schemes and people
Two: Responses so far and beyond
Three: The three dimensions of an emerging solidarity based policy paradigm
Four: What did we learn, what can we do?

Feeding Hunger and Insecurity

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Introduction to social security

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Introductory guide to social security and the role of ILO technical cooperation - describes health service, health insurance, maternity benefits, employment accident benefits, old age benefits, survivors benefits, disability benefits, unemployment benefit, and family benefits; explains the institutional framework, methods of financing, and the economic implications of income redistribution; discusses special arrangements for migrant workers; summarizes ILO Convention No. 102 on social security. Bibliography and statistical tables.

Mutuelle de Sécurité Sociale du Bénin (MSS) - FAQ

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Introducción a la seguridad social

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Introduction à la sécurité sociale

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

OECD Health Data 2009. How does Australia compare

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Article Aktuell: Ghana-Luxembourg Social Trust

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Article published in the Trade Union Magazin of the Luxembourg TU OGB-L (in German). The article explains the Ghana-Luxembourg Social Trust project, a conditional cash transfer pilot for poor pregnant women in the Dangme West District in Ghana.

Plan d'action économique du Canada

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The global crisis, social protection and jobs

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Policy responses to the global financial meltdown of 2008 and the collapse of aggregate demand have largely been driven by domestic interests. Resurgent protectionism, bank bail-outs and national-level stimulus packages are distorting
competition and incentives to the detriment of developing countries, much-needed spending on social protection and, ultimately, rapid global economic recovery. Warning against inderestimation of the job-destruction potential of the current crisis, the author argues for a truly global stimulus package, together with a rethink of
economic paradigms and regulatory policies, financial assistance to developing countries, a less constraining IMF, and stronger social protection as an automatic stabilizer of economies.

The global financial crisis and its impact on the work of the UN system

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

In view of the multiple facets of the crisis and their collective mandates and responsibilities, the United Nations System Chief Executives have agreed on nine joint initiatives:
1. Additional financing for the most vulnerable
2. Food Security
3. Trade
4. A Green Economy Initiative
5. A Global Jobs Pact
6. A Social Protection Floor
7. Humanitarian, Security and Social Stability
8. Technology and Innovation
9. Monitoring and Analysis
The report provides an overview of each initiative, including the one on the Social Protection Floor.

assurance emploi canada 2006-2009

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Depenses de protection sociale canada vs OECD

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

tableau plan de relance canada 2009

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Sécurité sociale : la crise s'ajoute à la dérive

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

O Programa Bolsa Família

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Recovering from the crisis: A global jobs pact

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Resolution adopted the 16th of June 2009 by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization in order to address the economic crisis, in the framework of the ILO Decent Work Agenda.

Data on the actual crisis and its impact on labor

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Pakistan: An inventory of micro-insurance schemes

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The present inventory is a first attempt to document the various micro-insurance schemes that have so far been identified as contributing to the extension of social protection in Pakistan. In recent years, there has been a growing realization of the need for both the extension of social protection to all excluded groups and a wider commitment to new micro-insurance schemes. As a direct result, several actors have already designed and set up some micro-insurance schemes tailor-made for specific groups of vulnerable people. Several insurance companies, both private and public, are also actively working with development organizations at the grassroots level to extend insurance products to disadvantaged groups.

Australia's economic stimulus plan web portal

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Etendre la sécurité sociale à tous: Une revue des défis, des pratiques et des options stratégiques

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Reunión tripartita de expertos sobre estrategias para la extensión de la cobertura de la seguridad social. Ginebra, 2-4 de septiembre de 2009. Proyecto de resumen del Presidente

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Réunion tripartite d'experts sur les stratégies d'extension de la couverture de la sécurité sociale, Genève, 2-4 septembre 2009. Résumé du Président

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Strategies for the Extension of Social Security Coverage Geneva, 2-4 September 2009. Chairperson's summary.

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Principes et modalités de la capitation, un système innovant de contractualisation des prestataires de soins en micro assurance santé

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection: Lessons from economic theory and International Experience

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presentation held at the Committee of the Whole on Crisis Responses: Social Protection, Geneva, 8 June 2009.

Summary "Alternatives Internationales" No. 44 pp. 67-74

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The Blue Book - A Hands-on Approach to advocating for the Millennium Development Goals

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The book, while mainly dealing with promoting the MDGs, contains a lot of useful material on communication strategies and advocacy in general that can be applied to any issue.

HIV/AIDS and Social Protection

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Definitions

Historical Perspective

The Role of Social Protection in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Introducing social health protection for the garnment sector

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

During the last two years, discussions have been initiated between GRET (French NGO) and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on the relevance of introducing social health insurance for the garment sector.
From these discussions GRET and GMAC have agreed that setting-up a health insurance scheme for salaried workers could provide an adequate solution to address the needs of both the workers (improve health status and reduce vulnerability and hardship in case of illness) and the employers (healthy workforce improves productivity).
It would also greatly contribute to the preparation of the health component of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) due to start in 2010/2011.

Reunión tripartita de expertos sobre estrategias para la extensión de la cobertura de la seguridad social, Ginebra, 2-4 de septiembre 2009. Nota de información técnica

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Reunión tripartita de expertos sobre estrategias para la extensión de la cobertura de la seguridad social, Ginebra, 2-4 de septiembre 2009. Programa provisional

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Cash Transfers, Social Pensions and HIV/AIDS

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Cash transfers and their impact

How do we do it: affordability and Implementation

Extension of social protection: towards a universal social protection floor

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Training description, learning objectives, programme, participants' profile, conditions for application.

HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: a Social Protection Perspective

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The main objective of this interregional training course is to strengthen the capacity of planners and social actors to develop and implement workplace policies and programmes on HIV/AIDS that build on and benefit from the decent work approach. 7 - 18 September 2009. Turin, Italy.

Workshop Brochure

Social Security and HIV/AIDS

Presentation by Forgues, G. and Schmitt-Diabaté, V.

Proposed reading 1: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Security

Proposed reading 2: Exclusion of HIV/AIDS from Social Protection Programmes

Proposed reading 3: Exclusion of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

Proposed reading 4: The History of AIDS in South Africa

Proposed reading 5: ILO Code of Practice (Excerpt)

    2.   Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS

Presentation by Knox, C.

Group work 1: Pros and Cons of using cash transfers

Group work 2: Targeting

R1: The Impact on Social Security: Issues of Viability and Credibility

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

R3: Exclusion of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

R4: The Story of AIDS in South Africa

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

R5: The ILO Code of Practice

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Questions-clefs abordées au cours de la réunion et résultats attendus

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Tools on the extension of social security for the informal economy. Focus on the Philippines

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Presents selected tools for formulating the policy and implementing programmes to extend social security coverage to the population in the informal economy. Data mainly but not exclusively adapts to the Philippines context.
Part I covers generic publications and training materials dealing with social security and social protection. Most of these tools are of general nature and thus applicable to all countries. It is important for any experts who work on the extension of social security to be aware of these generic tools.

Part II presents a collection of case studies. Case studies are instructive for the formulation of realistic policies. One can draw lessons by analyzing successful and unsuccessful examples and identifying success factors and hindering factors.

Part III summarizes selected web-based information resources.

Part IV provides a list of available training opportunities for social security.

This compendium will continue to be updated; your comments and suggestions are welcome. For further information, please contact:

ILO Subregional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific
19th Floor, Yuchengco Tower, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue, 1229 Makati City
P.O. Box 4959 Makati City, Philippines
Telephone: (632) 580 9900
Fax: (632) 580 9999
E-mail: manila@ilomnl.org.ph
Website: www.ilo.org/manila

Intervention de M. Eric Woerth - 15 Juin 2009 - Commission des comptes de la sécurité sociale

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

L'inflation zéro pourrait conduire au gel de prestations sociales en janvier

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Plan de relance (France)

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Grille de calcul du budget prévisionnel

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Réunion tripartite d'experts sur les stratégies d'extension de la couverture de la sécurité sociale, Genève, 2-3 septembre 2009. Note d'information technique

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection: Children, working poor and unemployed

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The Brazilian experience concerning the coverage expansion in social security for the working and elderly poor.

Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage, Geneva, 2-4 September 2009. Technical information note

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Comment concilier couverture universelle et niveau adéquat de prestations pour les personnes âgées, les survivants et les personnes invalides?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Comment concilier couverture universelle et niveaux adéquats de prestations en matière de santé?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Comment financer, fournir et gouverner la sécurité sociale pour tous...

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Comment obtenir la couverture universelle et des niveaux de prestations adéquats pour la protection des enfants, des travailleurs pauvres et des chômeurs?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Comment rendre effectif le droit à la sécurité sociale

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Como alcanzar la cobertura universal y niveles adecuados de prestaciones en la asistencia médica?

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Como alcanzar la cobertura universal y un adecuado nivel de prestaciones para la protección de los hijos, los trabajadores pobres y los desempleados?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Como dar efecto al derecho humano a la seguridad social

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Como financiar, otorgar y gestionar una seguridad social para todos...

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Como podemos alcanzar la cobertura universal y un adecuado nivel de prestaciones para las personas mayores, los sobrevivientes y los discapacitados?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Contribution du Sénégal

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (English, Deutsch)

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations.
GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. Its corporate objective is to improve people's living conditions on a sustainable basis.

Extending social security coverage. The China's experience

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Extending social security to all. A review of challenges, present practice and strategic options

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

How can we achieve universal coverage and adequate benefit levels for those in old age, survivors and those with disabilities?

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefit levels for persons in old age, for persons with disabilities and for survivors.

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefit levels for the protection of children, poor workers and the unemployed? An introduction

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

How to achieve universal coverage and adequate benefit levels in health care?

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

How to finance, deliver and govern investments in social security? Romanian case

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

How to finance, deliver and govern social security for all...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

How to give effect to the human right to social security

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

How to give effect to the human right to social security?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La necesidad de seguridad social: que tan grande es la brecha en la cobertura?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Le besoin de sécurité sociale. Quelle est l'ampleur du déficit de couverture?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Recent efforts at enhancing social security for unorganized workers in India

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The need for social security. How big is the coverage gap?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The need for social security. The case for Zambia

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The Swedish Model

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The U.S. retirement system

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

¿Cómo dar efecto al derecho humano de la seguridad social?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Informativo trimestral diciembre 2008

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Informativo trimestral diciembre 2008

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

L'enseignement de la securité sociale: ça compte!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La educación de la seguridad social cuenta

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Les politiques de sécurité sociale, ça compte!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social security education matters

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security policy matters

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Since 2001 when the ILO conference reaffirmed the global need for social security, leading to the launch of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All, the ILO has been addressing the question of how to introduce, implement and support such a plan. The ILO’s Social Security Department has explored, analyzed and piloted various ways and means to extend coverage of health care systems and basic universal cash benefits.

¡Las políticas de seguridad social cuentan!

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Administrative database

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT

ASIA | Résumé des informations disponibles dans les enquêtes régulières

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Bhutan | Living Standard Survey Questionnaire 2007

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Pakistan | CWIQuestionnaire 2005 (zip file)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Philippines | Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) questionnaire 2009

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Philippines | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Stratégies et Techniques contre l'Exclusion sociale et la Pauvreté (STEP)

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Ageing and poverty in Africa and the role of social pensions

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

In many low income African countries, three factors are placing an undue burden on the elderly. First, the burden on the elderly has enormously increased with the increase in mortality of prime age adults due to HIV AIDS pandemic and regional conflicts. Second, the traditional safety net of the extended family has become ineffective and unreliable for the elderly. Third, in a few countries, the elderly are called upon to shoulder the responsibility of the family as they became the principal breadwinners and caregivers for young children. While a number of studies have examined the welfare consequences of these developments on children, few studies have systematically analyzed the poverty situation among the elderly (relative to other groups) in low income countries Africa, and the role of social pensions. This study aims to fill this gap.

HelpAge International

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

HelpAge International is an organisation standing up for the rights of older people worldwide. Their work is strengthened through their global network of 80 like-minded organisations.
For further information on Help Age International's work, please visit :

HelpAge India: HelpAge India is a secular, not-for-profit organization set up in 1978, and since then has been raising resources to protect the rights of India's elderly and provide relief to them through various interventions.

Help Age International: Social Protection. This site gives an overview of the organisation's effort to secure a regular income for older people.

ICMIF

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

ILO/AIDS

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La gestion de projet de Technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) dans la sécurité sociale

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Older people and AIDS: quantitative evidence ofthe impact in Thailand

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social Cash Transfers: Examining ways to address child poverty in times of HIV/AIDS

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Transfers to older people in developing countries reduce poverty and support growth and development

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Africa's orphaned Generations

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned a generation of children – and now seems set to orphan generations more. Today, over 11 million children under the age of 15 living in sub-Saharan Africa have been robbed of one or both parents by HIV/AIDS. Seven years from now, the number is expected to have grown to 20 million. At that point, anywhere from 15 per cent to over 25 per cent of the children in a dozen sub-Saharan African countries will be orphans – the vast majority of them will have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Africa’s Orphaned Generations reports on the life circumstances of today’s orphans with new data and fresh analyses. It presents the possibility of change – for those already orphaned and for the generation to come – if certain things are done now. Tragically, the number of orphans in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to rise in the years ahead, due to the high proportion of sub-Saharan African adults already living with HIV/AIDS and the continuing difficulties in expanding access to life-prolonging antiretroviral treatment. But, it is not inevitable that these children should be left to suffer twice, denied their rights because they are orphaned. Africa’s Orphaned Generations presents a strategy for ensuring that all of Africa’s orphaned children have a safe, healthy and well-educated childhood, establishing the foundation for a productive adult life and for their countries’ overall development. It encourages hope in the face of an epic disaster.

Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) communiqué, 5 April 2009, Paris, France.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), 5 April 2009, Paris, France.
In this communiqué, the Board explains the importance of the multilateral system in times of crisis. According to the board, the actual crisis is multidimensional and calls for policy coherence at global, regional and national levels to avoid the risk of reverting to inward-looking policies, protectionism and even xenophobia. In view of the multiple facets of the crisis and the collective mandates and responsibilities, the Chief Executives Board for Coordination has agreed on nine joint initiatives. This common commitment is designed to assist countries and the global community to confront the crisis, accelerate recovery and build a fair and inclusive globalization allowing for sustainable economic,
social and environmental development for all.

HIV/AIDS: A threat to decent work, productivity and development

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Impact of AIDS on older people in Africa

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Para recuperarse de la crisis: Un pacto mundial para el empleo

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Performance indicators of statutory social insurance schemes (draft)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This set of Performance Indicaotors (PIS) is designed for monitoring the overall performance of a statutory social insurance scheme by its governing body and executive directors.
There are 81 indicators described and it has three sub-groups, namely PIS of long-term cash benefit schemes, short-term cash benefit schemes and health insurance schemes respectively.
These indicators can be used all over the world by every compulsory scheme. This document is not finanlised, it is still in draft version.

Surmonter la crise: Un pacte mondial pour l'emploi

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Promotion and protection of all humain rights, civil, political, economic and cultural rights, including the right to development

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Cash transfer programmes (CTPs) analysed from a human rights perspective.
The author recognizes that CTPs are a tool that can assist States in fulfilling their obligations under national, regional and international human rights law. The transfers my have an impact on the exercise of a number of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
Nonetheless, CTPs are not necessarily the most appropriate and effective means of tackling extreme poverty and protecting humain rights in all contexts. CTPs should be seen as only one component of social assistance policies. As such, they must be integrated within social protection systems and grounded by solid legal and institutional frameworks framed by human rights standards and principles.

India | Socio Economic Survey Instructions manual 2005|2006

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

India | Socio Economic Survey Instructions manual 2007|2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

India | Socio Economic Survey questionnaire 2007|2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Tajikistan | Living Standard Measurement Survey Questionnaire 2007

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey Questionnaire | 2004

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Degrees of informality: prevailing patterns at the Tanzanian labour market and social security coverage

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Indonesia | National Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS) questionnaire 2005

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Malaysia | Labour force and migration survey, 2009. Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Philippines | Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) questionnaire 2003

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Santa Lucia | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social cash transfers in Zambia: What is their impact?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The authors present their findings from the impact evaluations of the three social cash transfer programmes in Zambia. While such transfers are effective means of social protection, they warn us against a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

Thailand | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2006 (zip file composed of 2 files)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Zambia | Labour Force Survey Questionnaire 2006

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cambodia Household Socio-Economic Survey 2003-2004 (CSES) | Household questionnaire 2003

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Cambodia Household Socio-Economic Survey 2003-2004 (CSES) | Village questionnaire 2003

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

China Social Security responses to the economic crisis

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Gender roles and sex equality. European solutions to social security disputes.

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The principle of equal pay, originally enshrined in the Treaty of Rome to prevent distortion of competition, has become the most relevant basis for implementing sex equality. Equality principle is valid for all employer-financed pension schemes (whether partly or entirely financed by the employer), for pensions in the public service and for any other pension schemes designed for a particular category of workers. Even where distinctions between the sexes are permitted, this does not justify different treatment at the workplace.

ILO Global Job Crisis Observatory

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Indonesia | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2007

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mutuelles de santé et financement du système de la santé : Cas de la RDC

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Mutuelles de santé et financement du système de la santé : Cas de la RDC

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Mutuelles de santé et financement du système de la santé : Cas de la République Démocratique du Congo

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

National Bureau of Statistics of China

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), People's Republic of China

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Proposed Policy for UI Scheme 2008 (Nepal), abridged

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Sri Lanka | Household Income and Expenditure Survey Questionnaire 2006 | 2007

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Sri Lanka | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2008

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Thailand | Socio-Economic Survey Questionnaire - 2002

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Lao PDR | Expenditure and Consumption Survey III (LECS III). Questionnaire

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mongolia | Integrated Household Income and Expenditure Survey with Living Standards Measurement Survey 2002-2003

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mongolia | Labour Force Survey questionnaire 2006|2007

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Pakistan | Integrated Household Survey Quest (PIHS 2001|02)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Questionnaire | Nepal | Living Standard Survey Questionnaire | Household part

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Evolución demográfica y pensiones en Chile

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Boletín estadístico de la seguridad social

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Protección social en salud en Chile

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

An ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Code of Practice is the framework for action related to the workplace. It contains key principles for policy development and practical guidelines for programmes at enterprise, community and national levels. It covers in the following main areas:
• prevention of HIV
• management and mitigation of the impact of AIDS on the world of work
• care and support of workers infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
• elimination of stigma and discrimination on the basis of real or perceived HIV status.
The ILO developed the Code in response to many requests for guidance, on the basis of a widespread consultation with its constituents in all regions, and a range of other stakeholders.
It is an education and reference document as well as a tool for training, a framework for social dialogue and a guide for action. Each module is designed to involve people in active learning through the presentation of key issues, case studies, diverse learning activities, and samples of legislation, policies and collective agreements.

Reforma Previsional. Claves de una Reforma exitosa.

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Contributing to the fight against HIV/AIDS within the informal economy: The existing and potential role of decentralized systems of social protection

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
This paper reviews the ad hoc evidence and explores the potential of decentralised systems of social protection (DSSP) to contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The paper focuses on systems set up by associations and organisations in civil society to cover workers and households that do not have access to statutory systems of social protection. It places particular attention on the role of health micro-insurance schemes (HMIS), which constitute a dynamic innovation in terms of community mechanisms to face health-related risks. It also enhances the social role of many DSSP, which may be as important, and potentially more important, in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Cuestionario Mutualistas, cooperativas de salud y otras organizaciones del sector de la protección social

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Stratégie nationale de protection sociale et de gestion des risques

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Ministry of Labour of Thailand

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Office of Thailand

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

AIDS epidemic statistics 2007

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Association of South-East Asian Nations

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Déclaration de Consensus national tripartite sur le VIH/SIDA dans le Monde du Travail

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Développements récents dans le domaine des soins de santé. Le SIDA. Gérer les conséquences financières d'une pandémie dans le contexte d'un pays en développement.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Guide to Social Security Benefits for People Living With HIV/AIDS in the United States of America

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

South Africa, Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This Act is interesting because it provides that a registered medical aid scheme may not unfairly discriminate directly against its members on the basis of their HIV status.
It states that no medical scheme shall be registered under this Act unless the Council is satisfied that it does not or will not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against any person on one or more arbitrary grounds including the state of health.
The Act also makes provision for regulations stipulating a basket of minimum level of benefits that all schemes must offer to their members.

Thailand: Universal health care coverage trough pluralistic approaches

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The document presents the pluralistic approaches that were experimented in Thailand in order to reach universal health care coverage. The Thai health care system has a long history, from a fee with exemption system which was gradually replaced by out-of-pocket payment before finally becoming a prepayment system. This is an entrepreneurial system, with both public and private providers, that has progressed thanks to long term plans, continuous efforts and strong commitment to policy. Finally it has been successful in providing health care coverage using pluralistic approaches and health is now considered as an entitlement for Thai people. However, the Thai government still has to face challenges in terms of efficiency, quality and equity. Indeed, the country will have to deal with the problem of ageing populations and redress the unequal distribution of medical staff within the country between Bangkok and the provinces, among other issues.

Social health insurance - Social security and HIV/AIDS

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

HIV/AIDS is the most serious infection in the world today. Although HIV/AIDS is described as an epidemic, this infection has given rise to several other epidemics namely: the disease (AIDS) itself, emergency of widows and widowers, death and orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs). It is now well known that the HIV infection is dynamic, complex and therefore requires strategic thinking, programming and response. The infection rates range from less than 0.1 per cent to over 35 per cent in some countries.

Social health insurance - Social security and HIV/AIDS

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

In 2004, 2.3 million people died of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; an estimated 3.1 million people became newly infected. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 60 per cent of all people living with HIV throughout the world. The majority of them are women. UNAIDS estimates that in the near future in some countries every second child below age five might die.

Social health insurance - Social security and HIV/AIDS

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

"If, by 2025, millions of African people are still becoming infected with HIV each year, it will not be because there was no choice. It will not be because there is no understanding of the consequences of the decisions and actions being taken now, in the early years of the century. It is not inevitable, it will be because the lessons of the first 20 years of the epidemic were not learned, or were not applied effectively. It will be because, collectively, there was insufficient political will to change behaviour (at all levels, from the institution, to the community, to the individual) and halt the forces driving the AIDS epidemic in Africa. What we do today will change the future.”

Social health insurance - Social security and HIV/AIDS

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

HIV/AIDS continues to pose an immense challenge to Swaziland, as the Kingdom strives to prevent and control the epidemic which is growing at an alarming rate. The first AIDS case was officially reported in 1986 and since then, the number of AIDS cases has been increasing annually and in the past years the statistics on HIV/AIDS have increased dramatically. The impact of the epidemic in the country is becoming more visible as mortality and morbidity amongst the productive age group has increased.

Community social protection and income security for households experiencing major illnesses including HIV/AIDS in selected communities around Phnom Penh

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The study aims to enable a better understanding of the role of the extension of social protection in health for poor households living in poor communities on the outskirts of Phnom Penh city, in Russei Keo district, examining socioeconomic impacts: for households that suffer from major illness in general, and for households that are HIV and AIDS vulnerable or positive in these communities in particular. By way of a quantitative and qualitative survey,the study attempts to document for the target population needs in terms of social protection and its probable impacts, with regard to: i) access to health care as a primary social protection mechanism; ii) access to HIV-related services; and iii) access to resources for livelihoods.
Some of the findings of the study show that, among the population in Russei Keo district (peri-urban), the level of poverty is not as high as in rural areas but is slightly higher than in the main urban area. A relatively highproportion of the population was found to have incurred debt over the past year, especially among the poor.

HIV Financing and Social Health Protection Mechanisms

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Summary
The power point presentation summarizes main findings from "HIV financing and social health protection mechanisms," a study financed by UNAIDS and carried out by KADRIS Group and IMEDA Global Medical Alliance on financing HIV and improving healthcare access for workers in the formal and the informal markets. Although this case study focuses on Burkina Faso, its conclusions and proposals (especially introducing Third Party Administrators) can easily be adapted to other national contexts.

Informing the Public

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The article stresses the importance of disseminating information when building socisl security institutions and suitable information tools and techniques to do so.

L'assurance maladie de la sécurité sociale: la sécurité sociale et le VIH/SIDA

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Les pensions. Réformes récentes et expériences des régimes de pension

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Mid-term evaluation of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) 5th Round Project on Health Systems Strengthening

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
This document gives an overview of the health system and its financing in Rwanda, it describes the achievements of the GFATM project on Health Systems strengthening, it describes the financial management of the scheme and provides recommendations for phase 2.

National Health Accounts Rwanda 2006 with HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and reproductive Health subaccounts

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Report of National Health Accounts (NHA) estimations in Rwanda for 2006. NHA is an internationally recognized methodology for tracking all financial resource flows in the health care system of a given entity. It provides trend data that allow policymakers to understand the current financing and future financing needs of the country¿s health care system.

Raising One Voice

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This Manual gives a helpful, hands-on overview on the importance of advocacy, what it is and what are relevant strategies and activities to communicate objectives effectively. Examples are taken from advocacy for child domestic workers but the methodology is universally applicable.

Responding to HIV/AIDS in the world of work in Africa: the role of social protection

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social security health insurance. Social security and HIV/AIDS

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
This paper summarizes the results of three individual research projects (Asfaw, 2005; Lamiraud et al., 2005; Xu et al., 2005) measuring the impact of membership in a health insurance scheme in three African countries, namely Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. The first section briefly outlines the health care systems in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa, followed by a short description of the methodology and data used in the research. The last two sections focus on empirical results and policy implications.

Cuentas nacionales en salud 2004

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La salud, el mutualismo y la seguridad social en el Uruguay. Pasado, presente y futuro

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Análisis del sector salud Bolivia. Resumen ejecutivo

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Envejecimiento con dignidad. Pensiones no contributivas para reducir la pobreza en el Perú

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This book presents experiences with non-contributory pensions in South America and projections for a viability analysis regarding such a system in Peru. Three perspectives are incorporated: the viability of such a system in Peru; non-contributory old-age pensions in rural areas; and the system's legal framework.

Perfil diagnóstico en seguridad y salud en el trabajo de los países de la Subregión Andina

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

República de Bolivia: Diagnóstico del sistema de seguridad social

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Summary
This draft for discussion paper is an analysis of Bolivia's social security system, including health and pension schemes. Despite recent reforms the country still has weak social security coverage compared to the rest of the region.
Chapter 1: description of Bolivia's social and economic situation and also of the structure of its labour market.
Chapter 2: description of Bolivia's current social security system, its recent evolution and its different modes and regimes.
Chapter 3: description of Bolivia's health care system and of how it interacts with social security schemes. This chapter also describes factors of exclusion.
Chapter 4: panorama of different funds and insurances, of their programs and how they are run and financed.

Chapter 5: description of the pension system and its recent transformation.
The conclusion consists of the author's recommendations in order to improve access to social security in Bolivia.

Salud laboral. Un reto para la región andina en el siglo XXI

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Zurich Bolivia: Partnerships for success

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Bolivia has made it possible for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to become regulated, and therefore provide valuable savings services, and access the capital markets to fund their growth. Through partnerships with the Private Financial Funds (commercial financial institutions), MFIs have been successful in offering financial services to the low-income market in Bolivia. However, MFIs still look for diversifying their services available to the poor.
This case study also mentions what Zurich Group has developed in terms of in-house IT applications to facilitate the management of microinsurance specific activities, such as premium collection and claims payment processes.

Zurich Venezuela: Providing insurance to Venezuela's low-income population

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Zurich Venezuela is a pioneer insurer extending coverage to the low-income market through the partnership with MFIs. The insurer's experience in microinsurance started in 2003 and though still at an early stage, the case study relates a success story. From 782 insured in 2003, the microinsurance business of Zurich Venezuela has now nearly 50,000 insured producing a gross written premium of more than US$ 1.6 million.
Zurich Venezuela has developed three products – life, motor and property insurance – mainly aimed at microentrepreneurs, most of whom work for the informal economy.
Partnerships have been created in the country with BanGente – Venezuela's pioneer and leading Microfinance Institution (MFI) – and Mibanco – another MFI.

El impacto de un mercado laboral informal en la viabilidad de las instituciones de seguridad social

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Instrumentos para un trabajo decente. Decisión 584 y Reglamento

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Integración de políticas de protección social para extender la cobertura. El rol de las instituciones de seguridad social.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La protección a las personas más vulnerables en las nuevas estructuras familiares. La tercera edad y la infancia

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La protección social para las poblaciones indígenas y autóctonas. Nuevas estrategias para extender la protección en salud

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Mecanismos para la protección de la salud de la trabajadora gestante

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Nuevas estrategias para extender la protección en salud.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Seguro de pensiones de invalidez, vejez y muerte. Informe de la gestión 2003

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Interview pour la roadmap: John Woodall

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Les pensions de retraite et la crise financière

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Pensions and the financial crisis

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The current financial crisis raises substantial issues about public and private pension schemes. Indeed, each type of plan has suffered different losses during the crisis, but there are general failures in all cases that call for a redefinition of the current pension system. The financial debacle highlights the shortcomings of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Institutions and governments should take short and medium term measures to ensure the sustainability of pension schemes. This brief description of the different pension schemes, followed by a review of the current economic downturn, is meant to better understand the impact of the crisis on pensions thereby motivating a constructive debate.

Tanzania Mainland: Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review and Social Budget (Report)

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Can low-income countries afford basic social security?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

CBHI Section of 2008 National Health Financing Report for Cambodia

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT
This is a section of the 2008 annual report on health financing of the Government of Cambodia, focused community based health insurance schemes (CBHI). A number of community-based health insurance schemes have been introducedin various parts of the country by a range of international and local NGOs. CBHIis based on the principle of risk pooling and pre-payment for health care. CBHI isnon-profit, voluntary insurance mechanism based on the sale of low-costinsurance premiums that provide the purchaser and their family with coverage forhealth charges for a stated list of medical benefits delivered at contracted publichealth facilities.

Identification et faisabilité en micro-assurance santé: démarche et outils

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

To design a microinsurance mechanism requires to make choices on pathologies to be covered, premium amounts, linkages with health services, and so on. Due to a lack of reliable references, a real experimental step is often necessary.
Within the framework of SKY Project experience in Cambodia, this paper proposes some methodological reference marks to identify and study the feasibility of microinsurance projects around three major fields: public health policies, health care supply, households' practices and socio-economic level.

La renovación de la atención primaria en las Américas: Redes Integradas de Servicios de Salud

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The weak performance of the world’s health systems is increasingly being questioned, and the need to tackle the problem of fragmented health services is therefore increasingly pressing. Experience shows that excessive fragmentation of health services generates difficulties in access to services, lower quality of services, irrational and inefficient use of the available resources, unnecessary increase in production costs and low population satisfaction with the services provided. Moreover, an aging population, chronic diseases, the challenge of managing co-morbidity and the users’ higher expectations require more systematic and comprehensive solutions to be able to respond more adequately to the population’s needs.

This document presents the Pan American Health Organization and the WHO’s initiative for Integrated Health Service Networks and their contribution to improved health services.

Social security reform: Does partial privatization make sense for China?

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT
"The challenges of population aging and rising dependency ratios are in part the result of increased life expectancy, but the major factor has been the rapid decline in fertility, due, in large part, to China's strict one-child policy instituted in the mid 1970s. In the future, many Chinese couples will face the task of caring for four elderly parents as well as some grandparents. These changes in family structure and the increase in rural-urban migration due to uneven rates of economic growth are two of the factors contributing to a breakdown of the traditional family support system, which remains the major source of old-age support."

Assemblée Nationale du Mali : L'Assurance maladie obligatoire est votée

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

C102 Convenio sobre la seguridad social (norma mínima), 1952

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C102 Convention concernant la sécurité sociale (norme minimum), 1952

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Caracterización de la exclusión en salud en Bolivia

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Diagnóstico de la experiencia sindical de formación y capacitación en salud laboral y medio ambiente en la Subregión Andina por las centrales sindicales del CCLA

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Exclusion in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Presents the results of studies conducted between 2001 and 2003 in six countries (Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Paraguay, and the Dominican Republic) with the objective of characterizing and measuring exclusion in health.

Hacia una política pública de promoción de la salud basada en comunidades productivas y saludables

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Perfil del sistema de servicios de salud de Colombia

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Reformas de salud y nuevos modelos de atención primaria en América Central

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Bolsa Família Programme

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Colombia. Social safety net assesment

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Analyze Colombia's saftety net of national social assistance programs based on economic shock as a case study for identifying areas of need reform.

Disability pensions and social security reform analysis of the Latin American experience

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This paper describes the disability pension arrangements prevailing in ten Latin American countries that reformed their pension systems. The analysis is limited to the topic of disability pensions, without attempting to evaluate other critical aspects such as the available infrastructure.

Health reform in the social security system. The peruvian case

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Presents the health reform implemented implemented in the Peruvian social security system since 1997 aimed to improve efficiency.

Health Strategic Plan for Cambodia 2008-2015

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Health Strategic Plan 2003-2007 (HSP1) was launched in August 2002 and presided over by the Prime Minister of Cambodia. Health officials at all levels of the health system together with other relevant national, international stakeholders and community have implemented the plan toward achieving the Cambodian health related Millennium Development Goals by 2015.The Second Health Sector Strategic Plan 20098-2015 (HSP2) is based on experience gained from both strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of the HSP1. It aims at addressing health needs of the population during the eight coming years by using the opportunities offered by the Government of Cambodia, as the improvement in health status of all Cambodians is recognized by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) as a priority for investing national resources in the social sector.

Instituto Venezolano de Seguridad Social

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Memoria 2003. Intendencia de Pensiones

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Trabajo y Seguridad Social

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Nepal. Technical note. Affordable and not an Illusion. Costing of basic social protection benefits for Nepal 2007-2034

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Presents an estimate on the feasibility of providing a set of basic social protection interventions in Nepal with an emphasis on child related benefits.

Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Projet de mise en place d'un système national d'assurance maladie ouvert à tous au Burkina Faso

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Seguridad y salud en el trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe. Análisis, temas y recomendaciones de política

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security: a new consensus

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT
This book contains the committee's conclusions from the ILC 2001, large extracts from the report of the Committee's discussions, and the whole of the report: "Social Security: Issues, Challenges and Prospects", which was prepared as a basis for the Committee's discussions. As regard to extending social protection it says that there is need for research, experimentation and innovation.

The global financial crisis and its impact on the work of the UN system

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper has been prepared for the consideration of CEB by the Chair of HLCP as a result of the discussions held by HLCP at its meeting of 26 and 27 February 2009 on the impacts of the global financial and economic crisis. It reflects a revised version of the Issue Paper for that discussion, on the basis of a very rich set of contributions provided by CEB member organizations.

Everything you always wanted to know about GESS but didn't know where to ask

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre GESS sin atreverse a preguntarlo

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur GESS sans jamais le demander

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Resolución WHA62.12 sobre Atención primaria de salud, incluido el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de salud

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Interview with Alejandro Bonilla

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Entrevista con Alejandro Bonilla

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Interview de A. Bonilla

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Declaration on Social Justice for Fair Globalization

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The International Labour Organization unanimously adopted the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization on 10 June 2008. This is the third major statement of principles and policies adopted by the International Labour Conference since the ILO’s Constitution of 1919. It builds on the Philadelphia
Declaration of 1944 and the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work of 1998. The 2008 Declaration expresses the contemporary vision of the ILO’s mandate in the
era of globalization.

Document de la stratégie de croissance et de réduction de la pauvreté de la RDC

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

HIV Financing and social health protection mechanisms

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In this case study report, UNAIDS indicates that 92% of financing to cover requirements relative to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burkina Faso is made through the intermediation of international funds; whether bilateral partners, multilateral partners or international NGOs. The report explains that the funds allocated to the fight against AIDS could have a significant impact in terms of driving and structuring developments in the domain of social protection for both workers of the formal economy and those of the informal economy, by catalysing the emergence of new social protection modes (mutual health organisations, micro insurance, social security, health insurance).
The report proposes the introduction of a Third Party Administrator (TPA) that could favour the integration of vertical financing (i.e. AIDS funds) with horizontal systems providing broader healthcare coverage. The TPA could fulfil the role of mediator between financers, healthcare providers and patients by promoting contractual arrangements (negotiation of prices, agreements on quality of care, right of the patient to confidentiality etc.) and taking on the role of recording and reporting needs in terms of AIDS treatment. In this way the TPA could pave the way for greater access to healthcare; increasing financial access for disadvantaged groups and extending geographical access over the whole territory.

