E-Learning Course on Social Budgeting

5 October - 18 December 2020 Participants were introduced to the concept of social budgeting as a formal method allowing the combination of clearly structured financial information on social protection systems with social protection modeling. This included basic social accounting as well as model-based projections. The students were taught to understand the link between social budgeting, fiscal space and performance reviews. The training activity taught participants analytical methods of modeling of social protection schemes such as universal benefits, social assistance, family allowances, pensions and short-term benefits. Participants were introduced to designing models of social protection schemes, including their interrelationships with the demographic and economic environments. OBJECTIVES • The course will aim at strengthening the analytical skills of participants in a coordinated shorter- and long-term planning of national social security systems, as well as a set of associated quantitative planning tools. • The focus of the analysis will be on ensuring affordable financing for reasonable and adequate overall floor of protection and comprehensive social security systems and on making choices between different benefits with the aim of achieving progressively universal social protection, and on the allocation of national funds taking into account the costs and benefits of different options. • By the end of the module, participants should be in a position to understand and participate more actively in the social budgeting process of their social protection system. CONTENT The E-Learning on Social Budgeting consisted of 60 hours of learning over a period of 11 weeks, structured as follows: • Phase I – Data Collection and Analysis • Phase II – Social Budgeting Course • Phase III – Social Budgeting - E-Coaching ACHIEVEMENT The assessment structure, based on a total of 100 points included the following elements: • Assignments (60 points) • Final Assignment and Final Presentation (40 points)