Resources on social protection

  1. ILO co-organizes a session on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals through the social and solidarity economy in Asia

    16 December 2022

    The ILO co-organized and participated in a session on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals through the social and solidarity economy (SSE) with UN ESCAP and Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC). The session took place on December 14, 2022 as part of UN ESCAP’s Business Innovation for the SDGs Forum.

  2. How to Ask for Maternity or Paternity Leave When Your Company Has No Policy

    15 April 2020

  3. Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region

    31 December 2019

    The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes recommendations to the regional and national policy debates on the extension of social protection coverage from legal, administrative and financial perspectives.

  4. Concept Note and Agenda

    19 June 2019

    Concept note and agenda for the ILO/ASEAN Seminar on The Future of Social Protection

  5. Social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN: Developments, challenges, and prospects

    18 December 2018

    This report provides an overview of the developments, challenges, and prospects of social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN.

  6. Safeguarding the Rights of Asian Migrant Workers from Home to the Workplace

    22 March 2017

  7. Growth with equity in Singapore: Challenges and prospects

    28 March 2014

  8. Promotion and building unemployment insurance and employment services in ASEAN countries (Final Evaluation Summary)

    18 December 2013

    Project RAS/13/53/JPN, RAS/10/59/JPN and RAS/11/58/JPN - Evaluation consultants: Mel Cousins and Ngo Hang

  9. Strengthening the role of employment injury schemes to help prevent occupational accidents and diseases

    02 January 2013

    The overall aim of the guide is to provide policy recommendations for future direction in the area of employment injury (EI) schemes. The guide is targeted at a mixed audience of national authorities dealing with occupational safety and health (OSH).

  10. Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

    31 July 2012

    This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.