The National Basic Social Security Strategy (ENSSB) 2016-2024 seeks to achieve the Government’s Five Year Programme for 2015-2019, through implementing actions that contribute to reducing poverty and vulnerability, ensuring that the results of the growth of the Mozambican economy benefit all citizens, particularly those living in situations of poverty and vulnerability. Drawing up the present Strategy was based on targets set in the National Development Strategy 2015-2035, Agenda 2063 of the African Union, and the Sustainable Development Goals approved by the United Nations. Taken together, these stress the dynamic and promotional approach of social protection and the potential of the basic social security instruments to strengthen human, productive and social capital, as well as the capacity for resilience of the most vulnerable households and individuals. This strategy intends to continue the actions carried out since the passing of the Social Protection Law in 2007, to build an effective and efficient basic social security system, and presents a comprehensive approach for the social protection of the poorest groups of the Mozambican population, defining the guiding lines for strengthening their capacity for protection against social risks so that they emerge from their situation of vulnerability on a long term sustainable basis. ENSSB 2016-2024 was drawn up by considering the profile of vulnerabilities and risks in the country, the functions of basic social security and the diagnosis of the current situation of the system, presenting the following objectives: 1) Boost the level of consumption and the resilience of the poor and vulnerable strata of the population; 2) Contribute to the development of human capital through improving nutrition and access to basic health and education services for the poor and vulnerable strata of the population; 3) Prevent and respond to risks of violence, abuse, exploitation, discrimination and social exclusion through social welfare services, and 4) Develop the institutional capacity to implement and coordinate the basic social security sub-system. To make these objectives operational, ENSSB 2016-2024 is structured into four axes of intervention, namely; Axis 1: Strengthen consumption, autonomy and resilience; Axis 2: Improvements in nutrition and in access to health and education services; Axis 3: Prevention of and response to social risks; and Axis 4: Institutional development.
Мозамбик · 2016-02-01