Examples include unconditional and conditional cash transfers, non-contributory social pensions, food and other in-kind transfers, school feeding programmes, ...

Welfare and social services to highly vulnerable groups such as the physically or mentally disabled, orphans, or substance abusers. · Cash or in-kind transfers ... History · Types · Policy issues · National programs

Social protection instruments like social insurance, social assistance, and labor and economic inclusion programs help people, especially women, find better ...

Social insurance includes contributory pensions; health, unemployment, or disaster insurance; and funeral assistance (Norton et al., 2001). It can be provided ...

Health protection · Sickness benefits (earnings replacement) · Unemployment benefits · Old-age pensions · Employment injury benefits · Family and child benefits.

Social protection systems and social protection floors · Disability benefits · Employment injury protection · Family and child benefits · Health care, long-term ...

Programmes like cash transfers – including child grants, school meals, skills development and more – help connect families with health care, nutritious food and ...

1. Protective social assistance for the poor such as disability benefits and old age pensions. 2. Preventive measures to avert poverty such as food- for-work ...

For example, for persons with disabilities, effective access to social protection requires not only adequate disability benefits, but also addressing specific ...