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

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.

Project symbol

GLO/06/54/UKM

Admin unit

SEC/SOC

Start date

01/12/2006

End date

31/10/2008

Total allocation

1715439

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1715439

Development Partners

United Kingdom, Department for International Development

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Social Security