Guinea

Guinea introduced work injury and family allowances as part of its social insurance framework before the 1958 independence. In 1958 and thereafter, the old age, disability, and survivors, and sickness and maternity frameworks were introduced as well. The Productive Social Safety Net Programme, a pilot social assistance programme, started operating in 2012, with the objective of supplementing the incomes of poor households through the provision of cash transfers and linking participating households with complementary services so that they can leap out of poverty. In 2013, the Cash Transfer for Health, Nutrition and Education as well as the Labour-Intensive Public Works Programme were designed, introduced and implemented by the government and international partners. The former programme reached 25,200 children while the latter programme reached 61,112 underemployed and unemployed people in 2019.