Capacity Development Workshop on

Measuring Social Protection: Background, Objectives and Activities

Sri Wening Handayani Principal Social Development Specialist

Asian Development Bank

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Background

ADB approved the regional technical assistance in

2010 to:

i. develop an improved framework for measuring

and monitoring social protection;

ii. update the SPI and social protection

assessments;

iii. develop an SPI database; and

iv. build capacity of developing member countries

(DMCs) to measure and monitor social

protection.

Outputs of the Technical Assistance

Publication of Regional SPI Report

Uploading of 34 SP Country Reports

Social Protection Statistical Database

Capacity Development of 3 Pilot

Countries – Indonesia, Philippines, Sri

Lanka

Knowledge-sharing and dissemination of

information

Objectives of the Workshop

i. facilitate knowledge exchange between

NSOs’ of pilot countries and NSOs of

other DMCs;

ii. promote monitoring of social protection

within the Asia and Pacific region; and

iii. support the overall objective of the SPI

which can then lead to better targeting and

more cost-effective implementation of

policies

Organization of the Event

Co-organized with BPS-Statistics

Participated in by representatives of NSOs

and planning offices of 14 DMCs, namely

Bangladesh, Cambodia, PRC, India, Indonesia,

Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua

New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-

Leste, and Viet Nam

Resource Persons: OECD, ILO and consultants

Overview of the Program Day 1:

Session 1: What is social protection is and why is it

important?

Session 2: Measuring Social Protection Using

Administrative Data

Session 3: Country Experience on Monitoring Social

Protection

Day 2: Field Visit to BPS Bogor District Regional Office

Day 3:

Session 3 continuation

Session 4: Measurement of Social Protection Using

Household Survey

Session 5: Accessing Social Protection Data and

Information

Contact Persons

ADB Social Protection Programs and Social

Protection Index: Preliminary Findings for

Timor-Leste and selected ASEAN countries 7

BPS-Statistics Indonesia

• Mr. Gantjang Amannullah – gantjang@bps.go.id

• Ms. Katiti Wulansari – katiti@bps.go.id

ADB

• Ms. Sri Wening Handayani – swhandayani@adb.org

• Ms. Dalisay Maligalig – dmaligalig@adb.org