• Enhanced common understanding required on Key Social Protection Issues

Understanding of SP

• youth unemployment, aging populations, urbanization, migration, climate change, digitalization, and the prevalence of informality

Megatrends affecting Social Protection

• Limited benefits, limited constructive dialogue, awareness of general public, fragmented workers solidarity

Challenges persists:

• Organizational capacities, particularly mobilizing and organizing workers.

Organizational constraints:

• Link to value chains and neo-liberal policies; Necessitating a seamless linkage between national, regional, and global efforts and sharing best practices and experience across borders

Transcending National Boundaries:

• address the persistently low investment in social protection (explore traditional and non-traditional financing forms

Urgent Investment

The vision of the AROSP Network is Universal social protection were enjoyed by all, with engaged working people and citizen across Asia for living a life with dignity and prosperity.

Mission is to bring together marginalized workers organization and allies to exchange information and experiences on social protection, develop common strategies to bring voice of working people advocating the transformative social protection.

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

CAPACITY BUILDING

ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGN

CHANGE PRACTICES ; AND

NETWORKING, PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION

1.Research on Disability Social Protection ( Inclusion Social Protection) (ii) Collaboration on Inlcusive Isssu

2. Reviewing the existing Social Security Scheme from the informal workers’ perspective

3.Improve evidences on informal workers access to social security

4.Research on Disability Social Protection ( Inclusion Social Protection) (ii) Collaboration on Inlcusive Issue

5.Research on well-being among different EM groups in order to understand communities' different perspectives on well-being and way of living

6.Feasibility study and calculation for the proposed benefits

7, Research on making social security policies more inclusive and effective

8,Construction welfare board to study the factors responsible for failure of the board in extending social security benefit to majority of construction workers

9.Maternity protection for construction workers

10. Build data and Information hub

1.Re-identify Social Protection Issues

2. Promoting Social Protection Benefit Scale-Up

3.Organizing and Strengthening 

4.Livelihood Recovery

5.Information and Communication

6.Developing Training materials for SSE, Community Cooperative, Circular Economy

7. Social Solidarity Economi (SSE) - Practices ( local food system, planting biofarmaka plant, develery training, scale up to produce herb-medicine, etc)

8.Organizing and capacity building more homebased workers, street venders, women workers in sprimps and rice industries

9. With people losing jobs and livelihood, there is a more aggressive need to organize and conscientize the sector.

10.women empowerment

11.Increase the understanding of HNT members on social protections

12.Develop social security advocacy skill of the new informal worker leaders.

13. Workers capacity building/advance training/ToT/ Basic Training of SP as part of workers empowerment.

1.Re-identify Social Protection Issues

2. Promoting Social Protection Benefit Scale-Up

3.Organizing and Strengthening 

4.Livelihood Recovery

5.Information and Communication

6.Developing Training materials for SSE, Community Cooperative, Circular Economy

7. Social Solidarity Economi (SSE) - Practices ( local food system, planting biofarmaka plant, develery training, scale up to produce herb-medicine, etc)

8.Organizing and capacity building more homebased workers, street venders, women workers in sprimps and rice industries

9. With people losing jobs and livelihood, there is a more aggressive need to organize and conscientize the sector.

10.women empowerment

11.Increase the understanding of HNT members on social protections

12.Develop social security advocacy skill of the new informal worker leaders.

13. Workers capacity building/advance training/ToT/ Basic Training of SP as part of workers empowerment.

1.Universal Health Care (UHC)

2.National Advocacy MACWIE (Magna Carta for Workers in Informal Economy)

3.Maternity Protection & Maternity Rights

4.Institutional mechanisms and CSO involvement

5.Lower out-of-pocket expenses and implementation of zero-billing

6.Maternity protection for informal workers 

7.Expand Z-benefits package for cancer patients

8.Promoting Transparentcy on SP Financing

9.Advocacy to have independent bussiness

10.Social Assistances Adcovacy

11.Mekong Region- Advocating Pesticide  for women workers

12. advocacy the unpaid women workers

13.Campaign Universal Social Pension 

14.Universal Basic Income ( JAMESTA)

15.Maternity Right for Infromal workers

16. Public hearing

17.Ratify ILO convention on Social Security and Employment injury insurance (EII)

18. Charter of Demand on SP

19.Comprehensive Minimum Wage

19. Health Insurances

20.Demands on workers health and safety ( Occupational Safety & Health)

21, Media engagement and Campaign materials production

1. Dialogues and negotiations with  Ministry of Labour and Social Security Scheme on COVID-19 respond measures of the informal workers

2. Dialogues and negotiations with Ministry of Labour and Social Security Scheme for improvement of the informal worker insurers' benefits

3.Collaboration with local government particular for women violence victim

4.Database transparancy for Home Based Worker; 

5. Social Solidarity Economi (SSE) - Practices ( local food system, planting biofarmaka plant, develery training, scale up to produce herb-medicine, etc)

6. Prevent increase of PhilHealth premium payment 

7.Livelihood Recovery is new in response to the loss of livelihood during the pandemic.  There is a need to support social enterprsies of our affiliate organizations.  For more sustainable enterprises, SSE is the framework to be used.

8.Initiated to develeop the food resilience, local circular economy

9.Social Solidary Economy for women informal workers initiative based on gender

10.Conduct regular dialogues and negotiations with Ministry of Labour Social Security Scheme and the concerned gvt. agencies for improvement of the informal worker inclusion and benefits

11. start-up for SSE ( Social Solidarity Economic)

12. Type or participatory engagement from community (i.e mutual aid, social action,

13.Convert to a more specific bills (piece meal) on social assistances

14. Care work services

• Examine data, facts, actual information or experience on social protection advocacy work that has been done?

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OBSERVE

• What is the relationship or relevance to actual issues, good and bad intervention programs, political support and others from previous advocacy work?

REFLECT

• Identify significant changes that can provide meaningful learning or none at all?

INSIGHT

• What is the formula for the next step to make a decision on future action plans?

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DECISION

KEEP

IMPROVE

STOP

START

1

Imagine the best-case scenario for AROSP

2

Spend five quiet minutes imagining their own stories before they work together to agree on one

3

Generate this “story of the year” for 30-45 minutes

4

present their visions first

5

Note any common vision themes and areas of agreement

“Cover” tells the BIG story of their success.

“Headlines” convey the substance of the cover story.

“Sidebars” reveal interesting facets of the cover story.

“Quotes” can be from anyone as long as they’re related to the story.

“Brainstorm” is for documenting initial ideas for the cover story.

“Images” are for supporting the content with illustrations.