The Royal Governmentof Cambodia (RGC)has placed Social Protection at the core of its priorities. The development and approval of the National Social Protection Policy Framework (2016-2025) was a milestone and illustratesthe importance placed onsocial protection.Articulated in the NSSPF were also key challenges of coordination at the policy level and the limited understanding of Cambodians on social protection and its benefits as well as their rights to participate and benefit from the schemes. These challenges were to be addressed through a series of reforms, whichinclude the establishment of the National Social Protection Council (NSPC) as a coordinator at the policy level, the establishment of social security regulator and the integration of the existing social security operators into one single institution. The institution were to be vested with the power to manage all social security schemes, including pensions, health insurance, employment injuries insurance, disability insurance and unemployment insurance.

The Law on Social Security Schemes adopted and promulgated in October 2019 further definedthe role of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) as the unique operator in charge of implementing social security schemes as stipulated in the law. The NSSF is vested with the duties whichinclude among other duties, ensuring the benefit provision of social security schemes to NSSF members, collect and administrate contribution of the social security schemes and monitor the implementation of enterprises/establishments or relevant institutions under the competency of NSSF in relation to the law.