Social Protection Brief: Mongolia’s Community-Based Welfare Services Program
Sri Wening Handayani; Myla M. Sandoval | February 2015
Abstract
The Government of Mongolia’s Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor (MSWL) introduced the
CBWS program social welfare program in 2005 to provide services based on citizens’ actual
demands. The program devolves primary responsibility for the development of social welfare
services on the community level where individuals, private entities, or NGOs implement services.
Since 2011, the CBWS program has been providing five types of services: counseling and skills
building services, employment opportunities, rehabilitation services, temporary shelter, and home-
based care. The program’s target recipients include older persons, fully incapacitated individuals
with disabilities, children in difficult circumstances, abused individuals, and individuals from socially
vulnerable groups whose social welfare pension or welfare benefits have been terminated.
In 2010, the CBWS program reportedly benefited about 180,000 individuals with a budget of nearly
MNT1.4 billion in 2010.
This, however, represents less than 1% of expenditure on welfare services,
and is a small fraction of the MSWL’s overall budget
Citation
Sri Wening Handayani; Myla M. Sandoval. 2015. Social Protection Brief: Mongolia’s Community-Based Welfare Services Program. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3305. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.PDF ISBN
978-92-9254-872-8
Print ISBN
978-92-9254-871-1
ISSN
2071-7202 (Print)
Keywords
Governance and public sector management
Governance
Governance Quality
Governance Approach
Government
Public management
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