1. ILO Tool Box
Inter Agency Technical Meeting on the CEB Social Protection Floor Initiative
Turin, October 2009

2. ILO knowledge management tools
Name
Main features
Examples
Case studies
Employment and Social Security paper series
Technical papers
History
Legislation
Functioning
Coverage
Budget
Strengths & challenges
Bolsa familia, Brazil (forthcoming)
Internet KM platform: GESS
Statistical data
Resource centre
Country profiles
Thematic pages
Workspaces …
Country profiles
Sub-section on the global crisis
Roadmap for the extension of social security

3. ILO standards Name Main features International Labour Standards
(Conventions and Recommendations)
ILO conventions are a binding international instrument for signatory countries. It is the only available set of international legal instruments defining precisely the general right to social security.
Key social security conventions:
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)
Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118)
Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 (No. 121)
Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128)
Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969 (No. 130)
Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982 (No. 157)
Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988 (No. 168)
Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183)
ILO recommendations are non-binding but member countries can be asked to provide information to what extent they implement recommendations as well as non-ratified conventions
Recommendations:
Income Security Recommendation, 1944 (No. 67)
Medical Care Recommendation, 1944 (No. 69)

4. Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)
Branches
Benefit Conditions Duration of Benefit
Coverage of persons
Sickness Benefit
45 % To preclude abuse weeks (each case sickness)
50% of all employees or 20% of all residents, or all residents whose means do not exceed certain limits
Unemployment Benefit
45 % To preclude abuse 13 weeks in period of 12 months
50% of all employees, or all residents whose means do not exceed certain limits
Old-Age Benefit
40 % years Throughout the contingency
Employment Injury Benefits
Short term disability
Permanent disability
Death of the breadwinner
50 % No qualifying Throughout the contingency
50 % period allowed
40%
50% of all employees, and their widows and children in case of death of the breadwinner through an employment injury
Family Benefit
3% or 1,5% To preclude abuse Throughout the contingency
Maternity Benefit
45 % To preclude abuse Minimum of 12 weeks
Women of classes of employees constituting not less than 50% of all employees or 20% of all residents,
Invalidity Benefit
40 % years Throughout the contingency or until old – age pension is paid
50% of all employees or 20% of all residents, or all residents whose means do not exceed certain limits
Survivors’ Benefit
40 % years Throughout the contingency
Wives and children of 50% of all employees, or 20% of all residents, or all resident wives and children whose means do not exceed limits

5. Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)
Basic social security principles
Guaranteed, defined benefits
Participation of protected persons in decision making and administration
General responsibility of the Governments for
provision of benefits, and
proper administration of schemes, e.g. through regular actuarial reviews
Collective financing
Adjustment of pensions
Right of appeal
Equality of treatment

6. ILO advocacy tools Name Main features Examples
Social Security Legislation
Legislation drafting
e.g. Barhrein, China, Jordan
Training and capacity building
ITC, Quatrain: series of textbooks, Maastricht, Lausanne, Africa and America
Extension of social protection: towards a universal SP floor
Social Security Statistics (expenditure and income, coverage and levels of benefits)
Collection, storage and dissemination of comparable data on Social security, micro-insurance
Social Security Inquiry
SSE
Inventory of health micro-insurance schemes in Africa
Can low-income countries afford basic social security? (#3)
Social Security for All. Investing in social justice and economic development (#7)
Social Security Policy Briefings
Policy vision of the ILO
Research-based evidence
Country case studies

7. ILO design and costing tools
Name
Main features
Examples
SPER (Social Protection Expenditure Review)
Analysis of existing contributory and non-contributory social security schemes, of SP coverage gaps; Formulation of SP extension strategies
Sénégal, Tanzania, Zambia
and more
Social budgeting and actuarial modelling for demographic and financial projections of social security systems
Past, current and future social protection expenditure (takes into account all branches of SS and their interrelation)
Ghana; Ecuador, Panama;
Poland; Ukraine; etc.
ILO FACTS generic models
ILO POP, ECO, LAB, SAL, Health, PENS, etc.
60+ countries
Basic social protection assessment tool
Preliminary costing of a basic set of social security benefits – for advocacy
African and Asian countries
Nepal
ILO/STEP Feasibility study guide
Design of health Micro-insurance schemes
Niger, Sénégal

8. ILO monitoring, evaluation and reporting tools
Name
Main features
Examples
Social Security Inquiry
Compilation of country statistics on social protection systems
100 countries but not complete
SPER
Monitoring coverage, effectiveness, efficiency financial sustainability
Not many countries have
implemented is as a regular
mechanism
Social budgeting
MAS Gestion and
MAS-Pilote software
STEP’s monitoring and evaluation guide, guide de gestion des mutuelles de santé
PIS (Performance indicators)