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Advocating for universal coverage: Vietnamese women struggle without universal maternity benefits

Viet Nam Women's Union in gender training package, October 2022. Back then, I had a cousin who worked in the garment factory and gave birth to a child. She got paid maternity leave. But for me,...

Authorities in Paraguay stress importance of a sustainable social protection system with universal coverage

Viet Nam Women's Union in gender training package, October 2022.Panalists at the International Seminar on Social Protection & Public Finances in Paraguay."Recent years’ repeated crises – energy,...

Training on formalization for civil society organizations and trade unions in Cambodia

Viet Nam Women's Union in gender training package, October 2022.SP&PFM Cambodia organized a training session on formalization (29 March) in Phnom Penh that aimed at improving the effectiveness...

The National Health Insurance Fund in Kenya refine strategy to extend coverage

Viet Nam Women's Union in gender training package, October 2022.The Kenya SP&PFM project has organised a weeklong management retreat (20-24 March) with 20 key NHIF staff, including heads of...

Highlights

Financing and extending social protection in Senegal. Progress and challenges (in French)

Workshop on the expansion of labour market inclusion for workers with disability in Kyrgyzstan (subtitles in English)

Proposal for a comprehensive unemployment protection system in Peru (in Spanish)

The European Union, in partnership with the International Labour Organization, UNICEF and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, is implementing a thematic flagship programme aimed to strengthen social protection systems and ensure sustainable financing while improving public finance management. The initiative is currently being implemented in 18 countries and has immediately reoriented funds to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Social protection lies at the core of sustainable development, decent work and social justice.”

Gilbert F. Houngbo

Director-General, ILO

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