Kellokoski, Finland

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Moving Forward on Social and Employment Policies
for Devt

• Strategic choices and the potential for
  harmonisation and coordination among likeminded
  partners ?

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Disclaimer

• BRAINSTORMING, not official policies of
• MFA-Finland

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Comprehensive Social Policies as per Copenhagen
Social Summit-95

• FULL SOCIAL
• PRO- INTEGRATION /
• DUCTIVE Equity ( InclProt)
• EMPLOY- ( Cohes.)
• MENT
• POVERTY
• REDUCTION

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Arusha Declaration New Frontiers of SocPol -1

• Transformation of subjects and beneficiaries into
  citizens
• ? universal rights responsibilities
• ? Middle-class by-in Build alliances between
  the poor and the not-so-poor
• Role of State effective accountable
• ? Recognizing power relations institutions
• Capacity of states ? revenue mobilization

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Arusha Declaration New Frontiers of SocPol -2

• Social dimension/Equity in infra, utilities,
  social services educ/health/SP
• Market access for the poor
• Fiscal policies
• Migration (internal/external)
• Citizens organizations/social partners
• Understanding history, culture, etc.
• Social Policy at all levels local, national,
  global
• Multi-disciplinarity

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Comprehensive Social Policies ?

• 1) Employment, (incl. entrepreneurship
  employability)
• 2) Education
• 3) Health ( the basic social services)
• 4) Social Protection
• 5) Disadvantaged groups youth, old, PWD, etc.
• 6) Equity-orientation, social inclusion,
  dialogue, SRM, accountability in all policies
  and all governance, including taxation.
• 7) PSIA of all policies and governance, incl
  taxation
• 8) Multi-disciplinarity

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Key challenge Comprehensive conceptual frame
focused, prioritized action

• 1) Policy Note for CSocD
• ? Governments UN-Resolution
• 2) Prioritized action plan for us as socpol
  professionals partners

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UN Summit-05 ECOSOC-06 CSocD-07 OECD-POVNET
WB EU AU ? Decent Work for All

• EMPLOY- SOCIAL MENT PROTECTION /
• Equity INCLUSION
• Pro-Poor
• People-centred
• POVERTY
• REDUCTION

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UN SG GA 2006Decent Work into MDGs ?

• EMPLOY- MDG-1c ? SOCIAL
• MENT PROTECTION /
• Balance? INCLUSION
• POVERTY
• REDUCTION

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Challenge in CSocD Avoid turf-battles
realize the potential synergies
Min. of Social Affairs
Min.of Labour
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We are all committed to Rio-1992? Sustainable
devt balanced devt
SOCIAL
ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENT
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DECENT WORK FOR ALL Good, coherence-enhancing
concept, bridging the ECON/SOC divide

• SOCIAL
• rights
• protection
• dialogue
• gender equality

Employment generation entre- preneurship
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UN/ILO/EU Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCP)
SOCIAL DIALOGUE Building social concensus on
major policy lines e.g. through tripartite
negotiations.
EMPLOY-MENT Enabling environment,
Entrepreneurship, Employability, Skills,
Productivity, Competivity
SOCIAL PRO-TECTION Extending social security and
protection to all, incl. those in the informal
sector
RIGHTS Fundamental Principles and Rights at
Work e.g. ILO-Conventions
Gender Equality cross-cutting all ? DWCP to be
part of national PRSs
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In reality, in country level work, the economic
perspective (growth efficiency) dominates. Why?
SOCIAL
ECONOMIC
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Part of the reason is the imbalance between the
WB( IMF) vs. UN at country level
UN
WB ( IMF)
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In principle, both WB UN should promote a
balanced sustainable devt agenda
onRIGHTS/SOCIAL JUSTICE
UN WB SOCIAL
WB UN ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENT
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Equally, at the national level there should be a
balance between the ECONOMIC and SOCIAL
ministries civil society representatives
Min.of Social Labour, unions, consumers
Min. of Finance, Central Bank, Business Empl.
associations
Min.of Env / Agric. / Natural resources
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But Often the ECON perspective gets a priority
in national policy making
Min.of Social Labour, unions, consumers
Min. of Finance, Central Bank, Business Empl.
associations
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Within WB the ECON dominates over the SOC The WB
has 10.000 economists only few hundred
non-economists
WB non- economists
WB economists
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And Among the WB-economists one school of
thinking dominates over alternatives
Labour economists industrial policy, etc.
Orthodox neo-liberal macro economists
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A key additional factor Bilaterals strongly
aligning to the WB-dominated devt agenda
UN grants outside the BS-frame
WB-loans Bilaterals grants PRSP Budget
support
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An additional factor Fragmented UN
UNDP
Unicef
Habitat
Unifem
ILO
WFP
IMF World Bank Bilaterals ? economic policy
WHO
UN-Aids
UN Fragmented social policy
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Fragmented UN leads to fragmented national social
policies
UNDP PMO
Unicef Min.of Children Women
Habitat Min.of Housing
Unifem Womens Office
ILO Min.of Labour
WFP Min.of Agric.
WB Min.of Finance IMF Central Bank
WHO Min.of Health
UN-Aids National Aids Council
UN Fragmented social policy
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Efforts to improve the ECON/SOC balance
UN-Reform (at global and national levels)
One UN WB bilaterals
WB IMF bilaterals
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Efforts to improve the ECON/SOC balance (e.g.
Nordic TF-ESSD in WB)
UNDP
Unicef
Habitat
Unifem
ILO
WFP
IMF World Bank - economic policy
WB/SD
WB/ SDSP
UN-Aids
WHO
Networked UN WB into social policy
WB/SP
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Comprehensive Social Policies ?

• 1) Employment, (incl. entrepreneurship
  employability)
• 2) Education
• 3) Health ( the basic social services)
• 4) Social Protection
• 5) Disadvantaged groups youth, old, PWD, etc.
• 6) Equity-orientation, social inclusion,
  dialogue, SRM, accountability in all policies
  and all governance, including taxation.
• 7) PSIA of all policies and governance, incl
  taxation
• 8) Multi-disciplinarity

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Key challenge Comprehensive conceptual frame
focused, prioritized action

• 1) Policy Note for CSocD
• ? Governments UN-Resolution
• 2) Prioritized action plan for us as socpol
  professionals partners

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Way to go here in Kellokoski

• Global South views, plans expectations
• Global North responses
• Brainstorming Bullets