4-5 October | ILO HQ and Online
ILO, WHO, P4H Network and SPARKS Network are organizing a workshop for social protection and health practitioners working to promote and extend coverage and financing to deliberate upon the ways in which social protection policies can aid healthcare in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
Purpose
The interplay between health and social protection has emerged in various fora as one of the key priorities for accelerating progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This includes in particular the need to reinforce the linkages between SDG target 1.3 on universal social protection (USP) and SDG target 3.8 on universal health coverage (UHC) to maximize their human development impact in different fora. They can be mobilized in tandem to contribute to epidemic and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR).
The workshop will be an opportunity for social protection and health practitioners working across promotion, extension of coverage and financing to reflect together on ways to maximize the health dividends of social protection policies in the context of epidemics and pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. These reflections can help to build universal social protection systems, which are also so important across a range of other health outcomes. It will seek to ensure that efforts underway to stop communicable diseases like TB and any future crises surrounding pandemics can be leveraged better in the future to strengthen social protection systems and move towards UHC, while optimizing benefits for the efficiency, equitable uptake of public health and social measures, and health equity.
The workshop aims at taking stock of the health impact of social protection systems on the prevention and response to past epidemics and pandemics, with a view to informing integrated policy design and implementation across health and social protection sectors. In particular, the workshop will encourage participants across sectors and technical specialities to reflect upon key questions and co-construct innovative solutions. The workshop will share relevant experience from country-examples and seek to offer concrete steps for implementation at the national level.
A detailed Agenda can also be found here
The workshop will be followed by the P4H Technical Exchange Group Meeting.
