Social Protection

Year: 2000
Authors: Lund, Frances and Srinivas, Smita
Title: Learning from Experience: A Gendered Approach to Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy
Format: Background Paper
Pages: 163
This paper provides a framework of analysis and an overview of current practice in the provision of social protection for informal workers. It served as a background reading and a common point of reference for discussions at a workshop focussing on social protection for women in the informal economy.

Year: 2002
Authors: Barrientos, Armando and Stephanie Ware Barrientos
Title: Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain.
Format: World Bank Social Protection Discussion Paper Series
Pages: 57
This paper is based on a case study of one sector - horticulture - drawing on the specific examples of fruit exports from Chile and South Africa to the United Kingdom. It uses the horticultural value chain to explore inter-connected employment, social risks, and social protection for informal workers in the sector.

Year: 2002
Authors: Emmanuel Reynaud
Title: The Extension of Social Security Coverage: The Approach of the International Labour Office
Format: Discussion paper
Pages: 31
Extending social security coverage to excluded populations is one of the chief priorities of the International Labour Office (ILO). This paper invites the ILO to address its conclusions in order to address this priority.

Year: 2003
Authors: Lund , Francie and Nicholson, Jillian
Title: Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy.
Format: Book
Pages: 124
This book is the outcome of a process of learning between the Social Security Division of the International Labor Office, the Social Protection Division of the World Bank, and Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). It offers a framework in which analysis of social protection is integrated into value chain analysis; suggests practical policy and programme interventions, and identifies areas for further research.

Year: 2003
Authors: Heintz, James and Pollin, Robert
Title: Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries.
Format: Working Paper
Pages: 25
This paper considers the relationship between the rise of informal work and the corresponding advent of neoliberal policies in developing countries. It explores policy measures for raising the proportion of decent jobs with core social protections in developing countries which is argued as reversing the process of informalisation.

Year: 2003
Authors: Jeemol Unni and Uma Rani
Title: Regional Overview of Social Protection of Informal Workers in Asia: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Arrangements
Format: Discussion paper
Pages: 50
This paper was prepared for a workshop on social protection for women in the informal economy organised by the Gender and Development Section of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. It aims to present a framework for social protection for informal workers in the South, East, and South- East Asian regions.

Year: 2004
Authors: Pape, Karin
Title: Decent Labour and Social Security in the Informal Economy
Format: Seminar Report
Pages: 16
This report is from a Seminar aimed at bringing together different representatives of organisations who play an active role in promoting development strategies for the informal economy. The Seminar focus was on poverty oriented development strategies in which the question of social security was crucial.

Year: 2004
Authors: Social Alert
Title: Towards a Social Protection for Informal Economy Workers
Format: Conference Report
Pages: 76
This is the report of a Conference on Social Rights in the Informal Economy organised by Social Alert, a coalition of non profit organisations, NGOs and international trade unions. The Conference heard from experts, international institutions (ILO, World Bank, European Union) and had exchanges with informal economy organisations from around the world under the theme of ‘social protection in the informal economy’.

Year: 2004
Authors: Shrestha, Amuda
Title: Social Protection in the Informal Economy
Format: Discussion Paper
Pages: 8
This paper was presented to a workshop on "Identifying Challenges of Informal Economy for Trade Unions" organised by the Democratic Confederation of Nepalese Trade Unions (DECONT). It explores the challenges and strategies for social protection in the informal economy.

Year: 2005
Authors: Frye, Isobel
Title: Extending Social Security to Developing Countries
Format: Literature Review
Pages: 61
With a particular emphasis on healthcare and informal economy workers, this paper seeks to explore reasons for the shortcomings in the current cover of social security for informal workers, to consider what options exist for extending healthcare provision, and to consider the role that trade unions could play in extending healthcare.

Year: 2006
Authors: International Labour Organization
Title: Social Protection and Inclusion: Experiences and Policy Issues
Format: Book
Pages: 248
This book emerged from the 89th International Labour Conference in 2001, where more than 150 countries reached a consensus on social security. It presents experiences at the global level concerning social assistance, and looks at different policies aimed at extending the coverage of social insurance, as well as case studies on the experiences of developing countries.

Year: 2006
Authors: Lund, Francie and Nicholson, Jillian
Title: Tools for Advocacy: Social Protection for Informal Workers
Format: Advocacy Booklet
Pages: 46
This set of learning materials are drawn from workshop discussions at the Asia Social Protection Dialogue in Bangkok, 2004. The materials are meant to be used by organisations and networks of informal workers, by groups of informal workers or by individual workers who need to advocate for social protection for informal workers.