Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition The World Social Protection Report 2024-26 focuses intensely on the climate crisis and the need to transition to a more sustainable world, as well as providing a global overview of progress made around the world since 2015 in extending...

This study provides global, regional and country-level estimates of the financing gap to achieve universal social protection, including universal access to five key social protection guarantees (that is, for children, persons with severe disabilities, mothers of newborns, older persons and the unemployed) and essential health care. The estimations cover...

Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions | UN Global Accelerator The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, launched in September 2021 by the UN Secretary-General, signals the UN system’s collective response for addressing the multiple challenges that threaten to erase development...

For most workers in the informal economy, the lack of social protection is a challenge not only in their daily struggles to make ends meet but in their aspirations to obtain decent work, rights and dignity. For the societies in which they live, the lack of social protection coverage...

This Toolkit was developed with the aim of raising awareness about ILO social security standards and promoting their ratification as well as increasing their impact and application in national contexts. Explore the Toolkit on ILO Social Security...

Joint statement: Towards inclusive social protection systems supporting the full and effective participation of persons with...

COVID-19 and social protection among key debates as June session of virtual International Labour Conference ends. The impact of COVID-19 on the world of work featured prominently in the June segment of the first virtual International Labour Conference. Conclusions on social protection and the application of international labour standards...