We’re excited to share that ISPA will be holding a Regional Face to Face Training event in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from March 12th to March 16th. We will be joined by experts in the field and learn from first-hand experience implementing ISPA tools in Indonesia, Peru, Tanzania, among others. Participants will join from the host country Indonesia, as well as from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Mongolia, urepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
Asian and Pacific countries have committed to improve and scale-up their social protection systems and programs as endorsed by the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection and the Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, many countries have made impressive efforts to reform their social protection systems. Several countries have introduced remarkable innovations in the past two decades and social protection delivery systems has also received significant investment across the region, facilitated by innovative use of technology in areas such as biometric identification and beneficiary verification, direct benefit transfers and mobile banking.
With improvements and scale-up, there are also new challenges both in terms of policy design and in strengthening delivery systems to achieve better outcomes. Here, the ISPA tool framework can support in analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of social protection systems in the region.
In this training event hope to share some of the best practices on social protection systems, programs and delivery mechanisms at different developmental levels and positively influence perceptions of governments in both regions. The country case studies will enable government representatives to better understand the emerging lessons of innovation in the design and delivery of and help them to understand how they can get better diagnostics of social protection systems.
We are working hard to make this event a great learning experience and will hopefully be the first of many! Stay tuned on more information on live-streamed sessions and new learning materials!
The training agenda and session presentations are available below.
Training Agenda
DAY 1 – MONDAY, MARCH 12TH
Session 1: Getting the regional context
8.00 Arrival of Participants
ISPA Coordination Team (CT)
13.00 Welcome by organizers
Anush Bezhanyan, Practice Manager Social Protection and Jobs, WBG
Ibu Vivi Yulaswati, Director of Poverty Alleviation & Social Protection, Ministry of Social Affairs, Government of Indonesia
Veronika Wodsak, Social Security Specialist, ILO
Joanne Sharpe, First Secretary, Poverty and Social Development, DFAT, Australia Embassy Indonesia
13:30 Introduction and Overview over the workshop process
Jost Wagner, Sr. facilitator
13:35 Introduction of participants
All participants.
Moderates: Jost Wagner, Sr. facilitator
13:45 What is important to know about SP systems in Asia?
Philip O’Keefe, Practice Manager Social Protection and Jobs East Asia and Pacific, WBG
14:30 The ADB Social Protection Indicator: Assessing Results for Asia
Sri Handayani, Principal Social Development Specialist, ADB, Manila
15:15 Coffee Break
Session 2: What is ISPA?
15:45 The tools – How can ISPA help?
ISPA Coordination Team: Luz Rodriguez, Social Protection Specialist, WBG, & Veronika Wodsak, Social Security Specialist, ILO
16:30 Group Reflection & Expectations
Moderates: Jost Wagner, Sr. facilitator
17:45 Wrap-up and outlook to the next day
Anush Bezhanyan, Practice manager, Social Protection and Jobs, WBG, & Jost Wagner, Sr. facilitator
18:00 End of day 1
DAY 2 – TUESDAY, MARCH 13TH
Session 3: Parallel Sessions
9:00 Introduction to CODI (Team Blue)
Ruslan Yemtsov, Lead Economist, Lead Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group, WBG
Myrna Asuncion, Director, Social Development at National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Philippines
9:00 Introduction to the Public Works Tool (Team Green)
Mito Tsukamoto, Senior Employment Intensive Investment Policies Specialist, ILO
Barnabas Jachi, Public Works Program Manager, Tanzania Social Action Fund
