ASEAN Declaration On Strengthening Social Protection Analysis

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection at the 23rd ASEAN Summit in Brunei Darussalam on October 9, 2013. To implement the Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection, the regional framework and action plan was adopted at the 27th ASEAN Summit on November 21, 2015 in which ASEAN defined social protection as “interventions that consist of policies and programmes designed to reduce poverty, inequalities, and vulnerability by assisting the poor, at risk, vulnerable groups.” Coverage of social protection includes “social welfare and development, social safety-nets, social insurance, social assistance, social services in ASEAN Member States” (ASEAN, 2013). Individuals covered include but are not
The duality of structure is crucial in his structuration theory wherein agency and structure interact to create social change. The activities of individuals (agency) are based upon rules and resources (structures) produced and reproduced or transformed during the interaction. Actions of individuals are restricted by rules while the resources help facilitate the action. Hence, structures of society are recursively entailed and are both constraining and enabling influences over freedom of action of individuals (Giddens, 1986). For Giddens, rules and resources stabilizes the social practices and play a key role in reproducing the social practices (Elder-Vass, 2010).

Giddens also refers to structure as the institutionalized features of societies in a looser definition. Noting the structure's involvement on the structural concepts in which he defined and quoted on following: 1. “Structural Principles: Principles of organization of societal totalities;
2. Structures: Rule-resource sets, involved in the institutional articulation of social systems;