SOCIAL PROTECTION

OUR FRAMEWORK Policies and StrategiesAsian Development Bank6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City0401 Metro Manila, Stock No. 061603 Printed in the PhilippinesSOCIAL PROTECTIONiOUR FRAMEWORK Policies and StrategiesSOCIAL PROTECTIONiiPublished by Asian Development Bank, July 2003. This is a typeset versionof the official policy paper approved by the Asian Development Bank Boardof Directors on August is a reprint of the SOCIAL PROTECTION Strategy (SPS) of the Asian Devel-opment Bank, approved in 13 September 2001. SOCIAL PROTECTION is a keystep in ADB's battle to have Asia and the Pacific region "free of poverty."The SPS spells out the scope of SOCIAL PROTECTION and commitment of theADB to develop priority interventions in five major elements: labor market policies and programs designed to generate employment,improve working conditions and promote the efficient operations; SOCIAL insurance programs to cushion the risks associated with un-employment, ill health, disability, work-related injury and old age; SOCIAL assistance and welfare service programs for the vulnerablegroups with inadequate means of support, including single mothers,the homeless, or physically or mentally challenged people; micro and area-based schemes to address vulnerability at the com-munity level, including microinsurance, agricultural insurance, socialfunds and programs to manage natural disasters; and child PROTECTION to ensure the healt

1 “Social safety net” and “social security” are sometimes used as an alternative to “social protection.” Of the two terms, “social protection” is the most commonly used internation-ally. The term “social safety net” appears to have a less precise meaning; some people use

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