ILO Social Protection Platform
Short description The ILO Social Protection Platform replaces the former Global Extension of Social Security (GESS) Platform. It is the International Labour Office's global knowledge sharing tool to extend social protection including health protection. Purpose The...
Social Protection Floor Initiative: Manual and Strategic Framework for Joint UN Country Operations
Short description This manual provides guidance for a Social Protection Floor Approach that includes health protection at country level, led by governments with support from the UN system and other collaborating agencies aiming at supporting existing or defining and...
Social Protection Assessment Based National Dialogue: A Good Practices Guide
Short description This guide provides knowledge and expertise for conducting assessment based national dialogue (ABND) exercises, which are the first steps towards the implementation of nationally defined social protection floors that include health protection. It is...
ILO Health Protection Platform
Short description The ILO Health Protection section of the ILO Social Protection provides information on the different ILO dimensions of access to health care (legal coverage, availability, affordability/financial protection). Global inequities in access to health...
UNDG Asia-Pacific Social Protection Issues Brief
Short description This tool provides United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Asia and the Pacific region and the United Nations Development Group Asia-Pacific with (i) a common UN position on social (health) protection; (ii) a brief overview of social (health)...
ILO/UNICEF costing and assessment tools
Short description The costing tools and assessment protocols have been developed and tested under the framework of the Social Protection Floor Initiative since 2010. Purpose The tools help users estimate the present and future cost of implementing a set of social...
Actuarial Practice in Social Security
Short description Presents technical material on valuation covering a wide-range of risks including old age, survivors, disability, sickness, maternity, employment injury, and unemployment. Purpose Discusses the valuation of pensions, short-term cash benefits like...
Social Budgeting
Short description Provides guidance for designing a social accounting system. Purpose Shows how the relationships between the economy and the social protection system can be translated into a quantitative model which permits projections and simulations to be carried...
Financing Social Protection
Short description Offers a comprehensive overview of financing options and provides a thorough analysis of their respective advantages and disadvantages as well as their financial and economic implications. Purpose Presents a "methodological toolbox" from which social...
Health Insurance Bill presented to Parliament of Zambia last Friday
Health Minister of Zambia Chitalu Chilufya presented The Health Insurance Bill to Parliament. The first reading took place on Friday 8th of December and the bill was deferred to the Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services. Second and third...
International Forum in Astana: Invest in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 8:00 am to 30 Nov 2017 4:00 pmTimezone: UTC+05:00Event is Conference : No
International Forum: Invest in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Forum "Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan" November 30 Forum "Investments in Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan" was held with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerbolat Dosayev, Minister of...
Khmer Times – NSSF opens to small firms
Khmer Times, November 7, 2017: "Firms employing as few as one member of staff have been urged to register with the National Social Security Fund to obtain benefits for their workers. NSSF director Ouk Samvithya last week said companies of all sizes would now be...
The power of a systemic approach towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nepal
The team of Nepalese leaders participating in the L4UHC programme tackled one of the country’s major health-care bottlenecks: the lack of essential drugs in primary health facilities. The story of this initiative illustrates that advancing toward UHC is not a simple...
Launch of the research for development project (PRD) on the financing of universal health coverage in Senegal UGB / UT / ULiège / ULB / DPRS / ACMU Thursday, November 30, 2017 at Hôtel Terrou-Bi – Dakar
Event Time : 30 Nov 2017 7:30 am to 30 Nov 2017 5:30 pmTimezone: UTC±00:00Event is Conference : Nohere