Accelerating universal social protection for achieving the SDGs and ending poverty through strengthened governance and digital transformation

Social protection as a key pillar of decent work is an important consideration for the sustainable creation of quality jobs. Social protection systems allow enterprises and workers to be more productive by helping to manage life cycle risks, access health care and have greater income security; they are investments with positive returns on the economy. By supporting a healthy, skilled workforce, social protection, including health protection, can enhance and maintain the productivity of workers. Social protection provides the resources and time that people need to develop skills, enhancing their employability and helping them to manage work and life transitions. Promoting decent employment creation with social protection reduces inequalities and the risk of social disruption by renewing the social contract between people and the State. The project aims at integrating decent job creation and social protection in the framework of the GIZ Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation within the partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO) Social Protection Department, the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) which will organize and deliver global and national workshops, and commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Project symbol

GLO/23/02/UNS

Admin unit

CO-Bangkok
SOCPRO
DWT/CO-Moscow

Start date

01/06/2023

End date

31/05/2025

Total allocation

1042079

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1044647

Development Partners

United Nations Departement of Economic and Social Affairs- China Fund

Country/Countries

Lao People's Democratic Republic
Global
Tajikistan

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Universal social protection