Plan de Développement MSS Bénin, 2008

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport de suivi de la MSS Cotonou, 2006

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Rapport de suivi de la MSS Cotonou, 2007

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Summary
• Chapter 1 establishes the purpose and context for the guide and introduces the key issues. This chapter also provides an overview of the main options for social transfer instruments with various examples, and discusses the preconditions for social transfers.
• Chapter 2 deals with the influence of the institutional and policy context in the choice of social transfer instruments. It provides also a framework for selecting the appropriate set of social transfer instruments for a country.
• Chapter 3 defines the major policy issues affecting the design of a social transfer programme(management, target populations, payment arrangements, impact, monitoring and evaluation).
• Chapter 4 introduces the rationale for and debates concerning conditional cash transfer schemes. It discusses the key issues in designing and managing conditionalities that charaterise these programmes
• Chapter 5 focuses on the design of public works programmes (wage rates and payment arrangements, timing and duration of projects, targeting issues, project management, labour intensity, productivity, pro-poor impact of public works, etc.)
• Chapter 6 provides information about the implementaion of social transfer systems, and discusses issues regarding human resources, pilot programmes, accountability and security.
• Chapter 7 presents the basic techniques for monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.

Call for papers. Pro MHI Africa Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa

Sun, 31 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May, as part of the course "Tackling Discrimination at Work: From Theory to Practice”, organized by the International Training Centre ITC ILO in Turin, 4-15 May 2009.
Workshop ressources (sessions and support documents):

Programme

Discrimination definition

Hands out session 1

Introduction to social security and social protection

Hands out session 2.1

Hands out session 2.2

Useful notions

Examples of discrimination in the field of social protection

Identifying forms of discrimination in the social protection field

Hands out session 5.1

Hands out session 5.2

Hands out session 5.3

Hands out session 5.4

Hands out session 5.5

Hands out session 5.6

Hands out session 5.7

Hands out session 5.8

Hands out session 5.9

Hands out session 5.10

Hands out session 5.11

Hands out session 5.12

Hands out session 5.13

Hands out session 5.14

Discrimination in the social protection field for informal economy workers

Hands out session 6

Preventing and fighting against discrimination in the social protection field

Hands out session 7

Practical exercises

Country Table: Estimated Access Deficit in Health Protection

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Country table estimating the staff-related access deficit and the access defict based on skilled attended births alongisde othe key data (population, GDP, Human Development Index, Human Poverty Index and Gini Index)

Country Table: Estimated Formal Health Protection Coverage

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Country Table giving an overview of estimated formal coverage alongside other data on Out of Pocket Expenditure on Health, Total Expenditure on Health, Social Security Expenditure

Coverage | Old age coverage and labour force participation rate (Graphs and tables)

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Coverage | Old age pension recipients: country data by region (Excel file)

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Legal Maternity | Maternity leave benefits (UNSD)

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

WHO Resolution on WHA62.12 "Primary Health Care, Including Health Systems Strengthening"

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.10

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.11

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.11

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.12

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.13

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.14

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.5

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.6

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.7

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.8

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 Hands out 5.9

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

National Health Insurance Regulations, 2004 (LI 1809)

Tue, 26 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Legislative instrument laying down the details of regulating the national health insurance schemes in Ghana, particularly regarding the registration and operation of health insurance schemes.

Ghana National Health Insurance Act 2003

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Legislation that lays down provisions for the overall institutional strucutre, adminsitration, management and financing of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme.

Health Micro-Insurance Schemes: Feasibility Study Guide - Volume 1 : Procedure

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

What is the impact of social health protection on access to health

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Nicaragua's Red de Protección Social. An exemplary but short-lived conditional cash transfer programme

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

It investigates the history and eventual conclusion of Nicaragua's conditional cash transfer programme, the Red de Protección Social. Specific features of the programme, in both its first and second phase, are described thoroughly to provide readers with an appropriate understanding and appreciation of the details. It discusses the elements that contributed to the programme's successes and eventual discontinuation.

Seguro Social de Salud

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Sistema de Pensiones

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Appendix to the Report "The Likelihood of Enrolment: Evidence from Haryana."

Wed, 20 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This is the appendix to the report: "The Likelihood of Enrolment: Evidence from Haryana." It contains the questionnaire used for a survey conducted among the households of the Indian state of Haryana concerning the enrolment to "Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna" (RSBY), a voluntary, Government sponsored health insurance scheme for poor households started in April 2008. The aim of this survey was to analyze how socio-economic and demographic factors influence the enrolment to RSBY.

Boletín de la seguridad social (BSS). BSS no. 1

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Boletín de la seguridad social (BSS). BSS no. 2

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Boletín de la seguridad social (BSS). BSS no. 3

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The Likelihood of Enrolment: Evidence from Haryana

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This study analyzes socio-economic and demographic factors influencing enrolment of households of the Indian state of Haryana to "Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna." This is a voluntary, Government sponsored health insurance scheme for poor households started in April 2008. The paper was written by Nalini Gulati, at the end of her three-months internship at the ILO's Regional Office for South Asia; it is based on empirical evidence from the state of Haryana, a state that is being looked upon as a forerunner in the implementation of RSBY.
Questionnaire used for the survey

Community Based Health Insurance au Rwanda

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Estrategias para la extensión de la protección social para trabajadores autónomos, domésticos y migrantes (Lima)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

ILO Conclusions for the Interregional Tripartite Meeting for the Future in Social Security in Arab Countries-EN

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

One of the main objectives of the meeting was to concretise the recommendations of the ILO Asian and African Regional Meetings (in 2006 and
2007) on social security and provide orientation for the action of the International Labour Office in the framework of its Global Campaign for the
extension of social security till 2015.

The main elements of the discussions and the consequential action that the ILO suggests as a follow-up of the discussions are the following:

identification of a set of policy approaches within which participating countries can pursue effective and progressive extension of the scope and coverage of social security, in particular to women, to the unemployed and to workers in the informal sector, and strengthening the governance of their social security schemes, based on the experience of the countries in the region;

the ILO is committed to support national efforts towards full coverage and
improved governance of social security in the Arab States of the Middle East and North Africa as a matter of priority in its Decent Work Country Programmes;

ensuring that policy responses are well adapted to the national context, the ILO Campaign focuses on outcomes rather than process;

a set of concrete measures that are being implemented along the lines of the recommendations of the African and Asian Regional Meetings held in 2006 and 2007. They range from the creation and dissemination of the knowledge base to the provision of advisory services and the monitoring of progress and hopefully to a very concrete programme of technical co-operation.

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: programme

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: programme: Session 4 PowerPoint

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: programme: Support session 2 (article)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: programme: Support session 2 (C 102)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 1 ppt

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 2 PowerPoint

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 3 PowerPoint

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (Case of Luczak v. Poland)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (Case of Weller v. Hungary)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (European inquiry on access to health care for illegal immigrants)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (Gender discrimination for maternity in the social security legislation)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (List of types of discrimination)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 5 support (Survivors pensions)

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 6 Power Point

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 6 support

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 7 Power Point

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 7 support

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Session 8 Power Point

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

This training was presented within the framework of the knowledge sharing workshop on "Discrimination in social protection", 13 May 2009, ITCILO ,ILO STEP Programmes
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10 ans au service des mutuelles de santé africaines

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on discrimination in social protection: Support Session 1

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Asian experiences of the extension of social security coverage - focus on health care

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

ASSAP: Adapted Social Security Action Plan

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Brief overview on the different methods of health financing systems

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Extension of microfinance and microinsurance for informal women workers

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Extension of social protection for women micro entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Ficha de protección social

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Health Mutual Funds setup with Pune Slum-dwellers. An access to health for the poorest

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Implementación de garantías explícitas en salud. AUGE 2005 - 2008

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

India: examples of large scale schemes

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

India: The extension strategy

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

KaSAPI extending PhilHealth's coverage to workers in the informal economy, Philippines

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Knowledge sharing workshop on social protection for vulnerable groups

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Workshop programme, presentations (PowerPoint) and working groups:

Workshop programme

Social health protection in developping countries

Asian experiences of the extension of social security coverage. Focus on health care

Microinsurance as a tool to extend social protection. Development, diversity & key issues

Extension of microfinance and microinsurance for informal women workers

Vietnam: National strategy for the extension of social protection

India: examples of large scale schemes

India: The extension strategy

Extension of social protection for women micro entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Social protection for the informal sector's local infrastructure

Health mutual funds setup with Pune slum-dwellers: An access to health for the poorest

Social Protection for agricultural workers in Senegal

KaSAPI extending PhilHealth's coverage to workers in the informal economy, Philippines

Developing social protection in Lao PDR

Microinsurance as a tool to extend social protection: Strengths and weaknesses, future perspectives

Microinsurance as a tool to extend social protection. High potential of linkages

ASSAP: Adapted Social Security Action Plan

Brief overview on the different methods of health financing systems

The case of Tanzania

MIMIS - Micro Insurance Management Information System

C2S2 Communities cooperating for social security

List of working groups

Bangkok Workgroup MIMIS

Microinsurance as a tool to extend social protection. Development, diversity & key issues

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Microinsurance as a tool to extend social protection. High potential of linkages

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social health protection in developping countries

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social protection for the informal sector's local infrastructure

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The case of Tanzania

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Vietnam: National strategy for the extension of social protection

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Apuntes de protección social

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Chile Crece Contigo. Sistema de protección integral a la infancia.

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Encuesta de Protección Social de Chile

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Metodología de análisis y medición de los Principios de Supervisión de la AIOS. Propuesta de criterios para medir brechas de cumplimiento

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Competencia y reducción de comisiones en el sistema privado de pensiones: el caso peruano

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Costo de recaudación en los sistemas de AFP

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Desarrollo del principio de universalidad en el sistema general de seguridad social en salud. A ocho años de la reforma en Colombia

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Evaluación del sistema de previsión, seguridad social en salud y pensiones en el Perú.

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Mecanismos para incentivar la competencia en los sistemas pensiones basados en capitalización individual

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Appui à la construction d'un cadre régional de développement des mutuelles de santé dans les pays de l'UEMOA

Thu, 07 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social: un nuevo consenso

Tue, 05 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

El mercado laboral y la seguridad social en Colombia entre finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI

Sun, 03 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Empleo y protección social en Ecuador propuestas de la OIT

Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Los sistemas de pensiones en el Perú

Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Reforma de la seguridad social en salud en el Perú. Un análisis comparativo

Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Seguridad y salud en el trabajo de construcción. Caso de Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú

Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Cobertura del sistema de pensiones de Chile

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Conocimiento del sistema de pensiones de Chile

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Dimensión de género y participación en el sistema de pensiones

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Jóvenes y la reforma previsional

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Pensionados por vejez en el sistema previsional chileno

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Articulaciones entre los regímenes obligatorios de seguridad social y los mecanismos de protección social basados en la comunidad: un nuevo enfoque promisorio

Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Articulations entre les régimes légaux de sécurité sociale et les mécanismes de protection sociale à base communautaire: une nouvelle approche prometteuse

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms: A new approach

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The extension of social security is very urgent for those most exposed to health and accident risks, such as informal economy workers: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year, 100 million persons enter into a vicious circle of ill health and poverty due to health care costs.
In order to extend social security, policymakers have several options to choose and mix from: Social health insurance, tax-financed universal health care systems, private health insurance, community-based and micro-insurance schemes financed by contributions or taxes. None of them is ideal, as they all have context-related advantages and disadvantages, as indeed the issue of extension is best addressed through customized programs using coherently all the complementarities of these options.
This paper intends to both underline the high potential of coverage extension strategies that build on linkages between various extension mechanisms and to respond to the existing gap of both empirical and conceptual considerations on linkages.
It focuses on statutory social security (SSS) schemes and community-based social protection (CBSP) mechanisms in order to develop a typology of potentially promising linkages between these types of mechanisms. Both SSS schemes and CBSP mechanisms have each their specific advantages and disadvantages in terms of their capacity to cover different types of population groups in developing countries. Linking the two in order to compensate for their respective weaknesses and to exploit their respective strengths therefore appears to have important potential.
And indeed, this paper provides innovative empirical examples on some of these types of linkages based on a joint ILO/ISSA/AIM study covering a number of countries in three regions. Country reports are accessible on the ISSA Extranet site and the ILO/GIMI platform.

Protección social en Chile. Reformas para mejorar la equidad

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Social Security

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Análisis de rentabilidad de planes de salud de las Entidades Prestadoras de Salud

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Presenta un análisis del diseño de los planes de salud actuales y los factores críticos del gasto en prestaciones de salud. Establece y evalúa estrategias alternativas para elevar la rentabilidad de los planes. Identifica criterios para diseñar una metodología de eleboración de planes de salud.

Caracterización de la exclusión social en salud en el Perú

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

El derecho a la salud y a la seguridad social. Supervisando establecimientos de salud

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

La reforma de los sistemas de seguridad social en los países andinos

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Participación del sector privado en la seguridad social en salud. En busca de nuevas oportunidades

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Presents the situation of the health sector in Peru in 2002 and discusses different alternatives.

Reclamos y consultas ingresadas al Sistema de Atención al Asegurado (SIAS)

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Trabajo y salud en la generación precaria

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report focusses on cash transfer programmes and analyses them from the human rights perspective.

Guide pour l'étude de faisabilité de systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tomes 1 et 2

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Health Micro-Insurance Schemes: Feasibility Study Guide - 1 & 2

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
This guide provides with important contributions to the literature on health micro-insurance schemes. Its main objective is to encourage promoters and operators and support their efforts to conduct a systematic feasibility study prior to the establishment or further development of a scheme.
The term "health micro-insurance" encompasses a wide variety of schemes. These include: mutual health organizations, which are autonomous associations based on the solidarity and democratic participation of their members; insurance schemes, which are organized and managed by health care providers; health insurance schemes set up by other actors, such as NGOs, microfinance institutions, cooperatives or trade unions.
Actually, in spite of their dynamic nature, health micro-insurance schemes, in general, are quite fragile. They do not possess the hindsight and experience needed for an accurate determination of the financial risks they face. The financial safeguards of such schemes – reserves, reinsurance – and their promoters' level of competence in the area of insurance are presently still limited.
Given such a context, the foundations of these schemes –that is, the assumptions upon which they are based – must be particularly firm. A scheme will have greater chances of surviving, and subsequently of developing, if it is well designed from the outset. Therefore, conducting a feasibility study appears to be essential.
The impetus for producing this guide grew out of two observations:
in order to ensure the sustainability and viability of a health micro-insurance scheme, it is important to define its characteristics in terms of its particular context. The feasibility study is a key contributing factor - though not the only one - to the success of a scheme;
the promoters involved must have a coherent set of methods and tools at their disposal in order to carry out this type of study.
The guidebook provides step-by-step instructions and useful tools for designing a health micro-insurance scheme and for determining its organization and operating rules. It neither deals with the relevance of setting up a scheme, nor provides a precise and systematic explanation of how a scheme functions, and it is not sufficient for conducting the various operations of a scheme once it has been set up (e.g. detailed explanation of the day-to-day management).
It consists of two volumes. Volume 1 provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out a feasibility study and assists actors in organizing the process of conducting the study. Volume 2 provides examples of supporting materials, tools, practical examples and methods of analysis and calculation, which offer concrete support for each step of the procedure. Volume 2 facilitates the performance of certain technical task carried out during the feasibility study, such as drafting a questionnaire, utilizing the results of a survey, calculating premiums or drafting contracts or agreements. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Volume 2 serve as support for the corresponding chapters of Volume 1.

Table and graph | Social security legislation

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Table and graphs in Excel
For most countries: summary of the existence and date of first law for each of the eight social security contingencies

Related sources:

Social security programmes and mechanisms | More

Social security programmes throughout the world | More

A case study on the insurance scheme of the Public Health Concern Trust (PHECT), Nepal

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

A global social trust network. Investing in the world's social future. Report and documentation of a feasibility study

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
In line with the recommendations of the 89th ILC, the Director General of the ILO requested that the possibility of supporting the development of national social protection systems through international financing be explored. The ILO's International Financial and Actuarial Service (ILO FACTS) developed an innovative concept for a GLOBAL SOCIAL TRUST network (or "TRUST") which connects the global, national and community levels of financing for social security. The report lays down the main findings of the feasibility study.

A life cycle continuum investment

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

América Cooperativa Y Mutual (ACYM)

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Hacia una atención de salud, de calidad, integral y solidaria en zonas cafetaleras

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Investir dans les phases de cycle de vie

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Deepening the Health Care System Reform in China

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The CPC Central Comittee and the State Council of China put out the opinions on deepening the health care system reform following the 17th CPC National Congress, with the goal of rasing the health level and providing basic health care service to every Chinese people. The opinions include 6 parts:I.Fully recognizing the importance, urgency and arduousness of deepening the health care system reformII.The guidelines, basic principles and overall goal of deepening the health care system reform III.Improving four major health care systems and establishing the basic health care system covering urban and rural residentsIV.Improving institutional mechanism, ensuring effective and well regulated operations of the health care systemV.Concentrating on five key reform projects and striving to achieve remarkable results in the near future.

Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Deepening the Health Care System Reform in China

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The CPC Central Comittee and the State Council of China put out the opinions on deepening the health care system reform following the 17th CPC National Congress, with the goal of rasing the health level and providing basic health care service to every Chinese people. The opinions include 6 parts:I.Fully recognizing the importance, urgency and arduousness of deepening the health care system reformII.The guidelines, basic principles and overall goal of deepening the health care system reform III.Improving four major health care systems and establishing the basic health care system covering urban and rural residentsIV.Improving institutional mechanism, ensuring effective and well regulated operations of the health care systemV.Concentrating on five key reform projects and striving to achieve remarkable results in the near future.

The Novadeci Health Care Programme, Philippines

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
This case study gives a brief description of the Novadeci Health Care programme and the socio-economic situation in which it operates. It presents detailed descriptions of the scheme's initial and current years of operations, how it was implemented and the characteristics of the scheme. It also brings up the different actors′ points of view. Finally, the study gives recommendations on issues like social marketing and actuarial evaluation.

Una inversión durante todo el ciclo de vida

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Ampliar y fortalecer los esquemas de prevención y protección social de los trabajadores (extracto)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Mayor eficiencia y cobertura de la protección social (extracto)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Objetivos de una estrategia hemisférica de generación de trabajo decente en las Américas (extracto)

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

LOGOS, Boletín de ACYM Nº 4

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the Interregional Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Social Security in Arab States (5-8 May 2008)

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Labor Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Labour Law - Cambodia (Unofficial translation)

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Microinsurance regulations here get global pat

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Article covering the opening addresses at the Munich Re Foundation conference on microinsurance held in Mumbai, in November 2007.

Règlementation et supervision en microassurance

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

CBHI Implementation in Cambodia

Fri, 20 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
This is a Power Point presentation made by Cédric Salze, on behalf of the CBHI Implementer Network, at the Forum on Social Health Protection that was held on November 26 - 27 2008. This document presents the main results of community based health insurance (CBHI) in Cambodia.

المؤسسة العامة للتقاعد

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

الصندوق الوطني للضمان الإجتماعي

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

المؤسسة العامة للتأمينات الإجتماعية

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Cambodia: SKY Health Insurance Scheme

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones frente a factores críticos para la cobertura universal

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones frente al aseguramiento

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones sobre la demografía

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones sobre la salud pública

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Consideraciones y retos

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Different perspectives on Social Health Insurance for Households in Cambodia

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

El escenario global

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

GRET SKY Health Insurance Program of Cambodia

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Objectives of SKY Health Insurance
• Secure the assets and incomes of vulnerable Cambodian households by limiting the economic consequences of large health expenditures.
• Facilitate and encourage access for these households to quality health care, both at primary and secondary levels, to prevent severe health risks.
A GRET project supported by the German Technical Cooperation GTZ, funded by the French Development Agency, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union, ILO and IFC/SME World Bank, in partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Health and Swiss Red Cross.

Introducing Social Health Protection for the Garment Sector

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document presents a new Health Insurance Project (HIP) co-managed by the textile employers' association (GMAC) and a French NGO (GRET) is being launched and may bring considerable progress towards social security in the field of health in Cambodia. This is a three-year program financed by AFD and covering work-related health risks of textile workers and their families, thus involving about a third of the Cambodian population. The HIP is an experimental programme aimed at creating the health branch of social security in Cambodia. Some staff members of the National Social Security Fund are to be integrated in the programme and the Ministry of Employment had agreed to give its cooperation.

Las visiones del entorno

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Le Cambodge à l'entrée du XXIème siècle

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Now at peace, after several bloody decades,Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia. While surroundedby powerful and influential neighbors such as Thailand and Vietnam and submittedthe growing role of China, this country's development indicators are far below global average.Proud of its past and still committed to traditional values, Cambodia must take full advantage of this period ofpeace and regional dynamism to invest inthe future and foster economic and social development. Abetter governance, sound management of natural resources andpriority given to education, health, human capital and to a dynamic new generation should enable the country to find thepath to development.During his trip, the friendship group delegation, which cameto the country eight years after a journey of the same type, could observe theprogress made by the country, the will of the Cambodians to move forward,but also many issues to resolve.

Presentación

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Quelles articulations entre politique de santé et micro-assurance ? Réflexions à partir d'un exemple cambodgien

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT
The reflections made in this article on the possible linkages between health policy and micro-insurance result from a report GRET recently published on the same subject, on the basis of the results of a micro-health insurance project that it has been developing in Cambodia since 1998.Halfway through the pilot phase planned in 2002 to set the micro-insurance project, this synthesis of what was learnt at this stage of the project is part of the same debate: it traces the evolution of the project to a partnership with Cambodian public health structures and highlights the elements still to clarify on the possible links between micro-health insurance and public health policy.

Resumen de la visión 2019 y consideraciones

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social Health Insurance in Cambodia - 2003-2007 Master plan

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Solidaridad, responsabilidad social y prospectiva

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Sub-Decree Concerning the Establishment of National Security Fund - Cambodia

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This is a decree of March 2007 by which the Prime Minister of Cambodia established the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). Its mandate includes managing the social security system in accordance with the Law on Social Security, managing the investments of the NSSF, collecting contributions from its members and from employers and providing financial support to its members in case of old age, disability, death, labor risk, motherhood, illness etc. In 2002, « The Law on Social Security Schemes for Persons Defined by the Provisions of the Labor Law » gave private sector's workers a right to social benefits for working accidents, disability, old age and retirement (for war veterans). According to this law, its provisions cannot be implemented until the NSSF signs the corresponding applicatory decrees. As far, the NSSF has signed the applicatory decree on work accidents - the decree was signed in 2007 and entered into force in 2008. The corresponding branch on work accidents within the NSSF has been functioning since the beginning of 2009. As for the decrees on health insurance and retirement, they will probably be signed in 2010-2011.

Técnicas actuariales y financiamiento de la seguridad social (Cartagena, Colombia)

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Una mirada institucional

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of General Organisation for Social Insurance, Saudi Arabia

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of Pension Fund Commission, Bahrain

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the General Corporation for Social Security, Yemen

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority, Bahrain

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF/CNSS), Lebanon

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the Public Authority for Social Insurance, Oman

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the Public Institution for Social Security, Kuwait

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Are there better ways to cut and share the cake? The European welfare states at the crossroads

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Asia-Pacific Regional High-level Meeting on socially-inclusive strategies to extend social security coverage. New Delhi, India 19-20 May 2008

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This publication, prepared by the Social Security Department of the ILO, is the outcome of the Regional Meeting held in New Delhi. It is based on the presentations made during the High Level Round Table on the Extension of Social Protection, the panel discussion on Social Security and the Right to Work; the session on Income Security for the Elderly and not-so-Elderly and the session on Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region. The report also reflects the major points of the tripartite discussions held following the presentations.
The ILO conclusions of this meeting underlined the commitment of the Office to assist countries in closing coverage gaps, in particular, in the informal economy, in the access to essential health care for all, in the adoption of social measures for children, the unemployed and the poor and income protection for the elderly and the disabled. This could be done by establishing a basic benefit package in order to guarantee baic social protection for all.

Can Europe afford the future financing of the welfare states?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Effective retirement age and duration of retirement in the industrial countries between 1950 and 1990

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extending coverage under basic pension schemes. General and chinese considerations. Review of policy issues; review of strategic and technical issues.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Internal guidelines for the actuarial analysis of a national social security pension scheme

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Preparing for ageing societies? An attempt to evaluate pension and long-term care reforms in Europe

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Public social security benefit expenditure excluding health care in percentage of GDP

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Public social security benefit expenditure excluding health care in percentage of GDP available for almost 150 countries and based on four main sources of data
Eurostat
OECD
IMF
ILO Social security inquiry

Recent development in financing social security in Latin America

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Se préparer au vieillissement des sociétés? Tentative d'évaluation des réformes portant sur les retraites et les soins de longue durée en Europe.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Seguridad Social para trabajadores públicos (Belo Horizonte, Brasil)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social health insurance. A guidebook for planning.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security for the informal sector. Investigating the feasibility of pilot projects in Benin, India, El Salvador and Tanzania.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Social security. A workers' education guide.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Commission on Human Rights

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Human Rights Committee

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Human Rights Council

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Managing Risk and Vulnerability in Cambodia

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

In post-conflict Cambodia, the problems of risk and vulnerability are pervasiveand are compounded by the weakness of available safety nets.This report attempts to provide an analytical and strategic basis for addressingthese issues, taking into account changing country needs as well as the social protectionactivities being undertaken by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and itspartners. Specifically, this study: (i) takes stock of existing knowledge on risk andvulnerability in Cambodia; (ii) examines coping strategies employed by the poor andvulnerable to deal with risk and dampen the effects of shocks; (iii) reviews existing socialprotection mechanisms; and (iv) lays out priority areas and a proposed agenda for supportby the World Bank and other partners in the social protection sector.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Right to Social Security in Kenya - The gap between international human rights and domestic law and policy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Interview with Sunil Silva

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Interview with Sunil Silva, Independent Non-Profit Organization Management Professional. Chairman ofYASIRU MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY LIMITEDCreated in 2001 - Sri Lanka

C128 Convention concernant les prestations d'invalidité, de vieillesse et de survivants, 1967

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reforming Pensions - Myths, Truths, and Policy Choices

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This paper discusses the strategic building blocks of pension reform. The early sections set out the simple economics of pensions and discuss a series of myths which have proved remarkably persistent. Subsequent sections draw together the conclusions for policy design from earlier theoretical discussion, set out the prerequisites which any pension reform must respect, and discuss the range of choices facing policymakers. The main conclusions are threefold: the key variable is effective government; from an economic perspective the difference between PAYG and funding is second order; and the range of potential choice over pension design is wide.

OECD Private pensions Department

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Programme Bolsa Família

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Assessing current and future costs of social protection transfers

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT
The presentation on 'Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes' was given by Krzysztof Hagemejer the 4th of August 2007 in Cape Town, South Africa. In this presentation 4 topics are discussed:
1. Overview of the information, statistical data and assumptions required to assess current and future costs of the social protection scheme
2. Costing (social budgeting) as inherent part of the social protection monitoring mechanism
3. Discussion of factors and parameters driving costsof different social protection schemes
4. The role of quantitative policy analyst in social protection (Overview of the tools and skills necessary)

Changing the paradigm in social security. From fiscal burden to investing in people.

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The aim of this paper is to recapitulate the role of social security in economies and societies, to identify the approaching new challenges, and ultimately discern the policy responses, which will be needed to allow the ILO to assist its member States to optimize their national systems of social security within an overall Decent Work context.

Code on social security in the SADC

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Provisions of the Code on Social Security in the South African Development Community (SADC).

Etablir des normes de sécurité sociale dans une société mondialisée. Une analyse de la situation et de la pratique présentes, ainsi que des options futures pour l'établissement par l'Organisation internationale du Travail d'une norme de sécurité sociale globale

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Interregional Tripartite Meeting on the future of social security in Arab States. Amman, 6-8 May 2008

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This publication, prepared by the Social Security Department of the ILO, is the outcome of the Interregional Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Social Security in Arab States, held in Amman, Jordan, from 6 to 8 May 2008.
The report reflects the major points of the discussions held following the presentations prepared by the representattives of the countries invited to the meeting.
All the presentations dealt with key aspects of social security, therefore the debates of themeeting focussed on managerial, gender and coverage challenges that the schemes of theregion are facing. The participants have also highlighted the need for early investments insocial security in the development process and they recognized the importance of socialsecurity as a powerful instrument to stabilize societies. The ILO conclusions of thismeeting underlined the commitment of the Organization to assist countries in closingcoverage gaps, in particular, in the informal economy, in the access to essential health care for all, in the adoption of social measures for children, the unemployed and the poor and income protection for the elderly and the disabled. This could be done by establishing a basic benefit package in order to guarantee basic social protection for all. In its conclusions, the ILO also committed to continue providing technical support for the ratification of social security conventions in the region.

PensionReforms

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
PensionReforms is a not-for-profit service that aims to stimulate high quality international debate on pension issues - both public and private. The Editorial Board sees PensionReforms both as an information broker and as a place where readers will find insightful critiques on the major issues and reviews of influential papers...

Research workshop on strengthening ILO social security standards

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO has been asked to prepare a technical paper on "Strengthening Social Security Coverage for All through ILO Social Security Standards" and to undertake consultations during the preparation of the paper. As part of this consultation process, the Social Security Department of the ILO has organized a "Research workshop on Strengthening ILO Social Security Standards" in September 2007 in Turin with twelve internationally recognized experts. This document summaries the discussions during the workshop.

Setting social security standards in a global society. An analysis of present state and practice and of future options for global social security standard setting in the International Labour Organization

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This technical paper outlines and analyses the present situation as regards the ratifications of ILO Conventions and the current Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All, and contains different options of improving the present situation. It delineates the possible contribution of ILO Conventions and Recommendations to the Campaign.
This document is the result of a consultative process and reflects inputs and comments from the academic world and from ILO constituents.

Changing the development policy paradigm. Investing in a social security floor for all.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The paper briefly reviews social security coverage that the world has achieved and summarizes economic and social benefits of a national social security system. It then goes on to argue that social security systems are a necessary part of the institutional framework of any effective market economy, creating - among other things - societal cohesion that is needed for long-term economic development. It makes the case that the introduction of basic social protection in developing countries is both a desirable and an affordable investment in their social and economic development. It estimates the global minimum investment cost to provide basic social security and finally suggests international instruments to introduce a global social security floor.

El futuro de la protección social en América Latina

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Financiación de la protección social

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Age discrimination and older workers. Theory and legislation in comparative context

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In order to adequately address the concerns of older workers a number of policy tools must be considered in order to address inequities in the labour market. One policy tool that has received increasing the attention of policymakers has been age discrimination legislation. Age discrimination legislation can help to not only extend working lives for older workers who are able and choose to continue work, but also to help ensure decent conditions of work and employment for those who are looking for work.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Description
The work of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is aimed at improving the welfare of the people in Asia and the Pacific, particularly the 1.9 billion who live on less than $2 a day. Despite many success stories, Asia and the Pacific remains home to two thirds of the world's poor.
ADB is a multilateral development financial institution owned by 67 members, 48 from the region and 19 from other parts of the globe.

Basic social protection tool - Zambia

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This is an example of the electronic basic costing model. To open this example, you have to download first the electronic costing model .

Can low-income countries afford social protection?

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
PowerPoint presentation. It includes:
Overview of the costs of existing social protection transfers in different countries and their role in the development.
Presentation of the methodology and results of the ILO studies on the costs of a hypothetical basic social protection package in selected Asian and African countries.
Discussing the concept of affordability in the context of current and potential fiscal space, political will and international solidarity.
Discussing the need to harmonize financial sustainability with adequacy of benefits provided in order to make any social programme viable.

Costing of basic social protection benefits for selected Asian countries. First results of a modelling exercise

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Demands for redistributive policies in an era of demographic aging

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper is about the relative impact of retirement and social class on individual attitudestowards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies. Which factoris more important in explaining individuals' social policy preferences: socio-economicbackground or retirement? How can differences in patterns between countries be explained?These questions are explored using ordered logistic regression models on the1996 ISSP Role of Government data set for fifteen countries. First, it is shown that retirementmatters; there are consistent differences between policy areas that can be explainedby life-cycle salience. Particularly in the case of preferences regarding educationspending, being retired matters more than the socio-economic background. Second,some countries, such as the United States, show a higher salience of the age/retirementcleavage across all policy fields; age/retirement is a more important line of political conflictin these countries than in others. Third, country characteristics matter. Althoughthe relative salience of retirement varies across policy areas, a large variance within eachof the policy areas across countries is evident. Most interestingly, the more generousthe state provisions are in a given policy area, the stronger the age/retirement cleavageis (with the exception of pension policies). Overall, the findings of this study are not inline with simple rational choice models. Instead, the explorative results call for morecomplex theoretical models, including institutional structures, in order to gain a betterunderstanding of individuals' attitudes towards the welfare state in aging societies.

Developing a legal framework for mutual organizations in WAEMU Member States: a participatory process

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Dynamique d'extension de la protection sociale au Sénégal

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Economic impacts of selected social security policies covered by international labour standards: a review of recent research (second draft)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper reviews the recent literature analyzing economic implications of selected social securityprogrammes implemented at least at the scope and levels required by the respective ILO Conventions.
The review is limited to three branches of social security as defined by ILO Convention no 102 (Minimum Standards): old-age, invalidity and unemployment. Additionally, it looks also at impact of policy measures other than just cash benefits to unemployed, namely various labour market policies (so called "active") which are covered by Employment Promotion and Protection againstUnemployment Convention no 168 (1988).

GESS brochure

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Leaflet presenting the Internet platform "Global Extension of Social Security" – GESS. GESS is a multi-service tool intended for all stakeholders in the field of global social security extension – decision and policy-makers, regulators, researchers, trainers, and managers and operators of social security schemes. GESS:

provides a continually updated information and knowledge base;

develops a critical vision of current knowledge, making it easier to identify knowledge gaps and what the new development priority axes may be;

offers collaborative workspaces meant for experts, research fellows or fieldworkers to produce joint material, share experiences and innovations, conduct research projects, further follow major extension projects worldwide.

Health, ageing and retirement in Europe. First results from SHARE

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Understanding ageing and how it affects individuals in the diverse cultural settings ofEurope is the main task of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement inEurope. SHARE has already collected data on the individual life circumstances of about22,000 persons aged 50 and over in 11 European countries, ranging from Scandinavia tothe Mediterranean and data collection is still going on. SHARE has made great efforts todeliver truly comparable data, so we can reliably study how differences in cultures, livingconditions and policy approaches shape the quality of life of Europeans just before andafter retirement. This book presents the first results from SHARE. It is a first step to betterunderstand where we are, where we are heading to, and how we can influence the qualityof life as we age – both as individuals and as societies.

Is a social security floor affordable?

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Structure of the presentation
Point one: Social security is a Human Right
Point two: Social security is a social necessity
Point three: Social security is an economic necessity
Point four: Basic social security for all is fiscally affordable
Point five: A new policy paradigm
Point six: What next?

Literature references. Annex 3

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reference list for literature on the economic impacts of selected social security policies covered by international labour standards.

Older Workers Recommendation, 1980 (No. 162)

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Report of the Committee on Employment and Social Policy. Fourtheenth item on the agenda

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Section D (p. 13 following) of the report to the ILO Governing Body summarizes the debate of the Committee on Employment and Social Policy of the ILO on the progress of the global campaign on the extension of social security and the question of the need for a new related labour standard.

Social protection as a productive factor. Fourth item on the agenda

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Paper dicussing the relationships between productivity, social security, and social spending, reviewing related ILO actions to date, and outlining a future agenda for work in this field.

Social security standards and the ILO campaign for the extension of social security. Third item on the agenda

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT
This report provides an update on the development of activities under the Global Campaign since 2004. It also analyzes the role of ILO social security standards in the Global Campaign and suggests a way forward with a view to developing an ILO mechanism that could strengthen the campaign policy.

Statistical tables, Annex 2

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Statistical tables for economic performance and social expenditure in selected countries.

The Geneva Consensus. International Alliance for the extension of social protection

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The International Alliance is a network that includes the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the most important federations and organizations representing the cooperative and mutual insurance sector. They are all active in the area of extending social protection in the world and share a common vision, values and principles. Altogether they give voice to the interest of more than one billion members in more than 180 countries.
The seven organizations participating in this common initiative, launched in Geneva in September 2005, are: the ILO, the ISSA, the Association internationale de la Mutualité (AIM), the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), the International Co-operative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF), the International Health Co-operative Organization (IHCO) and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).

The institutional determinants of early retirement in Europe

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This paperinvestigates early retirement determinants across several European countries using therich 2005 SHARE (Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe) microdataset,which produces more precise estimates of the effects of institutional and economicfactors like pension systems, unemployment, and employment protection legislation.The analysis shows that pension systems offering generous early retirement optionsencourage early departure from the labor market. In addition, pension wealth accrualrate exerts a greater influence on early retirement decisions than does the averagereplacement rate, while stricter employment protection legislation has no significantimpact.

Towards globalization for the people. The role of social protection in shaping a fair globalization.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Summarizes the role of social protection in achieving decent work and decent lives within a globalization framework.

