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Extending coverage

From country to country, and even within national frontiers, social security coverage levels vary widely. While the richest economies have nearly universal coverage, some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have coverage levels of less than 10 per cent of the population.

ISSA strategy for the extension of social security coverage

While the ISSA has tackled coverage extension at many conferences and in a number of publications, the crucial importance of improved coverage prompted the ISSA to develop an explicit strategy to guide and structure its activities in the future.

This document outlines the ISSA strategy. It defines the priority challenges for coverage extension, specific opportunities for social security institutions, a collaborative ISSA process for defining action plans of social security institutions to work towards extending coverage and the role of the ISSA in supporting its member institutions to implement these plans.