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Further reading

Flagship report
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'Social protection' in Responding to Forced Displacement report

Files for download

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ILO training materials and courses

ILO, Handbook on Social Health Protection for Refugees, 2020

ILO, ILO Strategy on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers, Refugees and their Families, 2025

ILO, Guiding Principles on the Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market, 2016

ILO’s toolkit on Social Security Standards

ILO’s toolkit on Social Health Protection

ILO, Social Protection Policy Options tool (SPPOT)

Global perspectives on the intervention

ILO and UNHCR, Memorandum of Understanding, Geneva, 1 July 2016

ILO and UNHCR, ILO-UNHCR Joint Action Plan 2023–2025, June 2023

ILO Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118)

ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)

ILO, Intervention Model: for Extending Social Protection to Asylum Seekers and Refugees, ILO brief, November 2021

ILO’s social protection platform: migrants and refugees

Local perspectives on the intervention

Kenya: NSSF, Haba Haba savings scheme, website, accessed 2025

Kenya: Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Strategy for Extension of Social Protection Coverage to Workers in the Informal and Rural Economy in Kenya, 2023

Kenya: ILO and NHIF, The Introduction of a Maternity Cash Benefit in Kenya, 2023

Kenya: ILO, Report on the Assessment of the National Social Security Fund Haba Haba Plan Design and Possibilities for Inclusion of Refugees and Migrant Informal Economy Workers in Kenya, 2024

Ethiopia: ILO, Social Protection in Action: Building Social Protection Floors for All, 2024

Ethiopia: ILO, Mapping of the National Social Protection System in Ethiopia, including Social Health Protection, 2021

Jordan: ILO, Estidama++ Fund – Extension of Coverage and Formalization in Jordan, website, accessed 2025

Jordan: ILO, 'Building a stable future – Eyad Al Merjawi’s journey to decent work and social protection in Jordan', ILO news release, 4 December 2024

Jordan: ILO, Opportunities for Extending Social Security Coverage in Jordan, 2021

Jordan: ILO, Legislative and Policy Coherence on the Extension of Social Security Coverage in Jordan, 2022

Jordan: ILO, A Market Systems Analysis on SMEs’ Business Incentives to Contribute to Social Insurance Schemes in Jordan, 2025

Egypt: ILO, Improving Social Health Protection for Refugees in Egypt Through their Inclusion in the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) Scheme, 2024

Sudan: ILO, Extension of Social Protection Coverage to Workers in the Informal Economy in Sudan, 2022

Lebanon: ILO, “The Ministry of Social Affairs introduces a social protection programme for people with disabilities in Lebanon”, ILO news release, 26 April 2023

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