Transcript LIS 314 - The Labour Research Service

ELEMENTS OF STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING SOCIAL
PROTECTION FLOOR
Global Network, Cape Town
7 December 2012
BY
AFRICAN LABOUR RESEARCH NETWORK (ALRN)
Presentation Outline…
 Why Social Protection Strategy?
 Elements of Social Protection Strategy
 Conclusion
What is the Power play?
 The global world can now be expressed into three major
players or forces that must shape society: the People
(and the workers), the State (which suppose to be an
expression of the people) and the Global Capital
 TUs are acting in an environment where competing
interests are constantly trying to influence and
dominate public opinion.
(Source: ANSA, 2006)
Why TU SP Strategy...
 Development of clear strategies for engagement and
shift Trade Union focus from a narrow interest
perspective to a broader and inclusive approach
 The call for a coordinated regional strategy on Social
Protection, driven by regional Trade Union bodies, can
provide guidance and direction for national Trade Union
Centres
 The need to entrench social dialogue plus one as
central for trade unions’ demand for comprehensive
social policy shift.
 The need to develop trade union evidence – based
research capacity on Social Protection
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 1: Collaborative engagement across
sectors and high-level of political commitment.
 Creation of Social protection Technical Working
Group or steering committee led by governments
complimented by progressive development partners,
civil society and the private sector
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 2: Defining a National Social Protection
Floor
 The ILO sets a number of key principles that would
comprise a SPF
 National broad-based workshop
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 3: Policy Coherence and Coordination:
Inter-ministerial collaboration and co-ordination
of all the ministries and stakeholders
 Advocate for the formation of Inter-ministerial
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 4: Advocating for the review and
development of a comprehensive legislative
framework
 Campaign the review and development comprehensive
legislative framework at national level
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 5: Advocating for linking social
assistance to basic services
 Strengthen the tripartite structures in all national
economic forums
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 6: Collection of disaggregated data for
monitoring implementation and evaluating the
impact and progress on social inclusion.
 Research and information includes identification of
information gaps and sponsoring research to fill these
gaps (including human rights based situation analyses
that includes causality, capacity and role pattern
analysis, impact evaluations and economic analysis on
the links between investment in social protection,
poverty reduction, and the attainment of the MDGs),
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 7: Sustainable funding for social
protection from both domestic and external
resource mobilization, in particular resources
that can facilitate scaling up of effective
interventions.
 Implementation of the national strategies would be
measured in the short term through incorporation of
social protection into national development plans,
sector wide approaches and medium term expenditure
frameworks.
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 8: Governance of social protection
systems
 Support towards the development of skills and
capacity of union representatives on Governance
structures.
 National Trade Union Centres’ should develop a Code
of Good Conduct that will guide the participation of
Trade Union representatives on Social Protection
governance structures
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 9: Extension of social protection to informal
workers and linking social protection to organising
and advocacy
 Trade Union is to work with other stakeholders in
developing specifically targeted programmes for the
vulnerable groups in a comprehensive and coordinated
fashion.
 Campaigning for the creation of universal social benefits
(e.g. through universal health benefits, old-age
pensions or child-support payments would be one
such example of this avenue for extension of social
protection.
 Extend coverage to informal workers..
Key Elements of SP Strategy
 Strategy 10: Developing appropriate Monitoring
and Evaluations Systems
 Initiate M & E capacity building in national centres
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