The ILO, together with UNICEF and WFP, are implementing an EU-funded Joint Social Protection Programme to provide technical support to MoLSA for the implementation of a right-based approach to social protection and the progressive establishment of a social protection floor in Iraq. As part of the support planned under the Joint Programme, the ILO seeks to initiate a policy dialogue on establishing a social pension for older persons (sometimes called a zero-pillar Pension) through a policy paper