Building social protection floors for all

ILO Global Flagship Programme

Helping millions of people live in dignity.

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ILO Global Flagship Programme

The ILO's Global Flagship Programme on building social protection floors for all, launched in early 2016, supports the implementation of social protection systems including floors, guided by ILO's social security standards.

Working across 50 priority countries, it aims to change the lives of millions of people by 2025 and provide evidence on ILO's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals on social protection.

1.3 End poverty in all its forms everywhere

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

3.8 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all
                ages

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

2.1 End hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food 5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate 8.5 Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage, and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
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Our ambition

By 2025 the Flagship Programme aims to:

Institutional changes

Achieve over 90 institutional changes to strengthen social protection systems

Adequacy and comprehensiveness

Improve benefit adequacy and comprehensiveness for 10 million people

Legal coverage

Improve legal coverage for 20 million people

Effective coverage

Increase effective coverage for 30 million people

Latest news and events

Upcoming events

10 March 2022

16 - 17 March 2022

The objectives of the event are the following:

Bring together key actors working on disability-inclusive social protection, further strengthen their sense of unity and common purpose and demonstrating the strength of the collaboration in public;

24 February 2022

The webinar will discuss the findings and recommendations outlined in the paper. This will provide an opportunity for experts and social partners working in this area to share their reflections on the report and the policy recommendations given.

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