Result achieved
Outcome summary
The Integrated Framework for Basic Social Protection Programmes (IFBSPP) was in December 2016, and launched by government in February 2017.
Outcome achieved
The Integrated Framework for Basic Social Protection Programmes (IFBSPP) was developed by government through MCDSS in consultation with social partners and with financial support of Irish Aid in December 2016, and launched in February 2017. This framework is intended to promote an efficient, coordinated and more coherent provision of social protection services through the various fiscal options and recommendations it provides for enhanced social protection programming. The IFBSPP has been reflected as a critical instrument for social protection programming coordination in Zambia’s Seventh National Development Plan that was launched by Government in July 2017.
ILO's contribution to the outcome
1. The ILO provided key support during the process of developing the draft National Social Protection Bill through supporting an inter-governmental technical committee on the development of layman’s draft. Further, the office supported the undertaking of actuarial assessment for all major parameters of the proposed reforms in the bill (pension, maternity, employment injury and social health insurance). The office engaged social partners on repeated occasions to consolidate their inputs and positions vis-à-vis the SP bill. Most recently (July 2017), a Consensus Building Matrix on the Social Protection Bill detailing respective positions of government, employers and workers organisations on contentious provisions of the Bill was produced by the Technical Committee of the Tripartite Consultative Labour Council (TCLC), with support from ILO.