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Improving technical management tools available to INAM
- Start activities
- 02/04/2018
- End activities
- 02/08/2019
- Partner Institution
- National Health Insurance Institute (INAM)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2017-39
- Description
- The experts’ contribution targeted several dimensions of organizational capacities and tools that are key to allow the Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM) of Togo to efficiently run an extension of health insurance coverage to private sector’s workers and aim to full, universal coverage. Among the matters tackled by mobilized teams of experts from France, Italy, and Romania were contracting capabilities and management of agreements with health care providers, costing of medical procedures, and economic and actuarial analysis. The technical assistance has thus provided very specific, methodological and operational recommendations that aim to enlarge INAM’s set of tools and knowledge necessary to efficiently run health insurance.
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Support to the Implementation of an Employment Injury Insurance System for Malawi
- Start activities
- 24-6-2018
- End activities
- 29-3-2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2018-02
- Description
- The SOCIEUX+ contribution was mainly directed to uphold the current, joint Government of Malawi – ILO efforts towards the establishment of the Workers Compensation Scheme for Malawi. The Government of Malawi has embarked on the process of establishing a social insurance-based employment injury insurance system through the Workers Compensation Fund. The system is to replace the existing employer-liability system and functions on the basis of risk pooling. This reform entails the development of a system that mandatorily collects appropriate premiums from all employers and provides compensation towards injured workers from a Government-managed fund.
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Contribution to the National Social Security Policy Round Table in Kenya
- Start activities
- 24/03/2018
- End activities
- 19/03/2018
- Partner Institution
- National Social Protection Secretariat
- Type of Assistance
- National events (awareness raising)
- Code
- 2018-03
- Description
- The action aimed to contribute to policy dialogue on social security in Kenya. Participation of experts from France in a round table on employment injury insurance, maternity protection and the role of social partners and social dialogue in insurance schemes took place on demand of the National Social Protection Conference on the occasion of a national conference held in Nairobi from 20 to 23 March 2018.
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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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Technical assistance for the extension of social protection coverage
- Start activities
- 12-02-2018
- End activities
- 1-12-2018
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-30
- Description
- The primary outcome of the action has been to position the Directorate for Social Security of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru in the policy area of extending social protection to atypical workers. The report prepared by the experts from France and Spain was meant to constitute a piece of comparative knowledge to feed the institutional debate. The peer-to-peer dialogue allowed to broaden the horizon of the debate and reflection on the state of social protection of independent workers and workers of small and medium enterprises in Peru, but also to formulate a policy report which puts forward reasonable tools and approaches for advancing social protection in the area of atypical work.
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Capacity building for social policy analysis conducted
- Start activities
- Feb-18
- End activities
- 12/07/2018
- Partner Institution
- Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs [Viện Khoa Học Lao Động Và Xã Hội]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-28
- Description
- The Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA) of Vietnam has expressed to SOCIEUX+ a particular interest in knowing more about multi-dimensional poverty-measurement approach. The ultimate goal was to increase ILSSA’s role in the support to policy-making. The first activity was conceived as a training involving ILSSA’s researchers in view of increasing knowledge and analytical capacities involved in the analysis of the economic and social context in terms of multi-dimensional poverty. The second activity has allowed to look into the organizational capacity of ILSSA as a public research institution. Experts from Ireland, Italy, and France have participated to the peer-to peer exchanges with ILSSA’s staff.
