"Unemployment protection schemes provide income support over a determined period of time to unemployed workers and can be achieved through unemployment insurance or assistance and employment guarantee programmes, complemented by minimum income guarantee programmes. Such schemes are important for guaranteeing income security to unemployed and underemployed workers and their families, thereby contributing to preventing poverty, providing safeguards against informalization, and supporting...
“A basic income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement. That is, basic income has the following five characeristics: Periodic: it is paid at regular intervals (for example every month), not as a one-off grant. Cash payment: it is paid in an appropriate medium of exchange, allowing those who receive it to decide what they spend it on. It is not, therefore, paid either in kind (such as food or services) or in...
"Tax-financed benefits or transfers that are paid to all citizens or inhabitants falling into a specific category of the population (for example, families with children or people over a certain age". Source : International Labour Organization. N.d. "Glossary". ILO. < https://www.social-protection.org/gimi/ShowGlossary.action?lettre=t&glosLang=EN >. Accessed 14 May 2020.
Universal Child Grants are cash grants provided on a regular basis to families with children to support the costs of bringing up a child, regardless of family income or any other qualifying feature. Source: Kreul, I. 2019. 'Universal Child Grants – a universal solution to child poverty?'. UNICEF. < https://www.unicef.org/eca/stories/universal-child-grants-universal-solu... . Accessed 26 August 2020
"Universal health care has received considerable attention in recent years. In such a system, the population enjoys free of charge a specific list of health services, often linked to a list of diseases. These services are typically financed by the government, via mandatory payroll/social security contributions, general taxation, or a combination of both. For example, general tax-based funding is used in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Cuba, Italy and Brazil, while...
"Price subsidies are policies aiming at modifying consumer or producer prices in order to pursue given economic or social outcomes and/or overcome specific market failures. Thus, price subsides of various kinds are used primarily to alter consumption or production patterns in order to achieve particular policy objectives (such as increasing economies of scale, addressing externalities, stimulating chosen industries, etc.) or to redistribute resources and benefit certain groups, such as the poor...
"Universal Social Protection refers to a system of policies and programmes that provide equitable access to all people and protect them throughout their lives against poverty and risks to their livelihoods and well-being." Source : Ulrichs, M. and White-Kaba, M. 2019. 'A systems perspective on Universal Social Protection: Towards life-long equitable access to comprehensive social protection for all - A discussion paper in the German Health Practice Collection'. Federal Ministry for Economic...
"The term unpaid care work encompasses all the daily activities that sustain our lives and health, such as house work (food preparation, cleaning, laundry) and personal care (especially of children, the elderly, people who are sick or have a disability). These activities are most commonly performed by women in the household for free. According to the United Nations Millennium Campaign to halve world poverty by the year 2015, the overwhelming majority of the work that sustains daily life –...
"Under the co-leadership of the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation, USP2030 partners work together to increase the number of countries that provide universal social protection, supporting countries to design and implement universal and sustainable social protection systems, in line with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, and in particular target 1.3 of the sustainable development goals (SDG 1.3). Actions include coordinating country support to strengthen national...
