Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management (ILO component)

Outcome 1: Improving the social protection system for Ethiopia through a sustainable financing strategy

Ethiopia 31.05.2023

Description

Making a strong case for increased investment in social protection requires a feasible and realistic financing strategy. The aim of this Project is therefore to develop a financing strategy for a core set of selected social protection programmes in Ethiopia that outlines the projected costs, looks at the feasibility of various financing modalities and provides a pragmatic financing strategy and tools that the government can use to increase the domestic financing of the selected social protection programmes. Both contributory and non-contributory programmes require sustainable financial resources, administrative governance and monitoring tools. The Project therefore contributes to the following results:

  • producing a sustainable financing strategy and investment framework for social protection, with short and medium-term options
  • producing evidence on how to extend social security to informal economy workers and supporting labour legislation related to social protection
  • building the capacity of MoLSA and Addis Ababa BoLSA to effectively monitor implementation of social protection programmes
  • Support the elaboration of a contingency plan for the GoE/MoLSA in response to the COVID19 crisis in the Social Protection System framework.

Outputs contributing to the outcome

14.12.2020