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Confronting the Challenges of Social Protection: No one should be left behind in development
Posted on 04 June 2013.
(Left)
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman
addresses the participants of the conference. (Right) The participants
discuss the challenges faced by the different sectors in implementing
the social protection framework.Conference on the Philippine Social Protection Agenda that “our greatest challenge is to move poor families to self-sufficiency level by 2016.”
Secretary Soliman said that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) organized the conference to chart the course of the social protection sector by 2016 and identify steps to respond to the challenge of improving the condition of poor families.
“In assessing and reviewing the Social Protection Framework, we must bear in mind that no one should be left behind in development. The framework should also be inclusive of sustainable growth,” Secretary Soliman emphasized.
Social protection constitutes policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalized by promoting and protecting livelihood and employment, protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income, and improving people’s capacity to manage risks.
Another DSWD official, Undersecretary Angelita Y. Gregorio-Medel, stated that social protection is one of the things the Philippines is getting known for. “Hence, the task facing us is to achieve a common understanding of the social protection framework and come up with priority outcomes by 2016,” she explained.
In response to the challenge, the conference participants identified three priority outcomes for social protection by 2016. These include increasing the number of self-sufficient households; improving the coverage, value and impact of social protection programs for targeted poor and other vulnerable groups and households; and increasing the number of provinces, cities and municipalities offering responsive and applicable social protection programs and services.
Also during the conference, Undersecretary Florita R. Villar presented an overview on the national Social Protection initiatives of the country. She cited three key challenges in implementing social protection programs such as synchronization and harmonization of program implementation and operations across sectors and institutions to raise the number of self-sufficient social protection beneficiaries; lack of timely and disaggregated data needed for speedy implementation of interventions so as to reach social protection target beneficiaries; and strengthening governance and mechanisms in order to improve access to social protection interventions especially at the local level.
The conference brought representatives together from different development partners such as the World Bank (WB), Australian Agency for International Development (Aus Aid), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Several national government agencies including the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) also attended. ###
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