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UNCT should continue to support mainstreaming of social Protection through the UNSDCF JWP and ensure a robust mechanism to monitor progress of implementation and impact. UNCT should support Government in the formulation of appropriate policies and tools necessary for social protection. Capacity building of both policy and programme officers must be strengthened for effective delivery of social protection benefits. More partnerships at the UN, Government, CSOs and private sector levels remain crucial for expanding social protection benefits and services to more marginalised populations reaching the furthest first.

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As for my country, the UNCT would do better to support the policymaking to bring the Government to establish an effective and efficient social protection scheme.
One of the cause of the social protection's weaknesses is the fact that most of people do not have correct information about the well being of contributing or participating to the collect for the social protection.

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Deliberate inclusion of Social Protection in CCA and CF Design

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Deliberate inclusion of Social Protection in CCA and CF Design

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In Lesotho, the UNCT should seize the opportunity to include Social Protection in the upcoming CCA which will in turn inform the Cooperation Framework design in 2024.

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Provide policy support, technical and institutional support in formulation of the Social Protection policies and programmes.

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The UNCT needs to advocate for inclusion of social protection, convene different partners, provide technical expertise.

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Constant and consistent convening of stakeholder dialogues. Share global case studies from countries with similar characteristics and show the future investment in such a system.

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What Guatemala UN Country Team can do to promote social protection as integral to achieving sustainable development, Carmen Aida Gonzalez, RCO/Guatemala.

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What Guatemala UN Country Team can do to promote social protection as integral to achieving sustainable development, Carmen Aida Gonzalez, RCO/Guatemala.

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The UNCT can elaborate a robust CCA and UNSDCF, Guatemala CF 2020-25 has one outcome on the construction of a national social protection system. Based on national development priorities, information from CCA and Ministry of Social Protection Social Registry, UNCT can support the Ministry of Social Development to design strategies and programs to respond to identified needs of indigenous people living in vulnerable conditions

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Advocacy is really important regarding social protection, since it's an agenda that is really sensitive to political changes and political will. The UN role of public explaining the importance and the benefits of social protection is key. Another topics are the technical assistance and capacity building, connecting the country to the best international practices. As a final point, I would also stress out the role that the UN can do on supporting the evaluation of those programmes.

Samantha - RCO Brazil

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The UN can advocate, can provide technical assistance, capacity building, support and ecouragement to the national systems.

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In Honduras, the UNCT can make important contributions in several fronts, including strenghtening beneficiary focalization mechanisms that allow vulnerable and excluded populations to participate in these programs; it can also work towards strenghtening institutional capacities to deliver these services in an efficient and coordinated manner, accross multiple institutions involved and also between central and local level interventions.

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It can continue to advocate to the Government to ensure social protection floors are incorporated  in national development plan. 

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It can continue to advocate to the Government to ensure social protection floors are incorporated  in national development plan. 

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I fully believe that our UN team can do more for social protection and citizenship. We already have a joint program on social protection that helps children and older people to get girth registration. More than 22 000 get their birth certificate for the first time through the program.This is the first step for getting idendity card and health insurance.

At the UN Gabon, equality and inclusion is one of the three major priorities of the new cooperation framework.
Jean Aimé, Gabon

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The UN support consists of the development, in partnership with the Government, of a national social protection strategy that can extend social coverage to all, in particular the informal sector employees and the vulnerable and marginalized people.

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The UN team can put social protection at the center of their planning, setting it as an outcome in their planning, allocating resources, working together and advocating. At the UN Ecuador, social protection is one of the four major outcomes of the new cooperation framework and clear inter-agency actions are established through a strategic plan for contributory and non-contributory social protection. Additionally, we have an interagency social protection group.

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I believe our UNCT in Zambia has a lot of stregths to enhance socual protection.  Delivering as One, the UNCT is working on an INFF to support the country finding fiscal space, and at the same time working on developing a JP on spcial protection.anotger JP on the rights of people with disabilities can aldo support UN interventions abd results in this áarea 

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I believe our UNCT in Zambia has a lot of stregths to enhance socual protection.  Delivering as One, the UNCT is working on an INFF to support the country finding fiscal space, and at the same time working on developing a JP on spcial protection.anotger JP on the rights of people with disabilities can aldo support UN interventions abd results in this áarea 

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The UN should be an advocate on the human rights approach of social protection. Every one stands to have a dignified life no matter their conditions of life or age, or gender

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Analysis of national development goals against national budgetary allocations and providing advise on how to better allocate resources to achieve social protection goals

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As it could not be different, social inclusion is one of the pillars of the UNSDCF. The UNCT could support the strengthening of social protection systems in order to ensure the reduction of inequalities through a set of intersectoral public policies that aim to respond to the various dimensions of poverty and the maintenance of the right to an adequate standard of living for all people, with special attention to groups that suffer multiple discrimination

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UNCT can promote and advocate for reforms, support the revision and adaptation of the legal framework, develop programs and projects and monitor the data on social protection.

