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Social Protection - Scope “ Focusing on the Poor and Vulnerable”

Social Protection - Scope “ Focusing on the Poor and Vulnerable”. Insuring against the Impact of Risk Health insurance Crop and weather insurance Remittances Old age and disability pensions Unemployment and disability insurance. Promotion of opportunities

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Social Protection - Scope “ Focusing on the Poor and Vulnerable”

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  1. Social Protection - Scope“Focusing on the Poor and Vulnerable” • Insuring against the Impact of Risk • Health insurance • Crop and weather insurance • Remittances • Old age and disability pensions • Unemployment and disability insurance • Promotion of opportunities • Education, health & nutrition services • Agricultural extension • Microfinance • CCT • Skills training • Labor facilitation and regulation reforms • Poverty alleviation • Charitable, family and community transfers • Conditional and unconditional cash transfers • Public works • In-kind transfers 1

  2. Social Protection - Scope“Focusing on the Poor and Vulnerable” Our Concept Leveraging UN’s leadership and credibility in contributing to maintain the current momentum with the Government and other development partners; leveraging UN support, experience and expertise in optimizing policy-making and roll out of Social Protection programmes. 2

  3. Status Successes Challenges 2012 Priority actions • Enabling Environment for Social Protection • Support National Social Protection Strategy operationalization & roll out • Support capacity development and social protection training of CARD-SPCU, line ministries and sub-national authorities • Support the linkage/mainstreaming of social protection into sectoral plans/policies • Support resource mobilisation efforts for CARD-SPCU and programme interventions • Evidence-base generation to inform policy making/dialogue and scale up options for Social Protection programmes: • Support new pilot programmes and scaling up of existing ones • Support review of existing social protection programmes • Consider developing common tools • Consolidation & Coordination • Support Gvt in developing sustainable SP institutional arrangements and financial mechanisms • Continue supporting tight coordination among DPs

  4. Resources & Partnerships Ongoing UN Support & Resources: • ILO => Design for programme and service delivery; Policy support for info mgt • UNDP => Policy support on common SP tools (incl M&E & impact monitoring) • UNICEF => Capacity development; Policy & programmes support (incl. CTs) • WFP => Support on programme roll-out/scale up & service delivery • Other agencies (including UNFPA, WHO, UNAIDS, UN Women, OCHA, UN Habitat, ) Main Partners: • Gvt: CARD and key line ministries (including, MEF/SNEC, MOI/NCDD, MOP, MOH, MOEYS, MRD) • DPs: World Bank , ADB, AusAid, EU. Short-term priorities: ~ $2 million Total value of UNDAF (2011-2015): $158 million Total resources to be mobilized: $116 million

  5. UNCT (suggested) response • Pursue ongoing initiatives • Increase support for the NSPS roll-out • Increase support for relevant inter-ministry dialogue on SP mainstreaming • Tighten up coordination among main agencies for more cohesion (which could allow concept to gel into possible funding proposal) • Support tighter DP coordination

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