Sindh Social Protection Policy Note
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan shifted the administrative paradigm from centralized to decentralized structures. The added obligations require major policy and institutional reforms in an otherwise weak social protection (SP) se...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/941321557209507700/Sindh-Social-Protection-Policy-Note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31834 |
| Summary: | The 18th Amendment to the Constitution
of Pakistan shifted the administrative paradigm from
centralized to decentralized structures. The added
obligations require major policy and institutional reforms
in an otherwise weak social protection (SP) sector at
provincial levels, generally characterized by limited
planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring
capacities. SP has become a salient feature of social
policy, nationally as well as internationally. The basic
components of a SP framework include safety nets or social
assistance, social care for children and the elderly, social
insurance and labor market interventions for productive
employment generation. SP is conferred as an entitlement in
the Pakistani Constitution, and the Government of Sindh
(GoS) has demonstrated political commitments to this. This
note outlines the key considerations of a policy on SP as
part of the GoS commitment to reduce poverty, inequality,
and vulnerability in the province. Section one gives
introduction. Some of the key development challenges that a
SP policy may need to consider prioritizing is described in
section two. Sections three and four describes critical
design principles of SP policies and programs, respectively.
Section five reviews the current de facto SP programming in
Sindh, while section six delineates a way forward for policy development. |
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