1. Dr. Christian Pfleiderer (GIZ)
Perspectives on Comprehensive Social Protection from German Development Cooperation
Inter - agency Show and Tell Meeting 2011
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Dr. Christian Pfleiderer (GIZ)

2. Agenda What is comprehensive social protection?
Dimensions of comprehensive social protection
Beneficiaries of comprehensive social protection – who?
Challenges of comprehensive social protection – what?
Approaching comprehensive social protection – how?
Examples of work
Indonesia
India
Kenya
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3. Dimensions of comprehensive social protection
Private
Private
Public
Public
Private
Public
State
State
State
Community
Community
Community
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4. Beneficiaries of comprehensive social protection – who?
Objectives
Protecting the whole population of partner countries - especially the poor - against life risks and enable management of their occurrence through universal social protection coverage
Ensuring the human right of social protection for every member of a society
Supporting positive economic and political multiplier effects
Guideline principles
Supporting context driven development and tailor-made approaches
Taking a systemic approach to integrate different instruments and institutions of social protection and connecting them with other measures, e. g. social services
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5. Challenges of comprehensive social protection – what?
Health risks
Illness and associated ruinous expenditure
Accidents
Epidemics
Life cycle risks
Old age
Disability
Incapacity for work
Economic risks
Unemployment
Price shocks
Natural and ecological risks
Droughts, floods, storms
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6. Approaching comprehensive social protection – how?
State level
Collaboration with government institutions at the national and subnational level, e.g. ministries for labour, social affairs, health, finance, planning authorities
Public level
Collaboration with public authorities, e.g. public insurances, control and complaint authorities, regulatory institutions
Private level
Collaboration with private and market-based actors, e.g. commercial insurance and microfinance institutions and other social and economic stakeholders
Community level
Collaboration with local service providers and community-based institutions of social protection
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7. Areas of activity
Who?
What?
How?
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8. Example of work: Indonesia (1/2)
National Council for Social Protection (DJSN):
Technical and organization capacity building for the DJSN to better fulfill its role as the national body in charge for developing regulations to implement Law No. 40, which stipulates comprehensive social protection for the whole population of Indonesia
Consensus building amongst & ensuring participation of all relevant stakeholders regarding steps on how to implement the national law that stipulates universal social health protection by 2014
National Planning Authority (BAPPENAS):
Technical advice for the medium to long term planning for a comprehensive and integrated system of social protection
Establishing routines/mechanisms for inter-institutional coordination on specific aspects of social protection (e.g. social protection of informal workers)
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9. Example of work: Indonesia (2/2)
National Team for Acceleration of Poverty Reduction in the office of the Vice-President:
Technical advice and consensus building on a roadmap to implement improved and sustainably financed social health protection for people below the poverty line (JAMKESMAS)
Ministry of Social Affairs (KEMENSOS):
strengthening effectivity and efficiency of the program of conditional cash-tranfers to the poorest

10. Example of work: India (1/2)
Health Insurance for the Poor: Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY):
state financed standardized health insuránce targeted at people below poverty line (BPL)
building a business model for all stakeholders with built-in incentives
ensuring participation of insurers, smart card agencies and hospitals in implementation
further extension to people living BPL and also informal sector workers
National Pension System (NPS)/ Janshree Bima Yojana (JBY):
extending old age protection/ life insurance to informal sector workers
building on implementation lessons via Joint Learning Platform and strengthening delivery agencies
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11. Example of work: India (2/2)
Collaboration with Ministry of Labour and Employment and Department of Financial Services on central government level to enforce the Unorganised Workers Act and improve coherence among the different social protection schemes
Providing capacity development to insurance companies (United India Insurance etc.) and regulatory institutions (PFRDA etc.) to improve their performance and focus on poverty reduction
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12. Example of work: Kenya
German Development Cooperation works on health and health financing
DfID: works on cash transfers; cofunds health financing support by GIZ
ILO: works on Social Policy Framework
World Bank: works on social programming
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13. Thank you for your attention
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