Description

Ethiopia has enacted the National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) in November 2014 to serve as a framework to harmonize and standardize the implementation of social protection programs in the country.  To contribute to a comprehensive, sustainable and well-coordinated social protection system, the European Union has initiated and financed a Project on ‘Improving synergies between Social Protection (SP) and Public Finance Management (PFM)’. Ethiopia is one of the eight countries selected to take part in this program along with Angola, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Nepal, Paraguay, Senegal, Uganda . The project is to be jointly implemented by ILO and UNICEF in Ethiopia.

The project in Ethiopia has the objective of improving the SP system for the country through improved sustainable financing. It aims at achieving this through three focus areas:

• • Financing strategy for Social Protection in Ethiopia with short-term and medium-term options
  • Extending social security to informal economy workers and supporting wage legislation related to social protection.
  • Building the capacity of MoLSA to effectively monitor the social protection system

SDG

Goals

• End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Reduce inequality within and among countries

Targets

• 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

Timeline of linked projects