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Advancing Social Protection in Cambodia - Midterm joint evaluation

eval_number:

3551

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3551

location:

country:

Cambodia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Advancing Social Protection in Cambodia - Midterm joint evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2023-10-20 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Social Protection

category:

Social protection

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action_plan:

The ILO has consistently to advocate for legislation on the extension of health insurance to dependents via a compulsory mechanism and will continue to do so. Meanwhile, the sub-decree for the voluntary contribution of self-employed and dependents were promulgated in August 2023. The implementation agreement for the communication and registration campaigns will support the suggested extension of the social security schemes. The enrolment of the two new voluntary schemes will be tracked as part of the M&E of the implementation agreement.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Bangkok

title:

ILO should continue to advocate for progress with amendments to legislation for extending health insurance to dependents of the NSSF’s registered members via compulsory contribution, as a preferred option. For compulsory contributions for dependents of members, much groundwork is in place but action has been hesitant, creating a bottleneck. Releasing this bottleneck will require advocacy with the NSSF and GS-NSPC, which should indeed continue but will take time. Meanwhile, the shorter-term option for voluntary contributions via the pending Sub-Decree - mainly aimed at facilitating voluntary contributions for the self-employed but with some option to include employee dependents - should be carefully promoted as this route shows some promise for more immediate progress within the timeframe of ASPC. This means 1) prioritizing support to the adoption, approval and implementation of the pending Sub-Decree on the extension of social security (health insurance, and pension) to self-employed/own-account workers –and including dependents of NSSF members - though voluntary contributions; alongside support to the recently initiated one-year pilot scheme health insurance scheme for select self-employment sectors and then 2) promoting and disseminating information about this opportunity via the communications strategy implementation and3) agreeing annual targets for dependents’ enrolments through this option and tracking these.

project_symbols:

KHM/21/01/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17531

information_source:

Country Office

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