Sida ITP 322/3: Social Protection for Sustainable Development

ITP322: Social Protection for Sustainable Development Programme

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Arbetsförmedlingen (the Swedish Public Employment Service) and the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) welcome you to the International Training Programme on Social Protection for Sustainable Development. Trusting that the training programme will contribute to the development of the social protection system in your country, the training programme offers participants support to strengthen, adapt and maintain capacity over time to implement progressively a medium-term change programme that strengthens the capacity of the national social protection system to work more effectively.

The aim and overall objective of the International Training Programme (ITP) is a long-term and sustainable contribution to a more inclusive and equal society by improving the function of the social protection systems that tackle poverty, vulnerability, inequality (both gender and economic) and exclusion while strengthening the delivery of inclusive social development, productive employment and equitable economic growth.