Social Protection in the Post-2015: Framing the targets

6th SPIAC-B meetingNew York, 3 February 2015

Vinicius PinheiroDeputy Director – ILO Office for the UN

Building blocks of the new agenda:Work in progress…

Member states: •Declaration/Narrative – the vision•SDGs and targets (OWG 17 Goals and 169

targets), informed by the discussions on indicators (TST and UN Statistics Commission)

•Means of implementation and global partnership (in Financing for Development

•Follow up and review

UN/UNDG•Delivery: UN Fit for Purpose

Timeline•Feb17-20: IGN P2015 - Declaration•March 1-5: UN Stats Commission - Indicators•April 20-24: Means of Implementation and

Global Partnerships•May 18- 22: Follow up and Review• June 22-25: Drafting sessions• July 13-16: Financing for Development

Conference (Addis Ababa)• July 20 -31: Final drafting sessions•September 25-27: UN Summit to Adopt the

P2015 agenda

SG’s vision: 6 essential elements

References to decent work and social protection are mainstreamed across the report

Next step 1: Controlled “technical proofing” of the targets?

•Level of ambition: Does it fall below already existing agreements and international law

•  Consistency: Does it duplicate or is inconsistent with other targets?

•Measurability, “implementability”: Is it precise, specific, measurable and action orientated?

•Outcome, process, policy statements?

OWG SDGs document: SP Targets• Poverty: 1.3 implement nationally appropriate social

protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

• Health: 3.8 achieve universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

• Gender: 5.4 recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

• Inequality: 10.4 adopt policies especially fiscal, wage, and social protection policies and progressively achieve greater equality

Framing target 1.3…• Outcome: By 2030 achieve substantial social

protection coverage of the poor and vulnerable▫What is substantial?▫ Level of ambition: to reach out poor and vulnerable

or to prevent poverty and vulnerability?▫How to define SP coverage? Legal x Effective;

Eligible x Recipients; contigencies • Process/action: implement nationally appropriate

social protection systems and measures for all, including floors▫Comprehensiveness – systems, measures and floors▫Appropriateness = adequacy ▫For all = universal policies

• Consistency

Next step 2: Defining global indicators (UNSC)

•A global set of core indicators, accompanied by complementary national indicators

•One indicator per target, max 120 indicators for the overall framework (!)

•Relevance •Measurability•Methodological soundness•Easy to understand and communicate (avoid

composite indicators)•Level of disaggregation•Availability (not a constraint)

Next step 3: Means of Implementation and financing

•Define baselines•Costing/financial forecasts•Fiscal space/debt sustainability analysis

(IMF-WB-ILO-UNICEF-UNDP)•Domestic resources mobilization strategies•Issues-based resources pooling and

funding mechanisms•Financing for development – Global Social

Protection Floor Fund

Next step 4: Monitoring and follow up

•Based on already existing mechanisms, data bases and reports

•National, country-led, multi-stakeholder participation, supported by UN/IFIs

•Regional supported by the Commissions•Global hosted by the High Level Political

Forum (HLPF), including: ▫Thematic component, built on existing

issues-based accountability platforms and coordination mechanisms (SPIAC-B, GMG, etc)

▫Global partnership review

Next step 5: Delivering• Normative frameworks integrated with

operational activities (ILO Recommendation 202, and Conventions)

• Shift focus from developing countries to universal• Integrated and coherent system-wide policies and

strategies• Multi-stakeholder engagement, partnerships and

issue-based coalitions • Integrated business models, including operational

modalities, funding and transparency• Common assessment tools

Final remarks: Implications• Strong call for policy coherence, coordination and

integration• Comprehensive agenda will lead to prioritization and

sequencing at country level: SP advocacy is needed• Link normative and operational • Policy and programming framework will be aligned

with the SD goals, targets and indicators• Multi-stakeholder partnerships and funding raising

strategies consistent with SDGs• Deeper integration and joint-programming at country

level aligned with national sustainable development plans.

• Issues-based coalition such as the SPIAC-B will need to be strengthened

Thank you!