021 - The NSPS-PV

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The National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable

Existing social protection and employment programmes in Cambodia face the following challenges:

• Existing programmes have a limited outreach;
• There is a lack of coordination between programmes, leading to duplications and inefficiencies, and to lost synergies;
• The sub-national administration has no clear understanding of its role in providing social services to the people; and
• Data management, monitoring and evaluation are insufficient.

To face the manifold challenges in the area of social protection, the Royal Government of Cambodia, under the leadership of the Council for Agriculture and Rural Development, has developed a National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable, which was adopted by the Prime Minister’s office on 18 March 2011 and launched on the 5th December 2011 by the Prime Minister.

The NSPS-PV provides with a vision to develop a coherent social protection system in a phased approach, starting with the establishment of a social protection floor for all those in need of protection and ensuring that more and more people can enjoy progressively higher levels of benefits. 

The NSPS-PV relies on five pillars:

1. Addressing the basic needs of the poor and vulnerable in situations of emergency and crisis;
2. Reducing the poverty and vulnerability of children and mothers and enhancing their human development;
3. Addressing seasonal unemployment and underemployment and providing livelihood opportunities for the poor and vulnerable;
4. Promoting affordable health care for the poor and vulnerable; and
5. Improving social protection for special vulnerable group.

The implementation of the NSPS-PV has started with a four years (2011-2015) pilot-testing phase at national level and sub-national level. This pilot testing phase follows a set of guiding principles that aim at guaranteeing coherence across programmes and approaches, at generating lessons to be learned from the pilots, at sharing efforts in the development of national and sub-national capacities, and at promoting flagship programmes that are embedded in the National Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable.