ILO supported deliverables

Results achieved

• Following consultations with social partners, the Government of Kenya in October 2023 adopted a strategy for extending social protection for workers in the informal and rural economy. The strategy provides clear guidelines to extend coverage and ensure ...
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• A Single Registry for Social Protection and Harmonized Social Assistance Targeting was adopted
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• An Unemployment Insurance Fund has been established
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• An action plan on developping a compensation system covering occupational diseases and inuries has been adopted
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• A learning and development strategy for social protection and a community of practice were launched
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• A revised Social Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Framework was adopted
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• The Social Protection Plan 2030 and the Social Protection Policy have been validated
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• A national monitoring and evaluation framework for social protection has been developed
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• The tripartite consultative board of the Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services endorsed in April 2017 an ILO report concerning the development of a comprehensive work injury compensation legislation in Kenya .
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• Generated social security statistics publicly available. Information available on old-age,survivors, disability, health and family.
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Publications

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

Strategy for extension of Social Protection coverage to workers in the informal and rural economy in Kenya

Kenya: Governance of the Kenyan social protection system

Increasing domestic resources for social protection and progressively reducing reliance on external partners’ resources

The Introduction of a Maternity Cash Benefit in Kenya

Kenya - Global research on governance and social protection

Kenya. National social protection policy (2011)

Maternity income protection in Southern and Eastern Africa. From concept to practice

Kenya - Inua Jamii Senior Citizens' Scheme

ECASSA Declaration

Pre-workshop questionnaire - Kenya

Targeting social transfer programmes. Comparing design and implementation errors across alternative mechanisms