Extending Social Security in Myanmar

The project will contribute to design a more comprehensive and inclusive social protection system in Myanmar through the effective implementation of the social security law and the progressive establishment of a nationally defined social protection floor in Myanmar. The project follows ILO’s two-dimensional extension strategy which aims at establishing and maintaining social protection floors as a fundamental element of national social security systems (horizontal dimension) and at pursuing strategies for the extension of social security that progressively ensure higher levels of social security to as many people as possible (vertical dimension). The project includes two complementary components: • Component 1: Support the Social Security Board in the drafting of the rules and orders for the implementation of the social security law, based on a sound design – including institutional and actuarial studies - of the proposed social security schemes, and provide recommendations for the future amendment of the social security law, • Component 2: Facilitate a joint UN-government social protection team, led by the Social Security Board and the UN country team, that would work in close collaboration with the national high-level commission on social protection with the involvement of workers and employers representatives and the civil society, and conduct a comprehensive assessment of the social protection needs and programmes, leading to recommendations to the government on the progressive establishment of a social protection floor in Myanmar. An envisaged future phase of the project (for which subsequent fund raising will be needed) will look into the implementation of the schemes identified under the present proposed project.

Project symbol

MMR/13/51/JPN

Admin unit

ILO-Yangon

Start date

10/09/2013

End date

30/09/2014

Total allocation

46866

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

46866

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Asia and the Pacific - regional

Outcomes

Advocacy for decent work