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The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Social Protection Reforms: A Comparative Study of Jordan and Tunisia

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  • Courtney Geary
  • Asma Ben Hassen

    (Global Fairness Initiative (GFI))

  • Arbia Saleh
  • Ahmad Awad
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In the Arab region, social protection systems have historically suffered from several shortcomings, including high degrees of fragmentation, low coverage rates, and financial unsustainability. However, both Jordan and Tunisia have committed in recent years to expanding and reforming social protection systems. While civil society has the potential to positively influence the development of social protection policies in both countries, social dialogue has historically been suppressed. This paper seeks to examine the current context of social protection policy generation in both countries, providing an comparative examination of the historical roles that social dialogue has played in the formation of social protection policies and analyzing how periods of restricted public freedoms and tightening of civic space has limited civic participation in policy formation. The paper also provides a comparative analysis of the current social dialogue mechanisms and public freedoms in both countries, and in particular shifts which have occurred post-2011. By doing so, this paper highlights the role that civil society has played in the creation of recent social protection reforms, as well as identifies the significant challenges to civic participation in policy development which remain in both nations

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  • Courtney Geary & Asma Ben Hassen & Arbia Saleh & Ahmad Awad, 2022. "The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Social Protection Reforms: A Comparative Study of Jordan and Tunisia," Working Papers 1591, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Sep 2022.
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