Social Protection Programme

Essential, But Unprotected: How Have Informal Workers Navigated the Health Risks of the Pandemic?

La crisis de la COVID-19 y la Economía informal Conclusiones principales y recomendaciones de políticas relativas a los riesgos sanitarios...

Older Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 5 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to older informal workers...

The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali)

Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

Domestic Workers, Risk & Social Protection in Delhi National Capital Region

Delhi, India’s capital and a bustling metropolis, is home to many migrant workers from across the country. For most women migrants, domestic...

Informal Workers and the Social Protection Response to COVID-19: Who got relief? How? And did it make a difference?

Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to COVID-19 food and cash relief measures for informal workers based on research undertaken...

Domestic Workers, Risk and Social Protection in Nepal

Most domestic workers in Nepal are employed in live-out arrangements with multiple employers while others, many of them adolescent girls,...

The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Informal Workers & The Future of Work: A Defence of Work-Related Social Protection

This Working Paper responds to current debates on the future of social protection as employment relationships become increasingly non-existent,...

Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...