Consultant to edit the Final Review report and brief of the National Social Protection Strategy of Lao PDR (Албания - Тендер #69969704)

Description

ILO is hiring a professional editor to work as an external collaborator on the final review report of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) of Lao PDR: Vision2030, Goals2025. The NSPS (www.ilo.org/publications/national-social-protection-strategy-lao-pdr-2025) has the vision that “By 2030, Lao people have access to basic social protection, consisting of health insurance, social security and social welfare, in an equitable, adequate, effective and sustainable way”. Adopted in April 2020, Lao PDR’s first NSPS is based on the concept of a social protection floor—ensuring effective, universal access to social protection and higher benefits and services to those more in need. A National Social Protection Committee (NSPC) was established through PM Decree 655 in December 2021 to oversee, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the NSPS. The NSPC Secretariat (located in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare) is responsible for monitoring by ensuring, together with implementing bodies, that data on social protection schemes are collected, recorded and shared timely and periodically. It is also responsible for evaluation, by conducting a mid-term review and a final review/evaluation, in preparation to achieve Vision2030. The NSPS is supported by an Implementation Roadmap (a matrix with detailed actions, milestones and timeframes, and general directions for implementation); and a monitoring tool (indicators to track progress towards the NSPS goals and SDG Target 1.3). In 2023, at the NSPC’s request, the ILO-UNDESA Project on Accelerating Universal Social Protection conducted a mid-term review of the NSPS (report: www.ilo.org/publications/report-mid-term-review-national-social-protection-strategy-lao-people’s).