Up-to-date ILO social security standards and their status of ratifications. Annex 1

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Pensions. Recent reforms and experiences of pension schemes

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The document presents the Guinean socioeconomic context and gives an overview of growth and demographic indicators. It describes the scheme managed by the National Social Security Fund and its four branches: pensions; occupational risks, family benefits and health insurance.
To face a number of problems such as the ageing of the salaried population, the non-renewal of the labour force on reaching retirement, etc., and those linked to the legislation of 1994 about pension calculation, a series of reforms were proposed after an actuarial valuation of the scheme in 2001, and are presented in this document. These reforms include inter alia an increase in the ceiling for salaries on which the contributions are based, higher statutory retirement age, improvement of the reference salary, improvement of membership and collection of contributions.

Deontología en el trabajo del actuario de la seguridad social. Fusionando las tradiciones profesionales. De la división en categorías a la sinergía en la seguridad social.

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Winners or losers? Liberalizing public services

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Examines the impact of the liberalization of public services on a number of security concerns: employment security, income security, voice representation security, health and safety. etc. Whilst the survey offers data and case studies, the chapters offer an analytical overview of the impact of various forms of liberalization, deregulation, privatisation and new managerialism in many public services.

Ajuste periódico de los parámetros financieros de los sistemas de protección social en los medios volátiles e inflacionarios

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ajustement périodique des paramètres financiers des régimes de protection sociale dans un contexte d'inflation volatile

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Regímenes de cotizaciones definidas teóricas. Un vino añejo en botellas nuevas?

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Approaching a common denominator? An interim assessment of World Bank and ILO position on pensions

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Briefly traces the main stages of the inter-institutional debate between the World Bank and the ILO on pension policy during the last decade. It focuses on the analysis of pension policy advocacy of the different institutions including in particular the latest draft of the most recent World Bank policy paper on pensions and a brief analysis of real life development in pension reforms since the appearance of the World Bank Publication ¿Averting the old age crisis¿¿ in 1994.

Building Security for the Poor: Potential and Prospects for Microinsurance in India

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Reducing poverty requires not just the generation of income among the poor, but also the protection of these incomes. Microinsurance offers innovative new ways to combat poverty in India through helping the rural poor systematically manage financial risks to their livelihoods and lives, this powerful study shows. And the microinsurance industry is poised to take off, just as microcredit did a decade ago: 90 percent of the Indian population – some 950 million people – are not covered by insurance and represent an untapped market of nearly US$2 billion. This enormous "missing market" is ready for customized life and non-life insurance, but first, serious mismatches between the needs of the insured and the insurers must be overcome, pitting priorities against profits.

El futuro de la previsión social en Argentina y el mundo: Evaluación y desafíos

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Federal Republic of Nigeria. Report to the Government. Actuarial assessment of NSITF accrued liabilities under the new Pension Scheme.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The Government of Nigeria adopted a Pension Reform Act on 25 June 2004 introducing a defined contribution scheme (DC) to replace the Nigeria Social Insurance and Trust Fund (NSITF) that operated under a defined benefit approach (DB). NSITF was preceded by the National Provident Fund (NPF), which operated between 1961 and 1994. The Reform foresaw transitional arrangements for existing pensioners and new arrangements for existing and future contributors. The estimation of existing liabilities under the NSITF was mandated to the ILO who agreed to undertake such calculations to help preserve as much as possible the accrued rights of NSITF members.

Minimum income scheme in Europe

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Examines the recent trends and developments in minimum income schemes in Western Europe. Investigates how current policies often fall short and shows why countries need mechanisms to reduce wage inequality and choose to provide universal benefits instead of systems of selective benefits targeted at the poor. Along with cross-countries comparisons, the volume presents analysis of the minimum income schemes in effect in France, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Belgium and Greece.

PREM PLAN People's Rural Health Scheme (Orissa)

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The case study aims to document the systems and procedures of PREM-Plan's micro health insurance scheme for replication, better understanding and feedback for further improvement. Documenting the experience of PRHPS with a large membership base will give valuable insights into the functioning of such schemes and also help the PRHPS managers to have a critical perception of the scheme for its development. Authors hasten to add however, that this is only a critical documentation of the scheme and not an evaluation.

Republic of Cyprus. Technical not. Actuarial valuation of reform scenarios for the Social Insurance Scheme.

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Thailand. A Technical Note to the Government. Financing Universal Health Care in Thailand.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Argues that as long as the universal health care (UC) scheme depends entirely on general revenue financing it will remain vulnerable to budgetary competition and political manipulation rather than evidence on utilization and cost of services - even if it has effective inbuilt cost containment mechanisms.

Action normative et Travail décent. Perspectives en matière de sécurité sociale (Rapport de synthèse)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Actuarial mathematics in social protection. Theory.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Notes based on lectures at the University of Maastricht 2002-2006

An Evaluation Methodology for Minimum Income Programmes in Brazil

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper evaluates, based on the experience in the Paraná area, the minimum income programme implemented by the Federal District Government in May 1995. It concerns three aspects. First, an analysis of the means test applied, that is, the system of scores used for the selection of the families among those who have registered as candidates. Second, an examination of the results of the selection process, through the comparison of characteristics of selected and not selected families. Third, the comparison of the pool of selected poor families and those defined according to the same characteristics in the National Sample Survey of Households (PNAD) for the Federal District.

Applying Minimum Income Programmes in Brazil. Two case Studies.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Examines the recent experiences of Belém and Belo Horizonte. Section 2 focuses on Brasilia's experience, section 3 and 4 describe the characteristics of programme design and operation in Belém and Belo Horizonte. Data from the national household survey are used to evidence the operational limits which the programme faces in these two municipalities.

Bahamas. Report to the Government. Technical and analytical review of the proposal for a National Health Insurance programme.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The purpose of the present consultancy is, accordingly, to confirm that the technical studies undertaken under the auspices of the Steering Committee properly reflect the vision of the Blue Ribbon Commission, and that the Government and Cabinet may therefore have confidence in the contribution rates determined by the calculations of the technical study team.

BAREFOOT Research. A Worker's Manual for Organising on Work Security

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The manual has been developed to help empower workers to increase their level of control over their own work situations, to protect their health and well being, and to improve their level of basic security. This is a practical guide, providing workers, and employers, with tools to: identify work security problems, tackle problems from a worker centred perspective, use barefoot research tools, use the results of Barefoot Research to improve their work security, organize for work security.

Care work. The quest for security.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This insightful volume argues that care workers - those looking after children, the elderly and people with disabilities - require security similar to any other group of workers. It provides a valuable overview and analysis of care work as a relevant social policy phenomenon in industrialized and developing countries around the world, while exploring pivotal questions such as how provisions for care are made, who is to benefit, and who is to pay.

Civil society and civil society organizations in Indonesia

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In 2000, the ILO's Socio-Economic Security Programme launched an ambitious project to take stock of the social and economic insecurities in the country, to assist our constituents and colleagues to devise new policies for reducing those insecurities and to promote universal social protection.

Civil society and workers' security. Community, women and development (COWAD) Nigeria.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The major argument of this report is the need to encourage and strengthen Civil society organizations' participation in the provision of socio-economic security for the excluded.

CNN and Italian TV report on East European health workers

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The film shows how terrible the conditions have become for patients and healthcare workers. Among the 12 sites filmed were a city emergency hospital, an HIV/AIDS clinic, a Tuberculosis (TB) clinic, a district hospital, and a rural village clinic.
Duration: 00:03:00

Combating Labour Insecurity in Egypt. Do "NGOs" have a Significant Role to Play?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In spite of tremendous challenges, the NGOs do have the immediate and potential resources of funding and expertise that could enable them to be active players for employment creation, training and social protection. Undoubtedly, giving a role to NGOs in the draft Unified Labour Law will offer a strong impetus to these organizations to participate in the formulation and implementation of socio-economic policies and laws.

Combining compensatory and redistributive benefits: The challenge of social policies in Brazil

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Analyses several compensatory food security programmes implemented in Brazil and discusses their design and results. As the object of analysis, we chose the federal programme entitled PRODEA and a highly capillary State programme called Cesta do Povo ("People's Foodbasket"). The underlying proposal is that current programme designs are ineffective and inefficient and that a direct income transfer to the poor population would have a greater redistributive impact, in addition to fostering higher levels of economic efficiency.

Confronting economic insecurity in Africa

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Shows that conventional measures of poverty are inadequate to capture the depth of the crisis, and that orthodox anti-poverty measures often fail to reach the poor and most economically insecure. It concludes that, whether for tackling poverty and inequality or the scourge of HIV/AIDS, new systems of social protection are needed that are based on principles of universalism and social solidarity.

Consenso de Ginebra. Alianza Internacional para la Extensión de la Protección Social

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Contribution des mutuelles de santé au financement, à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Contribution of Mutual Health Organisations to Financing, Delivery and Access to Health Care

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Firstly, this document presents an estimate of the actual dimension and extent of the phenomenon known as mutual insurance schemes. Then, it examines the effective and potential contributions of these organizations in terms of resource mobilisation, efficiency, equity, improvement of the quality of and access to health-care, sustainability and democratic governance of the health sector. Lastly, it makes a series of recommendations intended for the various agents involved in the functioning and promotion of these types.

Corrosive reform. Failing health systems in Eastern Europe.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

All across Eastern Europe, health services plunged into crisis in the 1990s. Steep cuts in budgets, training and investment and, in some cases, official disinterest, created a pervasive system failure that has had terrible consequences, for patients and their families, for communities, and for those who have been required to work in the many parts of health services. Based on research conducted by the ILO Socio-Economic Security Programme and Public Services International, the book paints a vivid picture of the dedication and professionalism of health-care staff in worsening conditions, in which they have continued to work and have tried to maintain standards despite personal hardships.

Dépenses de sécurité sociale en Europe du Sud-Est. Une synthèse comparative.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Economic security for a better world

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Provides a vivid picture of the emerging trends and patterns of economic security across the world. Drawing on a global database of national statistical indicators on social and labour policies as well as information from surveys of households and enterprises, this book examines the extent of economic and social insecurity people face today.

El dilema de la seguridad social en el Cono Sur

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

El trabajo asistencial. En busca de la seguridad.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Employment Security in Europe and Canada. A Review of Recent Legislation in Three Countries.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper investigates in relation to employment security in Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada how significant the expansion of certain types of non-standard employment (i.e. temporary and part-time work) has been. It also compares employment security in these countries by using objective indicators to capture this phenomenon.

Employment Security. Conceptual and Statistical Issues.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper explores some conceptual and related empirical issues surrounding employment security in the light of recent developments in the labour market. It takes into account subjective and objective elements of employment security, and differentiates between contractual, behavioural and governance indicators at the national, enterprise and individual levels.

Enhancing economic security in transition. Pluralism in service delivery.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper argues that economic reform has led to fundamental challenges to the provision of social welfare. Combined with key institutional changes, the reduction in the state's financial capacity has dramatically curtailed its role as a direct service provider. While there is greater choice for those who can afford it, services have collapsed for the rural poor while migrants are shut out from existing services. This requires not only a re-think of the role of the state but also the development of a better market for certain services (e.g. housing and pension management) and an increased operational space for alternate service providers such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations.

Follow-up to consultations regarding social security instruments

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Working party on policy regarding the revision of standards, third item of the agenda. The present document is submitted to the Working Party at its 13th meeting, during the 282nd Session (November 2001) of the Governing Body. It presents the results of written consultations with the constituents, undertaken in 2000-01 with regard to seven Conventions and three Recommendations in the area of social security.

Follow-up to the recommendations of the Working Party. Working Party on Policy regarding the Revision of Standards. First item on the agenda. Information note on the progress of work and decisions taken regarding the revision of standards.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ghana. Report to the Government. Peer review of the fifth triennial actuarial valuation of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust as at 31 December 2005

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This report is a product of the trust-in-fund actuarial project between the Social Security and National Insurance Trust of Ghana (SSNIT) and the International Labour Office to peer review the internal actuarial review of the SSNIT of Ghana. The report contains recommendations with respect to future actuarial reports on the SSNIT.

Ghana. Technical note. Financial assessment of the National Health Insurance Fund.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The assessment focuses on the development of the financial situation of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). It projects income and expenditure of the NHIF from 2006 to 2010. The assessment has been elaborated following the ILO Health Budget model.

Greece. Report to the National Actuarial Authority. Actuarial projections as of 31 December 2005 of the national pension schemes IKA for private sector workers and OGA for agriculture workers.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This report is a product of the trust-in-fund actuarial project between the National Actuarial Authority of Greece (NAA) and the International Labour Office. It presents the actuarial projections of the two main public pension schemes of Greece, IKA for private sector and OGA for agriculture workers. It also presents the general population and macro-economic projections supporting the development of demographic and financial projections.

Guia de acompanhamento e de avaliação dos sistemas de micro-seguros de saúde. Volume I e II

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guia de acompanhamento e de avaliação dos sistemas de micro-seguros de saúde. Volume I: Metodologia

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guia de acompanhamento e de avaliação dos sistemas de micro-seguros de saúde. Volume II: Indicações práticas

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tome 1: Méthodologie

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tome 2: Indications pratiques

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tomes 1 et 2

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide pour l'étude de faisabilité de systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tome 1: Démarche

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Guide pour l'étude de faisabilité de systèmes de micro-assurance santé. Tome 2: Outils

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Health Care in Central and Eastern Europe. Reform, Privatization and Employment in Four Countries.

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Focusing on four countries - Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine - this project attempts to gauge how restructuring has affected the working conditions of individual health care workers. From the 2,215 replies to a questionnaire returned by health care workers, the analysis treats a wide range of issues, including hours worked, overtime work and overtime pay, relative earnings, non-payment of wages, changes in job tasks, job security and the role of unions in defending workers. It identifies a number of threats faced by workers, including the threat of job loss, income insecurity, and poverty and bargaining disenfranchisement.

Health care privatization. Workers' insecurities in Eastern Europe.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Health Care Privatization: Wokers' Insecurities in Eastern Europe, Geneva, December 6-7, 2001.The profound changes that are taking place in health care services in Eastern Europe, and in many other parts of the world, are having negative effects on workers, and on the public as a whole. Management systems also have been negatively impacted by reforms in the region, accompanied by negative effects on the delivery of health services to both workers and the public.

Health Micro-Insurance Schemes. Feasibility Study Guide. Volume 1: Procedure

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The main objective of the guide is to encourage promoters and operators and support their efforts to conduct a systematic feasibility study prior to the establishment or further development of a scheme.
In spite of their dynamic nature, health micro-insurance schemes, in general, are quite fragile. They do not possess the hindsight and experience needed for an accurate determination of the financial risks they face. The financial safeguards of such schemes – reserves, reinsurance – and their promoters' level of competence in the area of insurance are presently still limited.
Given such a context, the foundations of these schemes – that is, the assumptions upon which they are based – must be particularly firm. A scheme will have greater chances of surviving, and subsequently of developing, if it is well designed from the outset. Therefore, conducting a feasibility study appears to be essential.
The impetus for producing this guide grew out of two observations:

in order to ensure the sustainability and viability of a health micro-insurance scheme, it is important to define its characteristics in terms of its particular context. The feasibility study is a key contributing factor – though not the only one – to the success of a scheme;

the promoters involved must have a coherent set of methods and tools at their disposal in order to carry out this type of study.
The guidebook provides step-by-step instructions and useful tools for designing a health micro-insurance scheme and for determining its organization and operating rules. It neither deals with the relevance of setting up a scheme, nor provides a precise and systematic explanation of how a scheme functions, and it is not sufficient for conducting the various operations of a scheme once it has been set up (e.g. detailed explanation of the day-to-day management).
It consists of two volumes. Volume 1 provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out a feasibility study and assists actors in organizing the process of conducting the study. Volume 2 provides examples of supporting materials, tools, practical examples and methods of analysis and calculation, which offer concrete support for each step of the procedure. Volume 2 facilitates the performance of certain technical task carried out during the feasibility study, such as drafting a questionnaire, utilizing the results of a survey, calculating premiums or drafting contracts or agreements. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Volume 2 serve as support for the corresponding chapters of Volume 1.

Health Micro-Insurance Schemes. Feasibility Study Guide. Volume 2: Tools

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The main objective of the guide is to encourage promoters and operators and support their efforts to conduct a systematic feasibility study prior to the establishment or further development of a scheme.
In spite of their dynamic nature, health micro-insurance schemes, in general, are quite fragile. They do not possess the hindsight and experience needed for an accurate determination of the financial risks they face. The financial safeguards of such schemes – reserves, reinsurance – and their promoters' level of competence in the area of insurance are presently still limited.
Given such a context, the foundations of these schemes – that is, the assumptions upon which they are based – must be particularly firm. A scheme will have greater chances of surviving, and subsequently of developing, if it is well designed from the outset. Therefore, conducting a feasibility study appears to be essential.
The impetus for producing this guide grew out of two observations:

in order to ensure the sustainability and viability of a health micro-insurance scheme, it is important to define its characteristics in terms of its particular context. The feasibility study is a key contributing factor – though not the only one – to the success of a scheme;

the promoters involved must have a coherent set of methods and tools at their disposal in order to carry out this type of study.
The guidebook provides step-by-step instructions and useful tools for designing a health micro-insurance scheme and for determining its organization and operating rules. It neither deals with the relevance of setting up a scheme, nor provides a precise and systematic explanation of how a scheme functions, and it is not sufficient for conducting the various operations of a scheme once it has been set up (e.g. detailed explanation of the day-to-day management).
It consists of two volumes. Volume 1 provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out a feasibility study and assists actors in organizing the process of conducting the study. Volume 2 provides examples of supporting materials, tools, practical examples and methods of analysis and calculation, which offer concrete support for each step of the procedure. Volume 2 facilitates the performance of certain technical task carried out during the feasibility study, such as drafting a questionnaire, utilizing the results of a survey, calculating premiums or drafting contracts or agreements. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Volume 2 serve as support for the corresponding chapters of Volume 1.

Health Microinsurance Schemes. Monitoring and Evaluation Guide. Volume 1: Methodology

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
A revised version of the French Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé, tomes 1 et 2, mainly produced for French-speaking countries in Africa. This version is adapted to the reality of countries in East Africa and Asia.
The guide has two objectives: to strengthen the capacity of managers to monitor and evaluate their health microinsurance schemes (HMIS); and to strengthen the capacity of technical and financial support agencies and private insurers to assess the viability and performance of the HMIS. It consists of two volumes.
Part I of Volume 1 presents the main definitions and basic concepts.
Part II deals with the subject of administrative and technical monitoring - based on the major functions of insurance management - as well as with budget and cash flow monitoring.
Part III deals with evaluating the viability of health insurance viewed as a financial instrument, through the use of a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Part IV deals with evaluating the institutional viability of the HMIS.
Part V offers some indications for assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of an HMIS, merely providing some pointers to users interested in this kind of assessment.
Volume 2 contains practical indications for completing tables and calculating indicators described in Volume 1.
The guide was produced by the "Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty" (STEP) programme of the Social Security Department of the ILO. The French version was jointly produced with the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR). The English version was produced thanks to the financial support of the governments of Belgium, Flanders and Switzerland. It is based on the contribution of field practitioners and international experts and the collaboration of numerous actors involved in the development of health microinsurance schemes.

Health Microinsurance Schemes. Monitoring and Evaluation Guide. Volume 2: Practical indications

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT
A revised version of the French Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé, tomes 1 et 2, mainly produced for French-speaking countries in Africa. This version is adapted to the reality of countries in East Africa and Asia.
The guide has two objectives: to strengthen the capacity of managers to monitor and evaluate their health microinsurance schemes (HMIS); and to strengthen the capacity of technical and financial support agencies and private insurers to assess the viability and performance of the HMIS. It consists of two volumes.
Part I of Volume 1 presents the main definitions and basic concepts.
Part II deals with the subject of administrative and technical monitoring - based on the major functions of insurance management - as well as with budget and cash flow monitoring.
Part III deals with evaluating the viability of health insurance viewed as a financial instrument, through the use of a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Part IV deals with evaluating the institutional viability of the HMIS.
Part V offers some indications for assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of an HMIS, merely providing some pointers to users interested in this kind of assessment.
Volume 2 contains practical indications for completing tables and calculating indicators described in Volume 1.
The guide was produced by the "Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty" (STEP) programme of the Social Security Department of the ILO. The French version was jointly produced with the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR). The English version was produced thanks to the financial support of the governments of Belgium, Flanders and Switzerland. It is based on the contribution of field practitioners and international experts and the collaboration of numerous actors involved in the development of health microinsurance schemes.

Health Microinsurance Schemes. Monitoring and Evaluation Guide. Volumes 1 & 2

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
A revised version of the French Guide de suivi et d'évaluation des systèmes de micro-assurance santé, tomes 1 et 2, mainly produced for French-speaking countries in Africa. This version is adapted to the reality of countries in East Africa and Asia.
The guide has two objectives: to strengthen the capacity of managers to monitor and evaluate their health microinsurance schemes (HMIS); and to strengthen the capacity of technical and financial support agencies and private insurers to assess the viability and performance of the HMIS. It consists of two volumes.
Part I of Volume 1 presents the main definitions and basic concepts.
Part II deals with the subject of administrative and technical monitoring - based on the major functions of insurance management - as well as with budget and cash flow monitoring.
Part III deals with evaluating the viability of health insurance viewed as a financial instrument, through the use of a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Part IV deals with evaluating the institutional viability of the HMIS.
Part V offers some indications for assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of an HMIS, merely providing some pointers to users interested in this kind of assessment.
Volume 2 contains practical indications for completing tables and calculating indicators described in Volume 1.
The guide was produced by the "Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty" (STEP) programme of the Social Security Department of the ILO. The French version was jointly produced with the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR). The English version was produced thanks to the financial support of the governments of Belgium, Flanders and Switzerland. It is based on the contribution of field practitioners and international experts and the collaboration of numerous actors involved in the development of health microinsurance schemes.

Income insecurity in Argentina

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The survey showed a widespread deterioration in income levels of employees; high short-term wage variability; widespread dissatisfaction with labour income; an extremely high disposition to work longer in order to increase income.

Indonesian Wage Structure and Trends, 1976-2000

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Describes the wage payment system in selected sectors where data are readily available. Reviews trends in income, expenditure and wage distribution. Examines the latter by gender, urban-rural location, education, formal informal status, industry and province.

Information note for the group of independent experts on standards-related activities and decent work. Prospects in the field of social security (rev.)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This information note is designed to describe the current situation in the ILO as regards its standards-related activities. It covers work carried out over the last 20 years, although emphasis is laid on the work of the last decade. In this context, documents of the International Labour Conference and the Governing Body of the ILO have been examined, along with those of their various committees.

Information note for the group of independent experts on standards-related activities and decent work. Prospects in the field of social security. Annexes.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Iniciativa conjunta de la OIT y la OPS sobre la extensión de la protección social en la salud

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Innovations in Monitoring Work Security. A Case Study of Southeast Asian Refugees in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The survey data reveal prevalent occupational illnesses as well as injuries among Southeast Asians in Lowell, Massachusetts. Commonly reported injuries include sprains and strains, and generalized fatigue and ill health among these workers.

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The survey focused on poor workers in the informal economy in the city of Ahmedabad and the five districts surrounding it. In the analysis, status of work, gender and rural-urban location were incorporated as structural features that created insecurities for the workers. A two-fold approach to security/insecurity, basic (food, education, health and shelter) and economic (work-related), was found analytically and theoretically useful to demarcate the insecurities faced by different sections of the population.

Is there a welfare state crisis? A comparative study of French social policy.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper draws up taxonomy of contemporary welfare states, and suggests a series of scenarios for both France and European countries

Korean Construction Workers Job Centre Seoul, South Korea

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Includes three sections: first a "background" section that situates the Korean Construction Workers Job Centre's ( KCWJC) activities in Korea's economic crisis and that describes the root problems inhibiting labour market function, second, a description and analysis of the KCWJC's programmes that directly relate to the seven dimensions of labour security, a description and assessment of the KCWJC's organizational competencies and last, a section for conclusions.

La contribution des systèmes de protection sociale dans la lutte contre la pauvreté

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La gouvernance des institutions de sécurité sociale. Guide pratique à l'intention des administrateurs d'Europe centrale et orientale.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La sécurité socio-économique en Afrique. Un aperçu.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

La sécurité socio-économique pour un monde meilleur

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Labour market insecurities in China

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Many central government's unemployment policies have confronted failure in local implementation because they don't take in account the embedded ness of lay-offs within the welfare arrangements. Local governments are playing a crucial role in creating transitional arrangements for laid-off workers to deal with welfare issues.

Lao People's Democratic Republic. Report to the Government on the Actuarial Valuation of the Social Security Fund.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Presents the results of the actuarial valuation of the Social Security Fund (SSF) of the Lao People's Democratic Republic carried out by the International Labour Office during 2004 and 2005. The objective of the actuarial valuation was to review the financial situation of the SSF under status quo conditions, in particular to assess the adequacy of present contribution rates and the long-term financial sustainability of the fund.

Le consensus de Genève. Alliance Internationale pour l'Extension de la Protection Sociale

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Les régimes fictifs à cotisations définies. Du neuf avec du vieux.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Making microinsurance work for microfinance institutions. A technical guide to developing and delivering microinsurance

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT
Provides a guide for managers of microfinance institutions (MFIs) on the design and operation of basic insurance products. Introduces fundamental insurance concepts, outlines the prerequisites needed for an MFI and describes the key features of five types of microinsurance products covering life and disability insurance. Explores operational issues involved in managing an insurance product, its control, outsourcing, and pricing.

Maternity at work. A review of national legislation.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The first section analyses national provisions regarding maternity leave (duration of leave, cash benefits, and its source of payment and scope); the second section discusses other types of leave (paternity leave, parental leave and adoption leave); the third considers protection from dismissal and discrimination; and the last section treats some aspects of health protection for pregnant and nursing workers.

Migration and socio-economic insecurity. Patterns, processes and policies.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The unique hukou system, a legacy of the Chinese planned economy, still requires rural and urban residents to register their residence separately and has legitimate discriminatory policies against migrant workers during the ongoing reform period. Although the direction and pattern of migration in China share common features with what has been happening in other developing countries, this institutional factor has strongly influenced the Chinese process of migration and has made migrants a more socially vulnerable group. The reform of the hukou system would not only bring efficiency gains, but also eliminate the institutional root of migrants' vulnerability in the vast regions of China.

Minimum Income for School Attendance (MISA) Initiative

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Report of the Advisory Group on the desirability and feasibility of extending minimum income schemes conditional on school attendance to African least developed countries. Argues that there is a strong justification for applying the Minimum Income For School Attendance (MISA) approach in African least developed countries in order to achieve both education and poverty reduction objectives.

Mutualidades de saúde em África: Características e criação

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Mutuelles de santé en Afrique: caractéristiques et mise en place

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Non-standard forms of labour contract in the Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT) and the flexibility of the Brazilian labour market

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The results in Brazil merely indicate that there is a small, but already significant percentage of companies that make use of legally permitted non-standard labour contracts, such as part-time work, temporary work and cooperatives, etc. Even if these forms are increasing, it is not possible to establish a direct and immediate relationship with unemployment.

Note d'information destinée au groupe d'experts indépendants sur l'action normative et le travail décent. Prespectives en matière de sécurité sociale. Annexes.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Notional defined-contribution schemes. Old wine in new bottles?

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Organizing for socio-economic security in India

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Women workers in the informal economy are amongst those with least access to social protection. This paper examines the hypothesis that such organization of women in the informal economy leads to both tangible and intangible benefits - greater income security, employment security and work security along with greater control over their earnings and greater self-esteem.

Overview and challenges of social security coverage. Country examples in East Asia.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pension reform in the Baltic States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This volume devoted to pension reform in the Baltic countries is appearing as part of a series of studies prepared by the ILO project, Strengthening Social Security Governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The research component of the project seeks to analyze social security reform in the new EU member states and accession countries. The studies examine both policy formation in the countries' multi-party democracies and their experience in implementing reforms.

Pensions de retraite et distribution des revenus dans une perspective comparative

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

People's Republic of China. Review of the urban social security system. Pension insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance, maternity insurance, employment injury insurance and sickness and invalidity benefit provisions.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This report is part of the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the ILO and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in 2001. It constitutes a technical review on all social security schemes of the MOLSS in China PR. Its focus at the national level is completed by an explicit review of provincial experiences for Liaoning in the North-East, Guangdong on the central East Coast and Sichuan in the South.

Regular adjustment of financial parameters of social protection systems in volatile inflationary environments

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Resolution concerning the development of social security statistics

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Resolution concerning the development of social security statistics, adopted by the Ninth International Conference of Labour Statisticians
(April-May 1957)

Réforme des retraites dans les pays baltes. Attentes et expériences de départ. Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguimiento de las consultas relativas a los instrumentos sobre seguridad social

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguimiento de las recomendaciones del Grupo de Trabajo. Grupo de Trabajo sobre política de revisión de normas, primer punto del orden del día: Nota de información sobre el estado de las labores y decisiones adoptadas en materia de revisión de normas.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social Policy with Respect to Care. A Perspective for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper shows that Africa has more to gain from taking a care perspective on social policy than the target group approach, and suggests that African societies need to reorient their social policy to reflect treasured values if they are to project themselves into the 22nd century.

Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Reviews. Methodological note on definitions, classifications and performance indicators.

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection for all men and women. A sourcebook for extending social security coverage in Samoa. Options and plans.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication is a consolidation of the research papers and feasibility studies produced by the project "Sub regional Initiative on Social Security for the Pacific Island Countries". The scope of these reports covers areas of critical importance in extending social security coverage to all workers. These include overview of social security, extension of social security, formal employment sector and informal economy surveys, feasibility studies of pensions, unemployment insurance, traditional systems, workers' compensation, social assistance, maternity protection and health insurance. As a cross-cutting issue, focus on gender equality has been underpinned for all the feasibility studies.

Social protection for all men and women. A sourcebook for extending social security coverage in Fiji. Options and plans.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication is a consolidation of the research papers and feasibility studies produced by the project "Sub regional Initiative on Social Security for the Pacific Island Countries". The scope of these reports covers areas of critical importance in extending social security coverage to all workers. These include overview of social security, extension of social security, formal employment sector and informal economy surveys, feasibility studies of pensions, unemployment insurance, traditional systems, workers' compensation, social assistance, maternity protection and health insurance. As a cross-cutting issue, focus on gender equality has been underpinned for all the feasibility studies.

Social protection for all men and women. A sourcebook for extending social security coverage in Kiribati. Options and plans.

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This publication is a consolidation of the research papers and feasibility studies produced by the project "Sub regional Initiative on Social Security for the Pacific Island Countries". The scope of these reports covers areas of critical importance in extending social security coverage to all workers. These include overview of social security, extension of social security, formal employment sector and informal economy surveys, feasibility studies of pensions, unemployment insurance, traditional systems, workers' compensation, social assistance, maternity protection and health insurance. As a cross-cutting issue, focus on gender equality has been underpinned for all the feasibility studies

Social security governance. A practical guide for board members of social security institutions in Central and Eastern Europe.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Aims to promote social dialogue on social security reform and to encourage reforms that are well matched to national conditions while consistent with the standards for minimum adequacy, inclusiveness, and democratic governance embodied in the ILO social security conventions.

Social Security Spending in South Eastern Europe. A Comparative Review.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Pesents the results of an ILO Social Security Inquiry in the countries of South Eastern Europe, designed to compare their spending levels, the coverage of national populations, the range and level of benefits provided, and available evidence on the effect of social security in reducing inequality and poverty. Examines both social policy formation and consequent experience with implementation of legislated reforms.

Socio-economic security in Africa. An overview.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presented at the African technical consultation on Economic security and decent work, Dar Es Salam, 2003. Presents some of the results for Africa, based on information gathered through the SES questionnaire and secondary data compiled from other sources. The first part is devoted to an evaluation of the availability of relevant information on workers security, especially in Africa. The second part seeks to provide an overview of the national social security systems in Africa. Finally part three presents some of the indices on socio-economic security calculated for selected African countries.

Socio-Economic Security, Justice and the Psychology of Social Relationships.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The empirical evidence makes it clear that insecurity in the workplace has serious negative consequences for personal health and well-being, and for the efficient and productive functioning of organizations. The findings would suggest that job insecurity is a serious problem affecting both the performance of the firms within which it takes place and the health and welfare of those affected. At the very least, it suggests that mitigation of job security or its effects must be considered by any society which claims to pursue the welfare of its citizens.

Socio-Economic Status of Health Care Workers in the Russian Federation

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The current declines in public health, the decrease in life expectancy and in the birth rate are cause for serious concern. There is a need for substantial measures of socio-economic stabilization, to remove emotional stress and support young people and families in order to stimulate the birth rate.

Socio-Economic Status of Health Care Workers in the Russian Federation

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The present report reviews the situation of health care today, especially in relation to the socio-economic status of those employed in this sector. Working conditions and labour protection for health care workers, salary issues and social guarantees, opportunities to improve professional knowledge and qualifications and to acquire advanced medical technologies - all these factors have a considerable influence on the quality of medical services provided, and consequently, on public health in general.

Standards-related activities and decent work. Prospects in the field of social security. Summary reports.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Recommends that the International Labour Conference adopt a framework agreement paving the way for effective implementation of the international standards in force in the social security field in all the ILO's member countries.

Sudan. Report to the Government. Reform of the Sudanese Public and Private Pension System (2003). Policy, financial, actuarial and administration considerations.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Contains a review of the National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF) and the Public Service Pensions Fund (PSPF) according to existing provisions, and the ILO recommendations regarding the proposed unification of the two Funds.

Suivi des consultations relatives aux instruments sur la sécurité sociale

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Suivi des recommandations du groupe de travail. Groupe de travail sur la politique de révision des normes. Première question à l'ordre du jour. Note d'information sur l'état des travaux et les décisions prises en matière de révision des normes.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Sustainable Development of the Global Economy. A Trade Union Perspective.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper, shows the extent to which the trade union perspective on sustainable development incorporates its concerns about globalization.

The Appeal of Minimum Income Programmes in Latin America

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Aims at describing some minimum income schemes implemented in Latin America in the 1990s. Special attention will be given to school grant programmes - usually called Bolsa-Escola - adopted in Brazil. We also provide information on the ongoing debate on minimum income programs taking place in Argentina and Ecuador and offer a brief description on Progresa, the Mexican version of school stipends. Despite their compensatory bias, minimum income programmes play an important role in expanding the citizenship of the less favored that have been left out from the existing social protection system. More than a safety net, these cash transfers actually have a redistributive impact that is non-existent in the traditional compensatory programmes, since they bring into the debate on the restructuring of welfare the idea of basic security for all. In doing so they provide the necessary framework for moving from selectivity to universalism.

The assessment of social assistance scheme in the Kyrgyz Republic. Its importance in relation to employment and poverty alleviation.

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The report presents the Social Allowances and Single Monthly Allowances provided in the Kyrgyz Republic to low-income families and social groups according to the Law of State allowances. This is presented as Targeted Social Assistance (TSA).

The decent work enterprise. Worker security and dynamic efficiency.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper proposes an approach to the identification and measurement of what is called a Decent Work Enterprise (DWE). Actually, it would be more correct to call it a Decent Work Firm, since the unit on which it focuses is the actual establishment or workplace, rather than the broader concept of an enterprise, which may consist of more than one establishment. However, for present purposes, the term DWE will be used.

The Gender Dimensions of Social Security Reform. Volume 2. Case Studies of Romania and Slovenia.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This volume was issued as part of the ILO project "Combating poverty and social exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe". It was produced under the Romania component, which focuses on strengthening social security for low income women. It was designed with the close involvement of the target group and the organizations that represent them, in this way, itself contributing to their inclusion and empowerment. Initial consultations on how to structure the project focused on a new gender analysis of the Romanian social security system, commissioned by the project and prepared by national experts. This analysis forms the first chapter of this volume. Chapter two provides a companion study of social security reform in Slovenia, similarly focused to highlight gender issues.

The insecurities of service. Airport check-in workers.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report identifies that quick turnaround policies, work intensification, lack of training, lack of autonomy and of a voice in workplace decision-making have significant negative impacts on check-in workers. This two-country study, conducted in Canada and Switzerland, examined check-in workers and employer injury/lost work time data at three types of airports representative of airport designs worldwide.

The Right to Social Security and National Development. Lessons from OECD experience for low-income countries.

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report traces the divergent historical experience in "developed" and "developing" countries of putting into practice the fundamental rights to social security, including social insurance, and an "adequate" standard of living. Attempts to restrain and roll back social security in the last three decades have been made with too little understanding of the accumulating historical impetus in all OECD countries, of its elaborate institutions and multiple functions. This report has sought to review that history because of the critical contemporary need to establish an economic and social as well as political consensus about strategy. The report highlights the importance of social security in development policy formulation and provides in this respect some strategic recommendations for both developing and industrialized countries.

