Social Protection

Building social protection floors
and comprehensive social security systems

Building National Floors of Social Protection in Southern Africa

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  • Partners: Ireland
  • Status: Completed
  • Evaluation available: Final

Description

The project will provide technical support to constitutents through assistance to ongoing processes of national dialogue, in harmony with coordinated efforts by UN and bilateral cooperating partners. It will assist the countries in implementing the building blocks of domestically owned and funded national systems of social protection. Grounded in a regional peer learning process, the project will comprise practical assistance with specific economic feasibility studies, legal expertise, support to national dialogue processes and advice on the governance and administrative aspects of implementing national social protection floors, reflecting the principles of ILO Recommendation R.202 (2012) on National Floors of Social Protection. Direct recipients: Governments and public institutions (primarily relevant Ministries in charge of social protection and social protectionagencies/institutions), employers’ and workers’ organizations, academic and other relevant civil society organizations. Ultimate beneficiaries: Vulnerable persons currently uncovered by any form of social protection. Immediate Outcome 1: Policies and innovative strategies for the implementation of a Social Protection Floor tailored to national circumstances are developed in the context of evidence based national dialogue in Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. Immediate Outcome 2: Improved legal, administrative and governance frameworks for the extension of Social protection (including budget planning and national monitoring systems) are designed in line with international social security standards. Immediate Outcome 3: Improved knowledge base and monitoring capacity on the implementation of Social Protection floors in the three countries.

SDG

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Goals
  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Reduce inequality within and among countries
Targets
  • 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
  • 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
  • 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality

Time

01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016
 

Budget

1 427 561 / 1 427 564 Development Cooperation
 

Timeline of linked projects

172 RAF/13/04/IRL 01 01 2014 12 31 2016
01 01 2014 12 31 2015 ZMB/14/01/RBS Support to enhancing and extending Social Protection for all, with a focus on vulnerable groups 151
01 01 2016 12 31 2017 Mozambique - Improved capacity of Social Security Institutions for extension of coverage and provision of better benefits for all (country programme 2016-17) 224
01 01 2016 12 31 2017 Zambia - Creation and extension of Social Protection floors for target populations, including extension of coverage to the informal economy in Zambia (country programme 2016-17) 248
01 01 2016 12 31 2017 Malawi - Enhanced and extended coverage of social protection to vulnerable groups (country programme 2016-17) 231
12 20 2016 06 30 2024 VNM/16/54/IRL Viet Nam - Inclusive growth, social protection and jobs 79
12 20 2016 12 31 2022 GLO/16/63/IRL Inclusive growth, social protection and jobs 80
12 21 2016 06 30 2024 RAF/17/53/IRL Southern Africa – Social Protection Component IGSPJI 48
01 01 2019 07 31 2022 MOZ/19/50/PRT ACTION/Portugal (Phase 2): Strengthening of Social Protection Systems in Mozambique 415
12 05 2022 12 31 2025 GLO/22/31/IRL Accelerating the Achievement of Universal Social Protection to Leave No One Behind 921

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Publications

RAF/13/04/IRL Africa Malawi , Mozambique , Zambia Employment services , Family benefits , Health care , Income security , Employment policy , ILO standards , Social health protection , Legislation , Social dialogue , Children , Disability , Maternity , Employment injury , Old-age , Sickness , Survivors , Unemployment