Reform #26: Overhaul Social Protection System
Transform fragmented social protection into comprehensive life-cycle security covering health, education, employment, and caregiving with enhanced inclusion and sustainability.
Social protection is fragmented, underfunded, and inadequate. Children, working-age people, and informal workers lack protection, while benefits are too small and system is unresponsive to crises.
- 1Universalize child grants and extend coverage to informal workers
- 2Raise benefit levels and rebalance spending from pensions to children and working-age groups
- 3Create shock-responsive systems that adapt quickly to disasters and economic crises
- 4Strengthen legal frameworks guaranteeing universal social protection programmes
- 5Ensure sustainable financing through balanced contributory and non-contributory schemes
Brazil's Bolsa Família demonstrates large-scale child transfers with strong registry systems
Ethiopia's PSNP provides multi-year transfers with shock-responsive design for disasters
Indonesia extended health insurance to informal workers through subsidies
South Africa's Child Support Grant shows predictable transfers reduce poverty significantly
Operationalize Integrated National Social Protection Framework immediately
Upgrade to unified beneficiary registry linked with national ID system
Phase in expansion of child grants and contributory options for informal workers
Create inter-agency Social Protection Council for coordination
50% population coverage by 2027, moving towards 60% by 2030
Universalize Child Grant nationwide reaching all children under five
2,500,000 active contributors to Social Security Fund by 2028/29
40% of social protection budget benefits children, women, and working-age people
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