Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All as a Means to Combat Poverty in Africa and Asia - Zambia country programme

Social security transfers in kind and in cash are the most direct tools to combat poverty, social insecurity and social exclusion at all stages of the economic life cycle of a nation. If managed and governed well, transfers work immediately – and yet they have not played the role in national anti-poverty policies that one might have expected. The programme “Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All as a Means to Combat Poverty in Africa and Asia” aims at furthering the policy agenda by exploring the feasibility of a set of basic benefits in concrete country cases. The core of the programme are a series of country programmes which involve the development of a proposal for the extension of social security through national analyses and consultations with not only social partners and other actors from civil society which have a stake in the national Social Security Action Plans (SSAPs) and in the framework of Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs). The country programmes will take the form of establishing and supporting the implementation of national Social Security Action Plans (SSAPs) which are multi-annual development plans for the extension of national social security systems. These SSAPs are key operational tools of the Global Campaign. Country programmes in Tanzania and Zambia start during the first phase of the programme. The development objective of the programme is to enhance social security coverage in four low-income countries (Zambia being one) so as to contribute to the reduction of poverty. The two outcomes of the project will be: Outcome 1: Based on ILO tools, governments, social partners and other stakeholders have acquired greater knowledge and technical capacity in matters of social security. Outcome 2: The extension of social security is accepted as a means to reduce poverty by increased advocacy in a national dialogue process.

Project symbol

ZAM/06/51/UKM

Admin unit

CO-Lusaka

Start date

01/12/2006

End date

31/12/2007

Total allocation

522754

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

522754

Development Partners

United Kingdom, Department for International Development

Country/Countries

Zambia

Outcomes

Social Security