KIRIBATI
Social Protection in Kiribati
Kiribati is an island country comprised of 32 islands dispersed over 3.5 million kilometres of ocean. With a population of approximately 119,000 people Kiribati has some social protection schemes in place.
Hover over the icons below to see which of these life-cycle risks Kiribati is addressing and how.
EARLY CHILDHOOD
- Poor access to antenatal and post natal care
- Unsafe birth
- Poor access to immunisation
- Stunting, malnutrition and hunger
- Reduced cognitive development
SCHOOL AGE
- Malnutrition
- Unable to access or stay in school
- Child labour
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Loss of parents or carers
YOUTH
- Inadequate skills
- Inability to access training
- Unemployment and underemployment
- Gender discrimination
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Domestic violence
- Alienation
WORKING AGE
- Unemployment and underemployment
- Cost of children
- Lack of childcare
- Care of parents
- Debt
- Gender discrimination
- Commercial and sexual exploitation and abuse
- Domestic violence
OLD AGE
- Increasing frailty and disability
- Inability to work
- Lack of family care
- Elder abuse
Leading to the following solutions:
WORKING AGE
- Support for the unemployed (new cash transfer program following te COVID-19 pandemic)
OLD AGE
- Senior Citizens Benefit, a universal non-contributory pension (70 years and older)
- Provident Fund old age benefit for formal workers
Kiribati has a Disability Support Allowance, universal disability benefit in place for people with disability.