Social Protection

Social Insurance

Social insurance programs mitigate risks by providing income support in the event of illness, disability, work injury, maternity, unemployment, old age, and death.

Programs include

• unemployment insurance to deal with frictional or structural unemployment
• work injury insurance to compensate workers for work-related injuries or diseases
• disability and invalidity insurance, linked to old-age pensions, to cover for full or partial disability
• sickness and health insurance to protect workers from diseases
• maternity insurance to provide benefits to mothers during pregnancy and post delivery
• old-age insurance to provide income support after retirement
• life and survivor insurance to ensure that dependents are compensated for the loss of the breadwinner

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Guidelines

• The Theoretical Background of Social Insurance [ PDF: 2,512kb | 50 pages ]
• Drafting Social Insurance Projects [ PDF: 2,553kb | 51 pages ]
• How ADB Prioritizes Vulnerabilities and Risks [ PDF: 93kb | 11 pages ]
• The Operation of Public or Private Pension Systems [ PDF: 1,122kb | 22 pages ]

Social Protection Project Briefs

• Reforming Kazakhstan's Pension System (Kazakhstan) [ PDF: 577kb | 3 pages ]
• Strengthening Pakistan's Pension and Insurance Systems (Pakistan) [ PDF: 574kb | 3 pages ]
• Improving Mongolia's Social Security Sector (Mongolia) [ PDF: 566kb | 3 pages ]

Resource Materials

• Social Protection Index for Committed Poverty Reduction, Volume 1 [ PDF: 2,359kb | 582 pages ]
• Social Protection Index for Committed Poverty Reduction, Volume 2
• Preparatory Studies on National Social Security System in Indonesia
• Pension Reform and ADB Intervention [ PDF: 329kb | 28 pages ]
• Insuring India's Women Workers [ ADB Review, Volume 34, No. 4, 2002 ]
• Workshop on Social Protection
• Introduction
• Social Insurance