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Integrated Social Protection

Leaving No One Behind

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Why Integrated policy for SDG acceleration

The investment strategy is based on driving transformation, understood as delivering solutions that accelerate the SDG progress through unlocking systemic policy shift. The focus is on identification and activation of “leverage points” - those policy and/or institutional changes that produce a catalytic “chain-reaction” across sectors and stakeholder groups. The joint programmes aim to spearhead systemic change that yield social impact across the whole spectrum of the SDGs with the spotlight on social groups left behind.

The impact of joint programmes contributes to progress on multiple SDGs, producing catalytic results at scale within reduced timeframes. Given the interdependence of the SDGs, joint programmes facilitate change by working across sectors and silos through an integrated, multidimensional approach that addresses vulnerabilities across the whole life cycle and among priority target groups.

Portfolio Overview

SOCIAL PROTECTION TO LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND

Fund's Investment

Integrated Social Protection

$ 70m

Overall Funding

Integrated Social Protection

$ 102m

Countries

Integrated Social Protection

39

As the strategic instrument for galvanizing SDG acceleration, the Joint SDG Fund invested USD 70 million, and mobilized USD 32 million in co-funding, into a portfolio of 39 countries on integrated policy solutions for social protection to Leave No One Behind (LNOB). The Call for Concept notes was launched in March 2019 and it led to 114 country applications. 35 proposals of the highest quality were developed into full-fledged joint programmes and launched in 2020.

The portfolio will deliver transformative results at scale by January 2022. It will do this by enabling innovation, local leadership and ownership, and sustained efforts towards transformative results. The urgency of the Decade of Action is echoed in the velocity with which the portfolio will achieve its results - results that typically require 5 years or more. The joint programmes' theories of change are predicated on the assumption that actions taken at the individual, household and community levels will lead to movements out of poverty by creating a multiplier effect across different SDGs.

The systemic impact of the portfolio manifests in social services, childcare, employment, social cohesion, health care, education and pension systems. The investment prioritizes the most vulnerable and all joint programmes put gender equality and women’s empowerment at the forefront of policy innovation.

Vulnerable Groups

Number of countries with JPs focusing on each group

All joint programmes mainstream gender, as reflected in the Gender marker.

Countries

Regional Composition in the Portfolio

Country	Joint Programme Title
Albania	Improving Municipal Social Protection Service Delivery
Argentina	Early Childhood and Sustainable Development: Towards a Comprehensive Care System
Bangladesh	Enhancing Social Protection for Female Tea Garden Workers and their Families in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh
Brazil	Building Better Lives through Integrated Early Childhood Interventions: Investing in the Happy Child Programme to Accelerate the Achievement of SDGs in Brazil
Cambodia	Social Protection Floors in Cambodia
Chile	Nodo Platform: Improving Social Protection and Inclusion of the Elderly through ICT.
Congo Brazzaville	Improving the Quality of Life of Indigenous Peoples in the Department of Lékoumou through Improved Access to Social Protection Programmes in the Republic of Congo
Costa Rica	Strengthening of the National Social Protection Strategy Puente al Desarrollo to Break the Cycle of Poverty at the Local Level with a Gender and Environmental Perspective
Ecuador	Expanding the Social Protection System for Young Men and Women in the Informal Economy
Gabon	Citizenship and Social Protection in Gabon
Georgia	Transforming Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities in Georgia
Indonesia	Leaving No One Behind: Adaptive Social Protection for All in Indonesia
Kenya	A progressive pathway towards a Universal Social Protection System in Kenya to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs
Lao PDR	Leaving No One Behind: Establishing the Basis for Social Protection Floors in Lao PDR
Lebanon	Transforming National Dialogue for the Development of an Inclusive National SP System for Lebanon
Madagascar	Development of an Integrated Social Protection System for Madagascar, Sensitive to the Needs of People Living with Disabilities
Malawi	Social Protection for the SDGs in Malawi: Accelerating Inclusive Progress Towards the SDGs
Mauritania	Developing an Integrated Social Protection Model in the Region of Guidimakha, Mauritania
MCO Barbados	Universal Adaptive Social Protection to Enhance Resilience and Acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Eastern Caribbean
MCO Samoa	Strengthening Resilience of Pacific Island States Through Universal Social Protection
Mexico	Closing Gaps: Making Social Protection Work for Women in Mexico
Mongolia	Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness
Montenegro	Activate! Integrated Social Protection and Employment to Accelerate Progress for Young People in Montenegro
Nigeria	Institutionalizing Social Protection for Accelerated SDG Implementation in Nigeria
Palestine	Towards a Universal and Holistic Social Protection Floor for Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons in the State of Palestine
Philippines	Ensuring Inclusive and Risk-Informed Shock-Responsive Social Protection Resulting in More Resilient Communities in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)
Rwanda	Accelerating Integrated Policy Interventions to Promote Social Protection in Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe	Reaching the Furthest Behind First: A Catalytic Approach to Supporting the Social Protection in Sao Tome & Principe
Somalia	Toward a Somali Led Transition to National Social Protection
South Africa	An Integrated and Universal Social Protection Linked to Developmental Social Welfare Services in South Africa
Tanzania	Strengthening the Social Protection System in Tanzania
Thailand	Accelerating Progress Towards an Integrated and Modernized Social Protection System for all in Thailand
Turkmenistan	Improving the System of Social Protection through the Introduction of Inclusive Quality Community-Based Social Services
Uzbekistan	The UN Joint Programme on Strengthening Social Protection in Uzbekistan
Vietnam	Accelerating Vietnam’s Transition Toward Inclusive and Integrated Social Protection

COVID-19

ADAPTING AND RESPONDING TO COVID-19

COVID-19 increased the salience of social protection for the most vulnerable. For this reason, the Fund to provided an opportunity for re-purposing 20% of programme budgets to adapt and respond to the pandemic. The priority was to support the most vulnerable, build back better, and contribute to SDG acceleration by:

Designing and institutionalizing comprehensive social protection systems that mainstream human rights to address inequalities, vulnerabilities, and systemic poverty;
Making social protection systems more adaptive and resilient in preparation for future shocks due to pandemics, natural disasters or climate change;
Facilitating innovation that “break down the silos” and produce coherent, just and sustainable policy outcomes.

To Leave No One Behind we have to fast track SDG gains while mainstreaming issues related to human rights, gender, youth, the environment, and people living with disabilities. The Fund’s ‘whole-of-society’ approaches, and its agility and responsiveness, has assumed even greater relevance since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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