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1. Social Security for AllBuilding social protection floors and social securitysystems

   NGO Forum for Health & PSI Forum & Federation Lunchtime Symposium “After the MDGs: Social Protection and the Role of Workers”Geneva, 10 December 2012 Christina Behrendt, ILO Social Security Department
2. The global (UN) Social Protection Floor Initiative Created in April 2009 by the UN CEB as one of nine joint crisis response initiatives Global coalition of various agencies and development partners Objective: Promote universal access to essential services(health, education, housing, etc.) social transfers in cash or in kind, to ensure income security, food security, adequate nutrition, and access to essential services. High-level advisory group chaired by Michelle Bachelet Report: Social protection floors for a fair and inclusive globalization, 2011 Global lead agencies: ILO, WHO.Coalition Members: UNESCAP, UNCEPAL, UN Habitat, UNAIDS, UNDESA, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UNRWA, UNWOMEN, WFP, WMO, FAO, OHCHR, UNFPA, IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Commission, OECD, SIDA (Sweden), the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Finland, GIZ (Germany), GIP SPSI, Education and Solidarity Network, HelpAge International, International Council of Social Welfare, NGO Committee for Social Development, Save the Children, Concern...
3. Consultation process leading to ILO strategy and Social Protection Floors Recommendation Global tripartite consensus: 453 votes in favour and 1 abstention from 142 countries Social Protection Floor Initiative International and regional endorsements (G20 and others)
4. high Voluntary insuranceunder government regulation level of protection Social security benefitsof guaranteed levels Basic social security guarantees (Social Protection Floor):Access to essential health care and basic income security for all low low individual/household income high ILO’s two-dimensional strategy for the extension of social security: Building comprehensive social security systems Vertical dimension:progressively ensuring higher levels of protection, guided by Convention No.102 and more advanced standards floor level Outcomes can be guaranteed through different means – there is no one-size-fits-all Horizontal dimension:Guaranteeing access to essential health care and minimum income security for all, guided by Recommendation No. 202
5. high Voluntary insuranceunder government regulation level of protection Social security benefitsof guaranteed levels Basic social security guarantees (Social Protection Floor):Access to essential health care and basic income security for all low low individual/household income high ILO’s two-dimensional strategy for the extension of social security: Building comprehensive social security systems extension strategy Vertical dimension:progressively ensuring higher levels of protection, guided by Convention No.102 and more advanced standards floor level Outcomes can be guaranteed through different means – there is no one-size-fits-all Social Protection Floors Recommendation, adopted at ILC 2012 Horizontal dimension:Guaranteeing access to essential health care and minimum income security for all, guided by Recommendation No. 202
6. The two-fold objective of the Recommendation: National social protection floors... Provides guidance to members to (b) Implement social protection floors within strategies for the extension of social security that progressively ensure higher levels of social security to as many people as possible, guided by ILO social security standards nationally defined sets of basic social security guarantees which secure protection aimed at preventing or alleviating poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion (a) Establish and maintain, as applicable, social protection floors as a fundamental element of their national social security systems
7. National social protection floors:At least four nationally-defined guarantees The social protection floors should comprise at least the following basic social security guarantees: (para. 5) national definition of minimum levels Subject to their existing international obligations, Members should provide these basic social guarantees to at least all residents and children, as defined in national laws and regulations.(para. 6)
8. ... and national strategies for the extension of social security Provides guidance to members to (b) Implement social protection floors within strategies for the extension of social security that progressively ensure higher levels of social security to as many people as possible, guided by ILO social security standards Progressively build and maintain comprehensive and adequate social security systems coherent with national policy objectives and seek to coordinate social security policies with other public policies (a) Establish and maintain, as applicable, social protection floors as a fundamental element of their national social security systems
9. National social security extension strategies: Formulation and implementation support disadvantaged groups and people with special needs support growth of formal employment and the reduction of informality complement social security by active labour market policies consistent with and conducive to the implementation of national social and economic development plans
10. Monitoring involving social partners and other representatives of persons concerned
11. Guidance provided regarding the basic social security guarantee on access to health care: some key points
12. Significance of the Social Protection Floors Recommendation at the national and global level National level Contributes to... reducing poverty and promoting social cohesion and investments in people giving effect to the human right to social security by establishing legal entitlements facilitating access to essential health care and other necessary goods and services promoting productive economic activity and reduction of informality and precariousness providing framework for national social protection policies in close coordination with economic, employment and other social policies building sustainable institutional structures, strengthening national dialogue and trust in institutions, and fostering state-building Global level Contributes to... promoting rights-based development policies strengthening country ownership and sustainable development fostering policy coherence and coordination, and deepening multilateral collaboration accelerating progress towards achieving the MDGs and informing post-2015 agenda
13. Reference documents More general World Social Security Report 2010/11: Providing coverage in the time of crisis and beyond (Geneva: ILO, 2010). Extending social security to all. A guide through challenges and options (Geneva: ILO, 2010). Social Protection Floor Advisory Group: Social protection floor for a fair and inclusive globalization (Geneva: ILO, 2011). Sharing Innovative Experiences: Successful Social Protection Floor Experiences (New York and Geneva: UNDP, Special Unit for South-South Cooperation and ILO, 2011). See also GESS web portal: www.social-protection.org/ contact: behrendt@ilo.org ILO social security strategy and Social Protection Floors Recommendation Social protection for all: Building social protection floors and social security systems: The strategy of the International Labour Organization, Geneva: ILO, 2012 (forthcoming). ILO Recommendation concerning national floors of social protection (Social Protection Floors Recommendation), 2012 (No. 202). Report of the Social Protection Floors Committee, Provisional Records No. 14, 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, ILO, 2012. Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization, Reports IV(1, 2A and 2B), 101th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva: ILO, 2012. Report of the Committee for the Recurrent Discussion on Social Protection (including Resolution and Conclusions), 100th Session of the International Labour Conference, Provisional Records No. 24), Geneva, ILO, 2011. Social security for social justice and a fair globalization, 100th Session of the International Labour Conference, Report VI, Geneva, ILO, 2011.