Resources on social finance

  1. © Sam Phelps/UNICEF Sierra Leone 2024

    Podcast

    Should we treat the care economy as an investment or a cost?

    26 October 2023

    Demand for care already outstrips supply and is expected to increase significantly in the future. Now, new ILO research suggests that spending on care – particularly childcare – could bring a return on investment of more than 3-to-1.

  2. © Stephan Gladieu / World Bank 2024

    Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All

    Local collaboration is key for global progress towards health-related SDGs

    04 May 2023

    Since its launch in 2019, the SDG3 GAP has improved coordination in key areas such as sustainable financing and primary health care to reach the Global Goals.

  3. © ILO 2024

    Podcast

    Tackling the productivity challenge

    27 February 2023

    Low levels of productivity are making it more difficult for countries and regions to escape from the current mix of social and economic challenges. How can productivity be improved?

  4. © USAID 2024

    Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All

    Incentivizing collaboration towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals

    19 May 2022

    Progress on achieving the health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals is lagging, and greater multilateral collaboration, as spelt out in the SDG3 Global Action Plan, is needed, according to a new report.

  5. © Asian Development Bank 2024

    Social protection

    ILO: Developing countries should invest US$1.2 trillion to guarantee basic social protection

    17 September 2020

    Closing the coverage gap, worsened by COVID-19, will require additional sources of financing says a new ILO study.

  6. Publication

    The Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa

    01 April 2010

    Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Microinsurance Paper No. 4 (Electronic resource)

  7. Publication

    Microinsurance that works for women : making gender-sensitive microinsurance programs

    01 October 2009

    Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Microinsurance Paper No. 3 (Electronic resource)