Summary (English)

The Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review (SPER) presented in this report was carried out under the EU-funded ILO project “Improving Social Protection and Promoting Employment Policies in Cambodia” during 2010 and 2011. SPER is a diagnostic tool developed by the ILO that aims to establish a comprehensive overview of a country’s social protection system. It comprises an assessment of the country’s demographic, economic, and labour market context, and of the main social protection schemes in terms of coverage, expenditure and benefit levels. The main objectives of the exercise are to assess system financing, to identify coverage gaps, and to discuss policy issues for consideration by national policy-makers.