• Start-up of the National Organisation of State Social Security Institutes and its technical secretariat

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Sep-17
    End activities
    May-18
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato [Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Guanajuato]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-17
    Description
    The main outcome of this action in partnership with the Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG) was the establishment of the National Platform of State Social Security Institutes, namely the Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS). Members agreed on a light legal basis and substantiated it by displaying a working process with clear objectives and a one-year action plan. The role of experts from France, Germany and Spain was, beside technical expertise, one of facilitators of the debate among the participating State institutes. They contributed to the work with technical inputs, work methodology, examples from relevant EU and personal experiences, their overall spirit and the motivation to achieve a common goal.
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  • Strengthening social protection conventions for Peruvian migrant workers

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    22-01-2018
    End activities
    23-11-2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-12
    Description
    The outcome of the action relates to the development of individual capacities of staff of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru with regards to the conduct of bilateral negotiations for the establishment of social security conventions. It has regarded several dimensions of bilateral conventions, from the legal and technical spheres, up to the negotiations techniques and the follow-up of the implementation of the convention. In particular, the Partner wanted to get detailed information on social security systems in countries – such us Germany and Belgium – with which bilateral negotiations were ongoing. The Partner’s relevant staff has proactively interacted with experts, thus generating a peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge, and received detailed information and data on the two distinct social security systems.
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  • Capacity building in strategy and policy making

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Nov-17
    End activities
    Nov-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers [Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-03
    Description
    The technical assistance – its first phase of contextual analysis and technical recommendations, the second one allowing to observe the real practice of administrative workflows in the execution of sentences – helped the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) to lay down an internal strategy and adopt organizational tools allowing to reduce the time needed for the execution of sentences on claims brought by social security right-holders. At the same time, the Action actually improved intra-department communication and workflows. The measures introduced under the experts’ guidance produced practical and visible effects in the short term, with a significant reduction in the time needed to execute sentences. An ISSSTE delegation travelled to Madrid to observe the organizational practices of the Spanish Ministry of Social Affairs in the field of claims’ management.
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  • Enhancing institutional capacities of the National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in Mexico (SIPINNA)

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Nov-17
    End activities
    Dec-17
    Partner Institution
    National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children, Children and Adolescents [Sistema Nacional de Proteccion Integral de Ninas, Ninos y Adolescentes]
    Type of Assistance
    Assessment
    Code
    2016-16
    Description
    The Executive Secretariat of the Sistema Nacional de Protección Integral de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes (SIPINNA) has engaged with peers from Spain. In the course of four activities experts brought an external view allowing to accompany SIPINNA’s staff and executives to review the institutional and organizational capacities necessary for the Executive Secretariat to carry out its role of coordination and propulsion of the overall system of protection and promotion of children’s rights in Mexico. Experts formulated organizational scenarios and identified practical tools for their implementation, including with regards to the coordination of the local SIPINNA’s Secretariats.
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  • Strengthening the Management of financial reserves of the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers of Campeche

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    nov-17
    End activities
    nov-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Security and Social Services for Workers of the State of Campeche [Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado de Campeche]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2016-15
    Description
    The Action contributed to achieve two significant results: first, to overview the state of the art of the financial reserves available to the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado de Campeche (ISSSTECAM) and to critically overview the management arrangements in view of their sustainability; secondly, to draft a text of Law of reform of the State Law on social security and pensions, which was later on presented to and approved by the State Parliament. In the course of three activities, the Partner’s staff worked closely with public experts from France and Spain.
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  • Social Insurance: assistance in the development of the State agents pension system

    Western Africa GABON
    Start activities
    may-17
    End activities
    aug-17
    Partner Institution
    Pensions and Family Benefits Fund of State Agents [Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2016-07
    Description
    This action results from 5 distinct requests by the Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat (CPPF). The action's technical products - an assessment report on the organizational strategy of CPPF; recommendations on the development of social marketing and communication policy; recommendations for a revised IT architecture; a roadmap in view of the development of a new insurance branch, namely a complementary pension scheme – were all intended to contribute to the strengthening of the organizational capacities of the young CPPF. Teams of experts with different profiles and country origin (France, Morocco, the Netherlands) have exchanged with the Partner’s teams in the course of four activities.
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