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Social Services Policies and Family Well-being in the Asian and Pacific Region: Asia-Pacific Population and Social Studies Series No. 165

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ESCAP Reference No.: 2525

Division/Office: Social Development

Published Date: February 2009

Country: {Non-country Specific Publication}

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Family structure, functions and values are experiencing unprecedented changes in Asia and the Pacific. However, there is often an absence of a family perspective in social policymaking in general and in social protection policymaking in particular. Against this background, ESCAP launched in 2007 a project entitled “Enhancing policies on social services in support of family well-being in Asia and the Pacific”. It aimed to provide governments and other relevant stakeholders in the region with innovative approaches to strengthen family well-being through enhanced policies for the provision of social protection and the effective delivery of social services. Produced as a bi-product of the project, the publication contains a regional overview of changing features of family and existing social protection schemes and services to strengthening family. The country studies on China, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, examine the situation of the family in the country and analyzed the status of social protection and social services policies from the family perspective. The report also includes the Regional Framework for Strengthening the Family through Enhanced Social Protection and Social Services Policies, drawn from the deliberations of activities under the project.

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Part One: Regional overview

I The family in the Asian and Pacific region: prospects and challenges

A. Demographic, social and economic overview

B. Socio-economic development

C. Challenges for the family well-being

D. Social services

E. Social protection systems in the Asian and Pacific region

II Strengthening the family through enhanced social protection and social services

A. Financial resources

B. Process for the formulation of a family policy

C. Recommendations

Part Two: Country studies

I China

A. Socio-economic system transformation in China

B. Family change in China

C. Influence of system transformation on family welfare

D. Influence of family changes on family welfare

II Malaysia

A. Impact of socio-economic development and demographic

factors on the family

B. Social protection and social services policies: from a

family perspective

C. Some key characteristics of social services in Malaysia

D. Concluding remarks and recommendations for strengthening family

well-being through improved social services policies in Malaysia

III Sri Lanka

A. Conceptual framework on family well-being

B. Changing demographic structure of households

C. Social policies and programmes

D. Conclusions and recommendations

References

Annex: Regional framework for strengthening the family through enhanced social protection and social services policies

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