The Recommendation 202 on social protection floors (SPF), promoted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and adopted in 2012, is intended to ensure essential health care and basic income security worldwide for children, people of working age who are unable to earn a sufficient income and the elderly. The SPF requires country members to develop a comprehensive social protection system including social security guarantees for the whole life cycle of citizens. However, social protection is very new to many grassroots organizations and proves to be complex in many levels. The discourse on social protection is dominated by top policy makers and the space for intervention by the grassroots workers is important to be identified. Unless the grassroots workers’ voices are included in the narrative of social protection, they will remain in the fringes and will not be active participants in tapping social protection to improve their lives and that of society.
Initiated by the AROSP Southeast Asia to support the grassroots organizations better understanding on SP and how it is financed by the Government, as well as the democratic space for workers intervention in SPF fiscal space, the research was conducted in the five countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam during July 2019 – Feb 2020 and finalized during Mar-August 2020. The research based on desk reviews and in-depth interviews of grassroot organizations of informal workers was completed with big contributions from key researchers including Women’s Network for Unity (WNU) from Cambodia, Saw Jonathan from Myanmar, Rizal Assalam from Indonesia, Rochelle Porras from Philippines, and Nguyen Thi Lan Huong from Vietnam.
Link to the FSPF South East Asia (in English):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M5oR4yuqxfOA7AH2Ne_Eyamp4rxQ0K7Q/view?u...
specific country research reports:
Link to the FSPF Cambodia (in English): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BsaGIVC82u6cDZSJNGybvML9QqPD4E1d/view?u...
Link to the FSPF Indonesia (in English): https://drive.google.com/file/d/185BVGhRkcUAkT1pKZpN3j_XIlqIXbKWX/view?u...
Link to the FSPF Indonesia (in local language): https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MKWTOQLbKH3s6W0ZU5k3T_QbHeqm3Rj/view?u...
Link to the FSPF - Myanmar (in English):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMDq0OLOV7Ht2j5J45pWKEOk0uxHOsnP/view?u...
Link to the FSPF-Philippines (in English):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NlqMkW1Dz_w1-ZrAvyALs3nWX1NR4Q4o/view?u...
Link to the FSPF - Vietnam (in English):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HR4cPYg6qXdQjsMss7LL8q59S2FMLTrZ/view?u...