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Focus: ISSA Good Practice Awards - Europe 2010
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ISSA,
30.09.2009 |
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| Managing reforms
The identification and sharing of good practices helps social security organizations and institutions to improve their operational and administrative efficiency. The ISSA has initiated a Good Practice Awards programme to recognize good practices in the administration of social security.Read more
Extending social security coverage: Assessing current knowledge and good practices
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ISSA,
23.09.2009 |
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| Extending coverage
The extension of coverage is one of the greatest challenges for social security today. Studies estimate that between 70 and 80 per cent of the global population live in a state of “social insecurity”. There is, however, growing recognition of the contribution of social security systems to social...Read more
Chinese health-care reforms move towards universal coverage
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ISSA,
23.09.2009 |
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| Extending coverage, Health
Globally, there is an urgent need to extend health-care coverage. Each year the absence of affordable health care leads more individuals and families into a vicious circle of ill health and poverty. While the exact figures are not known, some estimates state that up to half of all people living i...Read more
ISSA Survey: Social security responses to the financial crisis
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ISSA,
23.06.2009 |
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| Social security financing
In the current time of financial and economic crisis, the importance of strengthening social security’s role in society, as an investment in social cohesion and political stability and a prerequisite for successful economic development, is better understood. Social security benefits and services...Read more
Focus: ISSA Good Practice Awards - Asia and the Pacific
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ISSA,
25.05.2009 |
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| Managing reforms
The identification and sharing of good practices helps social security organizations and institutions to improve their operational and administrative efficiency. The ISSA has initiated a Good Practice Awards programme to recognize good practices in the administration of social security.Read more
Improving the delivery of social security in Africa through good governance
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ISSA,
20.03.2009 |
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| Administration & management
Realizing governance improvements in the effective and efficient administration and delivery of benefits sits high on the agenda of social security administrations in all countries. Recently, the importance of such governance improvements was confirmed by the submissions to the Good Practice Awar...Read more
Uruguay’s New Family Allowances Scheme
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ISSA,
19.03.2009 |
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| Family policies
The first-ever left-wing coalition government in the history of Uruguay came into power in 2005. One major reform introduced by this government is Law 18.227 on the New Family Allowance Scheme (NRAF), which supersedes Laws 17.139 and 17.758. Through targeting children and adolescents from vulnera...Read more
Analysis - Keeping older workers in employment: A policy success
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ISSA,
17.03.2009 |
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| Old age / Survivors, Employment policies
Until the recent past, older workers in industrialised countries were tending to leave the employment market at an increasingly younger age, but the situation has now changed. In a context marked by ageing and restricted manpower, the improvement of the situation of seniors in the employment mark...Read more
In Focus: Social security investing in health and life at work
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ISSA,
10.03.2009 |
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| Occupational risks
A safe and healthy workplace is a basic human right and a central concern of social security. Investment in prevention has led to a significant decrease in occupational accidents and diseases. It has saved millions of lives and prevented enormous human suffering. And investment in prevention make...Read more
Social security: A pillar of social justice
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ISSA,
18.02.2009 |
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| About social security
The United Nations has designated 20 February 2009 as the first World Day of Social Justice. The World Day recognizes that society must be based on social justice, a respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms – and on the right to social protection for all. Read more
Tunisia: Reform of the health insurance system
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ISSA,
18.12.2008 |
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| Managing reforms, Health
A programme to reform the Tunisian health insurance system has been underway since 1996. The reform process was initiated by a Presidential decision but set within a context of public dissatisfaction, with the key players considering the health-care system “exhausted”. Over recent years, the publ...Read more
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and social security
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ISSA,
09.12.2008 |
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| About social security
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. According to its preamble, it expresses “a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations”, whose “universal and effective recognition and observance” must be secured by “pro...Read more
Focus: ISSA Good Practice Awards - Americas
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ISSA,
09.12.2008 |
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| Managing reforms
The identification and sharing of good practices helps social security organizations and institutions to improve their operational and administrative efficiency. The ISSA has initiated a Good Practice Awards programme to recognize good practices in the administration of social security.Read more
Analysis: Creating "good societies" – the role of social security
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ISSA,
09.10.2008 |
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| About social security
The UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has completed publication of the findings of a five-year research programme, "Social Policy in a Development Context", that examined the role of social security – and social policy more broadly – in the building of productive and competiti...Read more
In Focus: The extension of social security: Opportunities and challenges for the ISSA
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ISSA,
27.06.2008 |
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| Extending coverage
Social security coverage is one of the most complex but important issues facing policy-makers. Although the scale and specificity of issues vary among countries, it is noteworthy that gaps in coverage affect not only the developing world; it is also an issue for more developed economies too.Read more
Focus: ISSA Good Practice Awards - Africa
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ISSA,
10.06.2008 |
Feature
| Managing reforms
The identification and sharing of good practices helps social security organizations and institutions to improve their operational and administrative efficiency. The ISSA has initiated a Good Practice Awards programme to recognize good practices in the administration of social security.Read more
World Congress - A Global Forum for Prevention
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ISSA,
03.06.2008 |
Press release
| Occupational risks
XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
World Summit on Safety and Health,
Seoul, Republic of Korea, 29 June - 2 July 2008 Read more
Upcoming Events
Workshop on Social Health Insurance
ISSA,
08.03.2010
- 19.03.2010
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International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy >>
Course on Social Security Financing
ISSA,
15.03.2010
- 26.03.2010
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International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy >>
Technical Seminar on High Performance in Social Security by Innovation, Change Management and Risk Management
ISSA,
29.03.2010
- 31.03.2010
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia >>