Social Protection Programme

Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection

Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally...

Financing Universal Social Protection: The Relevance and Labour Market Impacts of Social Security Contributions

This paper brings together existing evidence on the impact of social security contributions on labour markets, insights from public finance...

Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs?

This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector...

Home-Based Workers’ Access to Social Protection: Lessons Learned from the IDPoor Programme in Cambodia

This joint WIEGO and HomeNet Cambodia study adds to the limited research on home-based workers and their access to social-protection programmes...

Tight Tax Net, Loose Safety Net: Taxation and Social Protection in Accra’s Informal Sector

While debates about taxation and social protection in relation to the informal economy are widespread, there is little empirical evidence...

New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme in Ghana

The TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme was established in Ghana in 2017 by the Union of Informal Workers Associations (UNIWA) as a...

Child Care in Markets

Workers in informal employment often lack access to high quality public services, including child-care services. Lack of child-care support...

A regional approach to Universal Social Protection: The case of the African Union Protocol

SEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres...