1. A-902569 Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security
International experiences on social security training
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OF THE ILO
20 JULY 2010
TURIN, ITALY

2. 50 Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security
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Participant’s profile
Continent?
Africa
Americas
Arab States
Asia
Europe
Oceania 50

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Participant’s profile
Academic background?
Accounting
Finance
Law
Political sciences
Management
Economics
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Social security institutions
Do you think social security institutions in your country are properly run?
Yes No
It’s a scandal!!!
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Social security institutions
Who’s at fault?
Social security institutions’ staff members
Government
Board members representing the workers
Board members representing the employers 50

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Social security institutions
Main problem?
Political interference
Poor investment return
Inadequate benefits
Low level of coverage
Compliance with legislation
High administration costs
Long term sustainability
Inadequate administrative services
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On a scale of 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent), do you think social security institution staffs' skills and knowledge are up-to-date? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 50

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On a scale of 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent), do you think skills and knowledge of board members representing the workers are up-to-date? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 50

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On a scale of 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent), do you think skills and knowledge of board members representing the employers are up-to-date? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 50

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On a scale of 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent), do you think Government officials' skills and knowledge are up-to-date? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 50

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Most important training need for social security institution staff members?
Information system
Management
Investment
Actuarial techniques
Extension strategies
Customer Service
Legal Service
Governance
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12. 50 Standard Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security
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Board members
Most important training need for board members?
Social security policy
Management
Investment
Financial techniques
Extension strategies
Social security reform
Legal Service
Governance
Other 50

13. ILO response to training needs and ITC courses on social security
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
ILO response to training needs and ITC courses on social security
Short-term trainings (1-3 weeks)
Open courses
Tailor-made trainings
Training as part of technical cooperation projects
Long-term trainings (1-2 years)
Partnership with Maastricht, Lausanne and Mauritius University
Training projects
Quatrain Africa and America

14. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Short-term training offered by the ITC
Types of open courses offered by the ITC
Pension courses in Arab, French and English
Social health insurance in English
Social security financing and governance in Arab, English and Spanish
Social security extension in English, French and Spanish

15. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Pension course
Objectives
Improve the skills of pension planners, managers and social partners’ representatives involved in the governance of social security institutions and in the design and administration of pension schemes;
Increase awareness of the economic and financial implications of pension systems and understand the challenges posed by the financial and economic crisis for social security schemes.
Target participants
The workshop is aimed at managers and personnel of pension schemes, officials from key ministries responsible for the development and monitoring of social protection systems and representatives of the social partners involved in the governance of social security institutions.

16. Social health insurance course Objectives
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Social health insurance course
Objectives
To enhance the capacity of planners and managers to design, implement and manage a social health insurance scheme,
To increase understanding of the financial aspects of health insurance,
Target participant
The workshop is aimed at executives, managers, planners, financial officers and other responsible professionals of health care and health insurance schemes, both in the government and non-governmental sectors as well as persons in research functions within health systems

17. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Social security financing and governance course
Objectives
To increase awareness of the economic and financial implications of social protection systems;
To enhance knowledge of the techniques and methods used for establishing financially sustainable social security schemes;
To develop expertise and knowledge on best practices on governance and investments of institutions

18. Social security financing and governance course Target participants
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Social security financing and governance course
Target participants
Managers and personnel of social security schemes;
Tripartite members of the governing bodies (trustees, fiduciaries, directors) and other staff involved in the administration (investment committee members, internal auditors, legal and compliance advisors) of social security funds, civil servants' pension schemes and pension funds sponsored by state-owned companies;
Officials from key ministries responsible for the development and monitoring of social security systems or pension funds for civil servants' and state-owned enterprises;
Staff of finance, treasury and human resource departments of governments, and state-owned sponsoring companies involved in pension plan administration and pension fund management;
Pension fund regulators and supervisors.

19. Social security extension course Objectives
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Social security extension course
Objectives
The main objective of this interregional training course is to strengthen the capacity of key actors and stakeholders to design and implement strategies to extend social protection, in the framework of the social protection floor initiative and other extension channels, as a response to the crisis but also as a sustainable strategy for growth and development.

20. Social security extension course Target participants
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Social security extension course
Target participants
Policy planners from relevant governmental structures such as:
Ministry of Labour, Financing and Planning, Health, Social Protection and Social Affairs
Planners, advisers and professionals working in social security institutions or with social protection mechanisms;
Representatives of workers and employers‘ organizations involved in the extension of social protection coverage;
Practitioners and consultants of UN agencies of the coalition responsible for the social protection floor initiative who will be involved in its promotion and implementation at national, regional or global levels;
Leaders and key members of associative or non-governmental organizations engaged in social protection policy formulation;
Other international organizations and sponsors who wish to gain new technical insights and expertise relating to their interventions in the area of social protection.

