Capacity Development Workshop on Measuring Social Protection 1416 May 2013 BPS Statistics Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Cline Peyron Unemployment protection and social security technical advisor, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
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More people have access to better-managed and more gender-equitable social security benefits The Social Protection Floor Recommendation
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Maternity
Unemployment
Work injury
Life cycle
Invalidity
Old age
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SOCIAL TRANSFERS
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) The Declaration of Philadelphia
(annex to the Constitution of the International Labour Organization) (1944)
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Poor Rest of informal sector Population Formal sector
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Poor
Formal sector
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Poor
Formal sector
Poor
Formal sector
And endorsed by the 185 member states of the ILO in June 2012 with the adoption of the SPF Recommendation (No 202) 101st ILC 14 June 2012 456 yes votes 1 abstention
The recommendation 202 is a useful guidance for member states who wish to establish/maintain SPFs as part of their national social security systems
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/--relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_183326.pdf
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All residents have access to essential health care including maternity care
Each country also decides how to do it through universal schemes, targeted social assistance, social insurance, a combination
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According to ILOs Constitution ILO member states have to submit the Social Protection Floors Recommendation before the national authorities to enact legislation or take action to give effect to the Recommendation.
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In this context the Assessment Based National Dialogue Exercise is a useful tool since it proposes or will propose concrete routes for the further development
3. The process to support countries in implementing national social protection floors and further developing comprehensive social protection systems:
The Assessment Based National Dialogue exercise
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1. Inventory of schemes through desk review and bilateral consultations (June 2011)
8. Finalization of the costing and assessment matrix; writing of the ABND report (May-August 2012)
National dialogue
3. Dialogue # 1 to validate the Assessment Matrix and provide policy recommendations (August 2011)
7. Dialogue # 3 to present the results of the costing and discuss the fiscal space (March 2012); Training on costing (May 2012); Training course on Social protection: Assessment, Costing and Beyond (October 2012)
4. Translation of policy recommendations into costable scenarios (September 2011 March 2012)
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6. Data collection for the RAP protocol and costing of the scenarios (November 2011 - March 2012)
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Government group
Ministries of Social Welfare, Labour, Public Health, Education, Finance, Interior Budget Bureau NESDB National Commission on Social Welfare/Social Protection Statistics Offices Academia, Civil Society, Workers and employers representatives
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Poor
Formal sector
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Quasi 100% Coverage Issues/ challenge: large number of undocumented migrant workers are not covered by the Compulsory Migrant Health Insurance (CMHI) due to problems of affordability
Limitations: The PKH program should be expanded to cover at least all poor households (6.5 million instead of 1.5 million); lack of health and education supply may curb the impact of the program.
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Level of protection
SSF section 40
CS 6.7% pop
Universal disability allowance of 500 baht/month Poor Rest of informal sector Formal sector
Challenges: With the introduction of subsidies, coverage has increased from 68 thousands persons to 1.3 million in 18 months. However the target population = 24 million informal economy workers. Also only 50% pay contributions regularly.
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Level of protection
Todays situation
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1,000,000 pensioners
Level of protection
Social pension
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Expand the social pension to all elderly above 65 years of age who do not receive any pension Increase the levels of benefits from 180,000 VND/month to 400,000 VND/month in rural areas and 500,000 VND/month in urban areas
THANK YOU!
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