An ongoing project to map social protection systems as they interact with informal employment globally, the aim is to build an online knowledge repository that can be used for knowledge sharing, analysis and policy development.
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WIEGO demonstrates an online tool to calculate social protection financing
A social protection system incorporates various actors, processes, platforms and institutions working together to ensure coverage, adequacy, comprehensiveness, sustainability and good governance. Strengthening each part of the system and understanding the relationships between them is essential for systemic change.
To better include workers in informal employment into social protection, we explore the system’s building blocks and recognize good practices and challenges in their operation. Understanding workers’ experiences in navigating current systems is necessary to make meaningful and inclusive reforms, and this is a central focus of our work.
Our mapping includes brief, accessible summaries of the global literature related to each of the key building blocks, focusing on the inclusion of workers in informal employment. These summaries critically assess both challenges and successes and are available in English, French and Spanish. For each block we produce at least three podcasts, highlighting grass-roots experiences with social protection systems. These podcasts feature interviews with membership-based organizations, support organizations and other allies.