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Short term open courses
From your point of view, which of the ITC open courses on social security is the most likely to be useful for the trade union leaders of your country ?
Pension
Social health insurance
Financing and governance
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Tailor-made trainings
Types of tailor-made courses offered by the ITC for worker representatives
How to read an Actuarial Report
Financial governance for board members
Types of tailor-made courses offered by the ITC for social security institutions
Tailor-made training for a social security institutions

23. How to read an Actuarial Report course Objectives
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
How to read an Actuarial Report course
Objectives
The training course is designed to help workers‘ representatives and their advisers understand actuarial reports so that they can better fulfill their roles as governors or potential governors of social security schemes.
Target participants
Trade union leaders - members of Social
Security Institutions' Board of Directors
Technical managers of CSI-Africa
Representatives of International Unions Federations

24. Financial governance for board members course Objectives
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Financial governance for board members course
Objectives
Understand the social and economic importance, and the potential of social protection schemes;
Analyze the operations of a social security organization;
Identify the responsibilities of governing bodies of social protection schemes; and
Establish the criteria for effective performance of a board member of a social protection scheme.
Target participants
Tripartite members of social security scheme governing bodies (trustees, directors, etc);

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Tailor-made courses
From your point of view, which of the ITC tailor/made courses on social security is the most likely to be useful for the trade union leaders of your country ?
Actuarial report
Financial governance
Other
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26. Tailor-made training for a social security institutions Objectives
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Tailor-made training for a social security institutions
Objectives
Design training programme based on the need assessment conducted jointly with the social security institution and the ITC
Methodology
An action-oriented, highly participative approach is employed throughout the training, with particular attention paid to sharing international experience with a view to adaptation and practical application. Training methods combine lectures and discussions, case studies, role-play exercises and group work.
Target participants
Very often, middle and high management level

27. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Training as part of technical cooperation projects
Types of training in the context of larger project
Actuarial valuation project
Social budgeting project
Social insurance project
Social protection floor project
Legal advice

28. Long term training in partnership with Universities
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Long term training in partnership with Universities
Maastricht University
The one-year Masters in Social Policy Financing programme was initiated by the ILO in 2001 and its realization actively supported by the Universiteit Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (Maastricht, The Netherlands). The programme is now self-sustaining and enjoys the attendance of between 20 and 25 students every academic year. The ILO continues to support the programme by covering close to half of the teaching load of courses.
The roots of the course lie in the Social Security Department's long standing experience in financial and actuarial advice to its constituent countries. The aim of the course is to further train professionals in social protection/policy financing who already work (or who intend to do so) for social security institutions, insurance companies, governments, research institutions and consultancy companies. In pursuing this approach it is hoped (a) to contribute towards improved governance of social protection schemes (b) to reduce country dependence on international or other advice on social protection/policy financing and on related policy issues, and (c) to improve the conditions for continuous collaboration on issues pertaining to social protection/policy financing between the ILO and its constituents.

29. Long term training in partnership with Universities
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Long term training in partnership with Universities
Lausanne University
This course has started in autumn of It was established as a result of the Europe-wide Bologna process of reforming and coordinating academic programmes in European universities. As an element of this process, the Université de Lausanne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) established the programme as a two-years Masters degree course, which, as a standard requires as a prerequisite an acknowledged bachelor degree.
The Social Security Department has been invited to complement the programme by lectures focusing on social protection from an international perspective and providing international experience in actuarial practice and social policy analysis.

30. Long term training in partnership with Universities
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Long term training in partnership with Universities
Mauritius University
The University of Mauritius, in partnership with the International Labour Office (ILO), has established a new post graduate programme that will award an Executive Master of Science in Social Protection Financing degree. The Executive Masters Programme is part of the ILO’s QUATRAIN AFRICA project, which is financed by the Federal Republic of Germany.
This intensive one-year degree programme is designed to equip social security managers and financial specialists to meet the challenges of financing national social protection programmes.

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From your point of view, which of the university programme on social security is the most likely to be useful for the trade union leaders of your country ?
Maastricht
Lausanne
Mauritius
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32. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Training projects
Quatrain Africa
Quatrain America

33. Training projects – Quatrain Africa
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Training projects – Quatrain Africa
3 years project funded by Germany
12 African countries covered by the project
The objectives of QUATRAIN AFRICA is directed to help governments:
Coherently plan social protection systems based on identified priorities;
Forecast and analyze the financial and fiscal implications of their choices; and
Organize, control and evaluate experience over time so social protection systems remain effective, or adopt timely reforms to ensure the sustainability of national social protection systems.
QUATRAIN AFRICA training concept is tailored to the situation of African countries, with the objective of strengthening financial governance through stronger capacities and better tools at the institutional level.

34. Training projects – Quatrain Africa Outputs
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Training projects – Quatrain Africa
Outputs
Master programme on Social Security financing in French and English
50 scholarship awarded
160 board members trained
Publications published

35. Training projects – Quatrain Americas.
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Training projects – Quatrain Americas.
QUATRAIN AMERICAS is the ILO's new training programme in quantitative methods applied to social protection. It was launched by the Social Security Department of the ILO (Geneva) in cooperation with the International Training Centre of the ILO (Turin Centre).
Through QUATRAIN AMERICAS, the ILO contributes to the promotion of specialized training related to technical cooperation by means of developing tools and methodologies adapted to national situations, exchange of information and dissemination of international best practices.
The strategy of QUATRAIN AMERICAS is to develop synergies within the Social Protection Sector and with employers' and workers' representatives in the ILO. It also aims to promote technical cooperation and partnerships with other international and academic institutions.

36. Training projects – Quatrain Africa Outputs
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Training projects – Quatrain Africa
Outputs
During its 30 months of activity, the Programme has already contributed with the training of 969 individuals from 35 countries who participated in 26 training activities.
Approximately 93 per cent of the participants came from the Americas and 7 per cent from Africa through South - South activities – basically from Portuguese –speaking countries.

37. Training projects – Quatrain Americas
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Training projects – Quatrain Americas
Distribution of participants by sub region

38. Training projects – Quatrain Americas
Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
Training projects – Quatrain Americas
Distribution of participants by area of training

39. Interregional Trade Union Training on Social Security International experiences on social security training
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