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SOCIAL PROTECTION
APRIL 22, 2023
 SOCIAL PROTECTION
Social Protection (SP) constitutes policies and programs
that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability and to
enhance the social status and rights of the
marginalized. These goals can be achieved through
promoting and protecting livelihood and employment,
protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income,
and improving people’s capacity to manage or
handle risks (Social Development Committee
Resolution No. 1, s2007).
 SOCIAL PROTECTION
Four objectives of Philippine social protection programs:
1. To protect and prevent people from falling from their current
income/consumption levels due to various risks.
2. To build people’s capacity and adaptability so that that better quality of
life is maintained and sustained.
3. To expand income opportunities and improve human capital investments
in the long term.
4. To sustain one’s standard of living in spite of people’s exposure to various
natural and man-made risks.
 TYPES OF RISKS
Risk can be defined as an uncertain event that may damage someone’s well-
being, leading to poverty. Risks are pervasive and are of different types.
1. Individual and life cycle risks .Hunger, illness or injury, disability, old age,
death
One, “life-cycle” consists of ages-stages wherein the needs of an individual
change, from birth to death. Changing needs, however, are not solely related
to age. Two, “life-cycle” also refers to the different stages and events of life
that an individual or household passes through, and which often brings
different statuses to individuals (e.g. becoming a widow/er, a single mother,
an adolescent, unemployed).
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2. Economic Risks . Unemployment, low/irregular income, price instability,
economic crisis Who responds? Government, business, civil society, citizens.
These risks affect primarily those who are generally dependent on wage
employment, those who are self-employed, and those who manage small
businesses.
3. Environmental and natural risks. Drought, floods, landslides, earthquakes,
volcanic eruption
Extreme weather, natural paths of typhoons, presence of volcanoes and
earthquake fault lines, floods and droughts are examples of these natural and
environmental risks. Other environmental risks are even man-made: local
pollution, illegal mining and cutting of trees.
 TYPES OF RISKS
4. Social and Governance risks. Crime, corruption, political instability, armed
conflict Who responds? Government, business, civil society, citizens
These risks can also be a result of breakdown of the rule of law, or sometimes
bad governance. These risks also affect communities and families, like when
supposed government funds for development projects do not reach intended
beneficiaries.
 CORE SOCIAL PROTECTION
PROGRAMS AND RESPONSES
1. Labor Market Interventions
These are measures aimed at enhancing employment opportunities and
protecting the rights and welfare of workers. Examples include employment
facilitation schemes, livelihood programs, active labor market programs
(ALMPs), emergency and guaranteed employment.
2. Social Insurance
These programs seek to mitigate income risks by pooling resources and
spreading one’s handling of risks across time and classes. These types of
programs are premium-based schemes protecting households from life-cycle
and health-related risks. Examples include health insurance, crop insurance,
pension, etc.
 CORE SOCIAL PROTECTION
PROGRAMS AND RESPONSES
3. Social Welfare
These are preventive and developmental programs that seek to support the
minimum basic requirements of the poor and of various sectors. They provide
basic protection to those who are poor, excluded, discriminated and
marginalized. Examples: crisis interventions for abused women and children,
programs for indigenous peoples, transient homes for trafficking victims, etc.
4. Social Safety Nets
These are stop-gap mechanisms or urgent responses that address effects of
risks on specific vulnerable groups. These are mostly short-term measures.
Responses after typhoons are an example.
 TARGET BENEFICIARIES
• The Poor. They are individuals and families whose incomes fall below
the poverty threshold (as defined by the government), and/or those
who cannot afford to provide their basic needs of food, health,
education, housing and other amenities of life on a sustained basis
(RA 8425 or the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, 11
December 1997).
• The Vulnerable. They are households confronted by exante risk that, if
they are currently non-poor, will fall below the poverty line; if they are
currently poor, they will remain in poverty. Vulnerable is also defined in
terms of exposure to adverse conditions related to welfare, not just in
terms of their exposure to poverty (NEDA).
 TARGET BENEFICIARIES
• The Marginalized. They those in society who, for reasons of poverty,
geographical inaccessibility, culture, language, religion, age, gender,
migrant status or other disadvantage, have not benefited from health,
education, employment and other opportunities. They are also
relegated to the sidelines of political persuasion, social negotiation,
and economic bargaining (International Planned Parenthood
Federation). Examples include indigenous people, elderly, among
others.
 NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD TARGETING
SYSTEM FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
(NHTS-PR)
• The Philippine government identifies the poor, the
vulnerable, and the marginalized with the help of a survey
called the National Household Targeting System for Poverty
Reduction (NHTS-PR), handled by the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD). Using a proxy means
test, the NHTS-PR unified the criteria for the selection of the
poorest population in a locality, and had created a
database of poor households. The database then serves as
a reference to identifying beneficiaries of social protection
programs.
INTRODUCTION TO
POLICY
APRIL 22, 2023
 POLICY
policy is a course or principle of action adopted or
proposed by a government, party, business, or
individual. The concept can be defined also as a set of
guiding principles (e.g. gender mainstreaming) or a
guide to action such as strategy, programs, and
projects (e.g. best interest of the child). In summary,
policy refers to the principles, guidelines, or procedures
that serve the purpose of maximizing uniformity in
decision making.
 POLICY CONTENT
• A purpose statement, outlining why the organization is
issuing the policy, and what its desired effect or outcome
of the policy should be.
• An applicability and scope statement, describing who
the policy affects and which actions are impacted by
the policy. The applicability and scope may expressly
exclude certain people, organizations, or actions from
the policy requirements. Applicability and scope is used
to focus the policy on only the desired targets, and avoid
unintended consequences where possible.
 POLICY CONTENT
• An effective date which indicates when the policy
comes into force.
• A responsibilities section, indicating which parties
and organizations are responsible for carrying out
individual policy statements. Many policies may
require the establishment of some ongoing
function or action.
 POLICY CONTENT
• Policy statements indicating the specific
regulations, requirements, or modifications to
organizational behavior that the policy is creating.
Policy statements are extremely diverse
depending on the organization and intent, and
may take almost any form.
 POLICY CONTENT
• Some policies may contain additional sections, including:
• Background, indicating any reasons, history, and intent
that led to the creation of the policy, which may be listed
as motivating factors. This information is often quite
valuable when policies must be evaluated or used in
ambiguous situations, just as the intent of a law can be
useful to a court when deciding a case that involves that
law.
• Definitions, providing clear and unambiguous definitions
for terms and concepts found in the policy document.
 TYPES OF POLICY
1. PUBLIC POLICY
It is what public officials within government,
and by extension the citizens they represent,
choose to do or not to do about public
problems. Is a course of government action
or inaction in response to public problems
(Kraft and Furlong, 2007).
 TYPES OF POLICY
2. SOCIAL POLICY
•The policies which governments use for welfare and social protection.
The ways in which welfare is developed in a society. Its concept covers
all provisions and measures aimed at removing or alleviating situations
or distress and social problems at either the individual or collective
level, as well as improving the welfare of the most vulnerable groups in
the society.
The concern of this type of policy is focus on “more equitable wealth
distribution and poverty reduction through the active participation of
different social groups in the satisfaction of both their economic and
social rights” while its goal is “the development of a just, equal and
prosperous society” with the following objectives: (1) social justice
(equity and equality); (2) social security (protection against risk); (3)
social peace; and (4) prosperity shared by majority of the people.
 TYPES OF POLICY
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
The principles, guidelines, or procedures that serve the purpose of
maximizing uniformity in decision making regarding the problem of
dependency in our society (Popple and Leighninger, 2008). Anything a
government chooses to do, or not to do, that affects the quality of life
of its people (Di Nitto, 2000). Social welfare policy is a subset of social
policies, in particular programs/regulations designed to satisfy individual
familial needs inadequately met through the market system.
In studying social welfare policy, social workers need to have a
theoretical understanding of the role such policies play in society;
political savvy to grasp why particular groups advocate particular
social welfare policy; and applied knowledge of the contents and
impacts of social welfare policies.
 LEVELS OF SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
1. MACRO POLICY. It involves the broad laws, regulations, or
guidelines that provide the framework/mandate for the provision of
services and benefits. Under this level, it is generated mostly by the
public and the private non-profit sectors and it take the form of laws
and regulations.
2. MEZZO POLICY. It is administrative policy that organizations
generate to direct and regularize their operations (e.g. personal policy
manual which sets out all the rules and regulations regarding pay,
benefit, insurance, office hours, holidays, evaluations, grievances,
retirement, & the like).
3. MICRO POLICY. Happens when individuals such as social workers
translate macro level and mezzo level into actual service to clients.
Since social work is a policy-based profession, this means that individual
social workers have great latitude of interpreting and implementing a
given policy.
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