From Social Assistance to Social Security: Building Pathways to Decent Work for all in Tunisia (M-GA)

In a labour market context characterized by high levels of informality, staggering youth unemployment and low levels of social protection, the Joint Programme contributes to identifying, sensitizing, and supporting vulnerable groups of the workforce in accessing adapted social protection schemes combined with employment services and other activation measures to access decent work and transition to formal employment. The Joint Programme supports the Tunisian Government’s policy objectives aimed at ensuring the transition from social assistance to social insurance to reduce poverty and informality by combining social protection measures and active labour market policies. Focusing on three components, the project propose Development of a roadmap to facilitate the transition from social assistance to contributory social insurance and to promote formalization; Enhancement of national capacity and implementation of a policy dialogue to enable the development of an integrated social protection system combined with adapted labour market activation programmes that facilitate access to decent employment and Design of the technical, legal, and institutional elements that enable the operationalization of the unemployment insurance scheme and accompanying activation measures supporting workers’ transitions to formal employment

Project symbol

TUN/25/50/UND

Admin unit

CO-Algiers

Start date

14/12/2025

End date

14/12/2027

Total allocation

154896

Total expenditure

Status

Active

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Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Tunisia

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions
Outcome 7: Universal social protection