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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:

Organizational issues

category:

Programme implementation

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action_plan:

There is ongoing efforts to explore synergies between SS and SA as guided by the Government counterparts as defined within the Project Document. The pending adoption of the new NSPPF 2030 represents an opportunity to further harmonize the SS and SA system through a lifecycle approach and potential linkages will be further explored within the scope of the project such as the referral pathways for the TVET programme.

management_response:

Action not yet taken

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

CO-Bangkok

title:

In the context of the NSPPF 2030 life cycle approach, which provides a framework for synergising SA and SS, UNICEF and ILO should take action and opportunities to strengthen visibility of the linkages between SA and SS through more explicitly joint work by ILO and UNICEF. This should include continuing to explore potential linkages in the TVET Cash Transfer scheme; the expansion of the cash transfer for pregnant women and children to garment workers. It might also include designing referral schemes so that information on SA and SS is available to all (to be discussed with GS-NSPC), and seeking new resources to facilitate developing such linkages.
It might also include more open reflection on how current post-Covid economic challenges including inflation and climate change effects have dampening effect on expanding SS registrations at the same time as fixing SA efforts in emergency mode. There is therefore a clear mutual benefit to getting beyond the bottleneck in SS – including by advocacy on where and how SS is linked to SA through improving economic resilience by providing protection at specified critical points, especially for vulnerable groups; and how routine SA schemes linking livelihood skills and cash support can / could be linked to new opportunities for SS coverage in key sectors. It might also include further consideration of the potential linkages between SS and ongoing SA for those groups who cannot work, such as children, people with severe disability, and the very elderly.

project_symbols:

KHM/21/01/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/17534

information_source:

Country Office

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