Nuestros Mayores Derechos (Our Elderly Rights)
Basic Information
Country
Geographic area
Institutions and agencies involved
Population group
Elderly persons
Programme Details
Programme objectives
This programme aims to satisfy the demand for non-contributory social protection for the elderly. The objective of the programme is to promote family and community participation and social integration of the elderly, offering a series of interventions with an integral approach that allow them to access several services that promote the enjoyment of an active and healthy life.
Programme components
i) Basic Universal Pension;
ii) Promotion of health and nutrition;
iii) Learning together;
iv) Exercising rights and citizenship;
v) Recreating tradition and culture;
vi) Improving and fitting out spaces;
vii) Promotion of economic empowerment.
Coverage
Programme expenditure
Targeting and eligiblity
Targeting methods
Eligibility criteria
Older adults over 60 years and older adults over 70 years who do not receive other contributory or assistance pension in the country.
Coverage and other information
Type of benefits
i) Basic Universal Pension: Cash delivery in public events organized by the institutions and agencies involved with the programme, such as the Fondo de Inversión Social para el Desarrollo Local, FISDL (Social Investment Fund for Local Development), and the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency;
ii) Promotion of health and nutrition: Services of promotion, prevention, primary care and rehabilitation; home healthcare; strengthening of preventive medical actions and exercise of healthy lifestyles and nutritional check-ups and attention;
iii) Learning together: implementation of literacy circles especially destined to women in order to reduce the gender gaps;
iv) Exercising rights and citizenship: promoting the rediscovery and social recognition of the elderly through sensibilization and information in the media; Training activities to strengthen rights and empowerment; Legal consultancies for the promotion of rights: identification, processing, and resolution of the main legal issues of the elderly; legal assistance for obtaining ID cards; presentation of the legal reforms that promote the improvement of their rights;
v) Recreating tradition and culture: Development of re-creative, cultural and physical activities for older adults; promotion of inter-generational links; Historical memory recovery through the creation of peoples books and a publication with national coverage;
vi) Improving and fitting out spaces: Fitting out of regional temporary shelters for immediate attention of the elderly in cases of natural disasters; attention to victims of violence (especially family and gender violence);
vii) Promotion of economic empowerment: Promotion of entrepreneurship: identification of community products with market potential; support to the design and execution of productive projects and strengthening of capacities for the production and administration of their initiatives; Labour orientation and intermediation: participation of public and privates institutions willing to hire elderly in decent conditions.
Amount of benefits
i) Universal Basic Pension: USD 50
One-time death insurance payment for adults over 70 years of age or with severe disability: USD 100
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
Legal Framework
Decree No 647 (Law of Development and Social Protection).
