FINLAND - Social Protection Show-and-Tell Seminar 2011 Bonn, 5 May, 2011 Timo Voipio Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy, MFA-Finland timo.voipio@formin.fi FINLAND - Social Protection Show-and-Tell Seminar 2011

Government 2011-2015 ? Minister for Development ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Minister for Development ?  Arguments in support of SocProt DW?SP IG?HR ? ? ?’Finns first’?

FINLAND since Show-and-Tell 2010: BILATERAL: Zambia SP Expansion Programme In ‘pool’ with UNICEF, DFID, ILO, Irish Aid Finland: Capacity building for professionals of care / Community Welfare Officers - vertically and horizontally (inter-ministerially) 8 countries in Central Asia and Caucasus With ILO: Empl, OSH and SocSec NGOs/DPOs: 3,1 % of bilateral ODA into SocProt, mainly into disability

MULTILATERAL: WB: TF-ESSD  Innovation-funding, piloting on the themes of ‘crises’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘inequality reduction’. WB: Disability mainstreaming + Global Partnership on Disability and Development (GPDD) UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, WFP - Main channels of Finnish UN-ODA ILO: UN Social Protection Floor Initiative SPF-I UN Special Rapporteur on Disability UN-HRC Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty  Social Protection and Human Rights UNESCO – EFA/Disability Inclusive Education

OTHER: Funding and contributing to the EU Flagship Report ERD-2010 on “Social Protection for Inclusive Development – A New Approach to European Cooperation with Africa AU Social Policy Framework  implementation and capacity building plans African Decade on Disability and Development OECD-POVNET + TT Social Protection Train4Dev SocProt  ‘Frozen’ ICSW + IFSW + IASSW  social workers (TZ) UN-CSocD + SDAN Nordic Council :

Global Sustainability Panel + The social dimension of sustainable development  RIO+20 High-Level Global Sustainability Panel - Rethinking the development paradigm for prosperity in a low carbon world

Global Sustainability Panel High-Level Global Sustainability Panel Set up by UN SecGen Ban Ki-moon Co-chairs: Pres. Zuma + Pres. Halonen + Policymakers +private sect. + civil society Timeline: Aug-2010  Dec-2011 A contribution to the Rio+20 / UNFCCC 3 dimensions of sustainable development: ECON / SOC / ENV

RIO-1992: Sustainable dev’t = Balanced dev’t  Rio+20 ECONOMIC SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL Entry points for ICSW to promote Social Justice in PRS-processes ICSW Global Conference, Brasilia 16-19 July, 2006 UM/KYO

But: 25 years of neoliberal policies SOCIAL ECONOMIC ECOLOGICAL Entry points for ICSW to promote Social Justice in PRS-processes ICSW Global Conference, Brasilia 16-19 July, 2006 UM/KYO

High Ambitions ”A new action-oriented approach to people-centred sustainable development” ”Think out of the box and rise above the national positions.” ”Special emphasis should be given to the most vulnerable populations.” ”Therefore a key issue for the panel should be poverty eradication, focusing on dignity and resilience.”

WG1: Basic questions: What steps…to a new dev’t paradigm to eradicate poverty, ensure social inclusion and provide decent jobs? What role for a new approach to growth? Who are the key actors, and what do they need to do, and in which timeframe? PLEASE HELP ! PLEASE CONTRIBUTE !! PLEASE INFLUENCE YOUR GOV’T POSITIONS: SUST.DEVT NEEDS A SOCIAL DIMENSION: SP IS KEY PART OF IT !!!