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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TRIPARTITE SEMINAR ON STRENGTHENING SOCIAL PROTECTION
IN ASEAN
17-18 NOVEMBER 2014
BANGKOK, THAILAND
Preamble
The tripartite seminar on strengthening social protection in ASEAN was held on the 17 – 18
November 2014, Bangkok, Thailand. The representatives of the Senior Official Meeting on Social
Welfare and Development (SOMSWD), Senior Official Meeting on Labour (SLOM), employers’ and
workers’ organizations of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam, together with representatives of the ASEAN
Secretariat,
ASEAN Confederation of Employers, ASEAN Trade Unions Council, ASEAN Social Security
Association, civil society organizations and United Nations agencies, namely the International
Labour Organization (ILO), World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF participated in the
Seminar.
Recalling the collective commitment of the ASEAN Member States to build an ASEAN Community
comprising of the ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community and the ASEAN
Political and Security Community by 2015,
Recalling the commitment of the ASEAN Member States to give effect to the ILO
Recommendation on Social Protection Floors adopted in 2012 (No.202),
Guided by the principles embedded in the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection
adopted at the 23rd ASEAN Summit, 2013, Brunei Darussalam and the ILO Social Protection Floors
Recommendations, 2012 (No.202),
We, participants, urge the forthcoming ASEAN inter-sectoral consultation, 8-9 December 2014,
Siem Reap, Cambodia, to consider and take into account the following recommendations in the
development of the ASEAN Plan of Action for the implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on
Strengthening Social Protection:
A. Extending social protection coverage
Area of Action 1. Support national policies, strategies and mechanisms to strengthen the
implementation of social protection programme, as well as effective targeting systems to ensure
social protection services would go to those most in need;
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Develop or enhance national social protection policies and strategies in line with the ASEAN
Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection and ILO Social Protection Floors
Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), based on evidence-based research and empirical data,
to be accessible and applicable to all beneficiaries;
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Review national Early-Child Development policies and programmes focusing on the first
1,000 days of life in the ten ASEAN Member States and make recommendations for
improving such policies and programmes;
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Establish a policy or scheme for young graduates to undertake internships or
apprenticeships in government agencies and private companies aimed at increasing their
interest in some jobs available in the labour market;
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Develop specific programmes that will link social protection with labour market inclusion
i.e. vocational training for the vulnerable groups including occupational-based rehabilitation
of persons with disabilities and skills development of older persons, supporting job creation
with the provision of loans, credits and public work programmes;
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Conduct legal reviews and assessments of migrant workers’ coverage under existing social
protection systems; based on this review, encourage reciprocity for protection of migrant
workers and establish coordination standards;
6.
Organize tripartite workshops on strategies for extending social protection coverage and
access to basic services by migrant workers and their families in ASEAN;
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Organize capacity building, training, and workshops for the stakeholders on issues related
to the extension of social protection at national and regional levels.
Area of Action 2. Advocate strategies that promote the coverage, availability, comprehensiveness,
quality, equitability, affordability and sustainability of various social protection services, including
the expansion of social insurance to the informal sector; strengthening social assistance
programmes for persons with disabilities, elderly, children and other vulnerable groups; greater
access to social protection programmes and services, including vocational trainings as part of
active labour market interventions and human resource development;
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Include in the ASEAN Post-2015 vision the extension of social protection coverage;
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Design and implement awareness raising and advocacy programmes for increasing social
protection coverage; including through the involvement of workers’ organizations and
employers’ organizations, and exploring possible partnership with the civil society to better
reach informal and rural workers;
10.
Provide information to people about their social protection rights and existing schemes
through mass media, community-based organizations, and cooperatives;
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Develop, expand or strengthen the social insurance for the informal sector, including old-
age pension, when needed, after due research and studies on the sustainability and
affordability of the schemes in consultation with social partners.
Action 7. Collectively accelerate the progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in all
ASEAN Member States by strengthening capacity to assess and manage health systems to support
UHC through sharing of experiences, information and experts;
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Advocate for the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and establish specific
targets for and plan with adequate resources the progressive extension of universal social
health protection coverage (by 2015);
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Raise awareness among beneficiaries of social health protection schemes on their rights and
entitlements (by 2015);
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Develop capacities for managing health systems at all levels (from policy to planning and
delivery of health care services and social protection benefits) (by 2020);
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In view of high cost of medical care and treatment, levy be imposed on global medical
companies.
B. Facilitating policy-oriented research, evidence-based assessment and monitoring
framework
Area of Action 3. Promote results-based and evidence-based national assessments and
benchmarking of social protection delivery services in ASEAN Member States that would
contribute to the progressive implementation, effective monitoring and evaluation, as well as
optimum impact of social protection;
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Conduct evidence-based national assessments on social protection for the remaining ASEAN
Member States using social dialogue between government, employers and workers within
a specified time frame, in order to establish the baseline information on the current needs
of the population, identify missing laws and policies, demand-side and supply-side issues,
estimate the cost, assess the fiscal space, and determine possible allocations of budget
resources to social protection;
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Annually update information of the existing evidence-based national assessments on social
protection that have already been conducted by the UN agencies and government, in
consultation with social partners, for the seven Member States, and encourage the three
remaining Member States to conduct assessment based-national dialogue on social
protection;
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From the national assessments, develop and biennially update an ASEAN report on social
protection that will be used as common and synchronized baseline information to measure
progress in extending social protection.
Area of Action 4. Explore and develop assessment tools and regional statistical indicators where
appropriate to measure the impact of social protection to the holistic development of vulnerable
groups for future planning towards available accurate baseline data collection;
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Define, through the national inter-ministerial coordination mechanisms and with the social
partners, national tailor-made monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework, that will
include specific targets and indicators (e.g. coverage and target group, level of benefits,
qualifying conditions, and cost estimate) for measuring the effective implementation of
social protection policies and programmes;
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Build, through the national inter-ministerial coordination mechanisms and with the social
partners, a common assessment and monitoring framework, with targets and a timeframe,
to regularly measure the progress in extending social protection;
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Select core regional targets and statistical indicators which are common across all Member
States to measure progress on social protection;
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Compile and update biennially regional statistical database on social protection, prepare
and disseminate monitoring and evaluation reports;
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Conduct impact studies of social protection on, but not limited to, poverty, productivity,
employment and economic growth;
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ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children
(ACWC) to monitor the outcomes of the child’s development and family support
programmes across the ASEAN Member States.
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C. Ensuring good governance, effective coordination and delivery, efficient use of resources,
and social dialogue mechanisms at national and regional levels
Area of Action 5. Allocate adequate financial resources for social protection in line with national
targets and subject to the capacity of each Government;
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Conduct analysis of the State’s financial capacity and fiscal space in each of the ASEAN
Member States to assess affordability of social protection floors and propose
recommendations for extending social protection;
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Estimate the needed budget by each agency for implementing and sustainability the social
protection programmes through for instance a Social Protection Expenditure Review (SPER).
Area of Action 6. Strengthen the capacity of government officials, communities, service providers,
and other stakeholders for better responsiveness, coordination and effectiveness of social
protection and delivery services at regional, national and local levels;
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Ensure availability of social protection-related services (i.e. health, education, emp
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