Social Protection Sector
Implementation report 2000-2001
Strategic Objective No. 3: Enhance the coverage and
effectiveness of social protection for all
Operational
Objective 3e:
Economic and social insecurity
Indicator
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Target
and Outcome
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3e.1.
The number of member States where data are generated
and used to develop strategies and policies to combat
economic and social insecurity.
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Target:
12 member States
Outcome:
0
Work
conducted under this indicator remained in the phase
of data generation. The data generated will be used
in 2002 for the design of national strategies and
policies.
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Strategies,
Results and Lessons Learned
During
the current biennium, the strategic priority set out in
the Programme and Budget for addressing economic and social
insecurity was the development of an information base to
support future work. In practice, this meant the development
of a network of reputable institutions and correspondents
in ILO member countries, involved in labour issue research
and promotion. It also meant the development of a comprehensive
database on socio-economic security indicators in one-hundred
and three countries, and People’s Security Surveys and Enterprise
Labour Flexibility surveys, which collected data for further
analysis on households and businesses.
This
work is seen as an essential first phase that will lead
to the use of the knowledge to design nationally-appropriate
strategies and policies that will combat social and economic
insecurity. In fact, these methodological tools and approaches
were used by the ILO field structure in work on PRSP initiatives.
They were also used in Ukraine to construct monitoring tools
for insecurity, to contribute to the design of integrated
poverty alleviation strategies in the Russian Federation
and to inform comprehensive social protection strategies
in Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Eastern
Europe and central Asia: Towards improved social and economic
security
In
the Russian Federation, the ILO took the lead in answering,
on behalf of the United Nations system, the request of
the Government for assistance in the design of an integrated
strategy for fighting poverty. This 18 month project covered:
income distribution via social transfers; health concerns;
wage policies; enterprise restructuring effects; employability
of vulnerable groups; family implications; gender aspects;
regional aspects; legal and administrative aspects; statistical
monitoring. The results were presented publicly to a high
level tripartite meeting held in Moscow in November 2001
and received excellent media coverage. They are expected
to strongly influence Russian social policy.
In
Kazakhstan, following a project implemented by the ILO
with UNDP support, the government adopted by decree in
June 2001 a Concept for the Social Protection of the Population,
which makes explicit reference to the contribution made
by the ILO. The ILO approach to the project included all
four strategic objectives in a unified way.
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