The integration of Social Protection in the operationalization of Sida’s Country Strategies

Torsten Wetterblad

Social Protection

• OECDs definition of Social Protection (extract of OECD Policy Paper on Social Protection (SP) adopted 2008);

• SP is an investment in people, it enables households to invest in productive activities and human capital which raises their productivity and incomes. It also helps women and men living in poverty to adopt more sustainable strategies to tackle vulnerability (increases their resilience) and to pursue more effective strategies out of poverty e.g. more effective participation in the labour market.

Extreme poverty still widespread in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Social Protection • A crosscutting thematic issue

• A method that creates synergies and enhances the realisation of our result strategies

• A way to reduce vulnerabilities and increase

resilience

Important synergies exist with development areas such as;

• Agriculture• Education• Health

And parallels with the transformation of Humanitarian Support

Countries that have had conditional cash transfer

programs only (5)

Countries that have had unconditional cash transfer

programs only (21)

Countries that have had both conditional and unconditional

cash transfer programs (9)

Countries with no known cash transfer programs (12)

Countries excluded from study

CCT Programs today exist in several African countries

Sida is or has been active in Social Protection in Africa in ….• Ethiopia• Kenya• Rwanda• Mozambique• Tanzania• Zambia• Zimbabwe

..and the possibilities to engage in other countries are looked into in among others Mali, Uganda and Liberia

S P in Tanzania

SP in Zambia

-The Sida Project for the Expansion of the Role of Social protection within Development Cooperation- Swedish Government puts more emphasis on Social Protection as an important instrument for achieving inclusive economic development