Actions taken

Cambodia

Assessment of organizational capacities for delivering social assistance
Pension policy training course for senior policymakers led to a rethinking and freezing of a plan to move to an individual account defined contribution scheme
Situation analysis, training materials and video on opportunities to extend occupational accident insurance for informal construction and domestic workers and tuk-tuk drivers (‘SPIREWORK’)
Mobile video training for national partners

Social workforce capacity development for local government social workers in cooperation with UNICEF, incl. definition of occupational standards and curricula
Piloting (in Amhara region) of cross-sectoral team work among new local (woreda and kebele level) social workers together with health and agriculture/food security staff
Three Ethiopian Master Trainers trained at the ToT of the African Regional SP Leadership Curric-ulum TRANSFORM. National ToT for 40 new TRANSFORM Trainers. Unicef staff training on TRANSFORM, using a blended approach (e-learning and face-to-face)
Video highlighting EU-SPS/Finland capacity development support, including to Ethiopia
Mobile video training for national partners

University curriculum development and Training of Trainers on Disability Inclusion in the training of local social workers and national SP profes-sionals
Disability expert’ inputs into EU-TA work
Piloting of a disability specific ‘Baby Box’ for families with children or parents with disabilities
Mobile video training for national partners

Regional ISPA Training in Malawi on Inter-Agency SP Assessments
Regional African Union Experts’ Meeting on SPIREWORK (SP for Informal and Rural Economy Workers)
Video on opportunities to extend social protection to informal and rural economy workers (‘SPIREWORK’) in Malawi
Three Malawian Master Trainers trained at the ToT of the African Regional SP Leadership Curriculum TRANSFORM. Several national TRANSFORM trainings
Malawi linked to universities in Zambia and Tanzania, working on SP Curriculum Development

Curriculum development and piloting of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) training program for the SP sector
TRANSFORM Curriculum translated into Portuguese. TRANSFORM ToT for Mozambican and other Lusophone African Master Trainers

Support to the creation and work of the Inter-ministerial SP Core Team to consolidate Namibia’s fragmented SP systems
Assessment of Universal SP in Namibia
Inter-sectoral institutional assessment supporting the SP policy development process
Video about opportunities to extend social protection to informal sector workers in Namibia
TRANSFORM training organized for National social protection policy makers and experts

ISPA Public Works Assessment of TASAF, and Webinar on its results, including the nationwide extension of the public works and production of a series of design guidelines for various kinds of public works.
SP Curriculum assessment and development for multi-professional SP learning in a network of Tanzanian universities; New MA and Professional Proficiency Curricula have been completed. Videos about University Curriculum Development here.
Cooperation with FAO, TASAF, ILO, NSSF and Finnish funded PFP on social protection for infor-mal workers. Video produced on tailoring of SP for workers in the forestry sector value chains.
SP Policy review and capacity development with key authorities and ILO, incl. Zanzibar Universal Pension Scheme, with EU-SOCIEUX.
Five Tanzanian Master Trainers trained at the ToT of the African Regional SP Leadership Curriculum TRANSFORM.

Support to national policy assessment and dialogue, using the Inter-Agency Social Protection Policy Options Tool (ISPA-SPPOT) with ILO
Inclusion of Togo in the open source insurance management infor-mation system initiative

Analytical work on options for extending social insurance coverage
Creation of Vietnamese curricula and institutional and financing structures for previously imported SP course
Series of SP trainings for members of the National Assembly, party leaders and senior civil servants

SP Curriculum assessment in Zambian universities
Development of multi-professional MA and BA Curricula
Videos about the SP Curriculum Development project
Design and leveraging of a new project on SP for Informal and Rural Economy Workers (SPIREWORK) with Finland, NAPSA and ILO
Five Zambian Master Trainers trained at the ToT of the African Regional SP Leadership Curriculum TRANSFORM.
Over 200 Zambian SP professionals trained on TRANSFORM at central and local government levels, EU-delegation, Embassy of Finland, CSOs and the media
Mobile video training for national partners

Support to an African Union Experts’ Groups working on AU Protocol on the Right to SP, African Social Agenda 2063 and SPIREWORK
Support to ECASSA (East and Central Africa So-cial Security Association), including their SP Data dashboard, and SASPEN (Southern African SP Expert Network)
Creation and systematization of an African Re-gional SP Leadership Curriculum TRANSFORM, at the request of AU, with ILO, Unicef, UNDP and African SP-experts
Development of an E-learning version of the TRANSFORM Curriculum, with Social Protection

The THL EU-SPS Team has played an active role in sev-eral UN-level processes, including:

CSocD = UN Commission for Social Develop-ment, where THL facilitated expert inputs by Finnish, Zambian and Kyrgyz SP-experts, a pre-paratory webinar on Inequality Reduction through SP, with UN-Women and UN-DESA, and a side event with UN-OSAA (Office of the Special Adviser for Africa)
CSW = UN Commission on the Status of Wom-en, where THL facilitated the participation of a Tanzanian expert in the CSW Expert meeting, facilitated a Pre-CSW webinar, and co-sponsored 4 side events
Global USP-2030 Conference on Universal Social Protection
Global USG Conference on Universal Child Grants
EU/AU SP Experts meeting
AU Conference of Ministers of Social and Labour Affairs, and a parallel African ‘Post-CSW’ event together with UN-Women Africa

Updated: Thu Dec 07 13:09:14 EET 2023