TUVALU
Social Protection in Tuvalu
Tuvalu has a 10,500 population living across the 26 square-Kilometre island. Hover over the icons below to see which of these life-cycle risks Tuvalu 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:
OLD AGE
- Universal Old Age Pension (70 years and older)
- Provident Fund retirement benefit for employees
Tuvalu has a universal disability benefit and a Provident Fund disability benefit for employees, available for people with disability.