Latin America and the Caribbean

Colombia

Social Protection and Jobs

A Roadmap for a Rights-Based Universal Social Protection System Ensuring Poverty Reduction and Decent Jobs in Colombia

Total funding allocated

US $ 315000

Co-funding by UN agencies

US $ 115000

Brief Description

The joint programme titled 'A Roadmap for a Rights-Based Universal Social Protection System Ensuring Poverty Reduction and Decent Jobs in Colombia' aims to develop a comprehensive roadmap for a rights-based universal social protection system in Colombia, addressing structural challenges and promoting gender equality, decent jobs, and poverty reduction.

The joint program develops a rights-based universal social protection system in Colombia, addressing poverty and decent jobs through a comprehensive roadmap. It identifies stakeholders and assesses the current framework, focusing on gender-sensitive policies, health access, and care economy needs. The program aims to enhance governance, improve access for vulnerable populations, and promote gender equality, directly benefiting 30% of the population in poverty. By implementing the roadmap, Colombia strengthens its social protection system, advancing Sustainable Development Goals and enhancing climate resilience.

Expected key results

Colombia has adopted a comprehensive roadmap for building a rights-based universal social protection system – SPS, aligned with productive inclusion and decent jobs, with short, medium, and long-term systemic and programmatic recommendations to improve both parametric as well as structural challenges of the current system aiming to improve both the means of implementation (i.e. financing , governance and territorial approach) as well as objectives related demographic changes and care needs, poverty reduction and progressive realization of the right to adequate food for all, response to crises, health and decent employment.

The adoption and implementation of the roadmap will strengthen governance and institutional structures and capacities and guarantee policy coherence that will improve access to social protection for vulnerable populations, provide universal protection and decent employment and increase efficiency and effectiveness in addressing poverty and inequality.