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In my country, the Ministry of Planning has recently engaged UNICEF to conduct a review of the Social Protection atmosphere across the country. A Social Protection Policy as well as an integrated Strategy is to be developed for the country after stakeholder engagement across all of civil society. The UN system is being called into action to facilitate this process.

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UNCT could support the government on development of new methodologies and tools to assess social protection situations, provide convincing recommendations to governments, ensure the sustainability of financing, and support the development of innovative implementation strategies and mechanisms.

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The UNCT can engage bilaterally with key government departments to lay out the arguments for establishing social protection schemes.  We currently have one province out of 22 that provides an old-age pension, but this is funded by the provincial government, not the national government.  Learnings from the provincial initiative can be used to to bolster the argument for national government to roll out a national social protection scheme.  We have too many young people falling into intergenerational poverty, and the UNCT will need to begin advocating for basic income security for children - as a start, the conversation needs to be had with government on options such as school feeding programmes.
Cathryn
RCO Papua New Guinea

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Extending Social protecion is one of the outputs of UNSDCF in Madagascar. It is a major challenge that we support by working with the government, the CSO, private sectors and partners.

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- Be the advocacy champion for Social Protection
- Coordinate development partners and resource mobilisation efforts on SP
- Ensure that SP is incorporated into programmes, activities, policies and plans

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Because of the RCO/UNST’s strategic positioning, there is much that can be done to promote social protection as an integral component of achieving sustainable development. We are instrumental in mobilizing resources to support the various programmes, projects being undertaken at the national level and across the Caribbean region, noting the synergies and inter-connectedness of the social policies in place. More specifically, the UNST is coordinating the roll out of a Joint Programme on social protection in several Eastern Caribbean countries and territories which is being facilitated by UNICEF in collaboration with UNESCO, WFP and ILO. This JP, entitled Resilient Caribbean: Engaging & Training Youth, Strengthening Integrated Social Policy Sector Delivery, will seek to a) reduce vulnerabilities of households through the enhancement of social protection mechanisms; b) support access to workers in the informal economy to social security coverage and transition to formal employment and c) empowering youth to enter the labour market through access to entrepreneurship and skills development relevant to a just transition.

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The UNCT can support the government in all the stages of the design of social protection programmes and polices.

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The UNCT in Nigeria, can play a role of advocacy, capacity building, advisor as well as policy influencer towards strong protection policies that will help cushion a large part of the population that is currently not covered in as far as social protection is concerned.

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promoting data and evidence that would result in policy and legislation shift while attracting financing for social protection and development.

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Uganda´s development and social transformation requires a healthy, well-educated, skilled, and innovative labour force, which is essential for driving industrialization and sustained acceleration of growth to harness the demographic dividend. The country also requires comprehensive equity based social protection programmes and systems to support marginalized and vulnerable people, especially those in fragile regions, against social, economic and environmental shocks and disasters. Human well-being involves empowering people through access to quality basic social services including healthcare, education, justice, nutrition, water & sanitation services, among others. Of similar importance are social protection services like social insurance schemes, social care and support services, direct income support, as well as other complementary programmes. All these are prioritized in the Uganda's UNSDCF for 2021-2025.

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One of the goals of the Eritrea CF focuses on transformative impact that aims at strengthening and scaling up social protection systems.

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UNDAF Outcome focused on Social Protection

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UNDAF Outcome focused on Social Protection

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UNDAF Tajikistan comprises of 6 Outcomes which has a focused Result Group aimed at enhancing, promoting and ensuring social protection services/schemes provided to population. It helps to well plan, cost, monitor and report on UN efforts in partnership with the Government in fulfilling jointly made commitments which have clear indicators, targets, budget, reporting as well as accountability mechanism established jointly.

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In my country Social Protection appears to be expanding both vertically and horizontally especially since COVID. However, it does not appear to have a structure that will enable sustainability and ensure fair application. The UNST in my region coudl lend support to design of a policy and framework for the development and operation of a Social Protection System that faciliates a Virtuous Circle. This may be best as a joint programme.

