Facilitating transition Between Social Assistance and Social Insurance: Conceptual Framework and Review of Global Good Practices for Countries in the Arab Region

Writers: Marina Andrade, Beatriz Burattini, Luca Pellerano, Fábio Veras Soares

Ensuring bridges between different social protection programmes and financing mechanisms – including smooth transition paths (forward and backward) between social assistance and social insurance schemes – has increasingly become an important issue in many developing countries. This has the potential to create better impetus for accessing formal employment, expand social protection coverage, stabilize income, reduce vulnerabilities, and, in doing so, to ensure both the right to decent work for those in working age and to social protection for all.

This report aims to provide a review of international experiences on ensuring better transitions between social assistance and employment-related social insurance. The report proposes a conceptual framework and policy recommendations based on a review of international experiences in ensuring better transition between tax-financed social assistance and employment-related social insurance.

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