Social Protection in EU Development cooperation:
Social Protection and Aid Modalities: issues
EC Social Protection Training Course
Asia and Pacific Region
Bangkok 12-15 June 2011
Presentation by EuropeAid Directorate General for Development and Cooperation,
Directorate for Human and Society Development
EC Spend on Social Protection
Sector Group
Human Development and Social
Inclusion
Human Development and Social
Inclusion Group
Social Protection
Employment
Education
Other Sectors
Total
Pct
2011
Pct
Total
Committed Amount (EUR)
117.028.618,94
9,76%
455.600.000,00
36,56%
572.628.618,94
26.600.000,00
2,22%
58.500.000,00
4,69%
85.100.000,00
521.260.386,95
43,49%
516.002.109,36
41,41%
1.037.262.496,31
TVET
14.100.000,00
1,18%
32.000.000,00
2,57%
46.100.000,00
Health
519.675.565,68
43,35%
183.950.652,95
14,76%
703.626.218,63
1198664572
19,69%
1246052762
18,12%
2444717334
4.889.666.233,14
100,00%
5.630.122.263,20
100,00%
10.519.788.496,34
4889666233
80,31%
5630122263
81,88%
10519788496
6.088.330.804,71
100,00%
6.876.175.025,51
100,00%
12.964.505.830,22
Human Development and Social
Inclusion
Other Sectors
2010
Other Sectors
EC Spend on Social Protection
100%
90%
80%
Other Sectors
70%
60%
Health
50%
TVET
40%
Education
30%
Employment
20%
Social Protection
10%
0%
2010
2011
DAC Codes
• 16010 - Social/ welfare services
• 16050 - Multisector aid for basic social services
• 16020 - Employment policy and administrative
management
Does not include actions under food security
THE FUTURE APPROACH TO EU BUDGET SUPPORT TO
THIRD COUNTRIES
•
Budget support involves policy dialogue, financial transfers to the national treasury
account of the partner country, performance assessment and capacity-building,
based on partnership and mutual accountability.
•
•
The EU should continue to apply a dynamic approach to eligibility criteria, focusing on
progress in the implementation of credible and relevant reform strategies.
•
…general budget support should be provided where there is trust and confidence that
aid will be spent pursuing the values and objectives to which the EU subscribes, and
on which partner countries commit to move towards meeting international standards.
•
The Commission intends to make more use of sector budget support to address
sector constraints, promote reforms and improve service delivery to populations. In
order to better reflect these fundamental changes, EU sector budget support should
be referred to in future as "Sector Reform Contracts".
Budget support eligibility criteria
• Stable macro-economic framework
• National/sector policies and reforms. …sustainable
growth and poverty reduction …a sound social fabric
requires a high degree of justice and fairness in tax
collection and expenditure allocation (pro-poor, gender, and
children issues), effective social protection and progress
in improving employment and quality of jobs.
• Public financial management
The Communication
•
All aid modalities are relevant for development support for social
protection, depending on the context and the objective of the support….
•
Social protection may also be supported through thematic programmes,
which should complement geographical programmes.
•
Sector approaches can be a particularly suitable modality for supporting
social protection, because of their use of partner country systems and
processes and basis on policy dialogue.
•
Budget support, accompanied by policy dialogue, can help incentivise the
development of social protection systems which are fully integrated into
national budget and planning processes in a framework of government
accountability to parliament and people.
•
Programming Instructions for 2014-2020
• The Agenda for Change Communication proposes
that at least 20% of EU aid should support social
inclusion and human development.
• The achievement of this global target should be
monitored during programming and
implementation and should be borne in mind
when programming at country level.
Making Technical Cooperation More Effective
Box 23: An extended logical chain from sustainable impact to partner
and TC inputs
To achieve sustainable results a partner-centred logical chain with six steps is
needed:
1. Impact (e.g. the wider, feasible societal effects that are desired)
2. Outcomes (e.g. satisfying needs and demands of citizens/customers)
3. Outputs (e.g. better products/services delivered by the organisation)
4. Capacity - resulting from CD processes (e.g. staff using new skills and procedures)
5. CD processes/activities (e.g. training and practising, development of procedures, etc.)
6. Inputs (e.g. staff, TA, equipment, operational inputs/budget, management support)
Making Technical Cooperation More Effective
Box 15: Three country scenarios on a continuum
Countries cannot be neatly classified according to how well TC support is likely to
function, but three scenarios on a continuum can be distinguished:
Countries performing well: TC is likely to play a purely advisory and facilitative role,
where partners selectively use, adapt and apply the expert's advice supplied.
Countries in fragile situations: Immediate service delivery objectives may
overshadow sustainability and CD objectives when capacity is less developed, or where
there are strong political and social constraints to reform and capacity development. This
may justify TC to fill gaps or support implementation.
Countries in-between: Most developing countries, sectors and organisations are
somewhere on the continuum between the two extremes. Only a specific assessment of
drivers and constraints can determine if and how TC inputs can support sustainable
capacity development or reform.