Providing social security services

Ensuring and, where appropriate, increasing provision of social services support.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

UNICEF is increasingly involved in strengthening social infrastructure and support services, including support services at the workplace (notably special privileges for breast-feeding mothers), better wages and improved working conditions, child-care centres and teachers, provision of equipment and teaching materials. All UNIFEM activities have the improvement of social infrastructure as one of their objectives. It is one of the main aspects of improving the situation of women in the urban informal sector, cottage industries and independent or family trade, as well as in rural areas. Increasingly WFP-assisted projects include social support services that reduce constraints on women's labour availability, time and incomes.

Social service officers of the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) ensure that the needs of the most disadvantaged refugee groups, especially women, are not overlooked.

ILO assists governments in the development of income maintenance, support and medical systems that are in harmony with prevailing national economic and social conditions. By promoting international labour standards, ILO endeavours to ensure minimum social security protection. ILO also endeavours to ensure equality of treatment between national and non-nationals with respect to social security, notably with respect to the social security rights of migrant workers.

1. Strengthening systems
2. Strengthening
3. Providing sufficient governmental support
4. Providing services
5. Providing personal protection
6. Providing development support
7. Managing public services
8. Investing in people
9. Investing
10. Instituting effective domestic security
11. Improving welfare state
12. Improving

1. Studying social security systems
2. Standardizing benefit procedures
3. Providing the poor with services
4. Providing social welfare
5. Providing social services in urban areas
6. Providing social security for disabled persons
7. Providing social security entitlements
8. Providing public health services
9. Providing old-age pensions
10. Providing invalid pensions
11. Providing information on social security entitlements
12. Providing health services
13. Providing flexible attitudes toward community social services
14. Providing assistance to single parents
15. Linking essential social services
16. Improving social services for women
17. Improving social protection of farmers
18. Furnishing age security
19. Financing social security
20. Expanding community support services
21. Equipping social service volunteers

1. Stagnating in social security
2. Safeguarding adequate livelihood
3. Reducing teenage murder
4. Improving sanitation for the poor
5. Improving participation and empowerment of the poor
6. Improving health care for the poor
7. Improving basic education for the poor
8. Expanding knowledge of available services
9. Ensuring access to adequate water services

1. Researching social security
2. Reducing inequality of social security coverage
3. Reducing cost of social security
4. Questioning security of social structure
5. Preserving traditional forms of social security
6. Organizing social services
7. Denying right to social security

1. Withholding information on social security entitlements
2. Erosion of social security

1. Weakness of socio-economic infrastructure
2. Incomplete understanding of new societal service systems
3. Inadequate social welfare services
4. Discrimination in social services
5. Collapsing social security system
6. Adversary culture

1. Welfare
2. Unsociable
3. Support
4. Self-government
5. Security
6. Insecurity
7. Government