Department of Economic and Social Affairs Expert Group Meeting on Policies to Advance Social Integra

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Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Expert Group Meeting on Policies to Advance
Social Integration. Examples from ASEAN

• Fiona Howell 2-4 November 2009

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ASEAN Charter One Vision, One Identity, One
Community

• To promote a people-oriented ASEAN in which all
  sectors of society are encouraged to participate
  in, and benefit from, the process of ASEAN
  integration and community building

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ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint

• Focusing on people-centered and socially
  responsible with a view to achieving enduring
  solidarity and unity of nations
• Forging a common identity and building a caring
  and sharing society
• Regional Framework recognising the
  interdependence of nations and their
  vulnerabilities to economic, social and natural
  risks (e.g. natural disasters, migration and
  human trafficking, youth, drugs,

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Rural Population Vulnerabilities
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Defining social protection ..the set of all
initiatives, both formal and informal, that
provide

• social insurance to protect people against the
  risks and consequences of livelihood shocks and
• social equity to protect people against social
  risks such as discrimination or abuse

• social assistance to extremely poor individuals
  and households
• social services to groups who need special care
  or would otherwise be denied access to basic
  services

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Social Protection Programs in ASEAN
Cash for Work
Nutrition Supplement for mothers and
babies
Skills Training
Food Distribution
Funeral costs
Public Works
Social insurance
School Feeding Programmes
Social Pensions for Elderly and Disabled
Micro-Finance
Village development funds
CCTs
Food for Work
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Measuring and Monitoring Social Exclusion
indicators to be developed?

• resources (materials, access to services, social
  resources)
• participation (economic, social, culture,
  education and skills, political and civic)
• quality of life (health and well-being, living
  environment, crime, risks/harm and
  criminalization).

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Mapping poverty indicators poverty incidence
and ethnicity in Lao PDR
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Public Works in Cambodia post harvest
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Internally Displaced People

• Categories of IDPs
• Conflicts
• Resettlements
• Large scale development projects (hydropower,
  mining, plantations)
• Access to services for remote villages

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Social Protection Support after Natural
DisastersFrom Emergency Relief through to
Recovery
EVENT Natural Disaster damages houses in a
community
Emergency shelter, food and water (medicines)
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Social Protection Transfer Mechanisms
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• Identifying Ultra Poor, Poor and Non Poor
• Some programs target poor (Livelihoods,
  Microcredit), and even non-poor (disasters
  assistance) either for individual households
  or for villages / communities

Non-Poor
Income/Assets
Poverty Line
Poor
Extreme/ Basic Needs/ Food Poverty Line (Cut-Off)
Ultra Poor
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Comprehensive Social Protection Programs
Indonesian Example

• Components
• Social Assistance and Protection through
  subsidies and transfers
• Community Empowerment and Participation through
  block grants
• Livelihood support through microcredit and
  extension services
• Households and small business development through
  micro-finance and micro credit

• Beneficiaries
• households who are poorest, poor and near poor.
• increase income and capacity of poor communities
• support rural families through micro-credit and
  technical knowledge transfers
• support households and small groups operating
  micro and small businesses.

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On-going need for complementary investment in
supply side Services

• Access to education and health care services (not
  just schools and clinics)
• transport needs for remote rural communities
  (people to services)
• mobile clinics and schools (services to people)
• Investments also needed in quality of services
  provided
• Human resources
• Materials/conditions
• Outcomes