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Social Protection Department

The Social Protection Department provides ILO member States with tools and assistance to achieve and maintain the human right to social protection. 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 guided by international social security standards adopted by its tripartite constituents, in particular its flagship Convention concerning Minimum standards of social security, 1952 (No. 102) and the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202). 

Highlights

SDG Action Weekend, High Impact Initiatives: Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

ILO Live

SDG Action Weekend, High Impact Initiatives: Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions

13 million people enjoy better social protection through improved financing

13 million people enjoy better social protection through improved financing

Development partners meeting of the Global Flagship Programme on building social protection floors for all

ILO Live

Development partners meeting of the Global Flagship Programme on building social protection floors for all

Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally

Joint ILO-UNICEF report

Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally

ILO launches Massive Open Online Course "Making Universal Social Protection a Reality"

News

ILO launches Massive Open Online Course "Making Universal Social Protection a Reality"

ILO Director-General warns of threat to social justice at meeting with Chancellor Scholz and other international organization leaders

Multilateralism

ILO Director-General warns of threat to social justice at meeting with Chancellor Scholz and other international organization leaders

ILO Director-General calls for social protection and minimum wages to respond to cost-of-living crisis

Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

ILO Director-General calls for social protection and minimum wages to respond to cost-of-living crisis

Quick links

Key resources

Making Universal Social Protection a Reality
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Free Open Online Course

Making Universal Social Protection a Reality

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World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads - in pursuit of a better future
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Flagship Report

World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads - in pursuit of a better future

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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience
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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience

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Guidebook for policymakers, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other stakeholders

ILO Flagship Programme and projects

Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All

 

Improving synergies between social protection and public finance management

 

Strengthening of social protection systems in the PALOP countries and Timor-Leste

Partnerships