This note aims to outline a long-term vision for the social protection (SP) system in Vietnam. It brings together disparate lines of SP policy and operational system engagements across the three pillars of the social protection system: social insurance, social assistance and social care, and active labor market programs. It is motivated by the need for a SP vision that goes beyond incremental reforms of the individual pillars and moves towards a more coherent, relevant, effective and efficient SP system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts (and the parts are also reformed). It should be a system which is more attuned to the needs of a middle and upper middle-income country that is navigating rapid structural reform, accelerating demographic transition, and facing a transition from a focus on chronic absolute poverty to one of relative poverty where social exclusion and inequality are of increasing concern. As Vietnam changes, so too its SP systems will need to evolve and adapt to remain effective and relevant. This system should also be one which captures the transformative opportunities offered by new technologies.
Authors
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- A Vision for the 2030 Social Protection System in Vietnam
- Document Date
- 2019-06-01
- Published in
- United States of America
- Total Volume(s)
- 1
- Unit Owning
- Social Protection & Labor EAP (HEASP)
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1