A/HRC/28/35 Group was created to enhance global advocacy activities and to develop the conceptual policy aspects of the approach. 6. In 2011, the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group issued a report entitled Social Protection Floor for a Fair and Inclusive Globalization,5 which consolidated global advocacy activities around social protection. In 2012, at the 101st session of the International Labour Conference, Governments, employers and workers from 185 countries unanimously adopted ILO Recommendation No. 202. In that landmark recommendation, social security as a human right for all persons is reaffirmed and guidance provided for building comprehensive social security systems. Also in 2012, in the outcome document of United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), entitled “The Future We Want”, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/288, States stressed “the need to provide social protection to all members of society”, encouraged “initiatives aimed at providing social protection floors for all citizens” and reaffirmed that sustainable development and poverty eradication policies should promote “respect for all human rights” (annex, paras. 156, 107 and 58, respectively). 7. ILO Recommendation No. 202 provides guidance to member States on how to extend and adapt social protection floors to national circumstances. It states that national social protection floors should include at least four essential guarantees: (a) Access to at least essential health care, including maternity care; (b) Basic income security for children, providing access to nutrition, education, care and any other necessary goods and services; (c) Basic income security for persons of working age who are unable to earn sufficient income, in particular in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity and disability; (d) Basic income security for older persons. 8. While the final objective is to put in place comprehensive social protection systems, implementation can be gradual in line with States’ resources. Countries adopting a social protection floor should develop nationally defined strategies, in a participatory manner, respecting the principles of non-discrimination, gender equality and social inclusion. Building on existing social protection mechanisms, those strategies may include a mix of measures: contributory and non-contributory, targeted and universal, and public and private — depending on the country’s social, economic and political context. 9. The results of ILO research and the experience of several developing countries show that virtually all countries can afford social protection floors and that they would constitute effective tools in the fight against poverty.6 10. Social protection floors differ from a “safety net” or “social safety nets” approaches, which are non-contributory transfers designed to provide regular, predictable and targeted support to poor and vulnerable people. In contrast, the aim of social protection floors is to approach social policy comprehensively through the promotion of integrated strategies for essential social services and income security for all. 5 6 4 ILO, Geneva, 2011. Available from www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_165750/lang-en/index.htm. ILO, “Can Low Income Countries Afford Basic Social Security?”, Social Security Policy Briefing Paper 3, 2008. Available from www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/secsoc/downloads/ policy/policy3e.pdf.