10:30 Coffee
Session 4: Parallel Sessions
11:00 CODI clinic (Team Blue)
Ruslan Yemtsov, Lead Economist, Lead Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group, WBG/ Veronika Wodsak, Social Security Specialist, ILO
11:00 PWP tool clinic (Team Green)
Mito Tsukamoto, Senior Employment Intensive Investment Policies Specialist, ILO / Ana Veronica Lopez, Consultant, WBG
Session 5: Parallel Sessions
13.30 Introduction to CODI (Team Green)
Ruslan Yemtsov, Lead Economist, Lead Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group, WBG
Myrna Asuncion, Director, Social Development at National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Philippines
11:00 Introduction to the Public Works Tool (Team Blue)
Mito Tsukamoto, Senior Employment Intensive Investment Policies Specialist, ILO
Barnabas Jachi, Public Works Program Manager, Tanzania Social Action Fund
Session 6: Parallel Sessions
15:30 CODI clinic (Team Green)
Ruslan Yemtsov, Lead Economist, Lead Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group, WBG/ Veronika Wodsak, Social Security Specialist, ILO
15:30 PWP tool clinic (Team Blue)
Mito Tsukamoto, Senior Employment Intensive Investment Policies Specialist, ILO / Ana Veronica Lopez, Consultant, WBG
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14th
Session 8: Parallel Sessions
9:00 Introduction to Payments tool (Team Blue)
Quanita Ali Khan, Education Specialist, WBG
Isaku Endo, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, WBG, Pak Nur Pujianto, Director of JSK, Indonesia
9:00 Introduction to Identification tool (Team Green)
Kenichi Nishikawa Chavez, Senior Social Protection Economist, WBG
Felix Ortega de la Torre, Senior Advisor CEO Reniec, Peru
Session 8: Parallel Sessions
11:00 Payments tool clinic (Team Blue)
Quanita Ali Khan, Education Specialist, WBG / Luz Rodriguez, Social Protection Specialist, WBG
11:00 Identification tool clinic (Team
Green)
Kenichi Nishikawa Chavez,Senior Social Protection Economist, WBG / Marco Schaefer, Social Protection Specialist, WB
Session 10: Parallel Sessions
13:30 Introduction to Payments tool (Team Green)
Introduction to Payments tool (Team Green)
11:00 Introduction to Identification tool (Team Blue)
Kenichi Nishikawa Chavez, Senior Social Protection Economist, WBG
Felix Ortega de la Torre, Senior Advisor CEO Reniec, Peru
Session 11: Parallel Sessions
15:30 Payments tool clinic (Team Green)
Quanita Ali Khan, Education Specialist, WBG / Luz Rodriguez, Social Protection Specialist, WBG
15:30 Identification tool clinic (Team Blue)
Kenichi Nishikawa Chavez, Senior Social Protection Economist, WBG / Marco Schaefer, Social Protection Specialist, WB
Session 12
17:00 Wrap-up for day 3 & Preparation of the field trip
Jost Wagner, Sr. Facilitator & Marco Schaefer, Social Protection Specialist, WB
DAY 4 – THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH
Session 13
9.00-16.00 Application of the knowledge in the field:
Field trip to Yogyakarta (mobile payments) and Sleman district (SWS)
All participants Coordinates: Marco Schaefer
DAY 5 – FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH
Session 14
9:00 Field trip review / Debrief
Jost Wagner, Sr. Facilitator & Marco Schaefer, Social Protection Specialist, WBG
Session 15
10:30 The ISPA Tools Pipeline – a window into the future
ISPA Caravan – Fast introduction into 3 “work in progress” tools
Social Protection Policy Options Tool (SPPOT): Veronika Wodsak, Social Security Specialist, ILO
Food security and nutrition tool: Jessica Owens, Social Protection & Nutrition Specialist, FAO, HE Has Menghong, Social Protection Coordinator, & Say Ung, Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
Social Information Systems: Philippe Leite, Sr. Social Protection Economist, WBG
Session 16
12:15 Conclusions & Evaluation
Anush Bezhanyan, Practice Manager Social Protection and Jobs, WBG
Jost Wagner, Sr. facilitator, & ISPA Coordination Team
ISPA Coordination Team:
Ana Veronica Lopez, alopez2@wordlbank.org
Francine A. Pagsibigan, fpagsibigan@worldbank.org
Luz Rodriguez, lrodriguez3@worldbank.org
Marco Schaefer, mschaefer1@wordldbank.org
Veronika Wodsak, wodsak@ilo.org
