Objectives

The inception workshop will serve as a venue to:

• discuss revised Handbook on Social Protection Index and module of Social Protection to be incorporated in the Household Income Expenditure Survey in three selected countries;
• review and share experiences among SPI national consultants on the collection of data for social protection, and preparation of the country report
• further identify the expected outputs, activities and participating organizations in relation to the formulation of the detailed work plan(s), mechanisms, and arrangements in implementing the
• capacity building component of the project,
• preparation and finalization of individual country reports and the multicountry report,
• developing the SPI database and computing the final SPI.

Target Participants

There will be about 40 participants from representatives of national government agencies (10), national consultants (20) with expertise in social protection, and other development partners such as ADB, OECD, OECD/Korea Policy Center, and the ILO.

Organizers

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD/Korea Policy Centre, and Asian Development Bank.