Indicators to measure social protection performance : implications for EC programming

This paper provides a critical overview of social protection indicators in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) context to support the European Commission's (EC's) decision-making on social protection indicators and to support decisions on how the EC can contribute to the global indicator discourse within its own institutional mandate and institutional priorities. It is not prescriptive in terms of the indicators that should be adopted, but rather, given the complexity and diversity of the factors that drive indicator choice, it provides an overview of the current process and development of social protection indicators as they relate to the SDGs, and discusses a range of indicators adopted by the main actors working on social protection.