Tonga. Report to the Government. A National Retirement Fund for Tonga. Phase II. Report on the draft National Retirement Benefits Scheme Bill.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Presents the revised text of the National Retirement Benefits Scheme Bill and provides detailed explanations of the proposed changes to assist the Law Committee in its review of the legislation.

Towards gender equity in Japanese and Nordic labour markets. A tale of two paths.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Presents a careful analysis of institutional differences that help to explain gender-based occupational segregation. It also provides a rich array of statistical information that students of gender relations should find extremely valuable.

Trends in old-age pension programs between 1989 and 2003

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Focuses on the trends on pension contributions. Examines the required eligibility conditions for benefits, and finally assesses the changes in pension benefits.

Trinidad and Tobago. Report to the Government. Seventh Actuarial Review of the National Insurance System as of 30 June 2005.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Presents the main findings and recommendations of the Seventh Actuarial Review of the National Insurance System undertaken by the International Labour Office.

Un revenu de base pour chacun(e)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Understanding National Accounts (OECD)

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:00 GMT
Summary
See the book in the OECD website.

Unemployment and Income Security

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In industrialized countries, unemployment insurance benefits now reach only a minority of the unemployed. The drift to means-tested assistance and the lack of benefits altogether for a substantial proportion of the unemployed has reflected higher unemployment, tighter conditions for entitlement and a process of implicit disentitlement due to the trend away from regular, full-time employment. As a result, once more, to be unemployed is usually to face substantial and growing economic insecurity.

Unemployment and underemployment in Indonesia, 1976-2000. Paradoxes and issues.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Illustrates, with labour force survey data spanning over 25 years, that much unemployment in a young and rapidly growing developing country, such as Indonesia before the crisis, was transitional. Shows that educated unemployment was not a problem in Indonesia, as was believed by many Indonesian policy makers and academics. Underemployment, when defined in terms of involuntarily working shorter hours, was also not an employment issue. Working for long hours for little pay, misleadingly sometimes termed underemployment, remains a serious problem that the government should worry about.

Urban poverty in China. Measurement, patterns and policies.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The paper aims to analyse the magnitude and the incidence by regions and population groups of the newly emergent problem of urban poverty in China. Besides the introduction (Section 1), the paper is divided into six sections. Section 2 deals with issues in compiling a poverty profile for urban China. Section 3 outlines the method and data used to calculate the poverty lines, which are used in Section 4 to estimate urban poverty. Section 5 analyses changes in the urban labour market and their implications for poverty and Section 6 assesses the income maintenance schemes. The paper ends with concluding remarks (Section 7).

Vanuatu. Actuarial valuation of the proposed Workers Compensation scheme.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO project "Sub-regional initiative on social security for the Pacific island countries" recommended a social insurance workers compensation scheme for Vanuatu to replace the employers' liability provisions in the existing labour legislation. This report presents the actuarial valuation undertaken to evaluate the proposed workers compensation scheme.

Viva Rio. Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The aim of the NGO Viva Rio is to work for social inclusion. If we consider that social exclusion also occurs and reproduces itself as a result of people's lack of access to information about the world they live in, and that conventional press does not furnish this access, the project called Viva Favela is relevant and unique. It is also the first effective step in Brazil towards the democratization of access to the internet, helping to reduce the gap between the poor and the rest of the population concerning access to information.

Whither Social Security? A Response Through Indicators.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Focuses on gathering primary and secondary data, at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels, on the 7 dimensions of work security. The ultimate aim is to create a global SES databank to be used to carry out analysis, notably statistical analysis, and derive indicators, typologies and other kinds of outcomes of relevance to social policy debates, and the design of strategies to achieve decent work and overcome work-related insecurities.

Work in the Non-Profit Sector. Forms, Patterns and Methodologies.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report is the first systematic comparative account of work in the non-profit and voluntary sectors, drawing on information from many countries in all parts of the world. The analysis is one of several exploring the need to give security to all forms of work. Other studies have been focused on care work and informal economy activities.

Worker Insecurities in the Ukrainian Industry. The 2000 ULFS.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

First report of results from the seventh round of the Ukrainian Enterprise Labour Flexibility Survey (ULFS) carried out in 2000. There are two orthodox interpretations. The first is that open unemployment has remained low because of the persistence of a "soft budget constraint" in enterprises, in which lack of financial discipline and accountability leads managements to retain excess workers, despite the cost of doing so. The second is that the labour market is highly flexible, so that workers prefer to take wage cuts and do so, rather than become unemployed. Both variants are misleading.

Worker Insecurities in Ukrainian Industry. The 1999 ULFS.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

It is recommended that in Ukraine, as in the Russian Federation, the authorities should take measures to tighten the "wage constraint" and reduce wage flexibility, to oblige enterprises to pay contractually agreed wages and benefits. Only by doing so will they foster efficient employment restructuring, and only then will there be a chance that national and international agencies will devote adequate attention to the enormous unemployment crisis.

Workers' representation insecurity in Brazil. Global forces, local stress.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In this essay, the intention is to raise some questions, suggest hypotheses for possible answers and provoke further debate. The author begins in chapter one by delineating the general conditions that favoured adversarial strategies in the 1980s, in chapter two, to a brief description of the changes in the 1990s, and then on to a scrutiny of the findings of a People's Security Survey (PSS) conducted in Brazil, in chapter 3. The PSS is a huge comparative endeavour devoted to the measurement of socio-economic and representation security in more than 15. The main hypothesis under investigation in the PSS is that unions in Brazil do not have a significant impact on workers' social-economic and representation security, precisely because of the crisis of representation discussed in the earlier parts of the paper.

Workfare Programmes in Brazil. An evaluation of their Performance.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper outlines the characteristics of workfare programmes implemented in Brazil in the second half of the nineties. It makes an assessment of the impacts the programmes actually had - or could have had if implement as planned - on employment, income and poverty. Some critical operational aspects, like focus and training, are discussed, as well as the need to design social programmes aimed at well defined target clienteles.

Workfare Tendencies in Scandinavian Welfare Policies

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The first part consists of a conceptual discussion and demarcation of the concept of workfare in relation to other activation policies as active labour market policy and welfare to work programmes. Secondly, the overall institutional pattern of the Scandinavian welfare states is presented along with an empirical overview of the policy-trends and their workfare elements, and lastly, the workfare-tendencies is evaluated normatively in relation to some basic ideas of democratic, decent societies, and in relation to the Scandinavian universalistic welfare model.

Workshop Report on Health Care Privatization. Workers' Insecurities in Eastern Europe.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Health Care Privatization: Workers' Insecurities in Eastern Europe Geneva, December 6-7, 2001. The profound changes that are taking place in health care services in Eastern Europe, and in many other parts of the world, are having negative effects on workers, and on the public as a whole. Management systems also have been negatively impacted by reforms in the region, accompanied by negative effects on the delivery of health services to both workers and the public.

An inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in Nepal

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This inventory gives an overview of existing and newly planned micro-insurance schemes (MIS) in Nepal. It is intended for promoters and practitioners of micro-insurance schemes, including Government, employers′ organizations and trade unions throughout the region. Twenty-one organizations that have been operating micro-insurance schemes were surveyed in this study, with an overall coverage of less than two thousand people so far. The report suggests that all the schemes have a potential to almost duplicate the number of beneficiaries in a few years; many of the organizations are planning to launch MIS in the near future, especially in health care. The report includes the questionnaire used to collect the data for the inventory.

Extensión de la seguridad social. Políticas para los países en desarrollo.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Guide de gestion des mutuelles de santé en Afrique

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

India: an inventory of micro-insurance schemes

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
At present, it is considered that more than 90 per cent of the Indian population still does not benefit from any kind of social protection. Being not protected against the various risks they face on a daily basis, broad segments of the population remain caught in a continuing cycle of vulnerability and poverty. However, a growing perception of the necessity to extend social protection to all excluded groups has recently been observed in India, together with a wider commitment to actively contribute to this extension through various strategies, including the promotion on new micro insurance schemes. As a direct result, numerous actors of the civil society (community based organisations, women's groups, informal economy trade unions, NGOs, micro finance institutions, etc.) have already designed and set up in-house tailor-made micro insurance schemes, to answer the priority needs and contributory capacity of their target groups. Also, recent regulations issued by the Central Government, allowed for both public and private insurance companies to intervene in this new sub-sector and to tie up with various development and grassroots organizations for the provision of new insurance products to the disadvantaged groups. The present inventory identifies 60 micro insurance schemes in India, from which 51 are currently operating.

Information note on international labour standards and technical cooperation with regards to social security for the group of independent experts

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Project on standards-related activities and decent wotk - Prospects in the field of social security. In 2001, the International Labour Conference organized a general discussion on the future of social security. The conclusions of the general discussion recall in particular that the ILO's activities in the social security sphere should be rooted in the Philadelphia Declaration, the concept of decent work and the relevant ILO standards on social security.

Institut national de la statistique

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This study is an attempt to identify and document the various insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India. Information on six public and twenty private insurance companies have been included, together offering 83 insurance products. All the data were obtained through the insurance companies using questionnaires, promotional materials, websites, previous studies, etc. The study is intended for the development operators working in this field; it especially allows them to play a more efficient role in the promotion of new insurance services and thus contributing to the extension of social protection to the excluded groups.

Inventaire des systèmes d'assurance maladie en Afrique: synthèse des travaux de recherche dans 11 pays

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This document is a synthesis of the main results of the second inventory done by the Concertation in 2003 (results of the first inventory, 2000, as well as country reports are available in Concertation site).
At present, Concertation works on collecting and updating data to create a more homogeneous database that will allow comparative studies.

Inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in the Philippines

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The Inventory aims at identifying the main community-based micro-insurance schemes currently operating in the Philippines. The study seeks to identify and provide basic documentation on these schemes in various sectors, including: (i) health care, (ii) life insurance, (iii) accidents, (iv) asset insurance, and others. For purposes of the Inventory, micro-insurance schemes are defined as those organised and managed by community-based organisations, cooperatives, health service providers, NGOs, trade unions, micro-finance institutions, and others for workers in the informal economy, people excluded from insurance coverage in the formal economy, and the poor and marginalized. The scope of the Inventory covers the Philippines as a whole, providing a basic profile and summary information listing of as many schemes as could be identified during the term of the survey (mid-November 2003 – end-March 2004). It is anticipated that the information will be useful for organizations and programs actively engaged in the promotion of micro-insurance in the Philippines. Findings may also prove useful for comparative studies of micro-insurance among several countries or programs of international agencies.

L'investissement des réserves de la sécurité sociale. Québec, Etats-Unis, Japon.

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Le combat contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale. Tome 2. La Slovénie

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Le devenir des normes internationales du travail

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Le Rwanda : Cas particulier d'une assurance santé pour tous

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Micro-Insurers. Inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in Bangladesh

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This report constitutes an inventory of micro insurance schemes operating in Bangladesh, as of October 2003. It provides a range of information on micro insurance schemes available to income-poor and low-income earners.
The report presents twenty organizations that provide thirty-six schemes. Three of these are big or "mega" NGOs, which have nationwide reach through their organizational infrastructure, built on established micro-credit groups across the country. Sixteen schemes are provided by small to medium locality based NGOs; they are not for profit and cover risks such as primary health and hospitalisation. Lastly, one scheme is run by a commercial insurance company; its schemes have nationwide coverage.

Note d'information destinée au groupe d'experts indépendants sur l'action normative et le travail décent. Prespectives en matière de sécurité sociale (rév.)

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Rationalising delivery of social security benefits services to be delivered under one institution

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Document describing the Government project to merge social security institutions in Rwanda under one national body to be called Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB).

Sécurité sociale: un nouveau consensus

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Aruba. Report to the Government. Actuarial review of the General Old-Age Pension Scheme and the General Widows and Orphans Insurance Scheme as of 30 April 2003.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Contains a brief analysis of recent experience and the performance of the scheme followed by a discussion of assumptions and results of population, economic and pension expenditure projections up to 2062.

Niger. Rapport au gouvernement. Evaluation actuarielle de la Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale au 31 décembre 2002.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Republic of Cyprus. Report to the Government. Actuarial valuation of the Social Security Scheme as of 31 December 2003.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The financial status of the Cyprus Social Insurance Scheme requires short-term action. The report proposes three reform packages aimed at restoring the financial status of the scheme and at improving the budgetary situation of the Government.

Réformer la protection des travailleurs. Les pensions d'invalidité en transformation.

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Republic of Kazakhstan. Assessment of targeted social assistance scheme. Final report. Decent work. Integrated approach to social sphere in Kazakhstan.

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
In Kazakhstan, the principal indicators of poverty are the minimum subsistence level and the poverty line. In terms of the proportion of Targeted Social Assistance (TSA) recipients by category, children are the main TSA recipients followed by the unemployed, caretakers of children and the working poor. In these case studies, financial, budgetary and administrative aspects of TSA are discussed in order to identify the common features of implementation obstacles.

Programa

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Balanced notional defined contribution schemes. A new "geist" in old bottles?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Can low income countries afford basic social protection? First results of a modelling exercise.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Economic crisis, employment and social protection in Southeast Asia

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Folleto de la actividad

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Indicators in the Process of the "Open Method of Coordination". Taking Stock and Looking Ahead.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Published in DVR Shriften under the title "Objectives and instruments of open coordination - elaboration of indicators - from a scientific point of view. Conference Open Method of Coordination in Old Age Security ¿ Quo Vadis¿, Berlin, 26-27 March 2003. My task will be to take stock of the set of indicators and to sketch perspectives for future developments. As the current state of affairs concerning the choice of indicators has already been discussed extensively, I will put the main emphasis of my presentation on discussing how the list of indicators could possibly be refined and extended.

International experiences in the transition between work and retirement

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This contribution will give an overview on international experiences in the transition between work and retirement, and will mainly focus on retirement ages. After briefly outlining the relationship between demographic change and retirement age, I will offer some methodological remarks on the definition and measurement of retirement age in an international context. I will then go on to present empirical evidence on retirement ages in two steps, first for a number of OECD countries and then for a number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe. A short discussion on the potential and the preconditions for increasing effective retirement ages concludes the contribution.

Métodos Actuariales y Financiamiento de la Seguridad Social (Recife, Brasil)

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Note d'information sur les normes internationales du travail et la coopération technique en matière de sécurité sociale destinée au groupe d'experts indépendants

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Panama. Financial and actuarial valuation of the Caja de Seguro Social (CSS).

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Indicates that reforms might have to be implemented earlier, as the structural deficit of the CSS is now expected to occur by around 2005, already.

Panamá. Valuación financiera y actuarial de la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS).

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Recent Trends in Pension Reform and Implementation in the EU Accession Countries. A paper presented at the Informal Meeting of Ministers at the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 10 June 2003.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
With this controversy as a backdrop, this paper will trace recent trends in pension policy in the EU accession countries. Part I provides an overview of changes undertaken since the mid 1990s. It describes the modification of social insurance schemes; the scaling down of these schemes in favour of new arrangements that eliminate the sharing of risk and transfer the management of worker contributions to commercial firms; and the establishment of new mechanisms and incentives for voluntary private pension supplementation. Part II highlights additional pension issues that are in need of attention but have been overshadowed to greater or lesser extents by the controversy between models.

Report on the pension reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. First assessment

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
It aims to make a first assessment of the current issues on the pension reform from the perspectives of the ILO, and to place the issues in the actual context of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Saint Kitts and Nevis. Report to the Government. Seventh actuarial review of the Social Security Fund as of 31 December 2002.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Unemployment insurance programmes have both primary and secondary objectives. The primary ones involve assisting individual workers during periods of involuntary unemployment while the secondary ones stress the promotion of economic efficiency and stability.

Saint Lucia. Report to the Government. Extending pensions to Farmers, fishermen and ex-farmers.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Farmers, fishermen and ex-farmers constitute the majority of those not covered by the NIC. This report explores the current context to arrive at possible solutions to the problem with the main aim of remaining within the existing legal and organizational framework of the NIC.

Saint-Lucia. Report to the Governement. Eight actuarial review of the National Insurance Fund as of 30 June 2003.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Determines the long-term financial condition of the NIF and to review contribution and benefit provisions, making recommendations.

Social security statistics from the global experience. ILO experience.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
There is a growing demand for information on how many have actual access to different forms of protection and what are the levels of protection enjoyed by people in different countries. The paper presents the most recent efforts of the ILO to meet the demands by developing new tools and methods in social security statistics. The work is at the same time part of the wider effort in the ILO aiming at establishing a basic set of decent work indicators¿ and potentially building also aggregated indices combining those indicators (into i.e. ¿decent work index¿). Full text of the seminar available from the Office for official publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.

Tendances récentes de la mise en ¿uvre de la réforme des pensions dans les pays candidats à l'Union européenne. Réunion informelle des Ministres lors de la Conférence internationale du Travail, Genève, 10 juin 2003.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The future of international labour standards

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The Standards Department and the Social Security Policy and Development Branch have decided to carry out a study on normative policy and decent work, with particular reference to the field of social security. The aim is to contribute to the debate on the impact of international labour standards, and on possible innovations in standard-related activities that might increase and improve their effectiveness.

United Republic of Tanzania. Report to the Government. Actuarial Valuation of the National Social Security Fund as of 30 June 2002.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Provides an assessment of the future financial developments of the NSSF; offers recommendations for strengthening its financial system, including the setting of the contribution rate at an appropriate level; and reviews the financial implications of possible new forms of benefit provision in case of employment injury and health care. The report stresses the need for the authorities to adopt certain important measures to ensure the viability and public credibility of the NSSF, including reforms to the benefit provisions, changes to the financial management and strengthening administration and institutional arrangements.The report contains the recommendations made with regard to the provision to allow for the partial refund of members contributions in the event of a member becoming unemployed.

Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB)- Organisation Chart

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

International social security standards and challenges to social security. Lessons for a Tanzanian reform debate

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Presentation at the 15th PPF Members' Conference in October 2005 in Arusha, Tanzania, on International social security standards and challenges to social security - Lessons for a Tanzanian reform debate.

Pension reforms in Central and Eastern Europe in a global perspective: Lessons learned

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Author shares the ILO's view on the major pension reforms that have taken place in the world, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, duringthe past two to three decades. He first place the reforms in Central and Eastern Europe in their historical context and that of the global policy debate on pension reform. Then he briefly looks at their effects, and finally he draws some general conclusions from particular countries' experience of pension reform. This experience has influenced the ILO's general policy stance on the question.

Datos sobre la seguridad social requeridos para la valuación actuarial de un sistema nacional de seguridad social. Guía técnica

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Données requises pour l'évaluation actuarielle de systèmes de sécurité sociale

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Glosario de términos de seguridad social (Inlgés - Francés - Español)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
More than 800 terms on the field of social security. Each term with its equivalent in the two other languages. Alphabetical order based on English terms.

An inclusive society for an ageing population. The employment and social protection challenge.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This report, which has been prepared on the occasion of the second World Assembly on ageing, Madrid, 8-12 April 2002, highlights the role of employment and social protection as the source of inclusion in a variety of ways, and presents a set of policy issues that need to be addressed if "a society for all ages" is to become reality.

Banque africaine de données sur la sécurité sociale (BADS)

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Challenges facing financing of social security systems from the European Union enlargement and opening the inner borders in Europe. Results of simulations with a simple model.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

De la reforma a la crisis. El sistema de pensiones en la Argentina.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

De la réforme à la crise. Le système de pensions en Argentine.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Enlace de las iniciativas de la comunidad con las instituciones nacionales. Ghana.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Financement des pensions par l'impôt et réduction de la pauvreté en Amérique latine. Les impacts en Argentine, au Brésiél, au Costa Rica et en Uruguay.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

From reform to crisis. Argentina's pension system.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Health insurance for workers in the informal economy. Exploring the potential of micro-insurance schemes.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Igualidad de los sexos en la seguridad social.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Impacto de la pensiones financiadas con impuestos sobre la reducción de la pobreza en America latina. Evidencias de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Costa Rica y Uruguay.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Indicateurs de gestion journalière des régimes de sécurité sociale

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Informe de la Comisión de la Economía Informal. Sexto punto del orden del día. La economía informal (discusión general)

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La budgétisation sociale dans les économies en transition

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La réforme de la protection sociale en Europe centrale et orientale au point de vue de l'égalité de traitement entre homme et femme. République tchèque, Hongrie et Pologne.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La réforme des pensions en Europe centrale et orientale. Volume 1 Restructuration avec privatisation. Les cas de la Hongrie et de la Pologne.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

La seguridad alimentaria en el Perú. Como forma de seguridad de los ingresos.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Le combat contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale. Tome 1. La Hongrie

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Le recouvrement des cotisations d'assurance pension. Tendances, questions et problèmes en Europe centrale et orientale.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Les défis des systèmes de sécurité sociale après l'élargissement de l'Union européenne et l'ouverture des frontières intérieures. Résultats de simulations avec un modèle simple.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Linking community initiatives to national institutions. Ghana.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Modelo de pensiones de la OIT. Una guía tecnica. Version 1.0-8/2002

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Modelo de proyeccion demografica de la OIT (ILO-POP). Guía técnica. Version 1.1-8/2002

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Modèle de projection démographique du BIT (ILO-POP). Guide technique. Version 1.1 8/2002

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Non-contributory pensions and social protection

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Examines non-contributory pension schemes found in a small number of countries, paying particular attention to the large cash transfer programmes in Brazil and South Africa. It evaluates the effectiveness of these programmes, and considers the feasibility of establishing similar schemes in other developing countries. This evaluation is complex both because non-contributory pension programmes have multiple objectives, and because there is considerable diversity of socio-economic and cultural conditions across the developing world.

On the stability of Pay-as-you-go Pension System in an Ageing Population. The Case of Japan.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The aim of this paper is to examine the stability of PAYG pension schemes in the context of the anticipated ageing of population structure. Chapter 1 sets out the basic analytical framework for evaluating PAYG pension schemes in general. Chapter 2 analyses the long-term financial status of the EPI and looks into intergenerational equity. Chapter 3 concludes with the discussion on policies implied by our analysis. For background information, Appendix A summarises the results of the actuarial valuation carried out by the Japanese Government actuaries in 1999; and, Appendix B presents the updated projection results which take into account the population projection revised in 2002. A Statistical Annex supplements with detailed data.

Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Volume 1 Restructuring with Privatization. Case Studies of Hungary and Poland.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pensiones de seguridad social. Desarrollo y reforma.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Prestations de services sociaux en Europe du Sud-Est. Les bonnes pratiques.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Protección social en Chile. Financiamiento, cobertura y desempeño 1990-2000.

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Protección social. Lo que los trabajadores y los sindicatos deben saber.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Protection sociale. Ce que les travailleurs et les syndicats doivent savoir.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Rapport de la Commission de l'économie informelle. Sixième question à l'ordre du jour. L'économie informelle (discussion générale)

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Recent developments in health care. AIDS. Managing the financial consequences of a pandemic in a developing country context.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reforma de la pensiones en Europa central y oriental. Reestructuración con privatización. Estudios de casos de Hungría y de Polonia. Reestructuración de los regímenes de los casos de la República Checa y Eslovenia.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reforma de la seguridad social e igualdad de la mujer en Europa central

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reformas previsionales en los países de la Unión Europea. Desafíos, respuestas y el proceso de reforma.

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Reforming Worker Protection. Disability Pensions in Transformation.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The studies examine both social policy formation in the region's new multi-party democracies and their early experience in implementing reforms. The broad objective is to provide countries still deliberating reforms with pertinent information on the recent experience and policy results of neighbours addressing similar issues. The focus is on pensions provided by national social insurance schemes designed to replace lost earnings caused by a disability.

Regulación de los sistemas de pensiones de capitalización individual. Visiones de los sectotres público y privado.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Relier les initiatives communautaires aux institutions nationales. Le Ghana.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Report of the Committee on the Informal Economy. Sixth item on the agenda. The informal economy (general discussion)

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Réflexions sur les stratégies de réformes de la protection sociale en Afrique francophone au Sud du Sahara

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Réforme de la sécurité sociale et égalité hommes-femmes. L'expérience récente de l'Europe centrale.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Seguridad social. Temas, retos y perspectivas.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Sex equality and social security. Selected rulings of the European court.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Shows how the Court has interpreted Community instruments on equal pay, statutory and occupational pensions and equal treatment to settle litigation over the discriminatory effects - both direct and indirect - of national social security systems that were historically constructed around the "male breadwinner" model.

Social budgeting in transition economies

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection. What workers and trade unions should know.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social security data required for the valuation of a national social security system

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Actuarial valuations normally apply to a particular social security scheme, assessing its future revenues, expenditure and its financial sustainability. Social budgeting looks at the social protection system in a given country as a whole, and takes into account - apart from present and future balances of individual schemes - also all inter-relations between the schemes and their links to the overall public finance revenues and expenditure. At the same time social budget projection and simulation normally do not extend a horizon of 15 to 20 years, while actuarial valuations of the pension schemes often involve much longer time-horizons. This publication deals with data requirements for actuarial valuations. However, Annex I provides also overview of the data required for social budgeting.

Social security financing and investment in the Caribbean

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The paper has three main objectives: to explore a deeper understanding of the relationship between SSSs and the macroeconomic system, and by extension, between the SSSs and the development process; to clarify for managers of the economy and SSS managers the warranted role of SSS in the development of the Caribbean nations; and to provide SSS reformers in the Caribbean with a framework for evaluating the contending proposals for SSS reform in this region.

Social security reform and gender equality. Recent experience in Central Europe.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social security. Issues, challenges and prospects.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Produced in association with the series of social security manuals: 1 - Social security principles; 2 - Administration of social security; 3 - Social security financing; 4 - Pension scheme; 5 - Social health insurance.

Strategies to extend social security coverage

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Briefly presents the vision of the ILO in which concerns the extension of social security coverage and the conclusions of the Asia-Pacific Regional High-Level Meeting on socially-Inclusive Strategies to Extend Social Security Coverage held in New Delhi in May 2008.

Sécurité sociale. Questions, défis et perspectives.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The collection of Pension Contributions. Trends, Issues, and Problems in Central and Eastern Europe.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Describes recent efforts to strengthen the collection of pension contributions in five countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. The research component of the project, of which this analysis is part, examines the restructuring of national social security schemes. The studies examine both social policy formation and consequent experience with implementation of legislated reforms. Their broad objective is to provide countries considering reform with information on the recent experience and policy results of neighbours facing similar issues. Through these studies, in association with technical support, we also seek to empower the government's social partners as participants in the social policy process.

The Gender Dimensions of Social Security Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Case Studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This study looks at social security reform in three EU accession equalities. It examines two broad categories of benefits: family benefits (including maternity benefits, family allowances, and child care benefits) and pensions (retirement and survivors' protection).

The ILO pension model. Technical guide. Version 1.0-8/2002

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO Pension Model (ILO-PENS) is a projection model used for the actuarial valuation of pension schemes. It provides actuarial estimates of future expenditure and contributions base, and it simulates the future development of the fund under different financing methods. ILO-PENS forms a part of the ILO model family for quantitative financial analysis, with the objective of providing comprehensive perspectives in a consistent manner under certain national economic circumstances.

The ILO population projection model (ILO-POP). A technical guide. Version 1.1- 8/2002

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The population projection model (ILO-POP) is a member of the ILO model family, developed by the Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch of the ILO. The population projection model, however, has a slightly different character to that of the other models. While the methodology for the social budget, pension, or health model was developed by the ILO, the population model largely draws on the methodology developed by the Population Division of the Department for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. The handling of software was developed within the Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch to ensure compatibility with the other models.

The impact of tax-financed pensions on poverty reduction in Latin America. Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Topics in quantitative analysis of social protection systems

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The objectives of the actuarial valuation of social security pension schemes is to set out the future contribution rates which ensure the long-term solvency of the schemes. This paper examines the implications of three financial indicators and develop premium formulae which satisfy the required financial conditions.

Une société sans exclusion pour une population vieillissante. La question de l'emploi et de la protection sociale.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

White or prosperous. How much migration does the aging European Union need to maintain its standard of living in the twenty-first century?

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

National Social Security Fund

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The National Social Security Fund is a friendly service organization which exists for the public good. It offers social protection to all Kenyan workers. It provides social security protection to workers in the formal and informal sectors. It registers members, receives their contributions, manages funds of the scheme, processes and ultimately pays out benefits to eligible members or dependants' period.The National Social Security Fund was established in 1965 through an Act of Parliament Cap 258 of the Laws of Kenya. The Fund initially operated as a Department of the Ministry of Labour until 1987 when the NSSF Act was amended transforming the Fund into a State Corporation under the Management of a Board of Trustees.

Présentation: Formation G-Forum

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Rwanda Development Partners

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Good Practices in Social Services Delivery in South Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This volume describes recent efforts to strengthen and expand social services provided at the community level in the countries of South Eastern Europe and offers a guide for training to give these efforts greater reach and impact. The studies examine both social policy formation and consequent experience with implementation of legislated reforms. Their broad objective is to provide countries considering reform with timely and precise information on the recent experience and policy results of neighbours facing similar issues, as well as those of selected countries of Central and Western Europe.

International symposium on Social Protection and Solidarity in Developing Countries

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Additional information on the symposium is available on http://training.itcilo.org/esp/symposium/

Lecciones y desafíos de 23 años de reformas estructurales de los sistemas de jubilaciones y pensiones en América Latina

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social protection expenditure and performance review. Slovak Republic.

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Shows that the social protection system in the Slovak Republic has two distinct but related goals: on the one hand, to provide employees with insurance against contingencies that result in lost wages and, on the other, to alleviate poverty among the population.

Symposium international sur la protection sociale et la solidarité dans les pays en voie de développement

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Gender Dimensions of Social Security Reform in Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Accompanies the study "The Gender Dimensions of Social Security Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Case Studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland". Looks at social security reform in three EU accession countries during the 1990s through the lens of gender equality. Two broad categories of benefits are examined: Family benefits (including maternity benefits, family allowances, and child care benefits) and pensions (retirement and survivors' pensions).

Training: Social Health Insurance

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The course covers the design of a policy on social health insurance and the design of a scheme, provision of health care benefits, financing the insurance, community based health insurance. It is aimed at practitioners such as executives, managers, planners, financial officers and other responsible professionals of health care and health insurance schemes in governement and non-government sectors.

El caso colombiano

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Gender dimensions of social security reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. Training guide.

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Accompanies the study "The Gender Dimensions of Social Security Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Case Studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland". It includes a number of exercises, grouped according to the two categories of benefits studied: family benefits and pensions.

IHP+ Ministerial Review Communiqué

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Right to Social Security in Human Rights intruments

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The document gathers provisions of Human Rights instruments on the Right to Social Security.

Health insurance for workers in the informal economy. Exploring the potential of micro-insurance schemes.

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Report to the International conference on health system financing in low-income African and Asian countries, Clermont-Ferrant, 30 November - 1 December 2000.

Cash Transfers - Lessons from Africa and Latin America

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Poverty in Focus dedicates this issue to cash transfer programmes, which are considered as an indespensable component of poverty redution strategies. Several articles analyse cash transfer programmes and conditional cash transfers in Latin America and Africa.
This issue includes an article by Krzysztof Hagemejer (ILO Social Security Department, Geneva) in which he states that "Many African governments allocate less than 1 per cent of GDP for pensions, other cash transfers and in-kind social assistance.
A basic social security package is demonstrably affordable in Africa, but its implementation requires a joint effort by the countries and the international donor community."

Pensions for women in the informal economy. Options for developing countries.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
ILO workshop on social protection for women in the informal economy, Geneva, 6-8 December 1999.

Social protection for workers in the informal economy. New challenges for Asia and the Pacific.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Report to the Twelfth Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, towards more effective social security in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 20-23 November 2000. (Geneva, International Social Security Association, 2000, 20 p.).

Management Development Programme On Data Analytics for Health Research Professionals

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Training Programme (Feb 16-18 2009, New-Delhi):
This training program is primarily intended for health research professionals and focuses particularly on data analysis. It offers among others an introduction to statistics and a detailed presentation of specialized softwares (SPSS and EPI). The objective is to make the collection and processing of data easier and through appropriate analysis methods to obtain accurate information and make advised decisions.

Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Volume 1. A Case Study of Hungary

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This study looks at social security reform in three EU accession equality. It examines two broad categories of benefits: family benefits (including maternity benefits, family allowances, and child care benefits) and pensions (retirement and survivors' protection).

Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Volume 2. A Case Study of Slovenia

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This study looks at social security reform in three EU accession equality. It examines two broad categories of benefits: family benefits (including maternity benefits, family allowances, and child care benefits) and pensions (retirement and survivors' protection).

Des normes pour le XXIè siècle. Sécurité sociale.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ghana. Financial analysis of the national public health budget 2007-2016

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This financial study presents the assessment of the evolution of the costs involved in providing public healthcare through the National Health Insurance System in Ghana and it's financing during the next decade.

La réforme des pensions en Europe centrale et orientale. Volume 2 Restructuration des systèmes publics de pensions. Les cas de la République tchèque et de la Slovénie.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Normas para el siglo XXI. Seguridad social.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Paraguay. Empleo y protección social. Desafíos institucionales para reducir la pobreza.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Volume 2 Restructuring of Public Pension Schemes. Case Studies of the Czech Republic and Slovenia.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This collective research effort seeks to explain the observable policy outcomes in Czech and Slovene old-age security as a result of the interplay of economic and political variables.

Poverty, Economic and Social Development and the Right to Social Security within the Global Decent Work Debate

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This paper summarises arguments developed over recent years at the ILO. Providing a synopsis of the ILO view of the role of social security in the context of globalisation and in terms of national economic and social development, the paper exposes the rationale behind the 2003 Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All.
The paper presents the historical, economic and fiscal arguments put forward by the ILO which seek to counter the conventional "grow first, distribute later" economic view which perceives a need to contain social expenditure. The position of the ILO suggests that it is possible for countries to grow with equity, i.e. provide some form of social protection from some early stages of their development, and that social security systems can be seen as an investment in productivity; enhancing social stability, reducing poverty, improving the health of the population and creating a more conducive environment for entrepreneurship.
On this pretext the paper lays out the ILO's proposal for the adoption of an approach to social security provision centred on the guarantee of a "basic social security floor" for all citizens/ residents. This concept is based on a framework of four essential social security guarantees: access to basic health benefits, income security for children with the aim of facilitating access to basic education and health, targeted income support for the poor and unemployed and basic pensions to provide income security for people in old age, those with disabilities and survivors. In essence this framework is applicable in any country, with suitable adaptations to fit national circumstances.
Moreover, examples are given of ILO actuarial calculations undertaken in 12 developing countries which indicate that the provision of a social security floor is crucially fiscally affordable in low-income countries. The final part of the paper documents numerous examples of the successful implementation of various elements of a social security "floor" across a range of Asian countries.

Projet inter-régional. Renforcer la couverture de la protection sociale dans le contexte de l'Agenda de l'Union européenne sur le Travail Décent et la promotion de l'emploi dans l'économie informelle

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
It describes the social protection systems currently in place, relating them to the challenges that the country faces and to the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) being undertaken in cooperation with the ILO and also to broader UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) and National Development Plans. It provides detailed data and analysis on the coverage and cost of social security systems.

Reestructuración de los regímenes públicos de pensiones. Estudios de los casos de la República Checa y de Eslovenia.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Réassurance sociale. Stabiliser les micro-assurances santé dans les pays pauvres.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Social re-insurance. A new approach to sustaining community health financing.

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Discusses the strategies and public policies that countries can use to mitigate the shortcomings of community financing schemes designed along the lines of microinsurance. Re-insurance is emphasized as a mechanism for enlarging the risk pool and spreading risks across larger population groups than any one scheme could do on its own. Other measures explored include: improving the actuarial basis for determining the insurance premium needed to protect against expenditure fluctuations; introducing subsidies to pay for the premiums of low-income populations; using effective prevention and case-management techniques to limit expenditure fluctuations enlisting technical support; establishing and strengthening links with formal financing and provider networks. The volume demonstrates how, through such actions, community financing can be the important first step toward improving financial protection and access to health services for the poor.

CIDEAL

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Régime Social des Indépendants

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ley Número 100 de 1993 (Diciembre 23)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Reflexions on reform strategies for social protection in English-speaking African countries

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The studies examine both social policy formation in the region's new multi-party democracies and their early experience in implementing reforms. The broad objective is to provide countries still deliberating reforms with pertinent information on the recent experience and policy results of neighbors addressing similar issues. The focus is on pensions provided by national social insurance schemes designed to replace lost earnings caused by a disability.

Providing for Health (P4H) Initiative on Social Health Protection

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

One-pager on the Providing for Health (P4H) initiative on social health protection.

