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- The Rights Based Approach: To ensure that the basic needs of individuals in the society are provided for, primarily by according such needs the status of rights.
- Social Risk Management: To counter the impact of the wide array of risks that threaten economic well-being (these risks relate to the lifecycle, to social, economic and environmental conditions and to natural events such as disasters).
- Transformative Social Protection: To alter the social/cultural/political biases in the society that cause particular population groups to be inherently susceptible to economic risk and vulnerability.
- The gender perspective is to be infused in all areas and levels of the social protection system, underpinned by life cycle concerns for all citizens, including the elderly with “Ageing of the Population” identified as an emerging vulnerability.
General Objectives
- To enhance the prospects for economic and social development of Jamaica through a structured approach to the provision of social protection interventions.
- To provide the conceptual underpinning that will guide legislative and policy frameworks resource mobilization, programming and service delivery, for social protection in the country.
- To unite and orient the efforts of public and private actors and stakeholders in creating responsive programmes and initiatives for social protection, through the various types of interventions.
- To ensure that vulnerable or disadvantaged population groups or individuals have recourse to a safety net facilitating basic income security and social services.
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The Entire Population
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Main Priority Measure
A.1 - Eradicate poverty
Reinforce the public policies and actions needed to eradicate poverty and break the cycles of exclusion and inequality as a condition for achieving development in the region.
A.2 - Human rights, gender and interculturality
Apply a human rights approach with a gender and intercultural perspective in addressing population and development issues, and step up efforts to recognize, promote and uphold relevant goals in order to eliminate inequalities and foster social inclusion.
C.25 - Intergenerational solidarity
Formulate policies to take advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the demographic dividend and that include coordinated investments in education and health and the creation of decent work on the basis of intergenerational solidarity.
C.30 - Social protection for the elderly
Promote the development of allowances and services relating to social security, health and education in the social protection systems targeting older persons to improve their quality of life, economic security and social justice.
C.32 - Protection and social security with a gender perspective
Extend social protection and social security systems, with a gender perspective, to include those women who have devoted their lives to productive work, whether as domestic workers, women in rural areas or informal workers.