The aim of the national workshop in Cambodia was to enhance local capacities within social protection programmes and to identify, reach out to and expand adequate coverage for those left behind. The national multistakeholder workshop  introduced innovative tools to strengthen evidence-based and inclusive policymaking in the area of social protection in Cambodia. Such policies had the potential to reduce inequality of opportunity and vulnerability and accelerate the implementation of the SDGs, by making sure that those left behind are also included. Based on evidence generated by multiple tools, the workshops helped discuss how to use and institutionalize policy tools and results to inform the design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of social protection policies so that no one was left behind. The workshop also aimed to collect feedback from participants to guide the further development and localization of the policy tools. 

By the end of the workshop, it was expected that participants would:

• Have a strengthened capacity to use data to build the evidence base to inform more inclusive social protection design and implementation to accelerate recovery from the triple crisis;

• Understand multidimensional poverty measures and SP2LNOB tool and how they can further the understanding and application of the principle of leaving no one behind;

• Understand how to navigate the SP2LNOB tool and inform relevant social protection policies/schemes with evidence;

• Understand how to design, compute and analyse a multidimensional poverty index, using the Alkire-Foster method from a social protection perspective

• Recognize the complementarity of different frameworks in use at the country level and presented during the workshop to monitor advances on the Sustainable Development Goal targets related to social protection;

• Provide input on the consideration of next steps towards the consolidation of a strategy, including a financial strategy, for the efficient use of current frameworks to achieve universal social protection.