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Module 4: Introduction to the assessment based national dialogue exercise

Module 4: Introduction to the assessment based national dialogue exercise. ILO, 2013. Key questions. What are the objectives of the ABND exercise? What are the main steps of the ABND process? How do we ensure that all stakeholders are involved from the outset?

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Module 4: Introduction to the assessment based national dialogue exercise

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  1. Module 4: Introduction to the assessment based national dialogue exercise ILO, 2013

  2. Key questions • What are the objectives of the ABND exercise? • What are the main steps of the ABND process? • How do we ensure that all stakeholders are involved from the outset? • Step 1 – Building the assessment matrix • Step 2 – Costing policy options using the RAP model • Step 3 – Finalization and endorsement • What are the strengths and limitations of ABND?

  3. Objectives of ABND • ABND identifies the existing situation and gaps in the social protection system • It develops recommendations for achieving the SPF • How do we achieve the SPF and make it a reality for the whole population of a country?

  4. Do all residents have access to essential health care, including maternity care?  Do all childrenenjoy basic income security, providing access to nutrition, education, care, and any other necessary goods and services?  Do all persons in active age who cannot earn sufficient income, enjoy basic income security, particularly in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity, disability?  Do all older persons have basic income security? Making the SPF a reality Four basic guarantees:

  5. Making the SPF a reality Level of protection Some countries may have the Floor for Health, e.g. Thailand But gaps for children, working age people or the elderly still exist Poor Rest of informal sector Formal sector Population

  6. Steps of ABND 1. What is the social security situation? 3. What should be done to complete the SPF? 2. How far are we from the achievement of the SPF? -> gaps, issues 4. How much would it cost today and in the future? 5. Can the Government afford it? Do we need to increase the fiscal space? 6. How to ensure that the recommendations are endorsed and listened to? 7. How to advocate for the SPF as a whole or specific recommendations?

  7. Steps of ABND • Step 1 – Building the assessment matrix including the identification of priority recommendations ABND FACTSHEET • Step 2 – Rapid Assessment Protocol to estimate the cost of implementing the social protection provisions • Step 3 – Finalisation of the assessment report for endorsement and further action by the higher levels of government

  8. Steps of ABND • Step 3 • Step 1 9. Endorsement by UN/RTG joint team and presentation to the government (Oct-Nov 2012) 1. Inventory of schemes(Jun 2011) 2. Draft Assessment Matrix (Jul 2011) 8. Finalization of Costing, Fiscal space, Writing ABND report(May-Aug 2012) 3. Dialogue # 1 on ABND matrix (Aug 2011) The process inThailand 4. Translation of policy recommendations into practical scenarios 7. Dialogue # 3 on results of costing (Mar 2012); Training on costing (May 2012) 5.Dialogue # 2on proposed scenarios (Nov 2011, Feb 2012) 6. Data collection for the RAP protocol and costing of the scenarios (Nov 2011 - Mar 2012) • Step 2

  9. Involving stakeholders • ABND is a participatory approach which should involve all relevant stakeholders • It entails bilateral consultations, tripartite workshops, and technical seminars • Thailand: ABND conducted by Royal Thai Government / UN team on social protection, co-chaired by Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and ILO • Indonesia: ABND conducted by United Nations Partnership for Development Framework (UNPDF) sub-working group on SPF, led by ILO and coordinated by Bappenas • Working with stakeholders with political power and expertise can avoid potential blockage

  10. Involving stakeholders ABND • Line ministries (Labour, Health, Social Welfare, Planning, Interior, Education, Finance, Rural Development, Women’s Affairs, etc.), social security institutions • Local governments • Workers’ and employers’ organizations • National Statistics Office, academicians • UN agencies involved in SPF (ILO, UNICEF, WHO, UNESCAP, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNWOMEN, UNDP, WFP), World Bank, ADB, other development partners • Civil society

  11. Step 1: Building the assessment matrix Identifying existing situation in the country Identifying policy gaps and implementation issues, addressing which would complete the SPF Priority policy options, decided through national dialogue Four SPF guarantees

  12. Step 1: Building the assessment matrix Policy gaps: Missing legislation or policy leading to a part of the population being excluded from the complete SPF For e.g. Only formal sector workers and very poor people are entitled to social health protection Only formal sector workers are entitled to a child allowance for pre-school children There is no unemployment protection scheme for workers in case of loss of employment

  13. Step 1: Building the assessment matrix • Implementation issues: Despite existing policies or legislation, people do not have effective access to entitlements For e.g. Despite universal access to social health protection, people from rural areas have limited protection due to poor health care infrastructure Enforcement of the Social Security Act is low, due to employers not registering their staff and a lack of resources to reach out to informal sector workers

  14. We can use the RAP Protocol There are 2 types of recommendations From Step 1to Step 2 Recommendations to introduce non-contributory benefits, increase non-contributory benefit amounts, extend coverage • Recommendations to introduce social insurance, work on coordination between schemes and operations, qualitative recommendations to improve quality of services We need to conduct further studies

  15. Step 2: Rapid Assessment Protocol RAP is a simplified Excel tool developed by ILO to estimate the cost of providing SPF benefits (for health, children, working age and the elderly) over a 5-10 year period

  16. Labour market (EAP) Demographic data (POP) 1. Data collection Step 2: Rapid Assessment Protocol General government operations (GGO) Macroeconomic data (ECO) Costing of benefits 2. Estimated cost of benefits in absolute terms, as % of GDP, and as % of government expenditure 3. Projected cost of combined benefit packages Summary and results

  17. Recommendations are translated into scenarios, i.e. specific social protection policy options Step 2: Rapid Assessment Protocol Cost of implementing the scenarios is calculated using RAP worksheets Estimated cost can be linked to fiscal space (GDP and government budget) to check their feasibility

  18. At the end of Step 2, we have the cost of implementing SPF benefits expressed as % of GDP (e.g. Thailand) Step 2: Rapid Assessment Protocol

  19. Cost of implementing scenarios over 5-10 years (Benefits worksheet) Projected government budget (GGO) New government budget + = Step 2: Rapid Assessment Protocol • Two possible cases: • Case 1: The new government budget is balanced and fiscal space is available in the country. • Case 2: The new government budget is in deficit. New fiscal space needs to be created through changes in budget allocations, increase in government revenues through additional taxes, etc. • In both cases, especially case 2, the government needs to be convinced that investing in the SPF is good for the country and for social and economic growth.

  20. Step 3: Finalization and endorsement Finalising the ABND report with stakeholders Government may endorse or ‘test’ some recommendations Presenting to higher levels of Government with a ‘champion’ • or conduct further studies: • actuarial • legal • human capacity

  21. Step 3: Finalization and endorsement • Advocating to policy-makers can be done with: • Evidence from other countries • Economic models to demonstrate the expected impact of policy options on reduction in poverty and inequality, increase in growth, productivity and employability • Financial models to assess the return on social investment • Communication and awareness generation among people, government, civil society, social partners

  22. It provides a coordinated, holistic and coherent approach to the development of social protection in a country • It initiates national dialogue on social security strategy, SPF, priority policy options, problems in providing social protection to all and ways to address the issues • It provides evidence on the feasibility of different policy options • It can serve as a baseline for monitoring of SPF implementation (within the national framework) Strengths of ABND

  23. The analysis conducted under Step 1 is simplistic and does not go into details on operations and institutional capacities • The social dialogue usually takes place at the technical level and higher-level policy makers or “champions” may need to be involved during Step 3 • The RAP is based on some assumptions leading to rough estimates of future costs; additional actuarial studies are needed for the finalisation of the design of proposed schemes Limitations of ABND

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