Social Watch Philippines (SWP), in partnership of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) conducted a policy discussion entitled 'Universal Social Protection Floor (USPF): What's in it for us?', last April 26 to be participated in by the International Labor Organization (ILO), key national government agencies, CSO representatives, academics,  civil society organizations and other stakeholders.

The USPF is a set of basic social security guarantees that covers essential health care, income security for children, for persons of working age but are unable to earn sufficient income due to illness, unemployment, maternity and disability as well as for older persons. Furthermore, the Philippines is a signatory to the attainment of the United Nations sponsored Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of which the implementation of the USPFs falls under (target 1.3 of Goal 1 on ‘ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.’)

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