Building National Floors of Social Protection in Southern Africa
Project properties
RAF/13/04/IRL Africa Malawi Mozambique Zambia Ireland Completed Evaluation available: Final
Description
The project will provide technical support to constitutents through assistance to ongoing processes of national dialogue, in harmony with coordinated efforts by UN and bilateral cooperating partners. It will assist the countries in implementing the building blocks of domestically owned and funded national systems of social protection. Grounded in a regional peer learning process, the project will comprise practical assistance with specific economic feasibility studies, legal expertise, support to national dialogue processes and advice on the governance and administrative aspects of implementing national social protection floors, reflecting the principles of ILO Recommendation R.202 (2012) on National Floors of Social Protection. Direct recipients: Governments and public institutions (primarily relevant Ministries in charge of social protection and social protectionagencies/institutions), employers’ and workers’ organizations, academic and other relevant civil society organizations. Ultimate beneficiaries: Vulnerable persons currently uncovered by any form of social protection. Immediate Outcome 1: Policies and innovative strategies for the implementation of a Social Protection Floor tailored to national circumstances are developed in the context of evidence based national dialogue in Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. Immediate Outcome 2: Improved legal, administrative and governance frameworks for the extension of Social protection (including budget planning and national monitoring systems) are designed in line with international social security standards. Immediate Outcome 3: Improved knowledge base and monitoring capacity on the implementation of Social Protection floors in the three countries.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
- 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
- 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
- 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
Time
01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016
Budget
1,427,561 / 1,427,564
Development Cooperation
Timeline of linked projects
172
RAF/13/04/IRL
01
01
2014
12
31
2016
01
01
2014
12
31
2015
ZMB/14/01/RBS
Support to enhancing and extending Social Protection for all, with a focus on vulnerable groups
151
01
01
2016
12
31
2017
Mozambique - Improved capacity of Social Security Institutions for extension of coverage and provision of better benefits for all (country programme 2016-17)
224
01
01
2016
12
31
2017
Zambia - Creation and extension of Social Protection floors for target populations, including extension of coverage to the informal economy in Zambia (country programme 2016-17)
248
01
01
2016
12
31
2017
Malawi - Enhanced and extended coverage of social protection to vulnerable groups (country programme 2016-17)
231
12
20
2016
06
30
2024
VNM/16/54/IRL
Viet Nam - Inclusive growth, social protection and jobs
79
12
20
2016
12
31
2022
GLO/16/63/IRL
Inclusive growth, social protection and jobs
80
12
21
2016
06
30
2024
RAF/17/53/IRL
Southern Africa – Social Protection Component IGSPJI
48
01
01
2019
07
31
2022
MOZ/19/50/PRT
ACTION/Portugal (Phase 2): Strengthening of Social Protection Systems in Mozambique
415
12
05
2022
12
31
2025
GLO/22/31/IRL
Accelerating the Achievement of Universal Social Protection to Leave No One Behind
921