World Social Protection Report 2020-22

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World Social Protection Report- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges: Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.

Recently, World Social Protection Report was launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
World Social Protection Report provides a global overview of progress made around the world over the past decade in extending social protection and building rights-based social protection systems, in the context of COVID-19.
Social protection: includes access to health care and income security measures related especially to old age, unemployment, sickness, disability, work injury, maternity or the loss of the main breadwinner in a family, as well as extra support for families with children.

“The World Social Protection Report: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future”- a flagship of the ILO, is an essential contribution to the monitoring framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Based on new data, it offers a broad range of global, regional and country data on social protection coverage, benefits and public expenditures.

COVID-19 Impact: It is estimated that the pandemic has increased the number of children living in income-poor households by more than 142 million, bringing the total to almost 725 million.
Global Scenario:1 billion people were living without any social safety net of any kind.
- In 2020, only 46.9% of the global population benefitted from at least one social protection.
Social Protection for Children: only 26.4 percent of children globally receive social protection benefits.
- Effective social protection is particularly low in some regions: 18% in Asia and the Pacific, 15.4% in the Arab States, and 12.6 percent in Africa.
- National expenditure, on average, for social protection for children is only 1.1% of GDP, compared to 7% of GDP spent on pensions.

Avoid fiscal austerity and use recovery as a policy opportunity to further strengthen child-sensitive and inclusive social protection systems in order to ensure children’s well-being and achieve the SDGs.
Ensure adequacy within social protection systems in terms of inclusion and gender sensitivity, and that they address climate-related and conflict-related risks.