2. School of Public and International Affairs, Economical Development
and
Institute f Latin American St di
I tit t of L ti A i Studies
November 9 of 2010
Diego Andrés Molano Aponte
Social Protection in Colombia:
Presidential High Counselor
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Public Strategies i D
P bli St t i in Development
l t Director of ACCIÓN SOCIAL

3. Contents
1. Poverty and Displacement Situation in Colombia.
2. Evolution of Social Networks.
3. Focus on Support Networks.
4. Social Protection System in Colombia.
5. Accion Social: Promoter of Support Networks.
pp
6. Progress of Families in Action, ReSA and Forest Ranger Families .
1. JUNTOS Progress and Results.
2. Challenges for JUNTOS.
3. Environmental railing mega project.
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4. 1.
1 Poverty and Displacement Situation in Colombia
Colombia.

5. Poverty Situation in Colombia
MERPD Research: Child Labor Malnutrition
Poverty traps.
relates poverty and Illness
with
multidimensional Low
social factors Demography Educational
Bajo nivel
Level
educativo
Low
Vicious cycles that counteract the Working
efforts of the poor population
population. Capital
Inter-generational
transmission of poverty.

6. Poverty and Indigence Figures in Colombia
P t d I di Fi i C l bi
53,7% 51,0%
46,0%
51,2% 50,3% 45,5%
17,0% 15,6%
19,7% 16,4%
17,0% 17,8%
2002 2003 2004 2005 2008 2009
Linea de Pobreza Linea de Indigencia
Source: MESEP, Mission for the linkage of Employment, Poverty and Inequality series.
, g p y , y q y
Note: Does not include the 2006 and 2007 series.

7. Who are the poor p p in Colombia?
p people
POVERTY MISSION MERPD - 2006
ECV (Survey of Life Conditions)-2008
•Total Population: 44,048,182
•Total PPE (Population in Extreme
Poverty): 16% of the population ≈
7,033,780 persons •PP (Population in Poverty): 45%
pop. ≈ 20,262,164 persons
•Total PD (Displaced Population):
2,977,209 persons •Total PPE: 12.7% pop.
≈ 5,594,119 persons
•47% of the PD is PPE
PP: 20 MM
PPE PD persons PPE:
PPED
5,634,492
5 634 492 1,577,921
1 577 921 5.5
5 5 MM
1,399,288
persons persons persons
persons
The MERPD was created with the purpose of measuring and structuring
a long te p oposa to reduce po e ty a d inequality in Co o b a
o g term proposal educe poverty and equa ty Colombia.
SOURCE: Working Document DNP 2009. RUPD Acción Social

8. Who are the poor people in Colombia?
Population in Extreme Poverty- PPE Displaced Population
Quantity ECV-08:
ECV 08 PPE =16% 16% September/10: 3,551,106
S t b /10 3 551 106 persons iin
Total pop. ≈ 7,033,780 persons displacement situation.
51.6% men 93% displaced from rural area
48.4%
48 4% women 51% men
Gender 69.5% households headed by men 49% women
47.1% under legal age 53% households headed by men
67.7% belongs to PET 48% under legal age
Child labor: 30.6% children Child labor: 30.6% niños
Childhood
School Attendance: 74% School Attendance: 74%
Employment Rate of unemployment range from Rate of employment =46.4%
18-26 years=17.5%, (informal jobs)
Health Health coverage: 87%
g Health coverage: 88%

9. 2. Evolution of Social Networks

10. Progress in Social Networks
•Social Investment Funds.
•Emergency Employment •Infrastructure in Education
•PNR.
PNR and H lth
d Health.
•Social Solidarity Network.
1980 1990
Neo-liberal Model
“Universalization”
Universalization “Compensation” to poor
people for externalities of
Subsidies to Supply the economic policies
Salary and work Tax restriction
regulations
Focalization
Benefits to sectors
and middle classes Subsidies to Demand
Cost recovery
Market Mechanisms

11. Progress in Social Networks
•Universalization in education
and health.
•Displaced Attention System.
•JUNTOS (Together): Social
JUNTOS
•First S i l S
Fi Social Support N Network:
k
Protection Network for
Families and Youth in Action
Overcoming of Poverty.
2000 - Present
Social Protection System based
on:
Work
Conditioned P i i
C di i d Provisional T
l Transfers
f
Human resource accumulation
and increase in Income

12. Progress in Social Networks
•New institutional agreements
•Social Protection and Support Network Systems
•Reaching the most vulnerable
g
•Focus in universalization
2010 Future Trends
Political, social and economic
articulation.
Coordination ithi
C di ti within social policies
i l li i
Conditioned transfers with supply access and
Create abilities quality
Universal access to basic social Creation of local abilities
services.
Permanent and shock-responding system
Generation of quality employment
Differential focus

