The World Social Security Forum

The World Social Security Forum will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, 29 November - 4 December 2010. The Forum will offer participants an exclusive opportunity to share knowledge, recognize good practices and discuss key challenges and innovative strategies for Dynamic Social Security.

The participants

The World Forum is open to ISSA member organizations and invited participants only. This unmissable event is expected to attract over 1,000 leaders and administrators of social security institutions, policy-makers, representatives of international organizations and social policy experts from more than 100 countries.

The programme

The Forum will provide an exclusive platform to analyse and debate a range of key issues facing social security today, and includes the following highlights:

•    Global developments and trends in social security
•    The impact of demographic changes on social security
•    Good governance guidelines and management concepts for social security organizations
•    ISSA and ILO strategies for the extension of social security coverage
•    The contribution of social security to African development
•    The World Social Security Summit
•    The 30th ISSA General Assembly, and meetings of the ISSA Bureau and the ISSA Council.

The detailed programme is available to ISSA member organizations on the ISSA Extranet .

The host

The World Social Security Forum and the 30th ISSA General Assembly will be hosted by the Department of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa . The Department develops and monitors the implementation of social policy and ensures the provision of social protection and social welfare services in South Africa.