Curso sobre métodos actuariales y financiamiento de la seguridad - Cartagena

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre métodos actuariales y financiamiento de la seguridad - Cartagena

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre Políticas de Segurança Social para Dirigentes e Funcionários do Governo Caboverdiano - Praia

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre Políticas de Segurança Social para Dirigentes e Funcionários do Governo Caboverdiano - Praia

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre Técnicas Actuariales y Financiamiento de la Seguridad Social - Quito

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre Técnicas Actuariales y Financiamiento de la Seguridad Social - Quito

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Curso sobre Técnicas Actuariales y Financiamiento de la Seguridad Social - Quito

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

I Encontro Latino-Americano de Dirigentes de Regimes de Previdência no Serviço Público - Belo Horizonte

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

I Encontro Latino-Americano de Dirigentes de Regimes de Previdência no Serviço Público - Belo Horizonte

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

I Encuentro Latinoamericano de Dirigentes de Regímenes de Seguridad Social para Servidores Públicos - Belo Horizonte

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

I Encuentro Latinoamericano de Dirigentes de Regímenes de Seguridad Social para Servidores Públicos - Belo Horizonte

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Métodos atuariais e financiamento dos sistemas de segurança social - Recife

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Taller sobre gestión de informaciones para la fiscalización y control de la recaudación de la seguridad social - Montevideo

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Taller sobre gestión de informaciones para la fiscalización y control de la recaudación de la seguridad social - Montevideo

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Visita Técnica dos Dirigentes dos Sistemas de Segurança Social dos Países Africanos de Língua Portuguesa ao Brasil - Brasília e Rio de Janeiro

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Visita Técnica dos Dirigentes dos Sistemas de Segurança Social dos Países Africanos de Língua Portuguesa ao Brasil - Brasília e Rio de Janeiro

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Visita Técnica dos Dirigentes dos Sistemas de Segurança Social dos Países Africanos de Língua Portuguesa ao Brasil - Brasília e Rio de Janeiro

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Catalogue des cours du Centre International de formation de l'OIT (2009)

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Catalogue of courses of the ILO's training Centre (2009)

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Catalogue of standard courses at the ILO's training Centre in 2009.

Catálogo de cursos del Centro Internacional de Formación de la OIT (2009)

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Code du Travail de la RDC. Loi N°015/2002 du 16 octobre 2002 portant Code du Travail

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Country Assistance Framework, DRC, Proposal on Health Care Financing

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT
The development of policy and implementation of a stable and sustainable health care financing mechanism has become an urgent need for DRC. The Draft Strategic Note for the Country Assistance Framework (CAF) has already noted the need for an increase in committed government funding, continued support from the development partners and review of the potential for expansion of social health insurance.

Décret-Loi organique de la Sécurité Sociale

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Programme du Gouvernement de la RDC (2007-2012)

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Textes relatifs aux Allocations familiales

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Ghana social trust pre-pilot project: Final report Improving social protection for the poor - health insurance in Ghana

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Aims at developing methodologies for the extension of social protection benefits to excluded members of society especially in the informal sector.

The present and future role of ILO standards in realizing the right to social security

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT
This article examines whether the right to social security as laid down in international human rights instruments can be satisfactorily implemented through the application of existing ILO social security standards. It proposes means for improvement through the adoption of a new instrument complementing Convention No. 102, aiming at the extension of social security coverage to those countries and populations in need of protection.

Guía para la realización de estudios de caso de sistemas de seguro de salud (micro-seguros)

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

African Development Bank (ADB)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Description
The African Development Bank (ADB) is Africa's premier development finance institution which is dedicated to combating poverty and improving living conditions across the continent. The ADB is also engaged in mobilizing resources for the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries.
The Bank's mission is to promote economic and social development through loans, equity investments and technical assistance.

Mutuelle sociale des travailleurs des transports routiers au Sénégal (résumé)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Rwanda Ministry of Health (MoH)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Así vamos en salud - Seguimiento al sector salud en Colombia

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Codigo de ética y gobierno corporativo

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Consultorsalud sitio web

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Employment Injury Benefits Recommendation No.121

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Recommendation contains provisions with regard to benefits in the case of industrial accident and occupational diseases. It supplements the Employment injury Benefits Convention No.121 (1964).

Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Recommendation No.176

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Recommendation contains provisions with regard to employment promotion and social security. It supplements the Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention No.168 (1988).

Income Security Recommendation No.67

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT
The Recommendation contains provisions with regard to income security. It provides guiding principles for eight social security contingencies for which cash benefits should be provided. It expresses the desire to extend social security to all workers and the principles of social assistance.

Invalidity, Old-age and Survivors' Benefits Recommendation No.131

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Recommendation contains provisions with regard to invalidity, old-age and survivors' benefits, it supplements the Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention No128 (1967).

List of Occupational Diseases Recommendation No.194

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The recommendation provides a simplified procedure for updating the list of occupational diseases included in the Employment Injury Benefits Convention No.121 (1964). It also contains provisions with regard to the need to strengthen identification, recording and notification procedures for occupational accidents and diseases.

Lista de leyes relativas a la Seguridad social en Colombia

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Maintenance of Social Security Rights Recommendation No.167

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The recommendation contains provisions with regard to the maintenance of rights in social security. It supplements the Equality of Treatment Convention No.118 (1962) and the Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention No.157 (1982). It expresses the necessity to promote the conclusion of bilateral or multilateral social security instruments between States.

Maternity Protection Recommendation No.191

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The recommendation contains provisions on maternity protection, it supplements the Maternity Protection Convention No.183 (2000).

Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Recommendation No.134

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The recommendation contains provisions with regard to medical care and sickness benefits, it supplements the Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention No.130 (1969).

Sisbén - Sistema de Identificación de potenciales beneficiarios de Programas Sociales

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Variables de la encuesta SISBEN 2

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

¿Por qué reformar la reforma?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Administrator's guide: Wikis

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

El papel y la evolución de las mutuales y cooperativas en el ámbito del régimen subsidiado, y el papel de la regulación en la estructuración de estas empresas (Términos de referencia)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Glosario de términos

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Diagnóstico del sistema de seguridad social del Ecuador

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Etude sur l'environnement juridique des mutuelles de santé en République Démocratique du Congo

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Guide à l'élaboration des statuts d'une mutuelle de santé en République Démocratique du Congo

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

L'intégration de la couverture du risque maladie dans le cadre du renforcement du système de santé et de la problématique de son financement en RDC

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security in Sri Lanka. A review of the social security system for the Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Presenting the findings of the diagnostic review of Sri Lanka's social security system prepared by the ILO's Social Security Department, this report provides a detailed analysis of the existing social protection system in Sri Lanka, the identification of gaps and weaknesses within the existing schemes and an analysis of current proposals for development.
The report further lays out the ILO's proposal for the adoption of an approach to social security provision centred on the guarantee of a "basic social security package" for all citizens/ residents. In order to provide a framework for a discussion, illustrative calculations are set out to provide some indication as to the level of long-term costs that would be expected should this approach be adopted.

The concept of the "basic social security package", recently developed by the ILO's Social Security Department is based on a framework of four essential social security guarantees: access to basic health benefits, income security for children with the aim of facilitating access to basic education and health, targeted income support for the poor and unemployed and basic pensions to provide income security for people in old age, those with disabilities and survivors. In essence this framework is applicable in any country, with suitable adaptations to fit national circumstances, and the ILO's existing research indicates that it is fiscally affordable in low-income countries.

Administrator's Guide: Library

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Administrator's Guide: Workspaces

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Brief overview of social security interventions in India

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
India is still facing the daunting challenge of providing some level of social security benefits to some 92% of the work force operating in the informal economy. One key distinctive feature of the Indian experience is the wide diversity of actors from both public and private sectors already found involved in extension initiatives. Another one is the commitment taken in 2004 by the Government of India in its National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) to ensure, through social security, health insurance and other schemes the welfare and well-being of all workers, and most particularly those operating in the informal economy.

Community based health insurance. Linking formal and informal mechanisms

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Presentation given at an ITC ILO Training session in Turin, March 2008 on the linkages between community based mechanisms and statutory schemes or national initiatives with an aim to extend health care coverage. It illustrates different linked schemes through examples from India, the Philippines and Colombia.

Extension of social protection in India: the contribution of health micro-insurance schemes

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
In recent years, health micro-insurance has emerged in India as an essential tool for removing the financial barriers allowing for easier access to quality health care services. Based on a 2005 update of a national inventory prepared in 2003-2004 by ILO/STEP, the present document provides an overview of the various health micro-insurance schemes currently found operational in India as well as a very first assessment of their present and potential contribution to the overall extension strategies still to be fully designed at the national level.

Extension of Social Security to BPL Workers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Within the framework of the new Minimum Social Security Programme targeting the unorganized workers, the Government of India released the guidelines to the implementation of the new health insurance scheme called Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) which targets in the first phase the below poverty line workers and their families - about 300 million people, encouraging various State Governments to implement it. Responding positively, almost all State Governments in India are now committed to be part of this Central Government sponsored initiative.
The launching of the scheme on such a large scale provides new opportunities for the various organizations working at the grassroots level. Organizations such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), microfinance institutions (MFIs), trade unions and all forms of organized groups such as co-operatives and self-help group federations, may now play an active role through effective partnership arrangements to be developed at all levels in each State.
The ILO Subregional Office for South Asia and the GTZ strengthened their collaboration in this process and have provided technical support to a new national platform called Communities-Led Association for Social Security (CLASS), which involves some 30 organizations already leading micro-insurance activities.
The present document, prepared under the CLASS initiative, provides an overview of the main features and operational mechanisms of the health insurance scheme. It assesses its development potential in the various States and reviews the main opportunities and challenges, especially in relation to the efficient partnership arrangements that may be seen as a key element for the successful implementation of any health insurance scheme targeting the poor.

Healing Fields Foundation (case study)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Healing Fields Foundation is a non profit society based in Hyderabad, India. Healing Fields has developed an innovative linked scheme involving several players: a private insurance company, 19 NGOs, a network of 39 hospitals and a service integrator (namely Healing fields). The objective is to provide social protection coverage including a health component and a personal accident component to the informal economy and rural workers. The project started in 2005 and was supported by USAID. In 2007 the scheme was covering 22 415 people.
Healing Fields plays several roles:
1) HF designs the benefit package
2) HF develops the network of hospitals and negotiates with them a discounted rate for the treatment of selected illnesses using Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) (75% deduction) and a cash less payment system (when a patient arrives at the hospital he/she only disburses 25% of the treatment cost as co-payment). HF facilitates the hospitalization and claims process with facilitators that provide assistance to the patients at the hospital level.
3) HF has developed a network of NGO partners that promote the product, facilitate communication and awareness raising among the communities, enrol members, collect the premiums and membership forms.
4) HF invests a tremendous amount of time in providing the NGO's and members with health care and prevention education. HF has also reduced some public health risks through claims analysis (e.g. Typhoid cases).
5) HF contracted with a private insurance company and endorses several functions (marketing and sales, management of enrolment and renewals, maintenance of health profiles for each member, claims management).
Within this innovative linked scheme, interesting and replicable ideas have been introduced such as:
1) Nurse manned dispensaries.In one of the tribal areas where the nearest network hospital is about 60Km away from the hamlets, the partner NGO runs the dispensary with nurses. A list of 9 diseases can be treated at this level and the nurses refer the patients to the partner hospital for complicated cases. The creation of the dispensary has increased accessibility of care to the community and helped in reducing the cost of care.
2) Saheli concept.Members from the community are given an intensive training on the product, policy and health education. They then communicate on the product across their hamlets and receive a fee of Rs.10 for every enrolment. The Saheli concept helps with accessibility and overcoming communication barriers in these remote tribal areas.
3) Prevention of epidemics through claims management.Monitoring of claims helped to identify 4 typhoid cases from the same geographical area. Healing field's medical management team immediately notified the local public health officials who closed down the water source. This prevented further infections.
4) A strong "Client servicing".In each network hospital a facilitator accompanies patients in consultation with a doctor, handles the pre-authorization process and sends all relevant information and documents to facilitate the claims processing.Member feedback is also captured through post hospitalization visits (on the 3rd day and on the 10th day after the patient is discharged from the hospital) and through two types of surveys (a patient satisfaction survey and a post insurance survey).
However Healing Fields faces several challenges that need to be overcome in the coming years:
1) Cost of administration is very high and it will be necessary to find ways of reducing the cost of delivering of the programme.
2) Renewal rates (15%) are very low with great differences between NGOs (rates vary from 0% to 71%).

Health Protection in Jharkhand: An experiment...

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
In August 2005, a delegation from Jharkhand contacted the International Labour Organization and requested its technical support for the design and setting up of a new health insurance scheme that was planned to cover all the population of the State living on income below the poverty line. Upon receipt of a first concept paper prepared by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and the Health Society of Jharkhand, ILO carried out a first preliminary assessment mission in Jharkhand in September 2005.

ILO/ISSA/AIM Study on linkages between statutory social security schemes and community based social protection mechanisms to extend coverage

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The concern about low coverage rates by social protection is widely shared in India. This study explores the potential for coordination, cooperation and other linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms in order to broaden coverage more effectively. The statutory schemes have often been successful in covering formal sector workers. The community-based schemes, on the other hand, have reached out to the occupational groups, rural workers, and disabled members of community who are not covered by State-sponsored welfare programmes. This paper maps out strengths and weaknesses of statutory social security schemes and non-State social protection mechanisms. Opportunities for value added are identified. The range of social security schemes are extremely wide; therefore, in order to keep discussion focused, particular attention has been paid to health, old age, and survivorship.

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, India

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT
While opening, in 1999, the insurance market to private players, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) in India, issued new regulations aiming to enroll all insurance companies in the government's efforts to extend social protection services to the disadvantaged groups of the population. A stipulated part of their portfolio had to be devoted to activities answering the particular insurance needs of the "rural" and "social" sectors. This new overall strategy relied on two cross-subsidy mechanisms applying respectively to public or private insurance companies.
• Public insurance companies, while dealing with the poor, may have access to direct subsidies, allowing them to sell some products aimed at the poor, at very low prices. The subsidy mechanisms already available currently cover such risks as: life (trough the Life Insurance Corporation), health care (through the four general insurance companies), crops and seeds (through the agricultural insurance company).
• Private insurance companies, which have to comply (on penalty of fines) to the new regulations spelling out specific targets to be reached in a 5-year time span, while selling their products to the poor, are forced to use an internal cross-subsidy mechanism, whereby the costs of servicing the poor are partly covered by their mainstream insurance activities.
This text was extracted from ILO/STEP: 2005. Extension of social protection in India: experimenting with innovative solutions.

Naandi Foundation School Health Programme (Andhra Pradesh)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The document presents the background, the achievements and an analysis of the School Health Programme launched by the Naandi Foundation in 2005 in India. The School Health Programme is an original and replicable model for the delivery of essential and quality multi-speciality healthcare services to underprivileged children in India. The programme was piloted with the objective of studying common disease patterns in this group of children and ensuring the minimal cost. To achieve these aims, private, trust hospitals and individual medical professionals have been inspired to come together as philanthropists to provide their expert services to children (diagnosis, out-patient and in-patient care, investigations, specialty consultations, surgery and medicine). As a result, the Naandi Foundation provides 60,000 state school children in 289 schools in Hyderabad with quality health services within their school premises, and at zero cost for the family. The programme is a huge success in terms of cost and coverage.

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Health insurance is a matter of life and death, especially for the poor.

On August 15, 2007, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the creation of a new health insurance scheme; the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana or RSBY. (The scheme was formally launched on October 1, 2007). The objective of RSBY is to protect below poverty line (BPL) households from major health shocks that involve hospitalization. Specifically, BPL families are entitled to more than 700 in-patient procedures with a cost of up to 30,000 rupees per annum for a nominal registration fee of 30 rupees. Pre-exisiting conditions are covered and there is no age limit. Coverage extends to the head of household, spouse and up to three dependent children or parents.

There is a five year plan for rolling out the RSBY which allows each participating state to contract 20 per cent of their respective districts each year. By April 1, 2008, almost every large state government had expressed its intention of joining the scheme and many have already issued tender notices. Three states (Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan) have begun enrollment. The initial response from beneficiaries has been very positive.

The Government of India, in cooperation with the participating state governments, will monitor the ground realities of the scheme during the next few years. Adjustments will be made as the experience unfolds, always with the same objective in mind : to provide poor households with insurance against the costs associated with major illness.

Sarv Swasthya Mission - Health Security for All

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Presents the basic ideas of a joint partnership between the Government of Jharkhand (India)and the ILO (Sub Regional Office for South Asia, New Delhi), which aims to extend social security in health to the population of the State living on income below the poverty line.

Social Security for Unorganized Workers: National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector Report

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The National Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), which was formed after the general elections in April/May 2004, was announced on 27 May 2004. It set out the major policy orientations adopted in order to enhance sustainable development in India. In the spirit of the Alliance, it referred in its preamble to the welfare of farmers, agricultural workers and weaker sections of the society and strongly stated a commitment to ensure, through social security, health insurance and other schemes the welfare and well-being of all workers, particularly in the unorganized sector who constitute 93% of the labour force. To follow up on this commitment, the Government established a National Commission to examine the major problems facing the various enterprises operating in the informal economy.
In August 2005, the National Commission published an ambitious plan (The Unorganized Sector Workers Social Security Draft Bill) aiming to provide a minimum level of social protection benefits to some 300 million informal economy workers. This proposal could be viewed as paving the way towards a nation-wide social security system based on the national solidarity principle. Almost one year later, in May 2006, the Commission released its report on Social Security for unorganized workers which included a revised version of this Bill complemented this time with detailed recommendations relating to its implementation mechanisms and financing requirements.
The present document presents this important Bill and provides an overview of the main features, provisions and practical measures recommended by the Commission in order to bring it into existence.

Swasthya Bima Yojana

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This bill fixes the rules and regulations for the setting up of a subsidized national health insurance scheme for the population living on income below the poverty line in India that will rely on health insurance projects in all the districts of the States of India.
The salient features of the scheme are:
Funding Pattern
(i) Contribution by the Government of India: 75% of the estimated annual premium of Rs.750, subject to a maximum of Rs. 565 per family per annum. The cost of smart card will be borne by the Central Government.
(ii) Contribution by respective State Governments: 25% of the annual premium, as well as any additional premium.
(iii) The beneficiary would pay Rs. 30 per annum as registration/renewal fee.
Eligibility
Unorganized sector workers belonging to BPL category and their family members (a family unit of five).
The beneficiaries will be issued smart cards for the purpose of identification.
Benefits
The State Governments are advised to incorporate at least the following minimum benefits in the package / scheme:
* The unroganised sector worker and his family (unit of five) will be covered. Total sum insured would be Rs. 30,000/- per family per annum on a family floater basis.
* Cashless attendance to all covered ailments
* Hospitalization expenses, taking care of most common illnesses with as few exclusions as possible
* All pre-existing diseases to be covered
* Transportation costs (actual with maximum limit of Rs. 100 per visit) within an overall limit of Rs.1000.

The Unorganized Sector Worker's Social Security Bill, 2007

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
On September 10th, 2007, the Indian Ministry of Labour and Employment introduced in Parliament a new draft version of the Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Bill, with the following main features:
The objective is to cover in a phased manner and over a five-year period 60 million Below Poverty Line workers (and their families);
The following main contingencies are to be covered: medical care, survivors' benefits, disability and old-age pensions;
The responsibility to design appropriate health insurance schemes is transferred to the State Governments;
National and State Advisory Boards are to be set up to recommend from time to time additional welfare measures and schemes.

Vimo SEWA, India

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Major Breakthroughs
Since the formulation of the business plan, VimoSEWA has made major strides in building an active and responsible management team. With few sources for them to learn from, they have identified problems and developed solutions.
The outreach in 2005 was over 120,000 adults insured, a large increase from the 30,000 insured in 2000. Moreover, members have a much better understanding of benefits. The insurance scheme has enhanced benefits while increasing premiums, responding to members needs and staying within their ability to pay.

Zambia Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review and Social Budget (Executive Summary)

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) and Social Budget (SB) report Executive Summary are products of the first year of work of the ILO/DFID-funded project in Zambia: "ILO Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All as a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia".
The main finding is that neither existing contributory (social insurance) nor non-contributory (social assistance) social security provisions are adequate in terms of the numbers of the population covered, the scope of coverage and the adequacy of benefits/payments received. This in a context in which half of the population is extremely poor, living below the poverty line, and almost two-thirds are living below the basic needs poverty line and thus moderately poor or worse. Preliminary analysis shows that Zambia could afford a basic package of social protection; universal old age pensions, targeted cash transfers and child benefits. In the longer run this package would cost no more than 1.5% of GDP and would build the foundations of a modern social protection system.
The SPER and Social Budget Report Executive Summary also includes key information on the labour market in Zambia, existing contributory and non-contributory social security schemes, the current state of health care as well as important findings and analysis on the current and future social budget of Zambia.

Zambia Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review and Social Budget (presentation)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) and Social Budget (SB) report Executive Summary are products of the first year of work of the ILO/DFID-funded project in Zambia: "ILO Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All as a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia".
The main finding is that neither existing contributory (social insurance) nor non-contributory (social assistance) social security provisions are adequate in terms of the numbers of the population covered, the scope of coverage and the adequacy of benefits/payments received. This in a context in which half of the population is extremely poor, living below the poverty line, and almost two-thirds are living below the basic needs poverty line and thus moderately poor or worse. Preliminary analysis shows that Zambia could afford a basic package of social protection; universal old age pensions, targeted cash transfers and child benefits. In the longer run this package would cost no more than 1.5% of GDP and would build the foundations of a modern social protection system.

Zambia Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review and Social Budget (report)

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Workspace Guide

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

C118 Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No.118) establishes rules on the equality of treatment of nationals and non nationals in social security, especially for migrant workers. By November 2008, 37 countries have ratified the Convention.

Logros y Criterios

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Réforme de la Retraite au Maroc

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Réforme de la retraite: Expérience de la France

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security in Sri Lanka: Towards a social security floor as a new foundation for the system?

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Evolución de la participación social en las Empresas Solidarias de Salud

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Survey - Out of pocket health burden of low income families

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Improving Social Protection for the Poor: Health Insurance in Ghana - The Ghana Social Trust pre-Pilot Project, Final Report

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Segurança Social: Um novo consenso

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

OECD in Figures 2008

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This 20th edition of OECD in Figures is an original, simple to use, pocket data book. It is a primary statistical source. As with all OECD data, it is compiled and checked by our experts, so that decision-makers in government, research and business know they can rely on it. Thanks to the web edition, available via www.oecd.org/infigures, OECD in Figures is now more than ever the public gateway to one of the richest and most respected economic, financial, social and environmental databases around.
The 2008 edition of OECD in Figures contains key data ranging from economic growth and employment to education and migration. There are comparable tables on the environment, science, public finances, and on every theme the organisation is working on. For added perspective, OECD in Figures includes a selection of graphs, highlighting key challenges, such as public debt, climate change and development aid.

Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The database aims to:

provide a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing countries;

focus on programmes seeking to combine the reduction and mitigation of poverty, with strengthening and facilitating household investments capable of preventing poverty and securing development in the longer term

select programmes for inclusion in the database on the basis of the availability of information on design features, evaluation, size, scope, or significance;

provide summary information on each programme in a way that can be easily referenced by DFID staff and others with only a basic level of technical expertise.

Version 4 updates information on existing programmes and incorporates information on the following programmes:

Conditional cash transfers pilots in Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi

Integrated poverty reduction programmes in Panama, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic

Conditional cash transfer programmes in Paraguay

CHARS in Bangladesh joining up environment asset accumulation and social assistance interventions

The extension of coverage through linked schemes: a typology and several examples

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Presentation given at a Micro insurance Conference in Cartagena, Colombia in November 2008 on the linkages between schemes in order to extend coverage. It is illustrated by different examples from India, the Philippines and Colombia.

ILO Conclusions-EN

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

ORT Health Plus Scheme, in the Provice of La Union, Philippines

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This study presents the implementation of an innovative community-based health micro-insurance scheme, how and where it operates. It includes matters such as financial, management tools, lessons learnt and different actors' points of view.

Papua New Guinea: Review of the Social Security System. An initial assessment

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Reviews the demographic and socioeconomic aspects of the country, analyses the existing social security systems, develops feasible options of extending social security coverage for both the formal and informal economy workers.

Report to the Government on employment injury insurance in Cambodia: legislation, financing and administration

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The report consists of three parts: Legislation (Part 1), Financial Assessment (Part Il), and Administration (Part III). Part 1 provides the principles of employment injury insurance, reviews of the current legislative framework, and a review of the draft Sub-decree concerning the Establishment of NSSF. Part II presents the financial principles and methodologies for assessing the contribution rate and provides the estimated contribution rate. Part III provides reviews of the existing administration structure, a proposed structure for NSSF and various administrative procedures that are to be computerized, and health Care provision.

Synthesis of case studies of micro insurance and other forms of extending social protection in health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This synthesis firstly compares and analyses various decentralized systems, mainly micro-insurance systems, for extending social protection in health to excluded groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study successively examines the contribution of these systems to the equity, efficiency and improvement of the provision of health care. It also analyses their viability from an institutional and financial point of view. Lastly, it proposes subjects for research on this type of system. This paper was jointly prepared by the ILO and PAHO.

Síntesis de estudios de caso de microseguros y otras modalidades de protección social en salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Taller visita - Belem y Soure

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Taller visita - Belem y Soure

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Technical Note on the Extension of Social Security to the Informal Economy in Thailand

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Chapter 1 presents an overview of the informal economy and the main issues relating to social coverage for this sector; it focuses on the challenges posed by the different social security needs of this huge and diverse target group, the low and irregular incomes, and the general lack of reliable information.
Chapter 2 looks at approaches to extending social security. It opens with a discussion of key aspects of the design of social security schemes, such as financing, benefit package design, and whether participation should be voluntary or compulsory. It introduces different extension approaches and targets – extending social security not only on the basis of schemes currently in place but through the introduction, for example, of special new schemes, micro-insurance schemes and the universal scheme.
Chapter 3 outlines the studies required and actions that will need to be undertaken in order to design and implement a strategic and cost-effective programme to extend social security coverage to the informal economy and to other population groups not yet covered.

Thailand social security priority and needs survey

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This survey is the first sampling survey to be carried out in the region. It is aimed at providing a global picture of social security coverage of Thailand, as well as the risk priority, social protection and social security needs of those without social security. It is hoped that the information contained in this report will serve as a basis for the extension of social security to the non-covered population, the majority of whom are in the informal economy.

Vanuatu: Report on the implementation of the Health Insurance Scheme

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The report focuses on the issues related to the implementation of a health insurance scheme in Vanuatu. It aims to provide key information on the aspects to be faced in the implementation of the scheme. Chapter 2 looks into the key characteristics of the VNPF members, including their age-structure and income distribution. Chapter 3 provides the information on the estimated covered population, contribution rate and the estimated contribution income to the scheme. Chapter 4 will analyse how the health insurance scheme will affect the public financing on health. Chapter 5 concludes with the summary of the main findings and recommendation.

C157 Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982 (No.157) provides rules for the adoption of national legislation implementing the principles of the maintenance of rights in course of acquisition and of acquired rights fo migrant workers, in respect of all branches of social security covered by the Social Security Convention 1952. By November 2008, 4 countries have ratified the Convention.

Los programas de asistencia social en Costa Rica: el régimen no contributivo de pensiones

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Micro-assurance. Elargissement de l'assurance maladie aux exclus

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Micro-insurance. Extending health insurance to the excluded

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This article proposes a way to improve health provision for populations that are usually excluded from access to health services. It starts out from a short description of who the excluded are, and what they are excluded from. Then it looks at the major policy statements elaborated at the international level, and proceeds to propose the missing dimension. Next, based on field testing and analysis of various pilot cases, the document proposes a concept for group-based health insurance, or "micro-insurance". Lastly, it proposes a strategy to implement this concept.

Mutual health organizations and micro-entrepreneurs' associations. Guide

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This guide is intended for associations of micro-entrepreneurs interested in creating mutual health insurance schemes. The guide provides basic information on the advantages as well as on the difficulties of these schemes. This document is the result of a partnership between the STEP programme and the ILO's inFocus Programme Small Enterprise Development (SEED).

Mutuales de salud y asociaciones de microempresarios. Guía

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Mutualidades de saúde e associações de micro-empresários. Guia

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Mutuelle sociale des travailleurs des transports routiers au Sénégal

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Mutuelles de santé et associations de micro-entrepreneurs. Guide

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

A New Deal for people in a Global Crisis

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Access to social protection and health care for all

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Various paths may be taken to extend health coverage and social protection in the area of health. It is up to each country to define its own extension strategy and the most appropriate mechanisms in light of its economic and institutional development withing its historical and cultural context.
Several countries have started down that path, which consists of designing coherent and linked national health insurance systems based on several mechanisms, and a variety of actors and sources of financing.
The international STEP programme of the ILO Social Security Department is the operational instrument of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All.
This brochure provides an overview of the activities of the STEP programme in Africa.

Asian Micro Insurance Network - AMIN (leaflet)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Asian Micro-Insurance Network has recently issued a brochure. The brochure briefly presents the network's background, describes its vision, mission, objectives, activities and what has been achieved so far relating to micro-insurance in the Asia region with the participation of AMIN. An invitation is offered to those interested in becoming a member of this active network.

Collaboration agreement for community based health insurance including health center

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Provides a concrete example of agreement between a community-based health insurance scheme and health service providers (health center and District hospitals). It states detailed functions and responsibilities of all the parties and establishes member contributions.

Extending social protection in health

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Includes a revised version of most of the presentations made at the International Conference on Social Health Insurance in Developing Countries, Berlin, 5-7 December 2005.

Extending Social Protection in Health Through Community-Based Health Organizations

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Extending social protection in health requires identification of a feasible strategy and the definition of the right combination of organizational and institutional arrangements for each country. There are no cookie-cutter solutions and there cannot be universal bleu prints for success in combating exclusion from social protection in health. The challenge is to focus on the need for effective strategies and organizational arrangements that prove in practice their ability to achieve the goals of social protection in health.

Extension of social security coverage for the informal economy in Indonesia

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
There is no single solution to extend the coverage of social security to the informal economy workers. To this goal, the report proposes a combination of the following three options: Extending the existing statutory social security schemes; Creating a special scheme for the informal economy workers; and Encouraging the development of micro-insurance schemes.

Healing Fields Foundation (article)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Healing Fields Foundation is a non profit society basedin Hyderabad, India. Healing Fields has developed aninnovative linked scheme involving several players: aprivate insurance company, 19 NGOs, a network of 39hospitals and a service integrator (namely Healingfields).The objective is to provide social protection coverageincluding a health component and a personal accidentcomponent to the informal economy and rural workers.The project started in 2005 and was supported byUSAID. In 2007 the scheme was covering 22 415people.

Healing Fields Foundation (artículo)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Información Mundial sobre los Microseguros - GIMI

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Information Mondiale sur la Micro-Assurance - GIMI

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

La elaboración del presupuesto social en las economías en transición

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Learning from experience: Health care financing in low- and middle-income countries

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This report reviews health care financing in low- and middle-income countries and offers a framework to assess the performance of a health care financing system and make it more equitable, efficient and sustainable by optimizing the three main functions of health care financing: revenue collection, pooling of funds and purchasing. To facilitate drawing from the experience of other countries, the publication presents a range of country case studies that highlight some of the factors that have contributed to the successful set-up and implementation of these functions. A user-friendly fold-out table summarizes at a glance international experience in the performance of these functions in terms of feasibility, equity, efficiency and sustainability.

Methodological guide for undertaking case studies. Health micro-insurance schemes

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This guide is conceived to assist in the implementation of case studies on health micro-insurance and to provide a common methodology. It indicates precisely the information to be collected and how to elaborate the analysis report. It does not seek to evaluate the systems, neither in terms of impact, nor in terms of efficiency of the health sector. The guide is primarily destined for those responsible for implementing case studies.

Politique de contractualisation dans le secteur de la santé au Sénégal

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Suivi de la Micro Assurance Santé AssEF 2003-2004

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The subset Performance Indicators of health insurance schemes_in Chinese

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Concertation entre les acteurs du développement des mutuelles de santé en Afrique

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Décret du 15 avril 1958 relatif aux associations mutualistes

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Etude sur l'environnement juridique des mutuelles de santé en République Démocratique du Congo

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MUSECKIN : Premières données issues du nouveau système de suivi. Impact potentiel sur le montant des cotisations des bénéficiaires RAPPORT N° 1

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MUSECKIN : Premières données issues du nouveau système de suivi. Impact potentiel sur le montant des cotisations des bénéficiaires RAPPORT N° 2

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MUSECKIN : Premières données issues du nouveau système de suivi. Impact potentiel sur le montant des cotisations des bénéficiaires RAPPORT N° 3

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Rapport sur les résultats de l'enquête ménage. Enquête ménage auprès de la population cible des mutuelles de santé de l'UNTC et de l'UMCC à Kinshasa

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Mutuelle de Sécurité Sociale de Cotonou

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Concertation Newsletter N° 19, April 2008

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This issue is largely devoted to the 4th Concertation Forum, which was held in Dakar from 26 to 27 November 2007. The Forum brought together 300 attendants interested in the mutual health organization movement in Africa, as well as hosting the general constitutive assembly of the African Union of Mutual associations (UAM).
The 4th Forum provided the occasion for several countries to present their national experiences on the subject of mutual health organizations and their role in the extension of social security.
Another article is dedicated to the new inventory system based on web technologies. Now mutual health organizations can fill in an online form at any time; the information is automatically entered into a database thus allowing a permanent and regular follow-up of the development of organizations in the region. The database can also be downloaded by any user who should wish to exploit the data within the framework of a study, a paper or any other research project.

Social protection and crises in the Congo: from humanitarian aid to sustainable development

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The two Congos have been through a number of crises,which have given rise to a whole host of humanitarian problems. Using the experiences of the two countries as a basis, the report considers to what extent and under what conditions the distribution of humanitarian aid contributes to the development of sustainable social protection. In reality the impact of the crises on the statutory social security system has been extremely adverse, because the latter is at a loss how to cope with thw new challenges and the present state of the manegement of the system does not facilitate the establishement of appropriate solutions. The humanitarian agencies take action in isolated cases, with no overall strategy or vision for overcoming the crisis, and thus there is no interlinking of humanitarian aid and development. What will be the future role of NGOs and social security agencies in the development of sustainable systems of social protection? In view of the widespread poverty that exists, the development of sustainable social protection systems depends not only on interlinking micro credit, micro enterprise and micro healht insurance, but also on new social protection systems, in particular humanitarian social protection, which organizes allocations in kind to healthcare coverage, and temporary mutual health insurance, which covers individuals who do not yet have their own socio-occupational mutual health insurance.

A joint ILO\UN presentation on the Basic Social Floor

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

ALO Conclusions in the Interregional Tripartite meeting on the Future of Social Security in Arab Countries-EN

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Dossier on Legislation in India

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

While opening, in 1999, the insurance market to private players, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) in India, issued new regulations aiming to enroll all insurance companies in the government's efforts to extend social protection services to the disadvantaged groups of the population. A stipulated part of their portfolio had to be devoted to activities answering the particular insurance needs of the "rural" and "social" sectors. This new overall strategy relied on two cross-subsidy mechanisms applying respectively to public or private insurance companies.

Public insurance companies, while dealing with the poor, may have access to direct subsidies, allowing them to sell some products aimed at the poor, at very low prices. The subsidy mechanisms already available currently cover such risks as: life (trough Life Insurance Corporation), health care (through the four general insurance companies), crops and seeds (through the agricultural insurance company).

Private insurance companies, which have to comply (on penalty of fines) to the new regulations spelling out specific targets to be reached in a 5-year time span, while selling their products to the poor, are forced to use an internal cross-subsidy mechanism, whereby the costs of servicing the poor are partly covered by their mainstream insurance activities.
This text was extracted from ILO/STEP: 2005. Extension of social protection in India: experimenting with innovative solutions.

Indicadores de desempeño para microseguros

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Indicateurs de performance en micro-assurance

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Performance indicators for microinsurance

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This handbook provides some principles and key indicators to measure microinsurance performance.
• Chapter 1 describes these principles and the indicators;
• Chapter 2 focuses on some of the special considerations to be given in evaluating performance for certain products and for the partner-agent model;
• Chapter 3 introduces the subject of benchmarking;
• Chapter 4 explores the topic of social performance.
This handbook, together with a microinsurance factsheet, forms the toolkit "Performance Indicators for Microinsurance." Both tools complement each other and are designed to be used together. The microinsurance factsheet is an Excel workbook that comprises the financial statements adapted for microinsurance practitioners. Based upon these statements, the ten key performance indicators described in this handbook are calculated. The handbook complements the factsheet by assisting the reader with the interpretation of the obtained results.
The factsheet can be found at www.brs-vzw.be/factsheet

Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Appui à la construction d'un cadre régional de développement des mutuelles de santé dans les pays de l'UEMOA

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Estrategias y Técnicas contra la Exclusión Social y la Pobreza (STEP)

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Building Capacity for Social Security

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

C121 Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964, (No. 121) provides rules for the adoption of national legislation on benefits in the case of industrial accidents and occupational diseases.By November 2008, 24 countries have ratified the convention.