13. 3. Focus on Support Networks

14. Focus on Support Networks
Land redistribution, Work policies,
agreements and property Poverty contributions system,
SOCIAL SUPPORT
rights application, social security
universal education and reduction
d ti services and Social NETWORKS:
Social Support Networks. Support Networks.
• Reduce inequity and extreme
poverty.
• Empower households for better
investments in the future.
• Help households to manage risk
Social Social
manage- Through the implementation of
Equality
E lit Support ment of
t f different policies, th i
diff t li i they impact th
t the
Networks risk following groups:
Promotes inclusive growth and •Chronic Poverty
For small producers (for
p
provides services that facilitate •Temporary Poverty
p y y
example),
example) includes irrigation
systems, microfinance, participation of the poor •Vulnerable groups
weather insurance, Social
population. The Social Support •Disabled persons
Networks help in providing •Senior citizens
Support Networks.
security.
•Orphans
Social •Refugees / Displaced
Protection •Affected by Reforms
SOURCE: Gorsh M., del Ninno C., Tesliuc E. and Ouerghi A. 2008. “For Protection & Promotion”.

15. Pillars of the Development Plan
Pill f th D l t Pl
“Towards a Community State, Development for All”
Security Social
Development
Investor’s Confidence

16. 4. Social Protection System in Colombia

17. Social Protection System in Colombia
System of Social
y
Protection Components
Acción Social
Rocial Risk Management Inter-reliant risks
Health
Integral Social Security Industrial Hazards
Unemployment Insurance
Social Promotion Poverty Juntos Network
Education Familias en Acción
Consitional Cash
Formation of Human Capital Nutrition Transfers
Training for labor
Juntos Network
Access to Assets Physical and financial Familias en Acción
Saver Women

18. 5. Acción Social: Promoter of Support Networks
ó

19. ACCIÓN SOCIAL: Promoter of Support Networks
JUNTOS. Extreme Poverty and
Displaced Population
Population.
Focuses on territories
Strategies Center of recovered from the
and Integral Action armed conflict.
Populations Coordination
SNAIPD Displaced Population.
Coordination

20. 6. Progress of Families in Action

21. Progress of F
P f Families in Action
ili i A ti
2’664.964
320,716
September 2010
2,915,811 Benefitted Families

22. Progress in ReSA

23. Progress in ReSA (Alimentary
g ( y
Security Network Program)
Families benefitted by ReSA
y
166.015
145.736
139.876
129.580
121.872
101.477
55.705 55.255
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 sep-10

24. Progress in Forest Ranger Families

25. Progress in Forest Ranger Families
116.361
11,385
2002 September 2010

26. 7. JUNTOS Progress and Results.

27. JUNTOS Network
Specific Objectives
To promote the families’ abilities
General Objective To effectively articulate the different government and
involved entities levels.
To improve life conditions of the families in
situations of extreme poverty and in situations of
To guarantee special access and adjustment of
displacement, through the strengthening and the supply of social programs and services.
construction of abilities to promote their own
p
development..
To improve and strengthen the territorial ability,
within the social protection framework.
Support the National System of Integral Attention to
the Displaced Population- SNAIPD in the socio-
economic stability of the families in a displacement
situation.

28. Red JUNTOS
The JUNTOS strategy includes 9
gy
dimensions for overcoming extreme
•Family and poverty, gathering 45 Basic
Community Achievements and 22 Basic Territorial
accompaniment Conditions:
1.5 Mill. Families in extreme
poverty/ 7 Mill. Colombians 1.
1 Identification
(Families in Action, SISBEN 1 2. Education and Training
and displaced families) 3. Health
4. Nutrition
5. Living conditions
•Management of •Local 6. Access to banking and
Supply and Institutional savings
Preferential Access to Strengthening 7. Family Dynamics
Government Social 8. Income and Work
Programs: 14 entities
P titi 9.
9 Access to Justice
Investment to 5 years:
19 billion Colombian pesos

29. JUNTOS Network– Basic Family Achievements
1. Focus on Achievements
The group of desirable conditions that a family in an extreme poverty
situation must achieve to improve its life conditions.
They allow the family to overcome poverty traps in the best possible way and
way,
they allow the Network to organize the monitoring and supply of family programs.

