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Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management - Final joint evaluation
- eval_number:
- 3446
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3446
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Social protection
- category:
- Social Protection
- comments:
- Informal sector workers in A1 countries which can be up to 80 per cent of those of working age.
- challenges:
- To ensure continued participation in a contributory social security scheme the scheme design needs to take account of the irregular nature of informal sector employment and therefore a worker’s capacity to pay contributions.
- success:
- In Nepal participation by informal sector workers in the social security fund has slightly different conditions to those for formal sector workers. Local government makes the employer contribution although this has not seen myriads of persons enrol. The programme in Zambia aroused great interest from the Ethiopians and Ugandans.
- context:
- In the majority of interviews with A1 countries, it was said that an objective of SP&PFM was to expand SP into the informal sector. Technical Assistance was given to help social security funds achieve this. However, most countries were not creating a new fund for informal sector workers but creating, or planning to create, an add-on to the existing scheme for private sector workers in the formal economy without taking any account of the disparate employment patterns between formal and informal sector workers.
- description:
- Expanding social protection (SP) into the informal sector is easier said than done. There are many barriers that need to be overcome. Most social protection schemes for the informal sector are based on those for the formal sector without taking into account the peculiarities of the informal sector.
- administrative_issues:
- The push for participation of the informal sector in a contributory social security fund seems to have come at the expense of pushing for a social protection floor under R202.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/1148414
- location:
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management - Final joint evaluation
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