HOW TO MAINSTREAM SOCIAL PROTECTION IN THE EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND'S (EDF) NATIONAL INDICATIVE PROGRAMMES (NIPs)? AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN CIVIL SOCIETY TELLS US HOW.
The Agenda 2030 as well as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda have reiterated governments’ commitment to the realisation of decent work and social protection for all:
"We are committed to ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including by eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. All people must enjoy a basic standard of living, including through social protection systems."
(Agenda 2030, paragraph 24)
The EU, through its development cooperation policy and programs, is already greatly contributing to the achievement of these objectives. The forthcoming review of the National Indicative Programs (NIPs) negotiated in the framework of the 11th European Development Fund, can be an opportunity to further pursue the progressive realization of the right to decent work and social protection for all and better align EDF program with the Agenda 2030 spirit.
Through the Decent Work and Social Protection Monitor, launched this week to mark the World day for Social Justice (February 20th), African and Caribbean CSOs will tell us how...
From this week on, eight country reports will be published weekly. This week Malawi will be in the spotlight...
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How EU programs could help achieve social protection and decent work
THE MALAWI SOCIAL PROTECTION PLATFORM
tells you how
- The EU should support the Government of Malawi in improving the quality of public services and making them more affordable, to ensure that all people have access to quality health care, education and safe drinking water.
- More opportunities for training and skills development must be made available to young people in order to assist them in finding jobs.
- The right to social protection must be promoted, and citizens should be made aware of this right. The EU’s support to civil society should include civic education, as well as reinforcing civil society organisations in their engagement with the Government to ensure the provision of universal social protection.
- Civil society organisations should have their capacity built, to effectively implement social protection interventions, as well as monitor interventions championed by government and development partners.
- A sound financial plan for social protection must be developed with EU support in order to ensure that adequate resources are identified and mobilised.
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SOLIDAR together with its members and partners is committed to promote univesal #socialprotection4all. It does so through, among others, the promotion of policy dialogues between EU representatives and CSOs from partner coutries : the social protection days (SPDs).
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