Accelerating progress towards an integrated and modernized Social Protection System for All in Thailand
Project properties
THA/19/50/UND Asia and the Pacific World Thailand MPTF/UNDP Completed This project is part of the Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All
Description
The main strategy of joint programme is to integrate a mature and comprehensive government social protection system that is currently working in a siloed manner and reach those being left behind in an efficiently and sustainably. By bringing together the expertise and the contact points of different government agencies who have decades of experience on implementation, the UN system in Thailand can act as a catalyst to promote a more integrated approach. Initial work by the UN to support the nationalization of SDG 1.3 has revealed increased understanding from different government agencies that they require a more integrated approach is required to reach the objective of leaving nobody behind and that improved coordination and joint programme integration will deliver cost effectiveness and benefits. The joint programme combines several innovative and transformative components. Firstly, by comprehensively reviewing the whole social protection system it promotes an integrated approach that will bring the contributory and non-contributory schemes together under one framework. This component will be carried out jointly with government through a participatory diagnostic review of the social protection system. The review will innovate by drawing on analysis and recommendations for PFM adjustments (such as MTEF for social protection) and ensure continuous cross sectoral program funding for implementation of the government’s social protection policies and programmes. In line with the 20-year National Strategic Plan the review will provide the basis for a National Social Protection Policy with cross sectoral relevance for each sector. Secondly, the joint programme will ensure the design to improve the delivery of the social protection system will (i) focus on finding solutions to address the coverage gaps and reach groups left behind (vulnerable children, migrant and domestic workers) and (ii) focus on MSDHS reform of its SP system to ensure the absorption of new entrants in the system. This includes upgrade of the registry and MIS, improved monitoring, addressing equity issues related to geography and integration with ECD supply side interventions. Thirdly, the 20 Year National Strategic Plan creates an opportunity for structural reform of the sector, at a time when the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) has been designated to provide leadership for increasingly integrated approach. A new 20 Government is now in place following the elections tackling inequality remains one of its top priorities. Finally, a focus on direct support to existing government programmes - the scale up of the Child Support Grant - and the design of concrete proposals to extend coverage to domestic workers, particularly foreign domestic workers, will ensure, in addition to policy change, that the joint programme has an immediate impact in beneficiaries, particularly for groups that until now have been left behind.SDG
Goals
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- Reduce inequality within and among countries
Time
01.01.2020 - 30.06.2022
Budget
620,819 / 660,565
Development Cooperation