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Strategic goals according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index in Panama
- Start activities
- Feb-18
- End activities
- 31/05/2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Development [Ministerio de Desarrollo Social]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-32
- Description
- The action has supported the Ministry of Social Development of Panama to define the goals of poverty-reduction strategies in connection with the Multidimensional Poverty Index. Together with expert teams from France, Italy, Portugal, and Colombia, the Partner increase its staff’s understanding of multidimensional measurements and their relationship with the design of public policies. Furthermore, the methodology of microsimulation of multidimensional poverty goals was presented and the steps for its implementation in the STATA software were identified. Finally, a systematic review of the existing policy instruments for reducing poverty has been conducted, which helped to determine how they might be adapted in view to tackle multi-dimensional poverty. Particular attention was dedicated to the “Plan Cero Pobreza” and the development of multidimensional poverty-related indicators.
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Start-up of the National Organisation of State Social Security Institutes and its technical secretariat
- 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
- 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 for East and Central African social security agencies
- Start activities
- sep-17
- End activities
- nov-17
- Partner Institution
- East and Central Africa Social Security Association
- Type of Assistance
- Training
- Code
- 2017-05
- Description
- The action aimed to strengthen the capacity of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to design and conduct training in favor of its member organizations The three activities’ deliverables are similar and consist in the materials presented by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts/trainers throughout the three sessions and pertaining to social protection coverage, leadership and ethics, and occupational safety and health. The participating experts came from Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands
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Capacity building in strategy and policy making
- 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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Social Insurance: assistance in the development of the State agents pension system
- 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.