A Panoramic View of the Social Security and Social Protection Provisioning in Lesotho

Abstract

The paper is divided into four main sections. The first section briefly deals with the conceptualisation of social security in Lesotho. The second section carries out an overview of the current social security system of Lesotho with a view to determining its status and the extent to which it needs improvement. The third step will be to evaluate the system from a social policy perspective with the object of identifying its strengths and weaknesses, employing some critical social security benchmarks. Lastly, by way of conclusion, some salient issues resulting from the discussion in this article will be highlighted.