List of links to useful Social Protection Websites

GESS is the ILO's Global Extension of social Security website – the most important:

http://www.social-protection.org/gimi/gess/ShowMainPage.do 

The Social Protection Floor Gateway website is like a child of GESS, set up by the UN, mainly UNICEF with ILO and UNDP, to promote the Social Protection Floors initiative. It includes access to UNICEF's social protection costing tool:

http://www.socialprotectionfloor-gateway.org/index.html

ASPIRE is the World Bank atlas of social security:

http://datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/

The ADB's Social Protection page is important because it includes access to their very useful Social Protection Index:

http://www.socialprotectionfloor-gateway.org/index.html