ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2024/3/V.1/TUN
Country: Republic of Tunisia
Publication Type: Reports & studies
Cluster: Gender Justice, Population and Inclusive Development
Focus Area: Financing for development, Governance & enabling environment, Inclusive development
Initiatives: Development challenges, Reducing inequalities, Addressing multidimensional poverty, Monitoring money-metric poverty
SDGs: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Keywords: Cost analysis, Demography, Financing, Government policy, Labour market, Macroeconomics, National health insurance, Pensions, Poverty, Recommendations, Resources mobilization, Social safety nets, Social security, Social security legislation, Tunisia, Unemployment insurance, Technical cooperation
Social protection landscape and perspectives Comprehensive national review of the system and reforms of Tunisia: Edition 1 (Paysage et perspectives de la protection sociale Revue nationale exhaustive du système et des réformes de la Tunisie: Édition 1)
November 2024
This diagnostic study takes stock of the social protection system and its programmes and institutions in Tunisia. The Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs’ Centre for Research and Social Studies undertook this system-wide self-assessment utilizing the ESCWA template. The report identifies social protection system reform needs, policy options, cost scenarios and financing sources.
Regionally, Tunisia is a leader in terms of the comprehensiveness of social protection, thanks to its well-developed legal framework and relatively high levels of social insurance coverage. Additionally, major social assistance reforms have been undertaken in recent years. However, the social protection system is facing new challenges. These include population ageing, which is exerting pressure on the financial sustainability of pension funds; an urgent need to establish a national unemployment insurance scheme; and barriers to some groups of informal workers joining social insurance schemes.
This report is available in French and Arabic only.
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This diagnostic study takes stock of the social protection system and its programmes and institutions in Tunisia. The Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs’ Centre for Research and Social Studies undertook this system-wide self-assessment utilizing the ESCWA template. The report identifies social protection system reform needs, policy options, cost scenarios and financing sources.
Regionally, Tunisia is a leader in terms of the comprehensiveness of social protection, thanks to its well-developed legal framework and relatively high levels of social insurance coverage. Additionally, major social assistance reforms have been undertaken in recent years. However, the social protection system is facing new challenges. These include population ageing, which is exerting pressure on the financial sustainability of pension funds; an urgent need to establish a national unemployment insurance scheme; and barriers to some groups of informal workers joining social insurance schemes.
This report is available in French and Arabic only.
