This publication sets out a snapshot of the World Bank’s Social Protection and Labor Strategy, its goals, direction, and commitments. The strategy promotes effective policies for productive employment which help people gain access to labor markets and accumulate skills, both during recovery from economic crisis and in normal times. While the strategy builds on the basic analytical foundation of the first World Bank’s Social Protection and Labor Strategy, it also stakes out new ground to meet new challenges. Central role of jobs and opportunity is among its priority areas. The strategy lays out an agenda for both operations and partnership—a multisectoral approach to both improve human capital – with a strong focus on children and workers’ skills and productivity – and to improving people’s ability to access those jobs and opportunities.