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South Africa, Pinky Phihlela. UNCT in South Africa have built a pillar in the UNSDCF which focuses on social protection. This pillar is supported by a Results Group comprising of members from different UN agencies, government, cso, etc working on social protection issues.

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South Africa, Pinky Phihlela. UNCT in South Africa have built a pillar in the UNSDCF which focuses on social protection. This pillar is supported by a Results Group comprising of members from different UN agencies, government, cso, etc working on social protection issues.

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UNCT supports integrated social protection system but more efforts are needed to have a sustained system with Government contributions (finance from national resources) for some socials security schemes, especially for informal sector, rural population. The large part of the system is also constitutes by cash transfer but if there's no sufficient aid allocation for it, what should the country do? the country need a sustained system. More actions to support the reallocation of public expenditures, to improve the tax revenues policy, to fight against illicit financial flows... but also to support livelihoods opportunities, formal employment, are needed

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Agencies like Unicef , ILO and WHO are supporting the gouvernment to have the technical assistance required for the design of the social protection strategy. Then the UNHCR or IOM are advocating to garantee the inclusion of migrants and refugees to the populations who benefit from the social coverage. In general the UNCT in Tunisia is supporting gouvernement to embed the LNOB approach in the social protection strategy.

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UNCT in Moldova could support the Government in implementing key reforms that are crucial for the sustainable development of the country. Among them are reforms in justice, education, health, employment, etc. The support of UNCT could include but not limited to evaluation of the current situation and identifying the gaps, designing of a new law or amendment, development of a mechanism, capacity building and others.

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In Tunisia, UN is supporting the Government to implement its strategy and works with the Government to identify ways and resources of financing for social protection. Different actions are planned within the UNSDCF to target different beneficiaries : women, children, unemployed people and maigrants/refugies.

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UNCT support to social protection system. Manuchehr Tajikistan

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UNCT support to social protection system. Manuchehr Tajikistan

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Current UNDAF includes separate Result on Social protection, but in general it is mainstreamed across all UNDAF outcomes. UNCT takes active role in promoting social protection floor to ensure LNOB and support to most vulnerable groups by close collaboration and participation in the work of governmental WGs and implementation of policy reforms.

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UN Mongolia have implemented a number of joint UN programmes. One of them is a joint program "Extending Social Protection with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness". This program looks for innovative approaches to deliver social protection schemes to the vulnerable strata of the society. One of the models was to top up the Government's child money program. This has become a good practice and the Government continued to support and provide more financial support to every child during the COVID-19. This child money program has become the much needed income for some families who were severely impacted by the pandemic.

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In my country, the UNCT can contribute to the design, policy making, piloting, implementation and m&E of social protection systems. 

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In my country, the UNCT can contribute to the design, policy making, piloting, implementation and m&E of social protection systems. 

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The second of the three priorities of UNCF Senegal is access to basic social services and social protection. UNCT agencies are supporting Senegal in its economic and social development strategy, a vision strongly translated into the National Social Protection Strategy (SNPS 2017-2035) through the National Family Security Bursary Program (PNBSF) which makes it possible to reduce inequalities in the country while strengthening resilience in Senegal, school canteens to ensure a minimum meal for pupils and their maintenance in school etc ...

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From the Public Information perspective the UN in Kuwait on the role of media in promoting social cohesion in coordination with the United Nations Network for Migration  including the OHCHR,UNESCO,UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and ILO for Kuwaiti media professionals, through highlighting the importance of the Role of Media in times of humanitarian crisis; accurate reporting; guidance on international conventions and recommendations. To be better informed about the importance and their role in promoting social cohesion 2)	Acquire substantive knowledge about international human rights law and its related human rights mechanisms; and their implications in everyday reporting3)	Acquire knowledge about devastating and long-lasting effects of discrimination and marginalization on children of migrant workers and their overall mental health and well-being4)	Be better informed about the United Nations good practises and policies in combating misinformation; 5)	Identify key considerations while writing media pieces about vulnerable populations, humanitarian and persons of concern.6)	Identify key considerations and use adequate terminology while writing media pieces about migration issues including foreign labour, human trafficking, and its human rights implications. 

