This Social Security Field Monitoring Project, established in 2008, serves as a critical mechanism for evaluating the operational efficacy of social security systems in collaboration with frontline practitioners and policy experts. Entering its seventeenth year in 2025, the project’s institutional significance was underscored by the inauguration of the 10th Expert Advisory Committee.
The 2025 forums focused on four pivotal thematic pillars: (1) housing precariousness and homelessness support frameworks; (2) the current state of public assistance for foreign residents; (3) a comprehensive 25-year retrospective on the National Basic Livelihood Security System; and (4) the transition from application-based welfare toward automated delivery systems. The empirical insights and field-based policy recommendations generated through these forums offers a robust foundation for mitigating welfare blind spots and advancing a more inclusive, high-efficiency social security systems.