Social protection and health financing

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Published on 07/03/2017
Health and human development
SOCIAL PROTECTION AND HEALTH FINANCING

The issues of social protection, employment and health are markers of the values promoted by France at international level, in particular decent work, the social protection floors and universal healthcare coverage. These subjects are central to the sustainable development agenda, with 3 main challenges:

  • Massification: the number of people benefiting from social protection needs to be increased. Today, only a quarter of the world’s population has access to comprehensive social protection;
     
  • Adaptation: social protection systems need to be adapted and their various sectoral components need to be strengthened: health and employment;
     
  • Financing: it is essential to mobilise domestic resources.
     

France’s objective is to set out an agenda of solutions based on defending its positions in international forums, operationalising them in partner countries, and mobilising its technical expertise.

The aim of Expertise France’s range of services is to:

  • Promote the implementation of social protection floors in developing and emerging countries;
     
  • Support the development of collective insurance schemes for social risks (old age, illness, disability, accidents at work and occupational diseases, family responsibilities);
     
  • Develop systems for the payment of contributory and non-contributory social benefits;
     
  • Promote social inclusion policies and social service delivery for vulnerable groups;
     
  • Organise the principles of sustainable financing for health and social protection systems;
     
  • Develop evaluation and monitoring tools for social policies;
     
  • Support the extension of health and social coverage to all populations.

Expertise France’s range of services is based on its capacity to mobilise an extensive network of experts from the main actors in France’s internationally recognised health and social protection system: social protection bodies, ministries for public finance, social affairs, health and labour in particular. It is financed by the following sources: French public procurement, financing from international donors, particularly AFD, and national budgets.

Some of our references with European financing

  • SOCIEUX + – Technical assistance facility for social protection and employment systems in partner countries, 2016-2020;
     
  • Project to support the social protection reform in China, 2014-2018;
     
  • Twinning to reform the pension system in Azerbaijan, 2016-2018;
     
  • EUROsociAL II – Regional programme which aims to strengthen national public policies for social cohesion via an institutional dialogue and support between Latin American and European administrations, 2011-2015;
     
  • Twinning to foster the social and vocational integration of people with disabilities in Algeria, 2017-2019.

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