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From the Public Information perspective the UN in Kuwait on the role of media in promoting social cohesion in coordination with the United Nations Network for Migration  including the OHCHR,UNESCO,UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and ILO for Kuwaiti media professionals, through highlighting the importance of the Role of Media in times of humanitarian crisis; accurate reporting; guidance on international conventions and recommendations. To be better informed about the importance and their role in promoting social cohesion 2)	Acquire substantive knowledge about international human rights law and its related human rights mechanisms; and their implications in everyday reporting3)	Acquire knowledge about devastating and long-lasting effects of discrimination and marginalization on children of migrant workers and their overall mental health and well-being4)	Be better informed about the United Nations good practises and policies in combating misinformation; 5)	Identify key considerations while writing media pieces about vulnerable populations, humanitarian and persons of concern.6)	Identify key considerations and use adequate terminology while writing media pieces about migration issues including foreign labour, human trafficking, and its human rights implications. 

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Role of Media in Countering Misinformation to Promote Social Cohesion

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Through the pilot project that UNICEF, ILO and WFP are trying to build with the support of WB (funded partially through the SDG fund), the UN in Mauritania is aiming at making the case for the necessary development and implementation of sustainable and strong SP system at local level with the view of scaling up this iniative and replicate it to other regions and eventually nationnally. Additionnally, discussions with national entities like Taazour to support their work on SP are critical to mainstream good practices and lessons learnt from other countries in the region and beyond to help implement solid and sustainable policies.

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In Senegal, we have retained in our UNSDCF an outcome on social protection entitled : By 2023, the most vulnerable populations will benefit from improved social protection and protection against violence, harmful and discriminatory practices.

In addition to supporting the development of a new national social protection strategy, UNCT is implementing joint social protection programs.

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In Angola the UNCT is spearheading new inter-agency initiatives, including: 1) ILO & UNICEF are co-responsible for the implementation of SP and PFM project; 2) ILO and UNDP are working together towards the formalization of the informal economy where UNHCR and IOM are also joining the conversation; 3) UNICEF has supported child cash transfer initiatives.

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Nigeria is working towards having a strong national social protection system in place. It is going in the right direction by establishing the national social safety nets coordinating office, national cash transfer office, the national health insurance scheme among others. Currently the National Social Protection policy was reviewed to ensure that it meets the requirements for provision of quality social protection services.   The UNCT can support with the implementation of the policy through provision of technical and financial support to the government and the various stakeholders working in the social protection physical space.

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The UN system supporting the government on implementing the life-cycle based approach by streamlining existing schemes and introducing new and important schemes such as universal child protection.

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For Indonesia the added value in the work of the UN is about integrating the various systems that already exist with different ministries and targeting criteria. This leads to inefficiencies and exclusion or incorrect inclusion.

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UNCT in Turkmenistan providing its technical and other kinds of support along all the stages of social protection systems development and implementation. By identifying challenges and bottlenecks that responsible government agencies faces in the area of social protection, UNCT is focusing on priority topics, instead of involving in whole-economy labour- and resource-intensive processes.

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One key role that the UN in Zimbabwe can play to support social protection in the country is to work with the Government to collectively identify means of sustainable financing for social protection from national resources. This would place the ownership on national authorities, reduce dependence on external funding and guarantee sustainability.

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Timor-Leste's strategic vision for sustainable development puts human capital development at the core. However, in the annual budget allocations, the social sectors are proportionately under-funded compared to the infrastructure sector. UNCT has been continually advocating for increased allocation in the social sectors, in particular social protection. The coverage of social protection programmes is limited and not targeting the most vulnerable. For political reasons, the bulk of the social protection budget goes to the veterans (who are not the most vulnerable). In addition to advocacy, the UNCT is trying to support to strengthen social protection programmes to improve their targeting and coverage.

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In Ecuador, social protection is a key aspect of the UNCT's work and is present in two of the four pillars of the UNSDCF. There exists an inter-agency group solely focused on social protection and externally financced joint projects to expand the social protection network in the country.

That being said, much work remains to expand coverage of social protection, especially given the serious fiscal constraints the government currently has. This will require reallocating existing resources and potentially identifying new funding sources, areas in which the UNCT could potentially support the government.

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Nigeria is still at its infancy in terms of establishing national social protection systems, although various schemes have existed for some time at federal, state, and local government levels, as well as privately funded schemes. The current fiscal space however makes it difficult for Nigeria to implement far reaching and meaningful social protection systems, even while thinking about innovative financing options proposed such as the re-directing of energy subsidies to direct cash transfers. In this context the UNCT can best help by supporting the building of the implementation systems and the policy environment. This is the backbone of social protection systems and are objectives that are feasible. This will mean that as the fiscal space hopefully expands, social protection can be expanded without too much of a delay.

