A unique networking opportunity, the Forum brought together social security administrators, policy-makers and international and regional organizations and debated the important contribution that social security can make faced with the economic and social challenges of the African region.

The ISSA conceptual framework of Dynamic Social Security, based on the development of high-performing and outcome-oriented social security administration and on the advancement of basic income security and health care for all, framed the deliberations of all sessions. The Forum offered an opportunity to debate ways of enhancing dynamic social security in the African region's varied contexts and was an important milestone towards the World Social Security Forum to take place in South Africa in 2010.  

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African voices		Directors of social security institutions in South Africa, Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania talk about some of the developments and challenges facing social security in the African region.
Regional Social Security Summit for Africa		High-level policy-makers and representatives of international organizations participated in the Regional Social Security Summit for Africa and debated the political dimension and measures necessary to make progress towards social security systems that can fully unfold their potential as key factors in any strategy to respond to the challenges of the African region.

Publications

Development and Trends report - Dynamic Social Security for Africa: An Agenda for Development

Social Policy Highlight - Dynamic Social Security for Africa: Extending social protection for development

Press Releases

24.11.2008 - African leaders call for greater political commitment to social security

19.11.2008 - Kenya, Morocco awarded for good social security practices at African Forum

17.11.2008 - Social security crucial for African development, says new ISSA report

28.10.2008 - Regional Forum to highlight social security as key to African development