1. Achieving the SPF Guarantees: Recommendations from group discussions

2. Summary of the recommendations
Health:
Improve the quality of service delivery at public health facilities
Raise awareness among the communities
Ensure that basic healthcare delivery is not donor dependant
Sustainable health financing
Contributory scheme
Focus on preventive healthcare
Invest in human capital development
Infrastructure and training of personnel
Access to drugs and services
Use innovative approach to deliver services
Children:
Develop a program targeting children directly (so far no such program exists) – universal (starting at 0-5 and progressively extending coverage for children 6-14)
Operationalize the Liberian Children Law
Birth registration for all children
Improve child nutrition
Provide education for all children
Reduce maternal mortality rate
Monitoring and evaluation system/database
Set benefit amount at 3000 Liberian dollars per month per child (subsidy)
Revision of the system to address vulnerable groups of populations: foster care and domestic adoption (database should be updated; clear guidelines)
Improvement of family planning programmes
Increase the number and develop capacities of social workers
Working age:
Cover formal sector fully (currently only 30% are covered) and create mechanisms to extend to informal sector
Increase the level of benefits
Develop a law on employment opportunities for persons living with disabilities
Improve access of persons with disabilities to the facilities
Disability benefit: 30US$ per month (current minimum pension)
Financial empowerment programs through job, education, rehabilitation, training, etc
Reduce bureaucratic bottle-necks – create a one-stop shop for processing of claims
Reduce job insecurity
Decentralize processing of benefits
Ensure timely payment of benefits 
Elderly:
Extend coverage to informal sector
Increase the benefit level (adjust to inflation, cost of living; NASSCORP to share RoI with beneficiaries)
Increment in salaries
Build confidence of the society to insurance
Create more one-stop shops for processing of claims
Transparent process of calculating personal benefits
Social pension for persons aged 65 and above
Explore possible contributory mechanisms to reach informal sector
Minimum pension benefit – 100 USD (contributory)
Increase basic salaries to civil servants

3. Summary of the recommendations
Common recommendations:
 Develop infrastructure
Raise awareness among the communities
Ensure sustainable financing, not donor-related
Improve coordination between different agencies and linkage to other sectors
Ensure transparency of the processes
Decentralize processing of benefits and claims
Explore mechanisms to reach informal sector
Need for more dialogue