Botswana Social Protection Assessment

World Bank

Botswana Social Protection Assessment

2013

World Bank

Botswana is a small, landlocked, upper-middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) of United States (U.S.) 17.3 billion dollars in 2011. Despite high levels of economic growth over the past two decades, poverty and inequality persist in Botswana and unemployment is high. The Government of Botswana (GoB) has developed and approved key strategic documents that articulate its long-term development objectives, including those in the social protection sector. The purpose of this assessment is to inform Botswana's future social protection and labor strategy and policies and help to achieve the goals of vision 2016. The assessment concentrates on social assistance programs as major reforms are already taking place or being considered for active labor market programs (ALMP) and social insurance programs. As social assistance programs are a significant draw on the GoB's budget and revenues from mining are projected to decline over the medium term, it will inevitably be necessary to increase the cost-effectiveness of existing programs. This assessment draws on the World Bank's Africa social protection strategy for 2012-2022 which, in addition to the issues addressed by the overall World Bank social protection strategy, stresses the need to focus on the targeted delivery of social services and on issues of good governance, efficient program design and delivery, and country-driven system development. To meet its objectives, the assessment is organized as follows: chapter one gives a brief discussion of the conceptual framework, chapter two discusses the principal vulnerable groups in Botswana and the risks that they face. Chapter three reviews the principal policies and programs that are already in place to address the risks that have been identified as well as the existing informal social protection arrangements. Chapter four assesses the adequacy of the social protection system by analyzing spending; program coverage, overlaps, and gaps; program generosity; targeting efficiency; cost-effectiveness; incentive compatibility and sustainability; monitoring and evaluation; and institutional arrangements. Chapter five contains recommendations.

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Publisher

Gaborone, Botswana

Other Subjects

Poor; Food items; Number of children; Protection systems; Nutrition program; Policy analysis; Development policy; Human capital development; Rural economy; Service delivery; Conditional cash; Food necessities; Extended family; Skills training; Purchasing power; National development; Household composition; International trends; Poor individuals; Rural; Primary school; Works program; Vulnerable groups; Service providers; School feeding programs; Poverty line; Height for age; Old age pension; Covariate shocks; Poverty map; Child poverty; Incidence of poverty; Horizontal equity; Government response; Vulnerable children; Vulnerable group; Infrastructure development; Food transfers; Program coverage; Poor adults; Nutritional supplementation; Future earnings; Poverty analysis; Poverty incidence; Poor children; Insurance mechanisms; Right to education; Health centres; Work requirements; Beneficiaries; Social risk; Means test; Secondary school; Youth development; Lack of skills; Financial crises; Beneficiary; Mutual aid; Extended families; Height-for-age; Labor market programs; Social safety net; Health system; Labor market; Family support; Poor families; Coping strategies; Old age pensions; Jobless; Safety net; Needy children; Live births; International poverty line; Natural disaster; Assistance programs; Support networks; Skills development; Skill development; Health care services; Inequality; Food poverty; Family members; Policy framework; Public works programs; Minimum wage; Poor people; Absolute poverty; Estimates of poverty; Transfer programs; Home affairs; Cash payments; Private pension; Unemployment benefits; Rural households; Economic shocks; Public service; Financial crisis; External shocks; Human development; Ssn; High inequality; School fees; Female-headed households; Human development index; Risk-pooling; Support program; Protection system; School materials; Child labor; Tertiary education; Poverty rates; Benefit level; Poverty headcount rate; Cash assistance; Low-income countries; Poverty eradication; Human capital investments; Information system; Skilled workers; Idiosyncratic risks; School enrollments; Vulnerable individuals; Social insurance programs; Remote areas; Unemployment rates; Employment opportunities; Family benefit; Plan of action; Income security; Nutrition interventions; Orphans; Social assistance; Safety net programs; National development plan; Chronic malnutrition; Vulnerable households; Ministry of education; Employment programs; Productive assets; Grant program; Health facilities; Anti-poverty program; Contributory pensions; Support grant; Per capita consumption; Single-parent families; Development planning; Self-insurance; Private capital; Anti-poverty; Chronic poverty; Administrative costs; School children; Lack of education; Cost-effectiveness; Welfare indicators; Eligible beneficiaries; Nutrition programs; Social benefits; Set of recommendations

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