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Lesotho Launched National Social Protection Strategy

by Ippei Tsuruga Views: 1352
photo credit: Cjmadson
photo credit: Cjmadson

On 4 February 2015, Lesotho launched the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS). The strategy includes several social protection instruments and operation mechanisms such as Old Age pension, Child Grant programme, National Information System for Social Assistance, and so on.

The total cost of core social protection programmes is estimated between 3.92% and 7.8% of GDP.

The set of core SPIs would potentially reduce poverty headcount rate by 15% to 51.3%.

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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