1 / 10

Enhancing Social Welfare through Strategic Policy Reforms

A comprehensive overview of the Ministry of Social Protection, Family, and Child's vision, current policy assessment, strategic objectives, and needs for donors' assistance to improve social welfare. The focus includes targeted policies, efficient frameworks, and partnership integration in the social sector.

msaenz
Download Presentation

Enhancing Social Welfare through Strategic Policy Reforms

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child 27th September 2007

  2. Structure • Vision of social sector • Current situation and summary assessment of policy • Strategic objectives • Needs regarding donors’ technical assistance

  3. Vision of social sector • Targeted policy to ensure cohesion and social welfare • Social equity and social development policy • Consolidated institutional sectorial framework • Efficient and effective policy • Sectorial partnership among central and local governments and the public authorities and the private and the non-governmental sector

  4. Structure of expenditures of national public national budget, % Budgetary sphere Other 5 9,2 100 3,7 0,4 Environment protection 3,8 0,5 12,4 11,7 1 80 1,4 Economy 31,4 30,3 Science 60 Social 12,3 13 40 2,2 2 Health 17,6 16,4 20 4,6 Culture and art 4,1 0,8 1,1 0,7 0,8 1,5 1,1 4,9 4,6 Education 0 2006 2007 Public order Defense Justice Foreign affairs Specialised services Current situation and summary assessment of policy • Public social expenditures - 10% of GDP, • 30%of public national budget, • Relatively low share of state budget in public social expenditures

  5. Public Social Policy 9. System expenditures 8. Monetary aid; 2,6% 0,1% 7. Nominative compensations; 5,8% 10. Bank services 0,1% 6. Health recovery; 2,0% 5. Unemployment; 1,0% 4. Indemnities; 7,1% 3. Labour accidents insurance 3,7% 1. Pensions 72,7% 2. Family and child protection; 4,9% Social policy priorities: groups, thousand lei Unemployed 20.056,5; 1% Employed workers 234.095,2; 13% Children at risk 41.000,0; 2% Pensioners 340.192,4; 19% Children with disabilities 79.093,1; 4% Persons with Disabilities (excluding Children) 695.106,7; 40% Families with children 366.074,5; 21% Current situation and summary assessment of policy • Low correlation of payments with services in social policy • Not enough efficiency and effectiveness of policy by groups of beneficiaries

  6. Correlation between money and services, budget, thousand lei (pensions excluded) 1.500.000,0 56.768,6 1.000.000,0 57.865,9 946.339,6 287,4 500.000,0 618.081,3 7.215,0 0,0 Social Insurance budget, thousand lei State budget, thousand lei Local governments, thousand lei money services Correlation among programmes, money, services, and beneficiaries, thousand lei 21.196,9 900.000,0 800.000,0 700.000,0 600.000,0 500.000,0 864.624,6 17.659,6 400.000,0 300.000,0 11.884,0 39.109,0 377.962,7 200.000,0 231.193,2 194.986,2 16.000,0 100.000,0 63.093,1 41.000,0 8.818,4 11.238,1 0,0 0,0 Families with chidren Children with disabilities Children at risk Employed workers Pensioners Persons with disabilities (excluding Children) Unemployed Money, thousand lei Services, thousand lei Current situation and summary assessment of policy • Insignificant share of services, • Lack of supply of services for families and children, children in difficulty and children with disabilities, and vulnerable groups • Quality of services not high enough

  7. Strategic objectives(key documents) • National Development Plan (NDP) 2008-2012 • Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) 2008-2010 • Strategy for reform in residential care system • (draft) Strategy for the development of an integrated system of services • (draft) Strategy for the Development of the social sector 2012

  8. Objectives: 1 • Vertical policy: • Reform of mechanism of assessment and identification of disabilitiy and capacity to work, • Enhancement of efficiency of the system of cash benefits through the targeting of resources towards the vulnerable layers of population, • Development of integrated system of social services, • Enhancement of efficiency of social services through de-institutionalisation of beneficiaries from the system of residential care and their reintegration with the community through the provision of community based family type services

  9. Objectives: 2 • Horizontal policy and sectorial capacity: • Development and implementation of integrated automated informational system „Social Protection”, • Development of human resources’ capacity in the social sector (social assistants, capacity regarding policy and mechanisms of public bids for services), • Development of mechanisms of accreditation and inspection of quality and efficiency of benefits and social services, • Building of institutional mechanism of ensurance of gender equality, • Setup of National Referral System for protection and assistance to victims and potential victims of trafficking in human beings

  10. Needs regarding donors’ technical assistance (the main ones) • Reform of the mechanism of assessment and identification of disability and capacity to work, • Development of capacity of human resources in the social sector (capacities regarding policy, bidding mechanisms and tools, and the assessment of quality of services), • Development of mechanisms of accreditation and inspection of quality and efficiency of benefits and social services

More Related