Social Protection Systems in 4 minutes (video of the RNSF team)
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13 December 2016
In this video interview with Prof. Jacques Charmes, our RNSF Research expert, you have a brief introduction to Social Protection. Jacques highlights the importance of social protection mechanisms for people depending on the Informal Economy and briefly analyses social security systems.
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Very interessting indeed, thanks.
I find that that there is a urgent need for sound and feasible solutions to sollicite social protection against occupational injuries and diseases. In countries that are applying principles of universal coverage ( using a tax-financing approach) the situation is to be considered as positive to some extent. In countries with low tax mobilization, workers -especially those engaged in the informal economy-who are injured or who suffer any occupational disease are left almost always without any coverage. In my experince weak legislation and little low enforcemnet, combined with little attention of employers and low qualification of workers, often leads the lasts to engage in dangerous labour activities without proper knowledge and tools. Once injured or sick their prospects of full recovery and reintegration back to the labour market are really limited.
Does anyone in the community, have any experimented positive example of sustainable solution to achieve coverage against these risks in low income countries, especially in South East Asia?