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Building social protection floors
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Building Social Protection Floors for All: ILO Global Flagship Programme, Annual Report 2024

What role can health mutuals and community-based health insurance play in social health protection systems? Review of experiences

Fact Sheet No. 39: Right to Social Security

Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?

World social protection report 2024-26: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific

World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition

Country briefs

Brazil: Protecting self-employed workers through a Monotax mechanism – Simples

Iran - Creating fiscal space for social protection through energy subsidy reform

Brazil: Guaranteeing social protection for domestic workers

Brazil: Creating fiscal space for social protection through transition to formal employment

Moving towards universal social health protection

Tajikistan: National dialogue process to define an SPF

Policy Papers and Briefs

Social health protection for climate action

Universal social protection for all carers: A necessity for securing long-term care in the context of population ageing

Securing access to long-term care without hardship as an integral part of universal social protection systems

The promise of universal child benefits: The foundational policy for economic and social development

Guidance note: Using Migrant Welfare Funds as a social protection instrument – potential and limitations?

Building Rights-Based Social Protection Systems in the PALOP countries and Timor-Leste

Working papers

Investing more in universal social protection. Filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination

Investing better in universal social protection. Applying international social security standards in social protection policy and financing

Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis: Continuity and change

Financing gaps in social protection. Global estimates and strategies for developing countries in light of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

Measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3. Global estimates and strategies for developing countries

La reversión de la privatización de las pensiones: Reconstruyendo los sistemas públicos de pensiones en los países de Europa Oriental y América Latina (2000-2018)