Ilo Social Protection Floor

Moreover the international normative framework has been enriched by the recent adoption of two important new international labour standards the ilo social protection floors recommendation 2012 no.

Ilo social protection floor.

202 and the ilo transition from the informal to the formal economy recommendation 2015 no. As a result of the extreme inequality social security schemes have been developed and implemented through private and public initiative. In many ways the power of the social protection floor lies in its simplicity. The social protection floor a joint crisis initiative of the un chief executives board for co ordination on the social protection floor international labour office ilo 1 world health.

The latter focus on economic growth and alleviating extreme poverty through the provision of safety nets for the very poor often on an ad hoc and short term basis while a social protection floor in the view of the ilo should lift people out of poverty and facilitate rights based social protection over the life cycle. The floor is based on the idea that everyone should enjoy at least basic income security sufficient to live guaranteed through transfers in cash or in kind such as pensions for the elderly and persons with disabilities child benefits income support benefits and or employment guarantees and services for the unemployed and working poor. The social protection floor spf is the first level of social protection in a national social protection system. The social protection floor is a global social policy approach to ensure universal access to at least the following guarantees.

It aims to capitalize on experiences identify knowledge gaps create new knowledge and promote innovation. 202 the social protection floors recommendation 2012 no. It is a basic set of social rights derived from human right treaties including access to essential services and social transfers in cash or in kind to guarantee income security food security adequate nutrition and access to essential services. Social protection is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security.

Recognizing the importance of ensuring social protection for all the united nations system chief executives board for coordination unceb adopted in april 2009 the social protection floor initiative as one of the nine un joint initiatives to cope with the effects of the economic crisis. Bob deacon s study of the social protection floors initiative led by the international labour organisation ilo entailed a pioneering study of the making of global social policy. The limits to global social policy. The ilo social protection floors recommendation 2012 no.

The ilo the social protection floor and the politics of welfare in east and southern africa jeremy seekings.