Social Protection

Building social protection floors
and comprehensive social security systems

ACTION/Portugal (Phase 2): Strengthening of the Social Protection Systems of the PALOP and Timor-Leste - Global component

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Description

The project has four immediate objectives: Governments have developed and implemented policies, plans and programmes to extend social protection (including health) coverage and/or modified the legal framework to extend social protection in line with the guarantees of social protection systems and floors, within the framework of the SDGs of the United Nations 2030 Agenda; The countries, and in particular their social protection institutions and workers’ and employers' organizations, have developed, through training activities, their capabilities and skills for implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies, strategies and programmes related to strengthening and extension of social protection systems and programmes; The countries have improved their social protection statistics, including the collection, preparation, analysis and dissemination of reliable and quality data to monitor their progress in achieving the SDGs;Social protection actors have improved access to knowledge and their ability to participate in the global campaign for the extension of social protection, and have transferred good practices to other countries in the field of South-South and Triangular Cooperation.

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Country

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
  • Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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
  • 5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
  • 8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
  • 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality

Time

01.01.2019 - 31.07.2022
 

Budget

1,031,203 / 1,093,019 Development Cooperation
 

Timeline of linked projects

396 GLO/19/50/PRT 01 01 2019 07 31 2022
01 01 2016 12 31 2017 Timor Leste - Timor-Leste National Social Protection System Strengthened (country programme 2016-17) 242

Publications

GLO/19/50/PRT Global Mozambique , Sao Tome and Principe , Cabo Verde , Guinea-Bissau , Timor-Leste Employment services , Family benefits , Health care , Income security , Social health protection , Children , Informal economy workers , Migrant workers , Rural workers , Self-employed , Women , Actuarial valuation , Impact evaluation , Model , Monitoring/evaluation , Statistics , Projections , Awareness raising / advocacy , Employment policy , Financing , Gender , ILO standards , Legislation , Social dialogue , Disability , Maternity , Employment injury , Old-age , Sickness , Survivors , Unemployment