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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agricultural development agricultural sector basic education cash transfers civil society organizations developing countries development policies disaster relief drought economic growth elderly extreme poverty food assistance food relief food security gross domestic product hiv household income human capital human immunodeficiency virus human resources income distribution malnutrition natural disasters nutritional status old age pension poverty reduction primary education public works risk management rural areas rural development savings school feeding secondary education shock social development social insurance social protection social safety nets social security social services targeting tuberculosis unemployment unemployment insurance vocational training vulnerability wage rate war workforce

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Gaborone, Botswana

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

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