Social protection and a resilient future for Sub-Saharan Africa
Countries in Africa have the lowest coverage of social protection and adequate health care despite having an enormous need for such programs and policies (ILO, 2019). The availability of social protection services is mostly limited to workers and their families in the formal sector. Nonetheless, 85.8% of employment is informal, leaving communities, often concentrated in rural areas, vulnerable to economic and political shocks and other crises (Beri, 2018).
