Social Protection and Employment Generation : Analysis of Experiences Derived from Co-

responsibility Transfer Programs

Presentation of the main findings of the inter-agency document prepared by OAS – ECLAC – ILO for the Seminar on “Inter-sectoral Public

Policies : Social Protection, Labor and Employment”

Background and Mandates

• V Summit of the Americas

• XVI IACML – Buenos Aires 2009

• II Meeting of Ministers of Social Development – Cali 2010

• Inter-American Networks– RIAL

– RIPSO

Main Challenges and Orientations of the Document

Inter-sectoral policies in the field of social protection and employment

Policy, inter-ministry and operational coordination

Lessons learned from Co-responsibility Transfer Programs (CTPs)

POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, AND SOCIAL PROTECTION INDICATORS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, 1990, 2002 AND 2008 (Percentages)

Latin America 1990 2002 2008

Poverty headcount National total 48.3 44.0 33.0

Indigence headcount National total 22.5 19.4 12.9

Employment rate Both sexes (15 years and more)

57.4 59.0 61.4

Informality rate Both sexes 54.6 53.9 49.8

Employed contributing to social security systems

Both sexes 52.4 49.5 51.5

Social Protection System

SocialSecurity(contributory)

Labor Market

Regulation

Social Assistance(non-contributory)

Social Protection

Formal SectorMinistry of Labor/

Social Security

Informal SectorMinistry of Social

Development

Co-responsibility Transfer Program

Overcoming inter-generational

poverty reproduction

Human capital accumulation

Children

Immediate household poverty relief

Preventive Health Care

Nutrition

School Attendance

Monetary Transfer

Consumption Smoothing

Conditions

CTPs Employment component

Overcoming inter-generational

poverty reproduction

Human capital accumulation

Children

Immediate household poverty relief

Preventive Health Care

Nutrition

School Attendance

Monetary Transfer

Consumption Smoothing

Conditions

Activation Measures

Employment Income Generation

Graduation from CTP

Poverty Reduction

Incentives

Activation Measures used by CTPs

• Employment Supply-Side Instruments– Professional training and education–Remedial education and school retention

• Employment Demand-side Instruments–Direct job generation– Indirect job generation– Support for self-employment

• Labor intermediation services

Institutional Framework of Inter- Sectoral Social Protection and Employment Policies

Comprehensive Social Protection and challenges of political, programmatic, and

territorial coordination

Ministries of Labor

Ministries of Social Development

Social Authority

• Macroeconomic policy

– PAC

• Policy coordination

– Casa Civil

• Programmatic/ operational coordination

– MOL: SINE – SIGAE

– MSD: Bolsa Familia – CadUnico

• Territorial Coordination

– States, municipalities, private sector

Case: Bolsa Familia PlanSeq

Final Reflections

• Inter-sectoral policy and inter-ministry coordination

• Heterogeneity of labor vulnerability

• Women’ s care and labor market insertion

• Monitoring and Evaluation

Thank you