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Social protection is a priority aspect of our new UNSDCF, especially in its first and third strategic priorities. However, much is still needed in terms of advocacy for a national universal social protection system, and the UNCT can have a leading role in this aspect. Social protection from a rights perspective is still not prioritized by key political actors, and this discussion should include sensitive issues such as coverage for refugees and migrants from Venezuela.

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The Government of Botswana is currently reviewing its Social Protection with support of the UNCT. Building from the COVID-19 Recovery Plan, a Botswana National Social Protection Recovery Plan was developed and approved by Parliament. This is complimented by two other recovery plans; for the formal private sector and the informal sector. A consultancy has been engaged through support of the UNCT to develop a comprehensive Social Protection system that is better coordinated. UNCT supports through funding and technical expertise.

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The UNCT in Zambia has a Joint Programme on Social Protection to support and complement national social protection efforts. This Joint Programme is coordinated through a Steering Committee at policy level and a Technical Consultative Forum at technical level. These two platforms support the effective, efficient, and sustainable delivery of UN policy guidance and technical assistance in the implementation of the government priorities for the social protection programme. The UNCT in Zambia should use these two platforms to articulate the linkage of social protection to all the 17 SDGs as well as the importance social protection plays in advance their achievement. In addition, the UNCT through these platforms should enlighten the Government on the fact that social protection is an investment and not charity to beneficiaries.

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Irene- Tanzania                               The UN can play a pivotal role in advising governments in all the phases of social protection: From conducting situational analysis of its population, to designing social protection policies and all the way through implementation and monitoring. An important role of UN is also its convening power to bring stakeholders including financing partners to discuss the need and ope-rationalization of social protection , further the  UN can  to share lessons learnt from other countries and guide countries what can work in their context.  

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Irene- Tanzania                               The UN can play a pivotal role in advising governments in all the phases of social protection: From conducting situational analysis of its population, to designing social protection policies and all the way through implementation and monitoring. An important role of UN is also its convening power to bring stakeholders including financing partners to discuss the need and ope-rationalization of social protection , further the  UN can  to share lessons learnt from other countries and guide countries what can work in their context.  

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RC can ensure that the collective UNCT knowledge, experience and network is used for for adequate and inclusive assessment, design and capacity building for implementation of social protection. UN entities can ensure adequate understanding and implementation of UN convention and build capacity of vulnerable groups to exercise their rights

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What can UN do to promote social protectio

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What can UN do to promote social protectio

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The UN could promote social protection by carrying out analytical work that documents the potential benefits of investing in social protection, advocating for inclusion of social protection interventions in the national development strategies, supporting the preparation of the national social protection policies and including social protection responsive activities in the UNSDCF

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Beyond the Social Protection strategy elaborated, the UN system under UNDAF retained one out seven outcomes on the social protection

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In Chad, UN supported government in the elaboration a social protection strategy and support in the MTR. The challenges was how to finance the activities and monitoring the implementation

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In Mongolia UN just finished prioritizing the outcomes of the UNSDCF and one of the outcomes covers the social protection for all. Through this outcome, the UN will support the country in advancing the social protection system in Mongolia.

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Although a comprehensive social security system with strong and experienced institutions is in place, there is a significant population that the system does not cover because of informality, gender inequality, lack of skill and knowledge, and so on.

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By ensuring that social protection is mainstreamed within the MSDCF that provides strategic guidance for UN support and intervention at the national level.

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Mainstreaming social protection needs and gaps in the CCA and facilitating dialogues amongst stakeholders on the common vision for social protection as well as advocacy to expand social protection coverage

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CCA included the analysis of required social protection in the country which then was aligned with the government national development plan.

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In São Tomé and Príncipe, UNCT is supporting the country in mobilizing funds to support the most vulnerable families, advocating for policies for better social protection mechanism system to ensure social protection to all groups of people.

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In Eritrea, the UNCT has reflected social protection under the pillar of human development and wellbeing to support access to essential services especially for the vulnerable and low-income groups

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In Eritrea, the UNCT has reflected social protection under the pillar of human development and wellbeing to support access to essential services especially for the vulnerable and low-income groups

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Need to establish social protection as a strategic output for which many of the agencies contribute: paho. unicef, ilo, wfp, fao, unwomen, etc.

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UNCT Actions to promote the importance of social protection in achieving sustainable development

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UNCT Actions to promote the importance of social protection in achieving sustainable development

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Greater emphasis on awareness and sensitization of social protection among decision makers (Ministers, Permanent Secretaries)
Greater advocacy for social protection budgets to persons and entities responsible for finance and national budgets
Greater public awareness of social protection among citizens.