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Labour market programmes and activation measures are essential to promoting decent jobs and universal social protection, particularly in developing countries where unemployment and precarious work prevail. Active labour market programmes (ALMPs), combined with social protection measures, feature prominently in Global Accelerator pathfinder country roadmaps and M-GA projects, helping disadvantaged groups access better opportunities.
However, global data on ALMPs primarily focuses on high-income countries. To address this, the ILO and World Bank are aligning methodologies and coordinating data collection, prioritizing Global Accelerator pathfinder and developing countries. This initiative is expanding high-quality, comparable data on ALMPs, improving policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring.
The following activities are being undertaken:
- A data collection tool has been developed by the ILO and the WB, with harmonized definitions and approaches for ALMPs, across 17 countries (Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Colombia, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Paraguay, the Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Viet Nam covered by the ILO and, Brazil, Bhutan, Ethiopia, the Republic of Congo, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan)
- Building a repository of ALMP information that strengthens evidence-based decision-making, programme design and implementation, and supports cross-country comparability
- A joint report presenting key findings is currently being drafted
As countries work to reduce GHG emissions, protecting poor and vulnerable populations from climate change impacts is critical. Social protection systems are recognized as key to climate adaptation and disaster response but are less explored in enabling households to adapt their livelihoods, resource use, and service access to mitigate risks.
The World Bank and UNICEF are working together to (i) enhance social protection systems to help vulnerable households reduce climate risk exposure, including slow-onset events, and (ii) build an investment case for social protection as a climate action policy using relevant metrics.
Key outcomes include:
- Supporting adaptation: Identify barriers to adaptation, analyse existing evidence, conduct case studies, and recommend ways to improve social protection systems.
- Social protection as climate action: Establish a rationale for investing in social protection, quantify its impact on resilience and adaptation, and present results using climate-relevant metrics.
The following activities are being undertaken:
- The inception phase of the knowledge product has been initiated, and a broad-based review of the literature has been completed, with particular attention to evidence on the role of social protection systems in climate adaptation, resilience, and loss and damage, beyond their traditional focus on shock response.
- The findings from this review are currently being synthesized to inform the development of a research framework, which will guide the evidence collection process on how social protection can support poor and vulnerable households to adapt livelihoods, adjust resource use, and improve access to services in the context of escalating climate risks, in line with the objectives outlined in the concept note.
Globally, only 52.4 per cent of the population has access to social protection, with large disparities between rural and urban areas, with a significant proportion of those not covered, relying on agriculture for their subsistence. At least 12 GA pathfinder or M-GA countries, which have included the transformation of the agrifood sector as a priority of their roadmap and/or joint programs.
FAO, ILO and the World Bank will collaborate to develop a practical guidance package, based on country experience, to support governments, social partners and other non-state actors in pathfinder countries and beyond, to design solutions for extending social protection for decent and productive jobs in the agrifood sector in rural areas.
The following activities are being undertaken:
- The inception phase of the global product is underway, with the World Bank, ILO and FAO team having begun preliminary discussions on country selection
- Two different support modalities are being considered: “in-depth”: on-site missions in up to two countries; and “light”: remote provision of technical assistance to other countries (based on demand). Bilateral discussions are being organized with pathfinder countries to better understand the challenges and opportunities they face in creating decent jobs and extending social protection to rural areas and agriculture sector, and to identify opportunities for policy/institutional support
A standard module on social protection for Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), will be developed and piloted, as a collaboration between the ILO and the World Bank, with technical collaboration with UNICEF.
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
International Development Programme, Ireland
