Social Protection Strategry

The author identifies three gaps; vertical gap, horizontal gap, degree of social protection gap in workers’ social protection and proposes a framework for filling up gaps of social protection for worker in KPK,Pakistan. A strategy is proposed for enhancements of social protection from 0.4 million persons to 7.4 million workers and their dependants. The framework leads to strategy for social protection which mainly proposes utilization of available resources of the government, private sector and philanthropic potential of the economy Most of the social protection activates are proposed within the existing resources. Mainly improvements are proposed in governance related, service delivery mechanism, regulatory polices by making the existing system and stakeholders more integrated, customer oriented and efficient. The framework allows partnership of different kind, public- public partnership, public- private, public-community, and public philanthropic organization. Besides propose voluntary schemes, self-contribution schemes and others.