C168 Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988 (No.168) is a revision of the Unemployment Provision Convention of 1934. It provides standards in the field of employment and unemployment protection, notably for the promotion of full, productive and freely chosen employment, the principles of equality of treatment and non-discrimination, the methods of providing unemployment benefit. By November 2008, 7 countries have ratified the Convention.

C183 Maternity Protection Convention, 2000

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No.183) provides rules for the adoption of national legislation for the promotion of health and safety of the mother and child, notably concerning the protection for pregnancy, the right to a maternity leave period, maternity benefits, the right to return to the same position. By November 2008, 15 countries have ratified the Convention.

Europe's Experience

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

La sécurite sociale dans la Région du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du nord

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

List of participants

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security for all: The ILO's Global Strategy

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The Future of social security in Arab States: Setting the Agenda

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Trends and challenges in Social Security

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Trends And Challenges In Social Security: Lessons From Latin America

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Abt International Health

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Basic social protection tool - Electronic model

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
An electronic costing model has been developed to provide assistance for determing the cost of a set of basic social security guarantees in a user friendly way.The model is a simple and robust quantitative deterministic "if-then" model with long-term projections (30 years) of fiscal cost of basic social protection benefits and external donor requirements. Projections are based on interlinks between demographic parameters, macro-economic parameters and social protection benefits.

Manual basic social protection

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
An 'electronic costing model 'has been developed to provide assistance to determine the cost of a basic social security benefit package in a user friendly way. It can serve as an educative tool for people with no quantitative skills allowing them to use Excel. The electronic model is based on a methodology of ILO costing studies. It can be used by policy-makers and other stakeholders to produce a first rough assessment of the feasibility of basic social security programmes in a country. But actual policy making has to be assisted with much more detailed costing and impact analysis.
This user manual is meant to be a guide to help you to use the costing model. It provides detailed instructions, explanations of each of the items, and information how to find the necessary data.

Asociación de Empresas Gestoras del Aseguramiento de la Salud (GESTARSALUD)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Income Security for the Elderly and not-so-elderly in the Asia-Pacific Region

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The first part of this paper summarises the underlying theory and values behind the policy and programmes advocated by the ILO in the field of social security, presents the role of ILO conventions and recommendations and offers a survey of the different actors that have a role to play in developing and facilitating social security coverage.
The following variables affecting approaches to social security provision are discussed:
-Economic trends; (in particular the growth of the informal economy) their impact on the structure and nature of the workforce
-The rate of demographic transition in a country; in particular the rate of the ageing population trend
The second part of the paper offers an Asia-Pacific regional perspective; broadly identifying the specificities of different countries within the Asia-Pacific region in terms of their economic and demographic characteristics, current policy approaches to social security provision, the forms of social security provided and the mechanisms by which social security is financed and delivered in these countries. Particular attention is given to the question of pensions in view of demographic change and the need to address the potential for deficiencies of social security coverage as a consequence of migration.
The third part of the paper is devoted to the identification of areas of deficit or gaps in social security coverage or access across countries in the Asia-Pacific region, while the fourth part makes the case for the extension of social security coverage as an imperative, irrespective of conditions of fiscal constraint. As such this final part of the paper identifies major considerations for policy-makers relative to the choice of terms upon which social security access should be provided, offering commentaries on some of the distinctive policy approaches adopted by countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Extending Social Health Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region: Progress and challenges

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

C121 Convention sur les prestations en cas d'accidents du travail et de maladies professionnelles, 1964

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C128 Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967 (No.128) is a revision of the Old Age Insurance Conventions, the Invalidity Insurance Conventions and the Survivor's Insurance Conventions of 1933. Under this Convention Members are required to protect employees through the provision of invalidity benefit, old age benefit and survivor's benefit. By November 2008, 16 countries have ratified the Convention.

C130 Convention concernant les soins médicaux et les indemnités de maladie, 1969

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C130 Medical and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Medical and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969 (No.130) is a revision of the Sickness Insurance Conventions of 1927. The Convention provides rules governing national legislations protecting employees through the provision of medical care of curative or preventive nature and through the provision of sickness benefits. By November 2008, 15 countries have ratified the Convention.

C168 Convention sur la promotion de l'emploi et la protection contre le chômage, 1988

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C183 Convention sur la protection de la maternité, 2000

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Trabalho decente no Brasil: Aumentando a cobertura da seguridade social

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Europe's Experience (AR)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Evolution and Perspectives of Social Security in Arab States (AR)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Expanding Social Protection in Tunisia

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

III Encuentro Internacional de redes EUROsociAL, México D.F. 23-25 junio 2008

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

ILO Office for China and Mongolia

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO Office for China and Mongolia carries out the ILO's programmes and activities in the People's Republic of China (including the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions) and Mongolia. Using ILO's unique tripartite structure, The Beijing Office works in close collaboration with the government, the workers' and employers' organizations to promote decent work for all. The concept of decent work is built on four strategic pillars: the promotion of fundamental principles and rights at work; employment, enterprise creation and human resource development; social protection; and social dialogue. The Decent Work Agenda supports a move towards an integrated development strategy that links rights at work and social dialogue with employment policies and social protection.
Technical support for the Beijing Area Office's projects and activities is provided by its own specialists in employment, industrial relations and HIV/AIDS, along with experts from ILO Sub-regional Office for East Asia based in Bangkok and ILO headquarters in Geneva. These specialists provide technical assistance to its constituents and social partners according to their needs in the field of labour rights, employment, labour administration, industrial relations, occupational safety and health, social security, vocational training, and other issues related to the world of work.
The Director of the ILO Office for China and Mongolia is Ms. Constance Thomas.

ILO Training Programmes (AR)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

ILO's Global Perspective (AR)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Latin America's Experience

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Major Social Insurance Law Reforms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Reforming Pension Schemes in Morocco

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security and its reforms in KSA

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The future of social security in the Arab States: Setting the agenda

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The future of social security in the Arab States: Setting the agenda (Arab)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Unemployment Insurance Law in Bahrain

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

C121 Convenio sobre las prestaciones en caso de accidentes del trabajo y enfermedades profesionales, 1964

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

C128 Convenio sobre las prestaciones de invalidez, vejez y sobrevivientes, 1967

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

C130 Convenio sobre asistencia médica y prestaciones monetarias de enfermedad, 1969

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C168 Convenio sobre el fomento del empleo y la protección contra el desempleo, 1988

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

C183 Convenio sobre la protección de la maternidad, 2000

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

ID 21: Communicating Development Research

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
ID 21 is a knowledge service based at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and funded by the UK Department for International Development. This website hosts news and articles from a range of contributors concerning a variety of development-related topics, including Global Issues (population change, food security, climate change, gender, poverty, human rights, global economy, governance, aid, conflict and emergencies) and Health.

India: Extension of maternity protection: Initial assessment of Janany Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in Orissa

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
By examining the practical adaptation of the national JSY maternal and neo-natal health scheme guidelines to the state of Orissa, this case study report provides an insight on the concrete functioning of the centrally-sponsored Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) scheme; a division of the National Rural Health Mission which took effect in April 2005. Orissa had been identified by JSY as one of ten "low performing states" with an institutional delivery rate of below 25%.

ILO Sub-regional Office for East Asia

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
East Asia, comprising Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, is the most populous and diverse sub-region in the world. It has more than a quarter of the world's population, with levels of development ranging from Least Developed Countries (Cambodia and Lao PDR) to the highly industrialized nations of Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore.In recent years East Asia has been a major driving force for global economic growth, although the rates of growth within the sub-region vary considerably. Systems of government are equally diverse.
The primary objective of the ILO Sub-Regional Office for East Asia is to provide technical support to Governments, Employers' and Workers' Organisations in East Asia in their efforts to promote decent work. This technical support covers a wide range of specific subjects within the four core areas of the ILO's mandate; these are rights at work, employment, social protection and social dialogue.
As a Sub-Regional office, its advisory services and technical assistance support the ILO Country Offices in Beijing and Hanoi, which are responsible for ILO programmes in China, Mongolia and Viet Nam. The Sub-Regional office is directly responsible for ILO activities in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Republic of Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. ILO activities in Japan and Myanmar fall under the responsibility of the ILO Office in Japan and the Liaison Officer for Myanmar respectively.

ILO Sub-regional Office for South Asia

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The SRO-New Delhi, in close collaboration with the Country Offices/Liaison Office in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, is responsible for programme, planning and implementation of ILO activities in these countries besides being directly responsible for ILO activities in India and Islamic Republic of Iran. In the case of Pakistan, SRO-New Delhi provides only technical assistance. Activities in non-member countries in the region - Bhutan and Maldives - are carried out as and when requested.

ILO Sub-regional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO Subregional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific was established in 2000 with the merging of the South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary Advisory Team (SEAPAT) and the ILO Area Office which existed since 1970. As a subregional office, it provides advisory services and technical assistance to countries in the subregion with the support of ILO Area Offices in Indonesia and Fiji.

ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The ILO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific covers one of the most diverse regions of the world -ethnically, culturally, religiously and economically. The population of more than 3.7 billion people includes some of the wealthiest countries on earth as well as two-thirds of the world's poor.
In recent years the region has faced challenges that have seriously tested its social-economic infrastructure -natural disasters, economic crises and continuing conflicts. In addition, shifts in the international economic environment and the spread of globalization continually generate new challenges.
The ILO works with its members in the region to deal with these and other issues. Institution building and local economic development play a critical role in social and economic progress. Respect for fundamental principles and rights at work helps to ensure that all sections of society benefit.
Significant challenges remain, including increasing productive employment opportunities, providing adequate social protection, combating human trafficking, and tackling bonded labour and child labour.
The ROAP operates a wider range of projects to tackle relief and development challenges, covering (amongst other things) child labour, crisis response, the informal economy, labour migration, poverty alleviation, safety and health, skills and employability and youth employment. The Office also supports work carried out by three ILO Subregional offices (SROs).
The major donors for the ILO's work in the region include the European Union, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America and the UN Development Programme.

Selected recent research and policy documents with relevance to the campaign (2005 - June 2008)

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Selected research papers on the extension of social security since 2005.

Selected Technical Cooperation Reports

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Selected technical cooperation reports since 2004. PDF files available under request. Please write to SEC/SOC secretariat

ILO Social Security Department

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Since its creation in 1919, the ILO has actively promoted policies and provided assistance to countries to supply adequate levels of social protection to all members of society. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights recognize the right to social security for everyone. The Social Security Department, with its long experience in the field of technical cooperation activities, research and policy development on issues dealing with social security, provides ILO member States with tools and assistance to achieve and maintain for its peoples this right.

Social Insurance Law, Bahrain (NATLEX entry)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Tanzania Mainland: Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review and Social Budget (Executive Summary)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) and Social Budget (SB) report Executive Summary are products of the first year of work of the ILO/DFID-funded project in Tanzania Mainland: "ILO Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All as a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia".
The main finding is that neither existing contributory (social insurance) nor non-contributory (social assistance) social protection provisions are adequate in terms of the numbers of the population covered, the scope of coverage and the adequacy of benefits/payments received. There is a need to strengthen and better coordinate policy development, resource allocation and implementation of change in relation to both contributory and non-contributory provision. Non-contributory social assistance programmes are without doubt severely under-funded: less than 0.5 per cent of GDP is allocated to social assistance by the Government. National and international NGOs' funding contributes a further 0.5 per cent of GDP.
The SPER and Social Budget Report Executive Summary also includes key information on the labour market in Tanzania Mainland, existing contributory and non-contributory social security schemes, the current state of health care as well as important findings and analysis on the current and future social budget of Tanzania Mainland.

Workers' Compensation Fund Control Board (Zambia)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Workers' Compensation Fund Control Board was established by an Act of Parliamentfor the purposes of compensating workers disabled or killed by occupationalaccidents and diseases. It dates back to 1930 when the Workmen's (Non-native) CompensationOrdinance was passed. Several Amendments have been made since then. As stipulated in Section 110 of the Workers' Compensation Act, all employers arerequired to insure their workers with the Fund, other than the State and any otheremployer exempted by the Minister of Labour.

Decent work country programme for Nepal 2008-2010

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Decent Work Country Programme for Nepal, established in consultation with ILO tripartite constituents, lays out as its objective "To generate productive employment, guaranteeing equal employment opportunities for all, based on a floor of social protection and the full participation of the social partners through strengthening their capacity for social dialogue".

ILO Office in Kathmandu

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Invertir en salud: "el enfoque diagonal"

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Investing In Health: The "Diagonal Financing Approach"

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Between the "vertical financing" and "horizontalfinancing" of health services in developing countries,there exists a third way, labelled "diagonal financing".This diagonal approachseems to be anessential concept forthe positive evolutionof the global structureof health assistance, as explained in Gorik Ooms etal. : The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: acure for the broader malaise of health systems?",March 2008.

Investir dans la santé: « l'Approche Diagonale »

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Learning and Resources Centre on Social Inclusion (CIARIS)

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
CIARIS has a history of knowledge development on social inclusion issues, people, information and communication technologies. CIARIS aims to strengthen practitioners' capacity to design, plan, manage and evaluate projects and policies to fight social exclusion and hence promote decent work. To do this, CIARIS collects information and knowledge, connects people working in the field of social inclusion and poverty reduction, provides training and technical assistance.

Learning and Resources Centre on Social Inclusion (CIARIS)

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
CIARIS has a history of knowledge development on social inclusion issues, people, information and communication technologies. CIARIS aims to strengthen practitioners' capacity to design, plan, manage and evaluate projects and policies to fight social exclusion and hence promote decent work. To do this, CIARIS collects information and knowledge, connects people working in the field of social inclusion and poverty reduction, provides training and technical assistance.

Sistema de Segurança Social moçambicano

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Technical Note Nepal 2007

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The preparation of the report stemmed from interest on behalf of UNICEF Nepal in proposals to strengthen the provision of cash transfers, which might be presented as "Quick-impact peace dividend interventions" benefiting the people of Nepal. The aim of the proposal is to lay down a set of costed social security measures which could be made available to the people of Nepal with a view to provide some economic and social stability to Nepalese in the wake of a return to peace. This report builds on a previous ILO report which presented a costing of a basic social protection benefit package in five Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam) for the period 2006 to 2034. The 2006 report demonstrated that a set of basic social protection measures - access to basic health care, universal old-age and invalidity benefits, and universal child benefits - was feasible and affordable for those countries within a reasonable strategic framework.

A organização dos trabalhadores do sector informal dos mercados de Maputo e sua acção na promoção de melhores condições de vida e de trabalho. O papel da Associação dos Operadores e Trabalhadores do Sector Informal - ASSOTSI

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Colloque « l'avenir de la protection Sociale au Maroc »

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Conference-Debate, "The Future Of Social Protection In Morocco"

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Ghana - Social Security Schemes for Health

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Summary
The national health insurance act (2003) introduced a national compulsory social health insurance scheme covering all persons resident in Ghana. The scheme is operated through mutual and private health insurance schemes; it is supervised by the National Health Insurance Council; a National Health Insurance Fund provides subsidy to district mutual health insurances. The sources of money of the fund include a health insurance levy (VAT of 2.5% on selected goods and services), 2.5% of each person's 17.5% contribution to the Social Security and Pensions Scheme Fund, money allocated from the Parliament, as well as grants and donations. The scheme was covering nearly 30% of the total population in 2006.

Ghana. Technical Note. Financial analysis of the extension of health insurance coverage to all children 0-18 years of age 2007-2016

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The present technical report shows that an extension of free coverage to all children under the age of six decoupled from the registration of the parents, under the assumptions adopted for the study, is financially feasible and builds on the existing commitment of the Government of Ghana, to extend health insurance coverage to all its population. The extension of the coverage to all children under the age of 18 while financially feasible in the short-term due to the high level of reserves currently available in the National Health Insurance System (NHIS), will bring the NHIS to a deficit around 2015. Therefore, it is recommended that the extension of coverage proceed in stages beginning with the universal coverage of children under the age of 6 in the immediate and then following a review of the financial system of the NHIS an extension to other age groups of children.

Global Social Trust (GST)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The mission of the GLOBAL SOCIAL TRUST Network is to systematically reduce poverty in developing countries through a partnership that invests in and sponsors the development of sustainable national social protection schemes for people and groups which have been excluded from the economic benefits of development. The basic idea is to request people in the richer countries, i.e. OECD countries, to contribute on a voluntary basis a rather modest monthly amount (say €5 per month or about 0.2 per cent of their monthly income) to a GLOBAL SOCIAL TRUST which will be organized in the form of a global network of National Social TRUSTs supported by the ILO, which will then: invest these resources to build up basic social protection schemes in developing countries; and sponsor concrete benefits for a defined initial period until the basic social protection schemes become self-supporting.

Making Cash Count

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Protecção social básica em Moçambique: algumas experiência e desafios

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Rapport de l'étude de faisabilité des systèmes de protection sociale à base communautaire (SPSC)

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Social Security and National Insurance Trust

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

A luta contra a pobreza e a exclusão social em Portugal - Experiencias do programa nacional de luta contra a pobreza

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This paper describes the conceptual framework of The STEP programme relating to the fight against exclusion from social protection in health. Then, it proposes an original definition and characterisation of this exclusion. It also provides an in-depth analysis of its most frequent causes. Lastly, it reviews possible solutions to this problem taking into account its various dimensions.

Antigua and Barbuda. Report to the Government. Seventh actuarial review of the Social Security Fund as of 31 December 2002

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Includes specific issues pertaining to investments and the introduction of an unemployment benefit and an analysis of benefit experience between 1999 and 2002.

Argentina: Valuación actuarial del Sistema Integrado de Jubilaciones y Pensiones al 31 de diciembre de 2001

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Aruba: Report to the Government - Alternative policy options for the long-term financial consolidation of the Social Insurance Bank

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Measures have to be taken in order to maintain present relative benefit levels (replacement rates) necessary in order to avoid future old-age poverty, without upsetting society¿s consensus on the scheme¿s highly redistributive design, which has contributed substantially to poverty avoidance.

Ashwini Case Study

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

In the recent years, it has been observed in India a growing perception of the necessity to extend social protection to all excluded groups and a wider commitment to actively contribute to this extension through various strategies including the promotion on new micro-insurance schemes. As a direct result, numerous actors of the civil society (community-based organisations, women¿s groups, trade informal economy trade unions, NGOs, micro-finance institutions¿) have already taken numerous initiatives designing and setting-up micro-insurance schemes that were tailor-made to answer the priority needs and contributory capacity of their target groups. Recognising knowledge building as a first key issue, the STEP programme initiated in India a series of case studies aiming at documenting the various health micro-insurance experiments conducted at the local level, highlighting their operational mechanisms and assessing their present and potential impact in order to facilitate their possible development or replication. The present study on the Ashwini health insurance scheme, developed in Tamil Nadu Gudalur district, is part of this series and has been established with the cooperation of the GTZ.

British Virgin Islands: Report to the Government Eighth actuarial review of the Social Security system as of 31 December 2003

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The present review, covers the period 2001 to 2003. The actuarial report is divided into five Sections. Section 1 presents the experience of the system since the last actuarial review. Section 2 describes the demographic and economic environment of the BVI and provides the framework within which the Social Security system will evolve over the next 50 years. Section 3 presents the projected revenue and expenditure of the various Branches of the system under the present legal provisions. Section 4 shows the impact of modifications to the system. Section 5 presents considerations on statistics.

Concepts and strategies for combating social exclusion. An overview.

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This book describes different strategies and concepts used in the fight against social exclusion. It underlines its complexity and the diversity of strategies dedicated to fight social exclusion around the world. It gives basic knowledge to field operators to define and locate their actions, and to end with ¿simplifying¿ visions of exclusion. It mainly offers a typology of strategies and a description of fundamental principles that allow improving actions in the fight against exclusion. This overview is part of the Learning and Resource center on Social Inclusion (CIARIS).

Contribution actuelle et potentielle des mutuelles au financement, à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé, Etudes de cas au Bénin

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Contribution actuelle et potentielle des mutuelles au financement, à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé, Etudes de cas au Mali

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Contribution actuelle et potentielle des mutuelles au financement, à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé, Etudes de cas au Sénégal

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Contribution of mutual health organizations to financing, delivery, and access to health care, Ghana case study

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This document presents five case studies of mutual health insurance schemes in Ghana: "The Community Financing Scheme for Admissions, West Gonja Hospital", "Nkoranza Community Financing Health Insurance Scheme", "The Duayaw-Nkwanta Dagaaba Association", "The Teachers' Welfare Funds" and "The District Health Insurance Schemes".

Contribution of mutual health organizations to financing, delivery, and access to health care, Nigeria case study

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This document presents three case studies of mutual health insurance schemes in Nigeria: "Lawanson and Jas Community Partners for Health", "The Country Women's Association of Nigeria's Health Development Fund" and the "Ibughubu Improvement Union".

Contribution à la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA dans l'économie informelle: le rôle actuel et potentiel des systèmes de protection sociale décentralisés

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Cyprus: Technical note - Actuarial valuation of the pension plan of the Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus as of 31 December 2003

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Simulations show that the cost of the scheme is very sensitive to two economic assumptions: the salary growth and the rate of return of the fund.

Desarrollo local y protección social en Europa

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Desenvolvimento local e protecção social na Europa

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Desenvolvimento local, proteção social e inclusão: Tipologia de experiências selecionadas no Brasil

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Aims first to examine the historical evolution of the treatment of social exclusion and unemployment in Brazil so as to understand the importance of building a Brazilian identity associated to the promotion of inclusion through the work of the masses. Analizes the local development initiatives for each of the three sub-national development patterns, so as to better identify their potentials and difficulties when tackling exclusion and the lack of social protection. Finally, this study contributes to the formulation of a basic typology of local development, social protection and inclusion initiatives, which can be used not only as a methodological reference for further research but also to compare the quality and quantitity of intitiatives of local development. It concludes that certain dissonance between the three types of local initiatives, with diverging results, is also indicative of the effort required to homogenize interventions measures; an opportunity to construct a national policy supporting local development capable of bringing about convergence in terms of scale and results.

Dominica: Report to the Government - Eighth Actuarial Review of the Social Security Fund as of 31 December 2002

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Includes projections of DSS (Dominica Social Security) income, expenditure and reserves through 2062. Since the estimation of future experience is uncertain and depends on many demographic and financial assumptions, three scenarios are presented to show the plausible range of likely outcomes.

Egalité hommes-femmes et sécurité sociale: jurisprudence de la Cour européenne de justice

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

El gasto de bolsillo en salud en América Latina y el Caribe : Razones de eficiencia para la extensión de la protección social en salud

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Elementos para el análisis comparado de la extensión de la cobertura social en salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Elements for the comparative analysis of extension of social protection in health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Over the past two decades, numerous reforms and policies have been implemented to improve health-care and social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper examines the various reforms and policies and compares their effect on the extension of social protection in health.

Estudio de caso: Asociación Mutual de Trabajadores de los Batayes AMUTRABA-Santo Domingo

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Empresa Solidaria de Salud "Coesperanza" Boyaca-Colombia

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Empresa Solidaria de Salud Amuandes Bogotá-Colombia

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Fondo Comunitario de Salud, Municipio de Tupiza-Bolivia

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Policlínica Unica del Complejo Jose Pedro Varela, Montevideo-Uruguay

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Policlínica Zully Sánchez, Barrio Peñarol, Montevideo-Uruguay

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Seguro Comunitario de Solano, Provincia de Cañar-Ecuador

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Seguro de Salud Universal de la Asociación Mutual del Campo Matagalpa-Nicaragua

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Seguro del Agricultor Distrito de Sama, Las Yaras Tacna-Perú

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Servicio de Salud Asociación Mutual S.M. Laspiur-Argentina

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Servicio de Salud Universal del Instituto Politécnico Tómas Katari Sucre-Bolivia

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio de caso: Servicio Solidario de Salud de la CGTG Guatemala-Guatemala

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Extending maternity protection to women in the informal economy. An overview of community-based health-financing schemes

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This working paper tries to get a better understanding of the way community-based health-financing systems are attempting to meet the maternity care needs. It starts by classifying and analyzing 23 community-based health-financing schemes, all containing a maternity care component. The schemes discussed here come from three different regions in the world: Africa, Asia and Latin America and are described in more detail in the last part of the study. Following this analysis an overview is given of the types of maternity care covered by these community-based health-financing schemes.

Extending Maternity Protection to Women in the Informal Economy. The case of VimoSEWA, India

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This study aimed to increase knowledge regarding the maternity care needs of women working in the informal economy and analyse how these needs can be addressed by a community-based health insurance scheme. The study consists of two sub-studies. Study A assesses the needs and services among women working in the informal economy, and also gives a brief introduction to the informal economy in India. Study B provides a review of maternity benefits delivered by VimoSEWA. The study includes a description of packages offered under VimoSEWA, and a questionnaire on maternity protection.

Extending Maternity Protection to women in the Informal Economy: The Case of Nepal

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This study presents three community-based health-financing schemes and three health micro-insurance schemes both providing maternity protection services. It takes up their strengths and weaknesses. It includes preliminary listings of institutions in Nepal for the study and their services related to maternity protection, as well as two questionnaires; one for beneficiaries and one for non-beneficiaries on maternity protection services at community level.

Extension mondiale de la sécurité sociale (GESS). Un espace interactif de collaboration pour l'extension de la sécurité sociale à tous

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Extensión mundial de la seguridad social (GESS). Un espacio interactivo de colaboración para la extensión de la seguridad social para todos

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Fiji: Report to the Government on the actuarial valuation of the Fiji National Provident Fund evaluated as of 30 June 2002

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) requested the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to provide technical assistance to conduct an actuarial valuation. The purposes of the actuarial valuation, according to the terms of reference, are as follows: Review the last actuarial valuation conducted in 1997 to determine that the parameters, assumptions, forecasts, and trends in the report remain true after five years; Identify any new parameters and influencing factors that affect the FNPF pension scheme and determine its impact on previous recommendations and decisions; Recommend improvements to the current FNPF pension scheme for consideration by the FNPFBoard and Executive Management. The previous actuarial valuation was undertaken by the ILO in 1997 under the project ¿Reform of the Fiji National Provident Fund Pension Scheme.¿ The FNPF Board has decided that an actuarial review should be conducted every five years. A new valuation falls due as five years has elapsed since the last valuation. The date of valuation was chosen to be 30 June 2002. The present actuarial valuation has been carried out by the following experts. Mr. Kenichi Hirose, Social Protection Specialist, ILO Sub-regional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific, Manila Mr. Aniceto Orbeta, Project Economist Mr. Carlo Villacorta, Project Statistical Assistant Mr Hirose conducted a mission to Suva from 7 to 17 April 2003 to finalise the actuarial valuation. Preliminary results were presented to the FNPF executive management team, which provided an opportunity to discuss the main findings and recommendations of the actuarial valuation. This report presents the main findings and recommendation of the actuarial valuation. The report is organized as follows. Chapter 1 presents an analysis of the present situation and past performance of the FNPF. Chapter 2 sets out the main demographic and economic assumptions. Chapter 3 analyses the longterm financial evaluation of the FNPF and discusses reform proposals. The team of experts are thankful to the General Manager of the FNPF, Mr. Olota Rokovunisei, and his staff, in particular, Mr. Winston Chan, Assistant General Manager, Information Technology and Research, and Ms. Olita Talemaibau, Research Officer, for their technical support.

Gender mainstreaming in technical cooperation projects: the experience of the ILO Global Programme STEP (2003 edition)

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This article proposes a way to improve health provision for populations that are usually excluded from access to health services. It starts out from a short description of who the excluded are, and what they are excluded from. Then it looks at the major policy statements elaborated at the international level, and proceeds to propose the missing dimension. Next, based on field testing and analysis of various pilot cases, the document proposes a concept for group-based health insurance, or "micro-insurance". Lastly, it proposes a strategy to implement this concept.

Global Extension of Social Security (GESS). An interactive space for collaboration on the extension of social security to all

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Leaflet presenting the Internet platform "Global Extension of Social Security" - GESS. GESS is a multi-service tool intended for all stakeholders in the field of global social security extension - decision and policy-makers, regulators, researchers, trainers, and managers and operators of social security schemes. GESS:

provides a continually updated information and knowledge base;

develops a critical vision of current knowledge, making it easier to identify knowledge gaps and what the new development priority axes may be;

offers collaborative workspaces meant for experts, research fellows or fieldworkers to produce joint material, share experiences and innovations, conduct research projects, further follow major extension projects worldwide.

Global Information on Micro-Insurance - GIMI

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This leaflet present the Gimi platform. Gimi connects micro-insurance actors for the extension of social security through exchange, technical support and knowledge management.

Grenada: Report to the Government - Seventh actuarial review of the National Insurance Fund as of 31 December 2002

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The two main focus areas should be the strengthening of the Fund for future generations and making major improvements in the participation of self-employed persons. As the Barbados experience attests, an unemployment insurance scheme can be good for the economy and can be properly administered in the Caribbean.

Guinée: Rapport au gouvernement - Evaluation actuarielle du régime géré par la Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale au 31 décembre 2001

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Guyana: Report to the Government - Sixth Actuarial Review of the National Insurance Fund as of 31 December 2001

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Government is encouraged to initiate major reforms now to bring long-term sustainability to the Fund. Less substantial amendments will merely postpone depletion of NIS reserves by a few years.

Hacia un trabajo decente: Una protección social en salud para todos los trabajadores y sus familias

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Health micro-insurance: A Compendium

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This compendium provides key information on 130 health micro-insurance systems (HIMS) from 26 countries and 3 continents. Its main aim is to serve as a facilitating tool for interested parties who would like to initiate contact with HIMS operators and developers.

Institutional change and its impact on the poor and excluded: The Indian decentralisation experience

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This study analyses the impact of democratic decentralisation on the chances of social excluded groups to participate in newly created local governance institutions in three Indian states. This institutional reform included a quota for disadvantaged groups like women, lower casts and the poor to ensure their effective participation. The comparative analysis on the determinants of participation of these groups vis-à-vis other groups across the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh yields highly interesting results, relevant beyond the Indian context. The findings of this study lead to say that the success of institutional reforms aiming to increase political participation depend on the specific design of the process itself as well as on the local conditions. An effective devolution of resources to these local governance institutions seems to positively influence participation as well as vibrant political society characterized by a broad spectrum of political parties, active civil society and newspaper reading.

Integrar o desenvolvimento económico local e a protecção social: Experiências da África do Sul

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Compared with existing economic and social policies in South Africa, this paper looks for a local economic development which is more protective and more pro-poor, and a social protection which enables economic activity. Several propositions are the points of departure to frame the choice of the case studies analysed, such as a core aspect of integrating social protection and LED, if the objective is to overcome poverty and exclusion, has to be to find processes for including less powerful and marginalised groups (whether the working poor, the junior ranks of local Government, the tiny but vital community based organizations, the unpaid volunteers) in needs indentification, and in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes.

Integrating local economic development and social protection: Experiences from South Africa

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Compared with existing economic and social policies in South Africa, this paper looks for a local economic development which is more protective and more pro-poor, and a social protection which enables economic activity. Several propositions are the points of departure to frame the choice of the case studies analysed, such as a core aspect of integrating social protection and LED, if the objective is to overcome poverty and exclusion, has to be to find processes for including less powerful and marginalised groups (whether the working poor, the junior ranks of local Government, the tiny but vital community based organizations, the unpaid volunteers) in needs indentification, and in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes.

Intrégration du principe d'égalité entre hommes et femmes dans l'ensemble des activités du programme STEP

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

La lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión social en Portugal. Experiencias del Programa Nacional de Lucha contra La Pobreza

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

La lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale au Portugal. Quelques expériences du Programme national de lutte contre la pauvreté.

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

La mutuelle de santé: la prévoyance et la solidarité pour une meilleure santé. Brochure de sensibilisation

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Learning from experience: A gendered approach to social protection for workers in the informal economy

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Using a gendered approach, this paper provides a conceptual basis and a review of initiatives concerning the extension of protection for workers in the informal economy. It examines the situation of women in this sector as well as their need for social protection. It then proposes an approach for extending this protection, based on a multi-dimensional matrix. Lastly, it presents a series of case studies on innovative systems for covering people working in the informal economy.

List of technical cooperation reports

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Contains a list of ILO's technical cooperation reports on social security, kept regularly up to date.

Local development and social protection in Europe

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Attempts to define a number of concepts and discusses the issues involved, in an endeavour to approximate two phenomena - local development and social protection - before considering the possible points of intersection between them (sections 2 and 3). Section 4 deals with three case studies, in Portugal, Spain and Italy. These European examples were choosen because the relationship between social protection and local development differ in each case, they are less often dealt with in comparative analyses of social policy and are being conducted in a peripheral context comprising specific connections between the State and the local economy and society. Drawn conclusions from eah case can be applied more generally. The last section contains several formative orientations to help readers adapt this text for training purposes.

Local development, social protection and inclusion: Typology of selected initiatives in Brazil

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Aims first to examine the historical evolution of the treatment of social exclusion and unemployment in Brazil so as to understand the importance of building a Brazilian identity associated to the promotion of inclusion through the work of the masses. Analizes the local development initiatives for each of the three sub-national development patterns, so as to better identify their potentials and difficulties when tackling exclusion and the lack of social protection. Finally, this study contributes to the formulation of a basic typology of local development, social protection and inclusion initiatives, which can be used not only as a methodological reference for further research but also to compare the quality and quantitity of intitiatives of local development. It concludes that certain dissonance between the three types of local initiatives, with diverging results, is also indicative of the effort required to homogenize interventions measures; an opportunity to construct a national policy supporting local development capable of bringing about convergence in terms of scale and results.

Mainstreaming gender in the ILO Global Programme STEP

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This brochure gives an overview of the STEP programme strategy on mainstreaming gender. The strategy is contained in four main objectives: to ensure gender sensitivity and mainstreaming gender equality in all STEP operational activities, to build a knowledge base for gender equality in the context of social exclusion and extension of social protection in health care, to establish links and contribute to overall ILO gender policies, and to build partnerships and advocate a gendered approach to the elimination of social exclusion and the extension of social protection for all.

Minimum income and social integration: Institutional arrangements in Europe

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This document deals with the different institutional arrangements of minimum income and social integration policies in Europe. It stems from the synthesis report the authors prepared for the EU peer review process, which aimed at placing the Belgian DIS policy in a comparative European context. Five questions are addressed in this document concerning: the increasing importance of social assistance and activation schemes in Europe; the main features of the welfare systems within which social assistance policies are embedded; the characteristics of the Belgian DIS which are relevant in a comparative perspective; the impact of the changes and the critical issues that have emerged; and what can one learns from the comparison.

Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, Zambia

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Ministry of Health, Zambia

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Zambia

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Mutual health insurance schemes in Thailand: Awareness-raising brochure

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This information brochure is intended for the general public. It presents mutual health insurance schemes using cartoons, thus making them accessible to illiterate people. (This brochure is only available in Thai.)

Mutual insurance schemes and social protection

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

On the basis of the available documentation, this study firstly examines the operation of two health micro-insurances: Bwamanda in Zaire and SEWA in India. Then it compares their respective advantages and limitations for improving access to health-care for excluded groups. Lastly, after analysing the viability of these health micro-insurance systems, the document proposes recommendations for increasing their efficiency. This document was written in the context of STEP Research Group on Civil Society and Social Economy in collaboration with the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn.

O envolvimento da população na redução e na extensão da protecção social. Desenvolvimento Comunitário de Lajedos, Cabo Verde

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

O movimento associativo local e o papel desempenhado pela comunidade residente na melhoria das condições gerais de vida: O bairro de Quelele em Bissau - Guiné-Bissau

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Official Online Gateway of the United Republic of Tanzania

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Out-of-pocket health expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean: The efficiency rationale for extending social protection in health

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The extension of social protection in health to excluded persons is not only justified on the grounds of equity. It is likely to increase the efficiency of health expenses in households. This paper aims to analyse, from a theoretical point of view, the different ways in which social protection contributes to efficiency.

Overview of the exclusion of social protection in health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This paper contains an estimate of the extent of exclusion from social protection in health in Latin America and the Caribbean. This estimate was obtained by using three complementary parameters: The level of coverage of the population by the social security systems, the existence of geographical, financial and cultural obstacles to access to health-care and the utilisation of health-care services. This document also presents the profiles of the main groups of excluded persons.

