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Development of Occupational Safety and Health in Nigeria
- Start activities
- 09/07/2019
- End activities
- 04/09/2020
- Partner Institution
- Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2019-13
- Description
- A series of training sessions and a study visit to Germany have addressed the partner’s request to promote a preventative safety and health culture in the workplace. The Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation cooperates with the Lagos State Safety Commission in view to ensure the adequate occupational safety and health preventive and reactive measures are in place in the factories and firms of one of the most industrialized regions in the whole Africa. Training delivered by experts belonging to the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) concerned principles of prevention, assessing risks in the workplace, the ‘Vision Zero’ concept, and the specific area of road safety.
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Soft skills policies development: capacitación tecnica para la formulación de politicas públicas en materia de competencias blandas
- Start activities
- 02/09/2019
- End activities
- 29/05/2020
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Code
- 2018-08
- Description
- The General Directorate of Vocational Training of the Ministry of Labour provides training in Basic and Transversal Skills (renamed employability skills) to boost the employability of young people. Experts from Spain have accompanied the partner in mapping existing capacities and actors involved in providing employability skills training and have formulated a strategy that addresses possible gaps and improves public training provision aimed at valuing soft skills as a potential for employability of the youth and, more generally, of persons with limited educational attainments.
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Analysis of the pension legislative framework and strategic guidance
- Start activities
- 16/08/2016
- End activities
- 28/03/2017
- Partner Institution
- Gency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP)
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2016-04
- Description
- An assessment report of the existing pension legal framework has been elaborated by experts from Bulgaria and Latvia identifying gaps, risks and challenges, and formulating specific mitigation strategies and measures. The experts also prepared a compendium of requirements for the implementation of the legal framework, taking into account the administrative functions needed to operationalize the system. Following this, experts from Latvia and Lithuania produced a functional assessment and reviewed the business processes and workflows of the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) of Tajikistan in view of their adequacy in terms of human and material resources, technical competencies and tools, corporate organization and workflows. In particular, experts reviewed the current methodologies, formulas and processes used by ASIP for the calculation of pension benefits.
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Advice on sustainability and investment of pension funds
- Start activities
- 24/10/2018
- End activities
- 02/08/2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Economy and Finances
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2018-28
- Description
- The Action had an essential capacity building motive. The National Social Protection Committee of Cambodia – a long-standing SOCIEUX+ partner - wishes to enhance its role as a guardian and a regulator of an expanded and reformed social protection system. The present Action focused on pensions, in the light of the planned reform, which finally came into force in 2022, bringing in the system private sector workers, together with public civil servants. NSPC’s staff have received significant exposure to EU and international cases and practices, particularly on the issue of (sustainably) financing pensions. Relevant international standards were presented by experts from Finland and Lithuania, with a focus on taxation, collection of contributions, the very build-up of a pension system, and its financing.
Support in the implementation of a health financing reform and introduction of mandatory health insurance
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Support to the International Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area
- Start activities
- 03/03/2019
- End activities
- 03/05/2019
- Partner Institution
- Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES)
- Type of Assistance
- Code
- 2018-32
- Description
- The Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES) is a long-standing partner of SOCIEUX+. It gathers social security entities from 18 countries, mainly from Francophone Africa. In this circumstance the CIPRES Secretariat requested SOCIEUX+ to mobilize two public experts to share their country experiences and models on the occasion of the annual Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area. Experts from France and Luxembourg have covered the following themes: an intervention of the financing of universal health coverage and good practices on the governance of organizations running health insurance schemes. The Forum took place in Lomé (Togo) in March 2019.