1. The ILO’s strategy for the extension of social security and the role of international social security standards Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No.202)

2. The ILO’s Mandate in Social Security
Preamble of the ILO Constitution (1919)
Declaration of Philadelphia (1944)
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, (No. 102)
Conclusions of the ILC (2001) and the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008)
Global Jobs Pact, ILC (2009)
Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No.202)

3. What are International Labour Standards?
ILS are legal instruments drawn up by the ILO’s constituents (governments, employers and workers) setting out principles and rights at work and beyond for protecting workers and their families, governing globalization, promoting sustainable development, eradicating poverty, and ensuring that people can work and live in dignity, decency, health and safety;
They are either
Conventions: legally binding international treaties that may be ratified by member states, that create obligations for ratifying States (application and reporting)
Recommendations: serve as non-binding guidelines; autonomous or accompanying a Convention; may also subject to reporting

4. ILO social security standards
8 up-to-date 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);
Old-Age, Invalidity and Survivors’ Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128);
Medical Care 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).
3 key Recommendations:
Income Security Recommendation, 1944 (No. 67);
Medical Care Recommendation, 1944 (No. 69)
Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No.202)

5. The flagship: Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No
Defines the nine branches of social security:
Medical care benefit, sickness benefit, unemployment benefit, old-age benefit, employment injury benefits, maternity benefit, family benefit, invalidity benefit, survivors’ benefit.
Sets minimum standards for the nine branches:
Minimum percentage of personal coverage;
Minimum level of benefits;
Maximum qualifying period for the entitlement to benefit;
Minimum duration of benefits.

6. individual/household income
Building comprehensive social security systems using ILO standards as references
individual/household income
Access to essential health care and minimum income security for all
Social security benefits of guaranteed levels
Voluntary insurance under government regulation
level of protection
high
low
Vertical dimension: progressively ensuring higher levels of protection guided by C.102 and more advanced standards
floor level
Horizontal dimension: Guaranteeing access to essential health care and minimum income security for all
guided by R.202

7. The horizontal dimension: minimum levels of income security and health care
The ILO’s strategy calls for the rapid implementation of national Social Protection Floors, containing basic social security guarantees that ensure that over the life cycle, all in need:
can afford and have access to essential health care and
have income security at least at a nationally defined minimum level
Main normative basis: The Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (R. 202)

8. The vertical dimension: higher levels of protection
For the ILO, the process of building comprehensive social security systems cannot stop at the ground floor of protection.
The ILO strategy calls for the formulation and implementation of social security coverage extension strategies which
should seek to provide higher levels of income security and access to health care
taking into account and progressing towards in the first instance the coverage and benefit provisions of Convention No. 102, then those of more advanced ILO social security standards
to as many people as possible and as soon as possible
Normative basis: The Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) and more advanced social security standards

9. The SPF Recommendation at a glance
Preamble
Social security as human right and social and economic necessity
Reference to various international instruments
I. Objectives, scope and principles
Objective and scope
Definition of national social protection floors
Principles
II. National social protection floors
Definition of basic social security guarantees
Legal foundations
Establishment and review
Provision
Financing
III. National strategies for the extension of social security
Prioritize implementation of national SPFs
Progression to higher levels of protection
Building and maintaining social security systems
Policy coherence
ILO social security standards
IV. Monitoring
National monitoring
National consultations
International exchange of information, experiences and expertise

10. National SPFs: At least four nationally-defined guarantees
The social protection floors should comprise at least the following basic social security guarantees: (para. 5)
access to a set of goods and services constituting essential health care including maternity care
basic income security for children
basic income security for persons in active age unable to earn sufficient income
basic income security for persons in old age
national definition of minimum levels
Subject to their existing international obligations, Members should provide these basic social guarantees to at least all residents and children, as defined in national laws and regulations. (para. 6)

11. National SPFs: Pluralism of approaches - guaranteed outcomes
national choice
social assistance
social insurance
universal schemes
others
Most effective and efficient combination of benefits and schemes in national context (para. 9(1))
nationally guaranteed outcomes
Benefits may include child and family benefits, sickness and health-care benefits, maternity benefits, disability benefits, old-age benefits, survivors’ benefits, unemployment benefits and employment guarantees, and employment injury benefits as well as any other social benefits in cash or in kind. (para. 9(2))