Result achieved
31.01.2017
RAS154
Publique
Outcome summary
The Philippine Development Plan 20172022, launched in January 2017, identified the Social Protection Floor (SPF) as one of the strategies to achieve universal social protection under the strategic framework and reduce vulnerability of individuals and families.
Outcome achieved
The Philippine Development Plan 2017–2022, launched in January 2017, identified the Social Protection Floor (SPF) as one of the strategies to achieve universal social protection under the strategic framework and reduce vulnerability of individuals and families. Specific strategies in the SPF include:
• establishing an unemployment insurance system;
• enhancing social protection for the informal sector;
• facilitating transition of workers in the informal to the formal economy; and
• strengthening mechanisms to ensure enrolment in the social security system.
ILO's contribution to the outcome
The ILO, with a financial contribution from the Republic of Korea [RAS/14/52/ROK], applied the “Assessment-Based National Dialogue” (ABND) methodology to promote the SPF in the country during 2016–2017, involving government officials, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other key stakeholders. The ABND report, in line with the ILO’s Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), served as input to the Philippine Development Plan.
In addition, the ILO contributed to capacity building of relevant institutions that participated in the development of the plan. In 2015, one official from the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), and Social Development Staff (SDS), participated in the course on “Designing and implementing unemployment benefits integrated with active labour market policies”, delivered by the International Training Centre in Turin. Representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations participated in the ILO/Korea Training Workshop on Employment Insurance (EI) in November 2016.
Gender equality & non-discrimination
The ABND processes ensured the participation of the 14 basic sectors of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), including farmers and landless rural workers, artisanal fisher folk, urban poor, indigenous people and cultural communities, workers in formal labour and migrant workers, workers in the informal sector, women, children, youth and students, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, victims of disasters and calamities, non-governmental organizations, and cooperatives. Some of these groups are normally marginalized from policy dialogues and the inclusion of their views in a national policy-setting mechanism ensures a strong focus on non-discrimination in the social protection component of the development plan.
Social dialogue
The whole ABND process was Government-led through the ABND Core Group, chaired by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Economic Development Authority. Members of the Core Group also included other government agencies such as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), as well as employers’ and workers’ organizations, therefore serving as an arena for social dialogue on social protection. The consultation process engaged stakeholders from 16 regions in the country to ensure that inputs to the report do not only reflect national-level challenges, issues and solutions, but also include local-level experiences and realities.