• Support the further development of a financing plan for social protection and the mobilisation of domestic sustainable resources to ensure the success of the National Social Protection Policy adopted in 2011. [...] Protection (R 202) the country is engaged in the set- up of a national floor of social protection for all its In this respect, the forthcoming NIP Mid-Term Review residents with the aim of building a comprehensive could provide the space for these commitments to be and human rights-based national social protection better reflected in the 11th European Development system. [...] According to SOLIDAR and its realise the universal right to wellbeing based on the partners in the field, international cooperation should principles of solidarity, equity, social justice and the also support the Government to adopt a national realisation of rights. [...] However, over 95% of the workforce of Niger is employed in The EU is committed to supporting the capacity of subsistence agriculture and the informal economy and the state to finance public policy through priority is therefore nonunionised.13 area 2 of the NIP, including reforming public financial management (PFM), mobilising domestic revenue, The NIP contains an envelope to support civil society. [...] Public spending on social protection amounted to just 2.91% of GDP in 2010, the bulk of which was spent on health.15 The National Social Protection Policy recognises the weak internal revenue mobilisation capacity of the country and the Government’s low spending on the social sector as a proportion of the 13 US Department of State Human Rights Reports 2014, Niger; https:// freedomhouse.org/report/.
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