Social Sector

Over the past two decades, policy-makers have recognised social protection as a core strategy for tackling poverty and vulnerability while strengthening inclusive social development and equitable economic growth. Around the world, increasing numbers of countries have formulated national social protection strategies, which integrate life-cycle programs into comprehensive systems. This approach draws linkages within the social protection sector and builds bridges to other policy areas—both social and economic—and reinforces comprehensive impacts by building inter-sectoral synergies.

A social protection system capable of generating synergies requires a policy and legislative strategy, including the budget framework, together with the set of specific programs and their corresponding implementation systems. A comprehensive strategy weaves the instruments together into a more comprehensive system of policies and programmes that not only tackle poverty and vulnerability but also strengthen inclusive social development and equitable economic growth.