30. JUNTOS N
Network – B i Family Achievements
k Basic F il A hi
Dimensions
1 IDENTIFICATION 6 LIVING CONDITIONS
2 INCOME AND WORK 7 FAMILY DYNAMICS
ACCESS TO BANKING
3 EDUCATION 8 AND SAVINGS
SUPPORT TO
4 HEALTH
9 GUARANTEE ACCESS
TO JUSTICE
5 NUTRITION

31. JUNTOS – Basic Family Achievements
An Example

32. JUNTOS Network – Basic Family Achievements
Basic Achievements- Example
Achievements-
1 IDENTIFICATION 4 HEALTH
• Minors between 0 and 7 years • Family members are enrolled in
old have a civil record. Children the General System of Social
between the ages of 7 and 17 Security in Health- SGSS.
have an identity card. Persons
over 18 have an ID credential or • The family has access to health
provisional credential. promotion interventions to which
it is entitled within the SGSS in
• Minors between 0 and 7 years Health framework.
old h
ld have a civil record. Child
i il d Children
between the ages of 7 and 17
have an identity card. Persons
over 18 have an ID credential or
provisional credential.

33. JUNTOS – Basic Family Achievements
Basic Achievements- Example
Achievements-
3 EDUCATION 6 LIVING CONDITIONS
• The household does not have a
• Boys and girls under 5 are soil floor.
linked to an Integral Attention
Program in Care, Nutrition and • The household has a drinking
Initial Education. water supply and a draining
system.
• Adults between the ages of 18
and 65 (including disabled • The household has separated
adults) are alphabetized. spaces for bathroom, kitchen,
laundry and bedrooms.

34. JUNTOS Network – Basic Family Achievements

35. JUNTOS – Basic Family Achievements
• 1.028
1 028 Municipalities with family support and
monitoring.
• 8.633 Social workers carrying out family support
and monitoring.
• More than 1 million and 312 thousand families
benefitted from JUNTOS Network.
• Implementation of a technological platform for
the collection and transmission of family data in
real time
*Court september 30, 2010

36. Accomplishment of goals
A li h t f l
15% 9%
23% 32%
32%
100% 77% 76% 93%
91,1%
85,4%
76,6%
68,4% 67,9%
22,7% 24,1%
0,2% 6,8%
1. I.D. 5. Ocupation or income 9. Children viculanted to 13. Health insurance 22. Variety and healthiness
32. Adequate construction 35. Attention to victims of 40. Family savings 44. Attention from justice
source (older than 15 the education system of food materials for the residence intra familiar and sexual operators
years) violence
IDENTIFICATION INCOME AND WORK EDUCATION HEALTH NUTRITION LIVING CONDITIONS FAMILY DYNAMICS ACCESS TO BANKING SUPPORT TO
AND SAVINGS GUARANTEE
TO JUSTICE
Reached by families Family goals

37. 8 . JUNTOS N t
Network – Ch ll
k Challenges

38. JUNTOS N t
Network – Ch ll
k Challenges
• Supply Adjustment
S
• Reversibility of the Income Generation
Achievement in JUNTOS
• Income in rural areas
• Abilities Vs. Work Insertion (urban)
Vs
• Family Expectations Vs. Capacity of Response

39. JUNTOS Network – Challenges and Priorities
Other Priorities Main Priorities Other Priorities
Displaced Pop.- PD PPED Pop. Extreme Poverty- PPE
• Consensus Indicators (basic achievements/
IGED)
• Support, monitoring and graduation
S t it i d d ti
• Prevention • Quality in Education
• Guarantee the supply and suitability
• Alimentary Security • Training for Work/ Higher
• Affirmative Action for Afro population
• Differential focus Education
• Income Generation
• p
Reparation
– 1 Abili generation, 2 Li ki markets, 3 A
1. Ability i 2. Linking k 3.Access to
physical assets, 4. Strengthening Territorial Entities, 5.
Institutional Coordination
• Housing
• Access/ Land Titling/ Legalization
Essential Conditions
• Inclusive Economic Growth • Permanent measurement and
• Ranking and investment levels
g assessment.
• Use of innovation technology.

40. 9.E i
Environmental railing mega project
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41. The project seeks the conformation of a large strap for environmental and traditional
protection and conservation
conservation.
Construction of 10 environmental and cultural indigenous towns, $30.900 million.
Natural water factory with 79km2 of water with 4 springs, 35 river basins and 650 micro
basins with capacity to supply 15 million people

42. 8 indigenous towns with full access to
western services
Cleaning up and
70% is preserved for
ampliation of th native
li ti f the ti
natural regeneration and
reservations by the
30% for self consumption
purchase of 6 thousand
crops
hectares
The aim for the second phase is to cover 14,000 hectares for the conservation of 4,000
hectares of woods, the recuperation of 3,500 hectares of weeds to woods to avoid the
expansion of the current 1,016 hectares for cultivation with an investment of 1.5
million USD

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