1. FINLAND - Social Protection Show-and-Tell Seminar 2011
Bonn, 5 May, 2011
Timo Voipio
Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy, MFA-Finland
FINLAND - Social Protection Show-and-Tell Seminar 2011

2. Government 2011-2015 ? Minister for Development ?
? ? ? ? ? ?

3. Minister for Development ?  Arguments in support of SocProt
DW?SP IG?HR ? ? ?’Finns first’?

4. FINLAND since Show-and-Tell 2010:
BILATERAL:
Zambia SP Expansion Programme
In ‘pool’ with UNICEF, DFID, ILO, Irish Aid
Finland: Capacity building for professionals of care / Community Welfare Officers - vertically and horizontally (inter-ministerially)
8 countries in Central Asia and Caucasus
With ILO: Empl, OSH and SocSec
NGOs/DPOs: 3,1 % of bilateral ODA into SocProt, mainly into disability

5. MULTILATERAL:
WB: TF-ESSD  Innovation-funding, piloting on the themes of ‘crises’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘inequality reduction’.
WB: Disability mainstreaming + Global Partnership on Disability and Development (GPDD)
UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, WFP - Main channels of Finnish UN-ODA
ILO: UN Social Protection Floor Initiative SPF-I
UN Special Rapporteur on Disability
UN-HRC Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty  Social Protection and Human Rights
UNESCO – EFA/Disability Inclusive Education

6. OTHER:
Funding and contributing to the EU Flagship Report ERD-2010 on “Social Protection for Inclusive Development – A New Approach to European Cooperation with Africa
AU Social Policy Framework
 implementation and capacity building plans
African Decade on Disability and Development
OECD-POVNET + TT Social Protection
Train4Dev SocProt  ‘Frozen’
ICSW + IFSW + IASSW  social workers (TZ)
UN-CSocD + SDAN
Nordic Council :

7. Global Sustainability Panel
+ The social dimension
of sustainable development 
RIO+20
High-Level
Global Sustainability Panel
- Rethinking the development paradigm for prosperity in a low carbon world

8. Global Sustainability Panel
High-Level
Global Sustainability Panel
Set up by UN SecGen Ban Ki-moon
Co-chairs: Pres. Zuma + Pres. Halonen
+ Policymakers +private sect. + civil society
Timeline: Aug-2010  Dec-2011
A contribution to the Rio+20 / UNFCCC
3 dimensions of sustainable development: ECON / SOC / ENV

9. RIO-1992: Sustainable dev’t = Balanced dev’t  Rio+20
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL
ECOLOGICAL
Entry points for ICSW to promote
Social Justice in PRS-processes
ICSW Global Conference,
Brasilia July, 2006
UM/KYO

10. But: 25 years of neoliberal policies
SOCIAL
ECONOMIC
ECOLOGICAL
Entry points for ICSW to promote
Social Justice in PRS-processes
ICSW Global Conference,
Brasilia July, 2006
UM/KYO

11. High Ambitions
”A new action-oriented approach to people-centred sustainable development”
”Think out of the box and rise above the national positions.”
”Special emphasis should be given to the most vulnerable populations.”
”Therefore a key issue for the panel should be poverty eradication, focusing on dignity and resilience.”

12. WG1: Basic questions:
What steps…to a new dev’t paradigm to eradicate poverty, ensure social inclusion and provide decent jobs?
What role for a new approach to growth?
Who are the key actors, and what do they need to do, and in which timeframe?
PLEASE HELP !
PLEASE CONTRIBUTE !!
PLEASE INFLUENCE YOUR GOV’T POSITIONS: SUST.DEVT NEEDS A SOCIAL DIMENSION: SP IS KEY PART OF IT !!!