Social protection floors and beyond: Implementation issues

1. Social protection floors and beyond: Implementation issues ViniciusPinheiroDeputy Director, ILO Office for the UN in New York Seoul, 7 October 2013

2. Social Protection: accelerating progress in achieving the MDGs… • Poverty, hunger and employment • Reducing poverty and inequality • Labour participation and entrepreneurship • Food consumption and nutritional level • Health • Access health services and quality preventive and curative care for child and maternal health • Reducing risk factors for diseases among disadvantaged populations. • Mitigating the impact of illness, supporing HIV-AIDS infected people and orphans • Education • Educational attainment, school enrolment rates • Reducing drop-out rates and child labour • Gender empowerment • Greater participation of women in the economy • Strengthening women’s position in the household

3. … and enhancing policy coherence in the sustainable development framework • Economic • Social • Environmental

4. Social Protection Floor: a changing paradigm • 20 per cent of global lacks access to adequate social protection Level of protection Nothing for the great majority Poor Rest of informal sector Formal sector Population

5. Social Protection Floor: a changing paradigm • All residents should enjoy at least a minimum level of social security • Countries should establish SPFs as a fundamental element of their social security systems Level of protection Social Protection Floor Poor Rest of informal sector Formal sector Population

6. A global south revolution: Increase in the health coverage in selected developed and developing countries

7. National floors of social protection (ILO Recommendation 202)

8. National Floors of Social Protection (ILO Recommendation 202)

9. Social protection floors - changing paradigm

10. Implementation challenge 1: Financing and sustainability • Affordable even in low income countries • Efficiency and re-allocation of public expenditures • Increasing tax revenues • Mineral-based taxation or similar single taxes for specific purposes (earmarked taxation) • Borrowing or restructuring existing debt • Macroeconomic framework • International aid Political will is the game changer

11. The guiding principles in practiceAffordability & fiscal space Cambodia; 0.4 – 2.4% GDP by 2020 Indonesia; 0.7 to 2.4% GDP by 2020 Thailand; 0.5 – 1.2% GDP by 2020 Viet Nam; 2% to 6% GDP by 2020

12. Implementation challenge 2: Design • Build on existing structures • Entitlement to benefits prescribed by Law • Adequacy & predictability • Links between contributory and non contributory schemes • Universality of protection • Eligibility criteria, targeting criteria and particular attention to vulnerable groups • Links with other social (education, housing, sanitation, environment) and economic policies

13. Implementation challenge 3: Governance and Delivery • Coordination across institutions involved • Participation of social partners, beneficiaires and other stakeholders • Partnerships • Communication, information and awareness • Identification, membership registration and outreach • Intensive use of ITs, integration of databases and systems, single window services • Monitoring and evaluation • High quality delivery services

14. THANK YOU!