Engagement on social protection Social Protection Floor 2

Engagement on social protection & Social Protection Floor 2 nd Interagency Technical Meeting on the Social Protection Floor Initiative Geneva, 22 -23 November 2010

Social pensions and social protection Social pensions part of a broad agenda on social protection: • Minimum floor = best way to tackle chronic poverty and vulnerability across the life course • SP systems based on entitlements, embedded in national law and funded through national resources • Work in broad partnership and coalitions in 17 countries in Africa, South and East Asia, Latin America, the Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caribbean

Building support for social protection 4 core elements • Technical engagement with governments • Supporting civil society to create political demand • International, regional and national advocacy • Sharing learning within & across regions

Technical engagement with governments • Feasibility studies examining costs, impact and design of social pensions in Malawi, Tanzania, Belize, Sri Lanka • Assessment of Older People’s Cash Transfer Programme in Kenya: development of operations manual and qualitative impact assessment • Support for line ministries in sectoral review and other national strategy processes in Sierra Leone, Rwanda,

Supporting civil society to engage in social protection • Parliaments in Peru and Philippines debating bills on social pensions presented by coalitions of civil society organisations • Active members of UK based Grow up Free From Poverty Coalition + European Working Group on Decent Work & Social Protection • Support to national SP platforms through training and capacity building

International & regional & national advocacy • Working with the Africa Union as part of the Livingstone I and II processes in 2006 & 2008 • Engagement with the EU on SP (e. g. Europ. Report on Development; Trainings etc) • Engagement in Global Action Council on Social Protection as part of WEF, Davos 2011 • Work with UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty

Sharing learning within and across regions Through funding of the German government • Launch of new knowledge centre on social pensions (www. pension-watch. net) • New publications series on social pensions, based on technical evidence building in-country • • Film on social pensions • Working with ADB to document experience and learning on social pensions in Thailand, Bangladesh, Vietnam Forthcoming publication on social protection in fragile states Running of EPRI Designing Social Transfer Course in Asia South-South Learning event, 50 officials from 4 Latin American countries and 6 African countries, UNASUR, AU, EAC

Social Protection Floor Country Government involvement Development partners Activity Bolivia Ministry of Economy and Public Finance UNFPA Review of pensions system with ILO 2008. ILO Training to gov on microsimulations with UNFPA in 2009 Ecuador Ministry of Coordination and Social Development (MCDS) UNFPA, UNDP, UNIFEM UNFPA has support the Micro simulation course and the exchange of Ecuador/ Peru governments in 2009. Paraguay Ministry of Economy UNFPA has support the Micro simulation course and the exchange of government representatives in 2009. Peru National Statistical Institute UNFPA ILO 2008 UNFPA, ILO, Help. Age, Caritas, have published a book on non contributory pension in Peru. Thailand Ministry Social Security UNFPA Key partner on social pension Tanzania Ministry of Labour ILO Part of widespread HAI consultation on feasibility study for social pension UNDP

Thank you New website dedicated to pensions worldwide www. pension-watch. net