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Title A name given to the resource AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE EXCLUSION OF NON-FORMAL WORKERS FROM THE MOZAMBICAN SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DIONÍSIO CALISTO RECAMA Description An account of the resource This thesis was an analysis of the factors influencing the exclusion of the non-formal workers from the Mozambique Social Protection System (MSPS). It aimed at finding mechanisms through which the MSPS could become more comprehensive and inclusive. The social protection system only accommodates employees from the formal sector of the economy, which constitutes the minority of the economically active population (EAP) and also of the Mozambican people. So, in more than 25 million of Mozambicans, of which more than 15 million are above 15 years and are EAP, of which more than 87% are out of the formal sector and, consequently, excluded from the MSPS. In this context, the research looked out to understand why the MSPS excludes the non-formal workers? What are the implications of this exclusion of the non-formal workers? How the excluded workers survive in situations of illness, invalidity, old age or death? Which mechanisms can be adopted in order to make the MSPS more comprehensive and inclusive? To constitute the sample, it was recurred to non-probability sampling in its convenience and purpose type, in which had employees of the National Institute for Social Security (NISS), Municipality Council of Maputo City (MCMC), non-formal professional associations responsible and the non-formal workers, as the research participants. To generate data, to the sample elements, the researcher administered a questionnaire and interview containing closed and open-ended questions. To analyse and discuss data, it was delimited to the use of interpretivism or constructivism approach in qualitative methodology. For presentation, analysis and discussion, it was confined to the use of technical charts and contends analysis. As guiding theories, the study recurred to the social protection and social network theories. Through the use of the qualitative methodology, philosophy, procedures and theories above, it was perceived that the MSPS managed by the NISS did not include the non- formal workers because it lacked administrative organisation to include and manage them and because bureaucratic aspects. The NISS considered all workers that were not working at enterprises as the non-formal, without resources to contribute to the social protection system and difficult to find them. However, some of them were salaried, clearly locatable, with enough financial income to contribute to the system. Moreover, some of them were continuously in relationship with some public institutions, namely, Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT), MCMC and National Institute for Statistics (NIS), which licensed and afterwards, collected fees and tax, interacted constantly and collected important information from them, and so on. Therefore, this exclusion, besides having no objectively real and valid reasons, condemned these non-formal workers to social and economic vulnerability in the future when they are at social and economic risk, such as maternity, sickness, invalidity, old age and/or death. To minimise the impact of these situations, the excluded workers adopted informal systems for social security or constitute professional associations, through which they face the maternity, illness, invalidity, old age and death difficulties. That is why the NISS must: (1) develop strategic tools for the institutional management, by which should be guided in all its actions to cover all workers, the formal or non-formal; for that, the NISS can (2) create partnership with the non-formal professional associations and public institutions which interact with them, because they know who and where are then, their financial and economic conditions; (3) consolidate the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to facilitate the scanning and electronic storage process of historical information of the (not)submitted contributions to reduce the contribution evasion and inactivity of employers and workers; and (4) develop a training plan for their employees to identify with the strategic objectives and challenges of the institution, just to mention a few proposals. Finally, Also, it is necessary to do a feasibility study for (1) reimbursement of the Mozambican state with respect to its contribution rate of the non-formal workers and other segments hitherto excluded; (2) create fiscal mechanism to provide social pensions non-contributory, i.e., welfare pensions; (3) show the possibility to define and regulate an explicit mechanism and purpose of upgrading the amount of benefits that can be accrued from engaging non-formal workers into the social protection system. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 non-formal workers social protection