Panorama da luta contra exclusão social. Conceitos e estratégias

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Panorama de la exclusión de la protección social en salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Pension and Insurance Authority, Zambia

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Plataforma de Abidjan. Estratégias de apoio às mutualidades de saúde em África

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Plate-forme d'Abidjan: stratégies d'appui aux mutuelles de santé en Afrique

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Republic of Azerbaijan: Preliminary assessment of the Social Protection System

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Measures have to be taken in order to maintain present relative benefit levels (replacement rates) necessary in order to avoid future old-age poverty, without upsetting society¿s consensus on the scheme¿s highly redistributive design, which has contributed substantially to poverty avoidance.

Republic of Cyprus: Report to the Government - Actuarial valuation of the Social Insurance Scheme as of 31 December 2000

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Recommends to replace the present financing and accounting format separated into a Basic Account, a Supplementary Account and an Unemployment Account, by an accounting base reflecting the four benefit branches (Unemployment benefits, Short-term benefits, Employment injury benefits and Long-term benefits).

Social exclusion in Central-Eastern Europe. Concept, measurement and policy interventions

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Provides an analytical basis for the formulation of future strategies and policy interventions in Central-Eastern Europe. It describes (1) the conceptual issues related to social exclusion, (2) its measurement, and (3) the scope of the problem. The paper includes a case study of social policy developments in Hungary during the last decade; this section analyses the assessment of income redistribution policies using a tax-benefit microsimulation model.

Social Security Inquiry in Tanzania

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The links gives access to the list of social security schemes in the country of at least most of them and, for each,

Some expenditure and financial data

data on protected persons (active contributors and affiliated)

and information on benefits:

expenditure, number of beneficiaries and level of benefit

Strategies for the Extension of Social Protection, Turin November 2008: Timetable

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This inter-regional training course, held from 3rd-14th November 2008 in Turin, Italy, focuses on the latest strategies developed across the world for the extension of coverage of statutory social protection systems and the development of innovative schemes. The main objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planners and social actors to develop tripartite strategies for extending social protection coverage to all.This document provides a timetable of the sessions that will take place over the two-week course.

Strategies for the Extension of Social Protection, Turin November 2008: Training Course Brochure

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This inter-regional training course, held from 3rd-14th November 2008 in Turin, Italy, focuses on the latest strategies developed across the world for the extension of coverage of statutory social protection systems and the development of innovative schemes. The main objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planners and social actors to develop tripartite strategies for extending social protection coverage to all.
This brochure provides practical administrative information as well as details on the context, objectives, methodology and programme of the course.

The Abidjan Platform: Strategies to support mutual health organizations in Africa

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

In West and Central Africa, mutual health insurance schemes are still relatively new and few in number. However, they are rapidly growing. Nevertheless, in this region, as elsewhere in Africa, the mutual insurance movement needs a conducive environment and adequate technical support to further develop in an appropriate manner. The Abidjan Platform presents an ensemble of ideas and principles to create efficient and coherent support strategies for organizations involved in mutual insurance schemes.The Abidjan Platform is the result of a collective reflection by various types of actors involved in the promotion of mutual insurance schemes, who came together during a workshop held in Abidjan in June 1998. This workshop was jointly organized by the ILO (Regional Office for Africa/STEP/ACOPAM), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its programme "Partnership for Health Reform" (PHR), the German Technical Development Agency (GTZ), the National Alliance of Christian Mutual Aid of Belgium (ANMC) and the NGO World Solidarity Movement (WSM).

The fight against poverty and social exclusion in Portugal. Experiences from the National Programme of Fight against Poverty

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This study aims to describe and analyse the Portuguese experience in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. It provides the theoretical and historical background to the creation of the National Programme for the Fight against Poverty (NPFAP) in Portugal. No attempt is made to evaluate the NPFAP, but rather to identify and illustrate its methodological principles and implementation strategies based on the analysis of concrete projects, the lessons from which serve as a reference to other countries and situations.

The United Republic of Tanzania Poverty Monitoring. Ministry of Planning, Economy and Empowerment

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Towards decent work: Social protection in health for all workers and their families

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This paper describes the conceptual framework of The STEP programme relating to the fight against exclusion from social protection in health. Then, it proposes an original definition and characterisation of this exclusion. It also provides an in-depth analysis of its most frequent causes. Lastly, it reviews possible solutions to this problem taking into account its various dimensions.

Women organizing for social protection. The Self-Employed Women's Association's Integrated Insurance Scheme, India

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is an association of Indian women working in the informal sector. Created in 1972, today it has more than 200,000 members. In 1991, SEWA launched a social protection system offering life insurance and health insurance. The document describes the context and the motivations at the origins of this social protection system. It also presents its operations and its evolution and undertakes a financial and institutional analysis of the scheme.

Administrator's Guide: Country profiles

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
This is an administrator's guide to using the "country profiles" section in the GESS platform.

Social protection dynamic of extension in Senegal

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Presents the dynamics of the extension of social protection in Senegal during the last decade. Describes the development of micro insurance schemes in the country, showing the different strategies set up and the results obtained, mainly through the articulations and partnerships built up during that period.

La protección social de cara al futuro: Acceso, financiamiento y solidaridad

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Shaping the Future of Social Protection: Access, Financing and Solidarity

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT
The proposals set forth in this document rest on the premise that public policy should be guided by the ownership of rights. These recommendations are therefore designed to build bridges between social rights and the policy guidelines needed to make them more enforceable through improved access, better financing and greater solidarity. To that end, an exhaustive analysis is undertaken of some of the main components of social protection, such as the reform and design of health and social security systems and poverty reduction programmes. A consideration of labour market dynamics and the countries' fiscal positions serves as a basis for this inquiry, which is presented in conjunction with an assessment of the countries' potential for guaranteeing social rights in structurally heterogeneous societes.

Coloquio "El Futuro De La Protección Social En Marruecos":

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Aspectos clave del Diálogo Social Nacional: un documento de referencia sobre el diálogo social

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

El microseguro: extensión del seguro de salud a los excluidos

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

El trabajo decente y la economía informal

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Entrevista a Franck Droin, del Grupo Kadris, sobre la extensión de la protección social en salud

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Historias Laborales en la Seguridad Social

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview with Franck Droin of Kadris Consultants on the Extension of Social Health Protection

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Interview with Franck Droin of Kadris; an independent French consultancy agency operating at the international level specialised in strategy and management in the fields of health and social protection. The interview provides an overview of current developments in the health and social protection sector across a range of developed and developing countries and concerning a variety of different actors. Emphasis is laid on the importance of linkages between different actors as well as on the potential for using the knowledge and skills acquired in one country in a different context and part of the world.

Seguro de Salud Universal de la Asociación Mutua del Campo

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-NEWS No. 1

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
G-NEWS is the quarterly newsletter of GIMI which is available in English, French and Spanish and gathers relevant information about the extension of social security and about microinsurance. It describes recent initiatives (new systems, studies, etc.); presents trainings, workshops and conferences; highlights key resources; identifies new sites and events on the web and proposes a feature article.
G-NEWS is a collaborative product based on your contributions. You can share your experiences in a space dedicated to this on GIMI ("Community news") or send an e-mail to gimi@ilo.org.

G-NEWS No. 1

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-NEWS No. 1

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Healing Fields Foundation

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Protección social a los desempleados

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Brochure GESS

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Restricciones, problemas y dilemnas de la protección social en América latina enfrentando los desafíos del envejecimiento y la seguridad de los ingresos

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Strengthening social protection for ASEAN migrant workers through social security agreements

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This report seeks to demonstrate the importance of agreements between countries to coordinate their social security systems in order to ensure that migrant workers, and their families, will have access to the programs of the coutnries in which they have worked. It proposes specific measures that can be taken to begin the process of concluding agreements.

India: A provident fund for unorganized workers

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Provident Fund set up in West Bengal provides a good example of a tailor-made pension mechanism allowing a wide range of unorganised sector workers to access old-age benefits. This scheme was set up following a wide consultation process with various trade unions and professional associations, demonstrating the need to involve all stakeholders in the design phase of any new social security programme. The unorganised sector in India constitutes 94% of the total workforce of the country. At the beginning of the year 2006, a total of 676,000 workers were enrolled in the scheme.

Indonesia: Implementation of the national social security law

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
In 2004, the Indonesian Parliament approved a major legislative achievement providing a basic framework for the development of a national social security and social assistance system. The law stipulates the principles and goals of the National Social Security System supervised by a Council and concerning programmes to cover five major policy areas: health insurance, employment injury, old-age, pensions and death benefits. Employers have the obligation to enrol their employees in the social security schemes and to jointly pay the contributions. Moreover it is stipulated that the Government will provide social assistance to the poor. Consequently this law is supposed to be a major step forward in the development of a comprehensive national social security system in Indonesia. However, so far it has failed to give meaningful impact except for covering the poor. Moreover, the law does not mention the transition measures from the existing segmented schemes to the ultimate system, nor does it mention other points concerning provisions, administration, and coordination. These issues need to be addressed if the system is to be implemented efficiently.

Micro Insurance Innovations Project (MIP) in the Philippines (Pre-appraisal Report)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The pre-appraisal report on the Microinsurance Innovations Project in the Philippines deals with the background and situation of microinsurance in the Philippines as well as proposing recommendations for its evolution. The microinsurance approach has developed a number of innovative and promising features in the country such as a regulatory framework developed by a visionary Insurance Commission which is continuously being adapted; emerging and increasingly competitive microfinance and insurance sectors that motivate MFIs to diversify their products and services, etc. An estimated 76% of the population is already enrolled in PhilHealth and some progress has been made by PhilHealth to enrol those defined as poor in order to achieve its mandate of universal coverage. However, despite these efforts, almost all those left without any kind of insurance are in the informal economy, and the existing social insurance schemes fail to cover them. Indeed, few commercial health service actors provide health insurance to the disadvantaged or the informal sector. Moreover the new provider type MicroInsurance MBA has rapidly and efficiently expanded over the past years but its sustainability remains a major challenge. While PhilHealth is attempting more aggressively to reach out to informal economy workers, this document argues that microinsurance should become an integrated part of the strategy of the German and Philippine Development Co-operation in the focal area. Indeed, it recommends that the German Development Cooperation implements a new ¿Microinsurance Innovation PROJECT (MIP)¿ to support microinsurance with various partners via technical assistance.

Taller sobre técnicas actuariales y financiamiento de la seguridad social

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Non-contributory pensions and poverty prevention

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
One of the main findings of the report is that in Brazil and South Africa, non-contributory pension programmes reach alarge number of poor older people (5.3 million in Brazil and 1.9 million inSouth Africa) at relatively low cost (1 per cent of GDP in Brazil and 1.4 percent in South Africa). The programmes are financially sustainable and attract alarge measure of political support. They are perceived by policy-makers,experts, and the public as effective because they link redistribution to the poorwith intergenerational redistribution, are reasonably well administered,facilitate social and economic change, and are politically sustainable.

Mapping of social security provisions by NG0s, government agencies and other civil society organizations in Zanzibar - Interviewers Manual

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The ILO is being funded by DFID with additional funding from the UNCT Tanzania to produce a Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) and Social Budget (SB) for the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar in the context of the ¿ILO Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All as a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia¿. The SPER and SB will consider contributory and non-contributory social protection in Zanzibar in order to create a base line and fifteen year projections.

In order to be able to assess existing non-contributory social protection it is necessary to undertake a mapping exercise covering all such types of provision as well as a situational analysis of Zakat and other faith provisions that will be carried out separately.

The mapping is in fact an inventory of all institutions (non governmental and community based organizations ¿ including faith-based organisations ¿, and international agencies) as well as government agencies providing non-contributory social security benefits. The expected output of this study is a report based mainly on the analysis of the data collected through a structured questionnaire administered in each of the identified institutions and agencies. In addition, extensive use of further existing information (notably on the institutional framework and social protection providers) from reports and surveys, will help in understanding the results and interpretation of them in relation of the specific context of Zanzibar.

This manual goes along with the questionnaire used for the quantitative part of this study.

Mapping of social security provisions by NG0s, government agencies and other civil society organizations in Zanzibar - Questionnaire

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The ILO is being funded by DFID with additional funding from the UNCT Tanzania to produce a Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) and Social Budget (SB) for the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar in the context of the ILO Global Campaign for Social Protection and Coverage for All as a Means to Reducing Poverty in Africa and Asia. The SPER and SB will consider contributory and non-contributory social protection in Zanzibar in order to create a base line and fifteen year projections.

In order to be able to assess existing non-contributory social protection it is necessary to undertake a mapping exercise covering all such types of provision as well as a situational analysis of Zakat and other faith provisions that will be carried out separately.

The mapping is in fact an inventory of all institutions (non governmental and community based organizations including faith-based organisations, and international agencies) as well as government agencies providing non-contributory social security benefits. The expected output of this study is a report based mainly on the analysis of the data collected through a structured questionnaire administered in each of the identified institutions and agencies. In addition, extensive use of further existing information (notably on the institutional framework and social protection providers) from reports and surveys, will help in understanding the results and interpretation of them in relation of the specific context of Zanzibar.

Ministry of Health of Rwanda

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Study on the linkages between formal social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Gives a brief overview of the social protection system in Rwanda and presents the legal system of social security, providing with further details on health insurance schemes (examples of civil servant and military sector schemes), community-based schemes and the private sector.
It also presents the legal framework that currently exists for the community-based mechanisms of social protection as well as for the informal sector.
Contractual arrangements with health care-providers and linkages between the existing schemes are also studied. Part of the study is dedicated to the Government will of improving quality of and access to health care, as well as to future perspectives.

Total public Social Protection and health expenditure in percentage of GDP

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Social security core indicator [SP 1]:
Total public SP and health expenditure in percentage of GDP.pdf

For detailed data and other indicators, please consult the Social security expenditure database

Tanzania - Analytical Report for Integrated Labour Force Survey 2006

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals has increased the need for data to monitor andevaluate poverty eradication in all United Nations member states. Demand for effective data inTanzania emerged clearly in 1997 time when the Government adopted the National PovertyEradication Strategy (NPES). The NPES was later transformed into the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). This was subsequently revised to arrive at the currently prevailing National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP), or MKUKUTA, in February 2005.

The IntegratedLabour Force Survey (ILFS) is among the surveys planned to be conducted once in every five-yearinterval. To ensure this system moves smoothly, the country has established a basket/pooled fundingsystem that will finance all the selected census and surveys.This report presents the findings of the ILFS that was conducted in 2006 with funding from theNSGRP/MKUKUTA system. The findings update those of the ILFS conducted in 2000/01, and reveal changes in the labour market of the country between year 2001 and 2006. The survey results provide labour market indicators for tracking progress made in implementing various policy reforms such as job creation as planned in NSGRP/MKUKUTA.

Ministry of Local Government, Republic of Rwanda (MINALOC)

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Employees Provident Fund of Sri lanka

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

National Task Force: "Extension of social security to the excluded and poor" Draft National Action Plan

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Fund of Rwanda

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Sustainable Recovery and Shaping a Fair Globalization

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A System of Health Accounts

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Health care is one of the largest sectors in OECD countries, and accounts now for over 8% of GDP on average. Reliable international comparisons of health care expenditure levels are increasingly being sought by policy-makers and researchers, as several OECD countries re-examine the adequacy of total health spending, and the public and private shares of the expenditure.
This manual provides a set of comprehensive, consistent and flexible accounts to meet the needs of government and private-sector analysts and policy-makers. These accounts constitute a common framework for enhancing the comparability of data over time and across countries, and suggest basic links with non-monetary indicators.
The manual establishes a conceptual basis of statistical reporting rules compatible with other economic and social statistics and proposes a newly developed Internantional Classification for Health Accounts (ICHA) which covers three dimensions: health care by functions of care; providers of health care services; and sources of funding.
The System of Health Accounts provides basic concepts and definitions underlying the annual data collection of OECD Health Data. Once this accounting standard has been implemented in a large number of OECD countries, it will allow for more consistent and reliable comparisons of health care expenditure across countries.

Sri Lanka Yasiru Mutual Provident Fund Social Security Fund

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Yasiru Mutual Provident Society is the micro-insurance wing of the All Ceylon Community Development Council, an NGO registered in 1993 that is working on social mobilisation and organisation of the poor in various districts of Sri Lanka. Targeting the poorest segments of the population, Yasiru provides its insurance package via a network of partners and membership of the society now totals around 76,000. The product offered covers (for all individual members of a family) death, disability and hospitalisation. Yasiru has been supported by the Rabobank Group and its reinsurance company, N V Interpolis.

Status Assessment of Social Security Provision in Sri Lanka

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

المؤسسة العامة للضمان الإجتماعي

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

المؤسسه العامة للتأمينات الإجتماعية

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Programs throughout the World: Jordan

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Website of Social Security Corporation, Jordan

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Institute for Health Policy Sri Lanka

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Protecting the social security rights of nationals working abroad

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT
The Jordanian national social security system, administered by the Social Security Corporation (SSC), provides an excellent example of the establishment of voluntary social security insurance for national workers abroad. This scheme is open to Jordanians nationals working abroad and it provides old-age, disability and death benefits. Due to the large number of Jordanian labourers working in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without social security coverage, the SSC has established two liaison offices in those countries.

Website of Social Insurance Organization, Bahrain

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

المؤسسة العامة للتأمينات الإجتماعية

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

المؤسسه العامة للتأمينات الإجتماعية

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

الهيئة العامة للتأمينات الإجتماعية

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

الهيئة العامة للتقاعد والمعاشات

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Website of General Organisation for Social Insurance, Saudi Arabia

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the General Organization for Social Insurance, Saudi Arabia

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Website of The Public Pension Agency, Saudi Arabia

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India: Health Insurance Scheme for handloom weavers

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Indian Textiles Industry has an overwhelming presence in the economic life of India: it accounts for 14% of industrial production, 4% of GDP and 16.6% of the country¿s export earnings. Within this industry, the handloom sector is one of the largest employers in India, providing employment to about 6.5 million people. Under the Ministry of Textiles, the Office of the Development Commissioner administers various schemes for the promotion and development of this highly dispersed sector and also provides assistance to handloom weavers and their families. It succeeded in covering the health of over 1 million people in its first year of operation and has now become the second largest health insurance scheme in India covering 1.7 million families, which represents over 6 million people. The insurance plan has still to address geographical or hospital networking challenges but the development of efficient linkages has created important synergies and has led the scheme to serve as a new model for future interventions. Thus in March 2007, an exact replica was launched in pilot mode for handicraft artisans.

India: Self-Employed women's association insurance scheme (Gujarat)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Self-Employed Women¿s Association (SEWA), registered since 2006 as a trade union, has developed an innovative and promising approach. It represents the interests of some one million poor women working in the informal economy, and covers 194,000 people, 80% of them living in Gujarat State. SEWA¿s aims are to organize women workers to attain full employment security and to make them individually and collectively self-reliant, economically independent and capable of making their own decisions. The risks covered are the following: health, life, accidental death, assets and maternity. SEWA has it own bank and an innovative insurance scheme called VimoSEWA. Currently the insurance plan still has challenges to face such as increasing health benefits, shifting from individual to family enrolment, reducing administrative costs, etc.

Indonesia: Extension of social insurance coverage to the informal economy

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
In Indonesia, there is a large unmet need for social security in the informal economy; which encompasses around two-thirds of all workers. This document aims to provide a basis for the formulation of policy for the extension of contributory social security coverage. The extension of coverage is feasible, provided that it is viable to develop a scheme that is flexible - meeting the true needs of informal workers-, affordable - especially because informal workers have low and irregular income and consequently a limited contributory capacity-, sustainable, well marketed and comprehensible. Moreover it is necessary to raise awareness of the social security concept in a context in which health insurance is the highest priority for both urban and rural areas.

Pacific: Universal Pensions in the Pacific Countries

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Universal pension schemes are rare in the world, in developing countries but also in developed countries where contributory social insurance and other contributory pensions are more frequent. Moreover, they are often more expensive than targeted social assistance pensions since they are also distributed to people in the high or middle income bracket, including those for example who could already have retirement pensions. However, a universal pension may be a solution to resolve some administrative or political dilemmas. One option is to provide universal benefits to groups such as the very elderly where there are grounds for concluding that most of the people in the group are poor.

Philippines: Provision of social security for overseas Filipino workers

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The document presents a new programme launch in The Philippines. The country is the largest labour sending country in Southeast Asia with 8 millions Filipinos living abroad. Thus, providing social protection for Overseas Filipino Workers during their working life but also during retirement is a major challenge. One of the main providers of Social Protection, SSS, signed a Memorandum of Agreement that will systematize voluntary social security coverage, especially through the Flexi-Fund Programme, a provident fund type of scheme featuring flexible payment terms and easy withdrawal of savings.

Vietnam: Social Health Insurance: Current issues and policy recommandations

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This paper aims to provide an overview of the social health insurance scheme in Vietnam, including its historical development and progress, the challenges faced by the scheme and some suggested policy recommendations. Indeed, Vietnam¿s health sector has made remarkable achievements offering a widespread health care delivery network, an increasing number of qualified workers, an expanding national public health programme, etc. In 2006, the total number of people covered reached 30.5 million (about 37% of the population), of whom 11.2 million were poor people. However, at the same time, the sector also has to urgently deal with administrative and financial challenges. This implies addressing issues of labour mobility, widening inequalities, an increase in poverty and the impact of the predicted ageing population trend as well as coping with the necessity to cover workers of the private sector and workers of rural areas, the latter representing 70% of the population. Moreover, currently, most health sector spending is based on government budget and on user fees and so an important task is to reform current payment mechanisms. Besides which, the health system needs to be integrated into comprehensive social and economic policies and strategies.

الهيئة العامة للتقاعد والمعاشات

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Curso: Estrategias para la extensión de la protección social a los trabajadores autónomos, domésticos y migrantes

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Health care expenditure NOT financed by private household's out of pocket payments [table]

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Coverage by health care - percentage of total (public and private) health care expenditure not financed by private household¿s out of pocket payments (as a proxy indicator)
Any measurement of coverage by health care should relate to effective (financial and geographical) access to quality health care specified in the benefit package. It should refer to health risks which have a significant impact on income generation and loss. Indicators thus should measure the proportion of the population that is:
Able to pay for care (due to social health protection)
Get the care needed (extent and quality of services) through services which are geographically available (availability of infrastructure, medical professionals etc) (cost of transport!) and culturally accepted.

One should thus look at the statistical information on:
Affordability of health expenditure
Availability, level and quality health services provided

There are a number of indicators available, based on data coming partly from surveys, partly from administrative data sources and there is no one which would describe all the dimension of the health coverage. Ideally, one would need an index reflecting coverage, affordable access and scope and levels of protection and SECSOC is working on such index.

For a time being this indicator can be used as proxy of affordable access to health protection: percentage of total (public and private) health care expenditure not financed by private household's out of pocket payments which is more or less equivalent to percentage of total (public and private) health care expenditure in the country covered either by general government or by pre-paid private insurance, by employers or NGOs.

This indicators is calculated using data from the national health accounts, available in many countries and for which estimates are available in the WHO database (World Health Organisation | WHO Statistical System [More ...])

Réseau Education et Solidarité

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Website of the General Organisation for Social Insurance of Bahrain

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Social security inquiry - Map countries

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Map of countries covered (often partially for one or a few schemes) by the ILO social security inquiry

Old age pension coverage ratio in asia - graph

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Old age pension coverage in selected Asian countries

Extensión de la protección social a trabajadores del sector agrícola (flyer)

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Promoting health micro-insurance schemes to local communities

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Cours: Stratégies pour l'extension de la Protection sociale

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Ensuring the right to social security for ASEAN migrant workers through social security agreements

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This short paper acknowledges both the significant impact that migrant workers have on the economy (of their country of origin as well as of the country in which they are employed) and the disadvantages that migrant workers frequently experience in exercising their rights, in particular gaining access to social security coverage. Emphasis is laid on the vital role that social security agreements between ASEAN countries could play as a means of improving migrant workers' access to social security.

Fiji:Extension of coverage of the Fiji National Provident Fund

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Formulaire de candidature

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-News No. 4

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

GIMI and GESS within the department's activities

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India Guidelines: Health Insurance Scheme For The Unorganized Sector Workers

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India: Employer based Health Protection mechanisms - a plurality of arrangements

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India: Municipality of Indore Health Insurance Scheme (Madhya Pradesh)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India: State Government sponsored Health protection programme (Jharkhand)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

India: Yeshasvini Co-operative Farmers Health Scheme (Karnataka)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Yeshasvini scheme was conceived in 2002 as a huge effort to extend access of health care services to the poor. The problem of access was linked to the impossibility for the poor to pay for the expected services.
To overcome this problem a private Trust was set up, regrouping several prominent public and private individuals. The Trust approached various insurance companies around the implementation of the scheme. However, low profitability and high risk lead to little interest from these companies. The Trust opted for a self-funding scheme.
The Yeshasvini scheme developed then a farfledged linkage experience, which proved to be successful enough to become, as early as in Year I of its operations, India's largest health micro-insurance scheme.
Since then, the scheme has succeeded to enroll around 2 million people, providing surgical interventions in increasing number, OPD interventions, help desk to assist policyhholders, and some other services.
As of today, the Yeshasvini scheme remains confronted with major challenges such as findingappropriate ways to reduce the adverse selection phenomenon and broadening the scope of benefits provided to its members. Although still not the perfect working model to be used for replication in other States, it already demonstrates how effective a broad linkage model proves to be in applying practical solutions to the implementation of a very large health insurance scheme.

India:State Government sponsored community health insurance scheme (Andhra Pradesh)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Indonesia: Conditional Cah Transfer to the poor

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Indonesia: Providing Health Insurance for the poor

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

List of Short Technical Papers (STPs)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

National Strategy for Financial Literacy

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This site presents the National Strategy for Financial Literacy launched by the New Zealand Retirement Commission. The strategy aims to achieve a financially literate population where New Zealanders are financially well-educated and can make informed financial decisions throughout their lives.
The strategy aims to set a strategic direction, link providers of financial education and information, identify any gaps in coverage and avoid duplication.

Nomination form

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Philippines: Extension of social health insurance coverage to workersin the informal economy through organized groups

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Training: Strategies for the Extension of Social Protection

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Vietnam:Development of income security

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview de Franck Droin, de Kadris Consultants, sur l'extension de la protection sociale en santé

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Cost of illness. Evidence from a study in five resource-poor locations in India (abstract)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Abstract from Micro Insurance Academy:

Background & Objectives: In India, health services are funded largely through out-of-pocket spending (OOPS). The objective of this article is to provide data on the cost of an illness episode and parameters affecting cost.

Methods: The data was obtained through a household survey carried out in 2005 in five locations among resource-poor persons in rural or slum India. The analysis is based on self-reported illness episodes and their costs. The study is based on 3,531 households (representing 17,323 persons) and 4,316 illness episodes.

Results: The median cost of one illness episode was INR 340. When costs were calculated as % of monthly income per person, the median value was 73% of that monthly income, and could reach as much as 780% among the 10% most exposed households. The estimated median per-capita cost of illness was 6% of annual per-capita income. The ratio of direct costs to indirect costs was 67:30. The cost of illness was lower among females in all age groups, due to lower indirect costs. 61% of total illnesses, costing 37.4% of total OOPS, were due to acute illnesses; chronic diseases represented 17.7% of illnesses but 32% of costs. Our study shows that hospitalizations were the single most costly component on average, yet they accounted for only 11% of total on an aggregated basis, compared to drugs that accounted for 49% of total aggregated costs. Locations differ from each other in the absolute cost of care, in distribution of items composing the total cost of care, and in supply.

Interpretation & Conclusion: Interventions to reduce the cost of illness should be context-specific, as there is no one-size-fits-all model to establish the cost of healthcare for the entire sub-continent. Aggregated expenses, rather than only hospitalizations, can cause catastrophic consequences of illness.
Available at Social Science Research Network - SSRN.

Social security and the right to work: perspectives linking protection and employment

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This short presentation summarises the following main themes: the historical link between employment and social security; the main challenges to extending social security and guaranteeing the right to decent work today; the key features of a new Welfare state; emerging forms of social security provision; the key issues surrounding ILO's contribution to the Decent Work Agenda and finally potential global and integrated strategies for Decent Work.

Quelques résultats de l'enquête People Security Survey réalisée en Tanzanie

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Five years down the road: The ILO's campaign on the extension of social security

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Update on the state of the Global Campaign and critical issues.

G-NEWS No. 4

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Issue No. 4 of the G-NEWS notably presents:
the latest news and resources issued by the ILO's Social Security Department
a wide range of upcoming events related to microinsurance and social security taking place all over the world
courses and training programmes designed for professionals seeking to develop their knowledge and skills in the field of social security
the latest developments on the GIMI and GESS platforms aiming to increase interactions between users
an article exploring the "diagonal financing" approach to health services in developing countries including case studies of Rwanda and Burkina Faso
an interview with Franck Droin of Kadris Consultants exploring recent trends in the health and social protection sector
G-NEWS is a collaborative product based on your contributions. Share your experiences in the "Community news" section of the GIMI or GESS platforms or send an e-mail to gimi@ilo.org or to gess@ilo.org.

G-NEWS No. 4

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Gess & GIMI, web platform, Overview

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Info Sheet - Quatrain Africa

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Info-Sheet: Quatrain Africa
Strengthening the financial governance of Social protection systems.

National Pensions Action Campaign

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The National Pensions Action Campaign (NPAC) 2008 is aimed at increasing pension awareness, understanding and take-up. It targets the general public through a wide range of initiatives. The site presents the NPAC and its promotional material: pensions checklists, general articles, posters, TV and radio advertising campaigns. It also presents a range of useful resources for better understanding pensions in user friendly formats.

Social Indicators and up-scaling the SPI
ILO & ISSA experience with social protection statistics and perspective

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT
ILO and ISSA overview of experience, activities and resources in the field of social security statistics.

Statistical note: Main techniques of collecting, storing and processing data

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Statistical note on some of the main techniques of collecting, storing and processing data.

AFRISTAT

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Part III. Micro-insurance: a mechanism to manage risks

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Part III of the document “The role of micro-insurance as a tool to face risks in the context of social protection” deals with several aspects of micro-insurance, an ex ante mechanism that manages risks. The term micro-insurance is used to designate either the organization, the service of an organization or the set of institutions that provide insurance to beneficiaries, who are people excluded from formal social protection schemes. The chapter shows two of the numerous aspects of diversity in MIS: the diversity of products and diversity of delivery models. Indeed, MIS cover various risks such as, among others, life, health and crop, which are more or less complex to deal with. The pre-existing civil society organizations, the community-based organizations or the commercials insurers can manage the complex business of micro-insurance on their own, create partnerships or outsource several functions (product design, marketing, technical and financial management…) to a Third Party Agent (TPA). With reinsurance and coinsurance (syndicate insurance), the micro-insurance schemes can share the risks by redistributing and diversifying risks. But there remains a challenge: it is a long process that needs specialized skills and stable sources of funding. That is why linkages between MIS and other risk management instruments are necessary to supplement micro insurances.

Solution Exchange

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Solution Exchange is an initiative of the United Nations Country Team in India that offers communities of development practitioners a UN-sponsored space where they can provide and benefit from each other's solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.

The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This article takes account of two significant developments: firstly the decision of the Global Fund board to consider comprehensive country health programmes for financing in April 2007 and secondly the creation of the new International Health Partnership Plus; which will help countries to develop such programmes, in September 2007.In this context the possibility has been raised for the Global Fund to expand its activities to include the support of the hiring and training of an expanded health workforce, to incorporate broader measures for the reinforcement of shared health systems, and to support the integration of sexual and reproductive health as well as child and maternal health services with AIDS treatment. These developments would effectively signify the transformation of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria into a Global Health Fund. The authors consider that the adoption of this "diagonal approach" would help to overcome the long-term challenges faced by the current "vertical" approach based on disease-specific interventions (largely dysfunctional health systems, critical lack of human resources). However, the authors lay emphasis on the importance of exploiting the distinctive features of Global Fund financing if the diagonal approach is to succeed. They argue that the conventional approach to health system development, which assumes that foreign assistance should be gradually withdrawn, has led to the persistence of critically low spending on health in developing countries. The Global Fund on the other hand does not require that applicants demonstrate financial self-sufficiency although countries are not permitted to reduce their own spending on health care. The authors perceive however, a considerable obstacle in the current policies of the IMF, which is able to impose significant restrictions on the spending of general budget support or health sector budget support (restrictions which do not apply to vertical financing through targeted interventions). It is argued that the success of the diagonal approach hinges on two critical factors: the obtainment of additional and sustained contributions at a time when the Global Fund is starved of resources and the continued ability of the Global Fund to bypass IMF policies. Should these two conditions not be met, however, the adoption of this approach could seriously jeopardise the future of the Global Fund.

Compte-rendu de la conférence du 7 mai 2008 à Paris "Couverture du risque maladie dans les pays en développement : qui doit payer ?"

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Santé publique et développement

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Courrier de la Concertation n° 18, octobre 2007

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Health Insurance in low-income countries

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This joint NGO briefing paper provides a critical analysis of different forms of health insurance as mechanisms for the financing and provision of healthcare coverage to people living in poverty.
In view of the current debates on the role of health insurance as a key means of financing healthcare in low-income countries, this paper urges for caution on the part of donors and governments; arguing that if a government fails to implement the necessary accompanying measures and to mobilise adequate resources, health insurance mechanisms may even have an adverse effect on the equity and efficiency of healthcare schemes.
This paper suggests that the current practice of assessing insurance schemes in terms of the advantages they bring to their particular membership fails to account for their impact on entire populations, and in particular on people living in poverty who cannot afford prepayments. A revision of evaluation criteria is needed, with greater attention being paid to 'vertical equity' i.e. differential access according to people's different needs in recognition of the existence of vulnerable groups. Insurance schemes should be measured in terms of their contribution to the ultimate end of providing universal access to quality healthcare.
The forms of health insurance discussed in this paper are: Private Health Insurance (PHI), Private for-profit Micro Health insurance, Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) and Social Health Insurance (SHI). Examining each form of health insurance against the revised criteria in turn, this paper seeks to present what are considered to be the practical challenges confronting each mechanism, giving evidence drawn from case studies of low-income countries (and to a lesser extent those of higher-income countries) in each instance. The third part of this paper discusses the importance of national commitment to public spending on health and the crucial need for global solidarity.

L'assurance maladie dans les pays à faible revenu

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

C118 Convenio sobre la igualdad de trato (seguridad social), 1962

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

C118 Convention sur l'égalité de traitement (sécurité sociale), 1962

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

C157 Convenio sobre la conservación de los derechos en materia de seguridad social, 1982

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

C157 Convention sur la conservation des droits en matière de sécurité sociale, 1982

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Courrier de la Concertation n° 19, avril 2008

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Insurance for the Poor (IfP) Program

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Insurance for the Poor (IfP) Program – Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank – follows a market enhancement approach, recognizing that market failures can create sub-optimal wealth allocation and that private sector coordination is not always effective. Its main objective is to support insurance solutions that, among others:
Can be included in a comprehensive financial strategy (savings, credit)
Can be scaled up by means of synergies (such as public-private partnerships)
Either directly benefit the target group or indirectly help the poor by working with intermediaries, such as insurance companies or governments (for example, disaster insurance).

R167 Recomendación sobre la conservación de los derechos en materia de seguridad social, 1983

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

R167 Recommandation sur la conservation des droits en matière de sécurité sociale, 1983

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Note sur l'extension de la couverture d'assurance maladie au Rwanda

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

This document gives an overview of

The historical context of mutual health organizations in Rwanda

The way thy are structured and organized

The health care coverage and its financing

AMA y FAMSA en Venezuela, abril 2008

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Oficina Subregional de la OIT para el Cono Sur de América Latina - Publicaciones

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

OIT Notas

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Project on linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The social protection perspective on microinsurance

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Situación y proyecciones de la economía social en Chile

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The present article is oriented to explore the situation and projections of the social economy in the present Chile. Itself structure in three sections, the first one of which concentrates on the conceptual analysis of the use of the term social economy in Chile and the diverse complementary or competitive denominations at present in use, at the same time a general characterization of the type of organizations delivers itself that would be able to identify inside the field of the social economy.
A second section, a synthetic vision of the path delivers itself and present situation of the main components or actors of the social economy in Chile, as the cooperative businesses are it, the mutuales, the foundations and corporations without end of gain and the union associations, without it signify to know not other types of associative organizations that would be able to be contemplated in this section.
Finally and of absolutely provisional way some ideas are delivered relating to the projection of the social economy in Chile, by way of hypothesis that prefigure alternative settings.

