Leaving no one behind: Establishing the basis for social protection floors in Lao PDR

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LAO/19/50/UND Asia and the Pacific Lao PDR MPTF/UNDP Completed This project is part of the Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All

Description

The main objective of this UN Joint Programme (JP) is to support the Government in the implementation of the new National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS), through an approach focused on systems development and implemented through the Mother and Early Childhood Grant (MECG). The JP is based on the new government-led NSPS with strong national institutional buy-in. The JP will include a focus on ensuring that SP funding is on-budget and that additional traditional and non-traditional sources of finance are mobilized and blended with public sector budget allocations to secure sustainability of the NSPS. The MECG will act as a model for SP provision which can be tested and scaled nationally in the future, with the learning from the experience feeding into potential subsequent interventions targeting other vulnerable groups including the elderly, persons with disabilities, migrants and informal workers. By the end of the programme, the main expected results are that Government planning, managerial, and implementation capacity (including leadership and co-ordination) to implement the NSPS is enhanced, and that 1,400 children under 12 months are benefiting from a new integrated package of welfare services, including the new MECG, early childhood wellbeing services and support for birth registration.

SDG

SDG SDG
Goals
  • End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Time

01.01.2020 - 30.06.2022
 

Budget

815,190 / 816,539 Development Cooperation
 
28.03.2024