El Sistema General de Seguridad Social Colombiano

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Extending SHI to the Informal Sector of the Philippines

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
A Power Point presentation explaining the interaction of Phil Health with various organized groups in the Philippines. The main goal of these partnerships (called KASAPI model) consists in extending the SHI to the informal sector. For this purpose various organized groups (such as peoples organizations, NGOs, micro finance groups and cooperatives) commit themselves with the recruitment of new members and the collection of contributions while Phil Health provides the payment of the benefit and offers flexible premium rates that depend on the size of the group.

PhilHealth

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Description
A premier government corporation that ensures sustainable, affordable and progressive social health insurance which endeavors to influence the delivery of accessible quality health care for all Filipinos.
As a financial intermediary, PhilHealth shall continuously evolve a sustainable National Health Insurance Program that shall:
Lead towards universal coverage
Ensure better benefits for its members at affordable premiums;
Establish close coordination with its clients through a strong partnership with all stakeholders; and,
Provide effective internal information and management systems to influence the delivery of quality health care services.

Entrevista de C. Jacquier sobre el papel de la mutuales de salud en la extension de la seguridad social

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Entrevista de V. Schmitt-Diabaté sobre un apoyo a las mutuales de salud en los paises del sur

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Etude pour la mise en place d'un système de protection maladie dans le secteur des transports routiers

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-News No. 3

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
G-NEWS is the quarterly newsletter of GIMI which is available in English, French and Spanish and gathers relevant information about the extension of social security and about microinsurance. It describes recent initiatives (new systems, studies, etc.); presents trainings, workshops and conferences; highlights key resources; identifies new sites and events on the web and proposes a feature article or interviews.
G-NEWS is a collaborative product based on your contributions. You can share your experiences in a space dedicated to this on GIMI ("community news") or send an e-mail to gimi@ilo.org.

G-News No. 3

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-News No. 3

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview de C. Jacquier sur le rôle des mutuelles dans l'extension de la sécurité sociale

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview de V. Schmitt-Diabaté sur le rôle des mutuelles dans l'extension de la sécurité sociale

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview of V. Schmitt-Diabaté on the role of mutual health organizations in the extension of social security

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Financement du régime subventionné en Colombie

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Simplified diagramme describing the funding sources of the subsidized health insurance scheme in Colombia. (In French)

Rapport de mission en Colombie du 19 au 22 avril 2006

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Mission report including a short presentation of the extension of social proetction in Coombia as well as the mutual health and cooperative sector in Latin America.

Addressing the multi-dimensional factors of social exclusion

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Agir sur les facteurs multidimensionnels de l'exclusion sociale

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Community-based Social Protection System

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Community-based Social Protection System:
A global phenomenon
Origins and causes
Characteristics
Sectorial organization
Comparative advantages
Limits
Linked (articulated) systems
Agenda & International Consensus

Les systèmes de protection sociale à base communautaire

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Presentation of the platform

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Présentation de la plateforme

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Cuentas de salud de Colombia 1993-2003: el gasto en salud y su financiamiento

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Curso: Métodos atuariais e financiamiento dos sistemas de segurança social

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Curso: Técnicas actuariales aplicadas a la seguridad social para los funcionarios del Gobierno chileno.

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Estrategias e iniciativas globales del G8 y de la comunidad internacional en el sector de la salud

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Da a conocer las conclusiones de las estrategias del G8 para romper el círculo vicioso de la enfermedad y la pobreza, especialmente en materia de seguimiento, la movilización y la cooperación internacional, a modo de recuento de eventos realizados a nivel mundial.

Estrategias para la reducción de la pobreza

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Indicadores de pobreza en Colombia y su relación con salud

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

La pobreza y la desigualdad en Colombia

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Le rôle des ESS (Empresas Solidarias de Salud) dans le cadre du système de sécurité sociale en santé en Colombie

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Modelo de atención integral basado en atención primaria

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Modelo de atención integral basado en atención primaria II

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Seguimiento al sector salud en Colombia: Así va Colombia en salud

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Sistema de información de la protección social - SISPRO

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Juntos. Red para la superación de la pobreza extrema

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Modelo de atención primaria en salud

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Joining the forces of public institutions, Civil Society and business communities in the implementation of social rehabilitation measures for low income families and vulnerable groups

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:00:00 GMT
The development of 'Programme for social rehabilitation of low income families' bythe Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan is a good periodto list and to analyse all available resources and set up the endowment for thecoordination of social actions between different stakeholders.
As it was highlighted by the majority of stakeholders, in Azerbaijan the lack of resources is clearly not the major impediment in the organisation of social rehabilitation ofvulnerable groups and low-income households. The mobilisation of resources depends on political will. At the same time the lack of coordination between different actions and different stakeholders is observed. Often, the sponsors and donors select themselves the target groups according to their own vision of the population deserving the help without getting the information from competent rganisations. The help is often provided without real analysis of needs of low-income population and vulnerable groups.
The main institutional proposal of this paper is to organise the Rayon SteeringCommittee for Social Rehabilitation (SCSR) which can be a body bringing togetherthe representatives of all relevant stakeholders and controlling the implementation of Local Master Plan for Social Rehabilitation (LMPSR).
First paragraph proposes the methodology for the mechanism of organisation ofcollaboration between different stakeholders in organisation of social rehabilitationmeasures (and broadly speaking social services) adapted to the specific poverty pattern of every region.
Second paragraph discusses the methodology for development and implementation of Local Master Plan for Social Rehabilitation.
Finally, the last paragraph presents the free examples of actions which can beimplemented in the pilot regions. In order to limit the scope of pilot actions the decision was made to put a specific emphasise on the development of measures addressing the children form the lowincome families.

Kadris

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
KADRIS Consultants is an independent consulting firm specializing in the following sectors: Health Insurance, Disability Insurance, Pensions and Retirement, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, and Social Welfare.
Created in early 2001, our firm's (40 employees today) activities are divided into four different areas: Strategy consulting, Organisational process management, Project management, Risk Management

La renovación de la atención primaria de salud en las Américas

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Lucha contra la pobreza

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

World in Your Pocket

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Provides indicators reported at the international level of health care and health economics, such as life expectancy, infant mortality, health care expenditure, among others. Selected countries include developed and developing countries.

List of documents

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Munich Re Foundation (English, Deutsch)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Munich Re has been handling global risks for 125 years. Today, it possesses expertise and know-how in all fields of competence connected with the subject of risk. Acting responsibly means sharing that knowledge. The Munich Re Foundation enables Munich Re to fulfil this responsibility. People are ultimately at the core of what the foundation's work is all about.The foundation's task is to minimise the risks to which they are exposed. It clarifies issues and provides support, also in developing countries.

Working group: Linkages between large scale schemes and (inter)national solidarity

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Agencia Francesa de Desarrollo (AFD)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

American Public Health Association (APHA)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is an organization of public health professionals. The association works to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats. APHA represents a broad array of health officials, educators, environmentalists, policy-makers and health provides at all levels working both within and outside governmental organizations and education institutions.

Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Banque Africaine de Développement

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Banque interaméricaine de développement (BID)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

be-cause health (English, français)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Be-cause health is an informal and pluralistic platform, which is open to institutional and individual members.
Institutional members are:
• Belgian academic institutions, services, schools for public health.
• Belgian medical (and related) development organisations, NGO's and study bureau's.
• Goverment services involved in medical development cooperation and international healthcare.
• Organisations and associations who do not necessarily have develoment cooperation as a prority, but whose mandates overlap with international healthcare.
An important aspect is that individuals too, involved in international healthcare and active in a Belgian context, can be a part of this platform.

Center of European and International Liaisons for Social Security (CLEISS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
For 48 years, a help-desk in France for International Mobility and Social Security.
The Center undertakes three types of mission:
• A financial mission (checks and pays claims and debts relating to health care costs incurred by families, etc.)
• An advisory mission (informs about procedures in international agreements, French legislation; plays the role of coordinator between institutions and the Ministry charged of social security, etc.)
• A translation mission (legal, medical and administrative documents).

Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Centre des Liaisons Europeennes et Internationales de Sécurite Sociale (CLEISS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Descripción
El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo es un organismo público creado por el Parlamento de Canadá en 1970 con el objetivo de ayudar a los países en desarrollo a servirser de la ciencia y la tecnología para encontrar soluciones viables a los problemas sociales, económicos y medioambientales a los cuales se enfrentan. El apoyo del IRDC está dirigido a consolidar las capacidades locales de investigación comunitaria para apoyar las políticas y las tecnologías que puedan contribuir a construir sociedades con mejor salud, más equitables y más prósperas.

Danish Research Network for International Health

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The Danish Research Network for International Health aims to strengthen the dialogue and interaction between research and development assistance in international health as a means of improving health in low-income countries, in line with the principles of Danish international development aid and the needs of partner countries in the South.

El derecho a la salud para todos a luz de las condiciones macroeconómicas en Centroamérica

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Eldis (español)

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Essential Health Links at AED-SATELLIFE

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Essential Health Links has joined our suite of resources to bring health information. Essential Health Links serves as a gateway to carefully selected medical, scientific, and public health websites, providing easy access to a wealth of information for health professionals, medical library communities, universities, students, publishers, and NGOs in developing and emerging countries.
Adapted for international use from a gateway originally provided by the University of Zambia School of Medicine Library, Essential Health Links resided at INASP for many years. Now welcomed to AED-SATELLIFE, Essential Health Links is an entrée to information on upcoming conferences, evidence-based medicine, full text journals, image collections, medical education, clinical and public health topics.

Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Fonds monétaire international (FMI)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people

French Development Agency (AFD)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The French Development Agency (AFD) is a financial institution that is at the heart of France's Development Assistance policy. Its mission is to finance development.

GTZ-ILO-WHO-Consortium on Social Health Protection

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The Consortium's focus so far has been on carrying out conceptual work on policies and tools, technical cooperation at country level, policy dialogue at regional and international level and capacity development through seminars, workshops and international conferences (e.g. legal support, fiscal advice). Country advice in Yemen, Kenya, Indonesia and Cambodia; capacity development in Guinea, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Philippines; applying of social budgeting; development and application of the financial simulation tool SimIns in Kenya, Vietnam and Yemen, and the joint hosting of the Berlin Conference on Social Health Insurance in Developing Countries and Philippines Conference Extending Social Health Insurance to the Informal Economcy Workers.

Health Economics and Financing Programme (HEFP)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The Health Economics and Financing Programme (HEFP), located within the Department of Public Health and Policy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, produces and disseminates knowledge to improve the performance of developing country health systems. Its staff have internationally recognised expertise in health economics and policy analysis, and a strong track record of high quality, policy- relevant research in areas crucial to strengthening health systems to meet the MDGs. HEFP has long-term links with Southern research partners, built up over many years of collaborative research. Its staff are experienced in working with policy-makers at both national and international levels, and are active in international initiatives and networks such as the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the Disease Control Priorities Project, Equinet and Roll Back Malaria.

Information for Development Program (infoDev)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
infoDev is a partnership of international development agencies, coordinated and served by an expert Secretariat housed in the Global ICT Department (GICT) of the World Bank, one of its key donors and founders. It acts as a neutral convener of dialogue, and as a coordinator of joint action among bilateral and multilateral donors–supporting global sharing of information on ICT for development (ICT4D), and helping to reduce duplication of efforts and investments. infoDev also forms partnerships with public and private-sector organizations who are innovators in the field of ICT4D. Priorities and strategies for infoDev are guided by a governance framework, approved by infoDev Donors in June, 2005.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
A long-standing initiative of the Latin American countries, the Inter-American Development Bank was established in 1959 as a multilateral finance institution for the development of the region. Its loans and grants help finance sustainable economic and social development projects and support strategies to reduce poverty, expand growth, increase trade, investment and regional integration, and promote private sector development and modernization of the State.
The IDB's programs and tools became the model on which other regional and subregional multilateral development banks were created. The IDB, the oldest and largest regional bank in the world, is the main source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The IDB Group is composed of the IDB, the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). The IIC focuses on support for small and medium-sized businesses, while the MIF promotes private sector growth through grants and investments.

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Our support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The IMF is an international organization of 185 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.

Irish Forum for Global Health

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The aim of the Irish Forum for Global Health is to contribute to improvement in the health of individuals and populations globally by creating networks that will promote research and education and advocate for investment in global health.

Microfinance Gateway

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The Microfinance Gateway is a comprehensive source of information for and about the microfinance industry. It includes research and publications, discussion groups, specialized resource centers, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance. Its guiding vision is to enable microfinance industry participants to generate value, innovate and engage in the free flow of ideas by effectively utilizing the Gateway's knowledge assets.
Website also available in Arabic.

Movimiento para la Salud de los Pueblos (MSP)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OCDE)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture (FAO)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT
Description
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with more than 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.

Papel de los poderes públicos y la sociedad civil en la política de salud

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

People's Health Movement (PHM)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The People's Health Movement (PHM) has its roots deep in the grassroots people's movement and owes its genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the growing inequities in health over the last 25 years. The PHM calls for a revitalisation of the principles of the Alma-Ata Declaration which promised Health for All by the year 2000 and complete revision of international and domestic policy that has shown to impact negatively on health status and systems.

Política de Prevención, Educación y calidad en los Servicios de Salud

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Portail de la Microfinance

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Portail de la sécurité sociale

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Regulations for the nationwide implementation of Community Based Health Insurance

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The purpose of this regulations for the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is to set out the principles, regulations, organisation, procedures and measures to ensure the insured members of the CBHI obtain their rights and benefit regarding health insurance under capitation in Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Réformes et pilotage du système de retraite

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Training and Reporting on European Social Security (trESS)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The trESS network organises seminars and brings together people who are interested in the European coordination of social security schemes.
This EC funded project is implemented by Ghent University in collaboration with independent experts on European Social Security in the 27 Member States. The project also reports to the Commission on the national implementation of European rules.

UNAIDS: Enhancing social protection for people affected by HIV

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Enhancing social protection for people affected by HIV is one of UNAIDS’ priority areas. Enhanced social protection can help reduce an individual’s chance of becoming infected with HIV (susceptibility) and reduce the likelihood that HIV will have damaging effects on individuals, households and communities (vulnerability) and help to ensure that efforts to expand universal access will reach the most hard to reach.

US Agency for International Developement (USAID)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Its Work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.

World Health Organization (WHO)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)

Mon, 26 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
STEP is a global programme of the Social Security Department of the ILO centered on the poor and excluded populations in the informal economy as well as in the rural sector. STEP works in two complementary fields: extension of the social security in the field of health and the approaches integrated of fight against social exclusion into local level.

A network of actors for the extension of social protection worldwide

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Presentation of the coalition set up around an "International Alliance for the extension of social protection" and different regional networks – ACYM in Latin America, CONCERTATION (Coordination Network) in Africa and AMIN in Asia – that aims at enhancing and strengthening initiatives dedicated to the extension of social protection, supporting partnerships, and developing a more effective advocacy at all levels.

Development Gateway Foundation (English, français, español)

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Development Gateway Foundation's online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide.
DGF is an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology.
To this end, DGF provides Web-based platforms that make aid and development efforts more effective around the world. It focuses resources in three areas where even small investments in information and communications technology (ICT) can make a major difference:
• Effective governement;
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration;
• Local partner programs in nearly 50 countries.

Eldis

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex.
Its aim is to share the best in development policy, practice and research. It contains more than 22,000 summarised documents from over 4,500 development organisations - all available free to download.

Entrevista de Michael Cichon sobre una seguridad social básica

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Estudio sobre la extensión de la protección social en Colombia

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Finances sociales

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Folleto GESS

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Formation du CIF BIT: Stratégies pour l'extension de la protection sociale

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Fédération Française des Sociétés d'Assurance

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

G-NEWS No. 2

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

G-NEWS No.2

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
G-NEWS is the quarterly newsletter of GIMI and GESS platforms, which is available in English, French and Spanish and gathers relevant information about the extension of social security and about microinsurance. It describes recent initiatives (new systems, studies, etc.); presents trainings, workshops and conferences; highlights key resources; identifies new sites and events on the web; proposes a feature article and interviews.
G-NEWS is a collaborative product based on your contributions. You can share your experiences in a space dedicated to this on GIMI and GESS("Community news") or send an e-mail to gimi@ilo.org or to gess@ilo.org.

G-NEWS No.2

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Groupe Associatif CIDR

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

ICT ILO Training Programme: Strategies for the Extension of Social Protection

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The International Labour Office's International Training Centre in Turin, Italy organises a training programme from 26th November to 7th December on "Strategies for the Extension of Social Security.

Institute of Public Health Management (IPHM)

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The Institute of Public Health Management (IPHM) is a non-stock, non-profit institute committed to making a difference in the health of Asian populations by developing professional, competent, and socially responsible public health managers and leaders.
The IPHM is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of social development experts, development managers, and policy analysts committed to creating health-enhancing systems.

Interaide (français, English)

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
Founded in 1980, Inter Aide is a French non-governmental organization that specializes in the implementation of development programmes.
The goal is to support the most underpriviledged families in developing countries by helping them build the capacities to meet their basic needs.

International Alliance for the extension of social protection

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The International Alliance is a network that includes the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the most important international federations and organizations representing the cooperative and mutual insurance sector.They are all active in the area of extending social protection in the world and share a common vision, values and principles. Altogether they give voice to the interest of more than one billion members in more than 180 countries.

Interview de M Cichon sur l'idée d'un "plancher de sécurité sociale"

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Interview of M Cichon on a Social Security floor

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Interview with Michael Cichon, Director of the Social Security Department of the ILO.As the World Social Security Forum is to be held in Moscow in September, the ILO, through its Global campaign for Social Security and Coverage for All, promotes the idea of a social security floor, a strategy aimed at achieving Millennium Development Goal N° 1 on halving poverty. It is also a case for early investment to reach the 80 per cent of the world's population that lacks adequate social protection.

Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms Philippines

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This study gives a background on the Philippines describing its demography, government and economy, the present health care system and the labour force and the informal economy. Then it discusses the different statutory and community-based social protection schemes describing their membership coverage, financing mechanisms, benefit packages and developments over the last decade. Section 3 describes the existing linkages between statutory and community-based schemes focusing on experiences during implementation and on its strengths and weaknesses. And section 4 focuses on the findings of identified schemes from which most of the recommendations and suggestions for improvements are based on.

Partners for Health Reformplus

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Description
The Partners for Health Reformplus (PHRplus) project is the U.S. Agency for International Development's flagship project in health policy and systems strengthening. USAID looks to PHRplus to provide technical assistance in, and to help maintain, USAID's worldwide leadership role in health care reform, health policy, management, health financing, and systems strengthening. This project will continue its close working relationships with NGOs and USAID cooperating agencies, international and developing country partner organizations, including the World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, bilateral donors, PVOs, foundations, universities, and host country government agencies.

Philippines. Insurance memorandum circular. Microinsurance regulation and declaration of policy objectives

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Insurance memorandum circular of the Philippines' Department of Finance on microinsurance regulation and declaration of policy objectives (date: October 25, 2006)

Social Security Worldwide (SSW)

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The International Social Security Association (ISSA) has developed 6 different databases on social protection. These databases are grouped together in a broader database : the Social Security Worldwide (SSW). With SSW you can get descriptions of social security schemes, as well as information on reforms and legislation. You can also have access to the resources of the ISSA Documentation Centre and a thesaurus of key social security terms. To access SSW, you must register

Strategies for the extension of social protection

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Un réseau d'acteurs pour l'extension de la protection sociale dans le monde

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Una red de interlocutores para la extensión de la protección social en el mundo

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

The Colombian social health insurance system since the passing of law 100

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT

The Colombian social health system consists of both a contributory system, covering 15 million employers and workers, and a subsidized system covering 18.5 million poor people with a basic benefits package. The system, in effect since the passing of Law 100 in 1993, utilizes a large-scale mechanism for solidarity and redistribution, with the goal of reaching universal coverage by 2009. The subsidized system receives 70% of its funding from the Government and 30% through transfers from the contributory system. Subsidies are provided to the 'demand side' (social health insurance) rather than 'supply side' (healthcare providers) actors. The Government finances and regulates the system, but delegates its management to a variety of types of insurers (private commercial, private non-profit mutual-type organizations, public), who compete with each other for shares of the market. The mutual sector currently dominates the subsidized system. Thanks to a favorable regulatory framework, over the past 12 years, mutual organizations have progressively merged into 8 large, more efficient structures, 7 of which have federated into a national association called GESTARSALUD.

Asia: Asian Micro-Insurance Network (AMIN)

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
During the 14th Asian Regional meeting of the ILO (August-September 2007) the need to roll out social security to workers and their families in the informal economy, to migrant workers and to non regular workers in the formal economy was perceived as a major national social policy objective, and an important contribution to progressively realize decent work for all in all countries.
Several Governments have already committed and started to introduce progressive extension of social security benefits to all workers, and most particularly to the most disadvantaged groups of the population. In line with this, several new initiatives have emerged, among them health micro-insurance schemes, which are driven by a wide diversity of actors.
In this context, the ILO has developed an active advocacy role aiming at facilitating the design and implementation of the most appropriate health protection extension strategies and programmes. The Asian Micro-Insurance Network (AMIN) was set up according to these needs. The network has the following objectives:
bring together a group of micro-insurance practitioners willing to regularly sharing information and experiences;
develop a documentation process of on-going initiatives, innovations and achievements;
build up new technical capacities;
strengthen collaboration and active partnership
highlight and clarify issues, challenges and opportunities
organize new initiatives aiming to create a wider awareness and a stronger commitment on the need to extend social protection

Africa: Community-based micro-insurance for universal health coverage

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Social protection – health coverage in particular – is a powerful means of reducing poverty – both directly by offering financial protection that keeps households affected by illness from falling into poverty, and indirectly through its positive impact on economic performance and productivity.

Africa: Microseguros de base comunitaria para la cobertura universal de salud

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Afrique: une micro-assurance de proximité pour une couverture santé généralisée

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Elaboration d'un cadre légal sur les mutuelles sociales pour les pays de l'UEMOA: un processus participatif

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The article deals with the effort of WAEMU members in elaborating a legal framework for mutual organisations with the assistance of the ILO/STEP.

Etude genre dans la conception et la mise en place d'un régime de protection sociale agro-sylvo-pastorale au Sénégal

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Evaluating the impact of health care reform in Colombia: From theory to practice

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This article presents an evaluation of an ambitious health reform implemented in Colombia during the first half of the nineties. The reform attempted to radically change public provision of health services, by means of the transformation of subsidies to supply (direct transfers to hospitals) into a new scheme of subsidies to demand (transfers targeted at the poorest citizens). Although the percentage of the population having medical care insurance has notably increased, mostly among the poorest, problems of implementation have been numerous. It has not been possible to achieve the transformation of subsidies to supply into subsidies to demand. At the same time, competition has not made it possible to increase the efficiency of many public hospitals, which continue to operate with very low occupation rates, while receiving hefty money transfers. Subsidies increased demand for medical consultations, but have curbed demand for hospitalizations. Nonetheless, subsidies might have adversely affected female's labor market participation and even household consumption. As a whole, evidence suggests that the health reform has been effective in rationalizing households' demand for health, but not rationalizing public supply, and neither in increasing the efficiency of service providers.

ILO position on the IAIS-CGAP paper on regulation and supervision of microinsurance

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The ILO was involved in the joint working group CGAP-IAIS that was in charge of drafting the Issues paper on regulation and supervision of microinsurance. This document defines the position of the ILO: it approaches microinsurance from a social protection point of view.

Information and communications technology (ICT) social security project management

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
This manual was created for social security executives and ICT Project Managers, from all countries, irrespective of the current status of their ICT systems or the type of social security system in place. Its aim is to create more systematic approaches to project management in order to improve success rates and consistency in social security responses and the ICT required. By reviewing and analyzing projects, the manual also discusses ways to identify and reduce risks specific to ICT projects and draws lessons on ten key aspects of project management:
• Project definition
• Project Manager (PM)
• Stakeholders' involvement
• Communication strategy
• Training
• Planning and managing human resource issues
• ICT project management and risk management
• Technology
• Project control and monitoring
• Assessing project progress - Independent project review

Issues in regulation and supervision of microinsurance

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The paper, released by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and the Consultative Group for Assisting the Poor (CGAP), identifies issues and challenges in developing an enabling regulatory framework for promoting microinsurance in line with the IAIS Insurance Core Principles (ICPs). Microinsurance is defined as insurance that is accessed by low-income population, provided by a variety of different entities, but run in accordance with generally accepted insurance practises.
Supervisors and other microinsurance promoters (such as insurers, governments, donors, consumer lobbies) in many jurisdictions increasingly realise that a more conducive and enabling regulatory environment is required for the development of microinsurance.
This paper explains the current state of microinsurance which is being developed for the low income population on the basis of prudent insurance business principles; its important role in developing inclusive financial systems particularly in emerging markets, and why it needs to be regulated and supervised along professional lines.
Biases and barriers are not always obvious to the regulatory bodies due to long-standing unexamined practices.
The Issues Paper aims at outlining salient features of microinsurance in general, and of its regulation and supervision as an input for high-level expert discussion among regulators, supervisors and other stakeholders involved in the provision of insurance services for lower-income segments. It does not provide recommendations of any kind for the supervisors to follow. It recognises that the ICPs are the foundation of all insurance supervision, including microinsurance. Even though microinsurance has different features in many regards, a change in ICPs is not foreseen. It is rather the criteria on how the ICPs are interpreted with specific reference to microinsurance that may be subject to certain adjustments. A closer examination and analysis of different unique aspects and a continuous dialogue with supervisors will assist in determining the key principles in the regulation and supervision of microinsurance. This shall form the basis for justifying adaptations to the regulatory framework and also to develop standards and guidance.
The primary audience of this paper are insurance supervisors, particularly IAIS members in developing countries, who are responsible for supervising entities licensed under insurance laws. Consequently, the impact of the social welfare system on microinsurance is not discussed in this paper. However, the ILO Social Security Department and the STEP Programme does advocate their vision of microinsurance as a tool for extending social security.

Most popular 10 abstracts - three months to 31 January 2007

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Showing the way forward: India's redistribution experience in extending social protection to all

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Atelier régional de concertation sur les avant-projets de règlement sur les mutuelles sociales dans les Etats membres de l'UEMOA

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

C19 Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Est-ce que la microassurance est un instrument pertinent d'extension de la protection sociale?

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Extension of Social Security

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Outline of the presentation:
1. Historical development of risk management strategies
2. Social security schemes
3. Social security coverage in Thailand
4. Dynamics for coverage extension
5. Key issues in designing schemes for informal economy
6. Rough classification of countries covered by ILO-SRO BKK
7. Country examples: Thailand, Lao PDR and Cambodia

Filling the Gap of Social Security for Migrant Workers

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The present study discusses the practical problems linked to the extension to migrant workers and their families of social security coverage and entitlements. It further examines the strengths and weaknesses of international conventions and social security agreements concluded for such purposes in recent years, and suggests ways and means by which better protection of migrant workers and their families can be achieved, particularly in the absence of ratification of relevant Conventions or conclusion of social security agreements by migrant-sending and by migrant-receiving countries.
This study will focus more closely on the right of regular migrant workers to social security, than the needs, which are nevertheless important, of "irregular" migrant workers.

Is microinsurance a relevant instrument in the extension of social protection?

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Presentation of chapter I.3 "The social protection perspective on microinsurance", by C. Jacquier, G. Ramm, P. Marcadent, and V. Schmitt-Diabaté, in Protecting the poor: A microinsurance compendium, C. Churchill (éd.), pp. 45-62.

L'Assurance maladie en Afrique francophone

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

La problématique de la protection sociale en Afrique

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Managing risk and minimizing vulnerability

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:00:00 GMT

This paper argues that a pro-poor growth strategy should aim at minimizing vulnerability to poverty – in all its dimensions.
It examines two areas where policies for social protection, employment and economic growth can reinforce each other: (i) the link between extending social health protection and the productivity of employment; and (ii) the synergy between tax-financed cash transfers and pro-poor growth.
Finally, it also emphasizes the need for a coherent global strategy, which should aim at achieving equality of opportunity.

Note de présentation de l'atelier régional de concertation sur un avant-projet de règlement sur les mutuelles sociales dans les Etats membres de l'Union (UEMOA)

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Protecting the social security rights of nationals working abroad

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
If a Filipino migrant worker has no social security coverage under the laws of the country of employment, coverage is provided instead through one of the schemes comprising the Social Security System of the Philippines (SSS). These schemes are: the voluntary social insurance system regulated by the Republic Act No. 1161 (Social Security Law); the Medical Care Program for Overseas Filipino Workers, the Philhealth Overseas Workers' Program, and the supplementary pension fund and savings account (known as SSS Flexi-Fund).

R167 Maintenance of Social Security Rights Recommendation, 1983

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

STEP en Afrique

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

STEP in Africa

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Leaflet of presentation of the ILO-STEP activities in Africa.

Une nouvelle approche pour étendre la couverture du risque maladie

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Consumer price index manual

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. Is is a key statistic for purposes of economic and social policy-making, especially monetary policy and social policy, and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses and workers, as well as households.
This important and comprehensive manual provides guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing CPIs and explains in depth the methods that are used to calculate a CPI. It also examines the underlying economic and statistical concepts and principles needed for making choices in efficient and cost-effective ways and for appreciating the full implicaitons of those choices.
The following international organizations, concerned both with the measurement of inflation and with policies designed to control it, have collaborated on the preparation of this manual: the International Labour Office; the International Moneraty Fund; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat); the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; and the World Bank.

Extension of social protection to transport operators in Senegal

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The transport operators' trade unions are actively involved in the design and implementation of a social health insurance scheme that aims to cover all transport operators and their families (ie 400 000 people).

ILO Standards Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers to Social Security

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
• The Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19), which specifically establishes the right to equality of treatment for foreign workers of any other State which has ratified the Convention, in respect of workmen's compensation for industrial accidents; Convention No. 19 also provides for the export of benefits of foreign workers covered by the Convention, however, only in case, the ratifying State provides for such export of benefits for its own nationals;
• The Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118), which provides for the right to equality of treatment with regard to all nine branches of social security. For each of the nine branches that it accepts, a State party to the Convention undertakes to grant within its territory to nationals of any other State which has ratified the Convention equality of treatment with its own nationals. But it also provides for some flexibility permitting exclusions of non-nationals in case when benefits or parts of benefits are payable wholly out of public funds. The Convention further provides for the maintenance of acquired rights and the export of benefits. In essence, a State party to Convention No. 118 has to ensure the provision of benefits abroad in a specific branch for its own nationals and for the nationals of any other State that has accepted the obligations of the Convention for the same branch, irrespective of the place of residence of the beneficiary; and
• The Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982 (No. 157), and Recommendation (No. 167), which institute an international system for the maintenance of acquired rights and rights in the course of acquisition for workers who transfer their residence from one country to another, and which ensure the effective provision of the benefits abroad when they return to their country of origin. Under this Convention, the maintenance of acquired rights has to be ensured for the nationals of other States parties to the Convention in any branch of social security in which the States concerned have legislation in force. Within this context, the Convention provides for the conclusion of bilateral or multilateral social security agreements. In addition, the Recommendation contains model provisions for the conclusion of such agreements.

Las reformas de salud en América Latina y el Caribe: su impacto en los principios de la seguridad social

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Pensions Panorama

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Reforming pensions in a fiscally and socially sustainable way is a central issue in developing and developed countries alike. This report, produced in collaboration by the OECD and the World Bank, addresses some of the key questions underlying the debate and provides the basis for a new, consistent, approach to the empirical analysis of pension systems and entitlements around the world.

Procédure de téléchargement de MAS Pilote 1.0

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2006

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Highlights features of social security programs in Europe.

System of National Accounts 1993

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

This version of the System of the National Accounts is a comprehensive, consistent and flexible set of macro-economic accounts to meet the needs of government and private-sector analysts, policy makers and decision takers. It is designed for use in all countries, whatever their economic, social or institutional arrangements and stage of economic development. This SNA updates and clarifies the 1968 SNA and harmonizes the SNA with other sets of international standards in statistics, particularly balance of payments, government and other financial statistics and employment statistics. It deals more fully with the integration of balance sheets, lays the groundwork for dealing with interaction between the economy and the natural resources of the environment, and elaborates an analytical approach to the assessment of poverty through social accounting matrices.
The 1993 SNA was prepared jointly by Eurostat (Commission of the European Communities); the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); the Statistical Division (UNSTAT), Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, and regional commissions of the United Nations Secretariat; and the World Bank.

World Population Prospects

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Case study on Lao P.D.R. ILO/ISSA/AIM study on linkages between statutory social security schemes and community based social protection mechanisms to extend coverage

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

From 1975 until the late 1990's, health care for the population of Lao P.D.R. was funded by the government, and services were provided free of charge to patients. In 1997 however the system threatened to collapse because of budgetary constraints, which made the government to decide to introduce user fees for government health care institutions. This imposition triggered a big increase in 'out-of-pocket' household expenditure on health care. The Ministry of Health was committed to develop social health insurance as the major health care financing method.
The development of the statutory social security schemes for the private (Social Security Organization) and public (Civil Servants Scheme) sector workers (less then 20% of the Lao population) have been very different, but current reforms are planned to merge the social security schemes for the two sectors. Over 80% of the Lao population are in the informal sector and therefore excluded from the statutory social security schemes. That is why the government is promoting voluntary community-based health care systems (CBHI) through a national programme.
To date, the SSO and CBHI schemes are not formally linked (there is at present no legal basis for the linkages). But there are several factors showing important similarities between the compulsory and voluntary schemes (e.g. same provider payment mechanism). Linkages between the systems could create a positive environment of harmony rather than competition, with each scheme learning from the other and could lead to an extend coverage of the population.

Planning and Implementing Health Insurance Programmes in India

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Procédure de téléchargement de MAS Gestion 1.3

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

The Extension of Social Protection in the Field of Health

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
A series of slides presenting the definition and objectives of social security (SS) and social protection (SP) within the International Labour Organization. The need for the extension of social protection is presented within this framework. The role of health micro-insurance is also presented as a mechanism for the extension of SP, and as one of the main areas of intervention of the STEP Programme in the Social Security Department.

Extension de la Protection Sociale dans le domaine de la Santé

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

From strength to strength: SEWA insurance

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Global Information on Microinsurance

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Logiciel Mas Gestion version 1.3

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Logiciel Mas Pilote version 1.0

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Needs assessment survey: identifying the social protection priority needs of cooperative societies' members in Karnataka

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Part IV. Micro-insurance: a component of social protection

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The definition of social security as a human right implies that (1) States have some kind of obligation regarding the right to social security / social protection and (2) everybody is entitled to a minimum of social protection, without exception or discrimination.But in many developing countries where States are characterized by low financial and institutional capacity, social protection coverage is dramatically low. In such contexts micro-insurance schemes may raise supplementary resources (financial means, human resources, etc.) that benefit to the social protection sector as a whole and contribute to facilitate and improve the governance of the social protection sector. More specifically, health micro-insurance schemes contribute to improve access to health care and have several positive effects in terms of participation of civil society, empowerment of socio-occupational groups including women.
Moreover, micro-insurance as a mechanism of extension has several added values or comparative advantages as compared to classical social security schemes, including its capacity to reach excluded groups, lower transaction costs, benefits packages well-adapted to the target population's needs, and lower incidences of fraud and abuses. However, micro-insurance faces several limitations including poor sustainability, little or no redistribution, and poorly adapted legislative frameworks.
To overcome these limitations, three pathways are suggested: First, that the further development of micro-insurance be enhanced and accelerated (in terms of population covered, scope of the benefits package, technical and financial capacities of the schemes, etc.); Second, that linkages be developed with other actors and institutions (e.g., outsourcing of management functions) as well as other components of social protection and the health sector (contracting with health care providers at local level but also defining contractual frameworks at national level); Third, that micro-insurance be further integrated in coherent and equitable national systems of social protection.

Regulations for the nationwide implementation of community based health insurance in Laos

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

The role of micro-insurance as a tool to face risks in the context of social protection

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Angayan mahibaloan unsa ang Nagkahiusang Katawhan Alang sa Kasigurohan sa Maayong Panglawas sa Sta. Josefa (NAKKAMPAS)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Support material (flipchart) explaining risk and vulnerability concepts, expenses due to illness and usual ways to cope with such expenses, like microinsurance.

Know all about HMI: Health Micro-Insurance

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT
Support material (flipchart) explaining risk and vulnerability concepts, expenses due to illness and usual ways to cope with such expenses, like microinsurance.

Vanuatu: Actuarial valuation of the proposed Compensation scheme

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT
The ILO project 'Sub-regional initiative on social security for the Pacific island countries' recommended a social insurance workers compensation scheme for Vanuatu to replace the employers' liability provisions in the existing labour legislation. This report presents the actuarial valuation undertaken to evaluate the proposed workers compensation scheme.

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