ISSA priorities 2023–2025
The 2023–2025 ISSA Programme and Budget was adopted by the ISSA Council at the World Social Security Forum (WSSF) in October 2022. ISSA priorities are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the global agenda on social justice.
Topics
Four topical priorities and one cross-cutting issue will steer the ISSA’s knowledge production and activities during this triennium.
- Barriers and enabling factors for successful transformation and innovation in social security management
- Ingredients and strategies for accessible, data-driven, pro-active and high-quality delivery of people-centred social security benefits and services
- Extending contributory social security approaches to difficult-to-cover groups
- Extending health coverage and unemployment insurance
- Maintaining coverage levels and integrating new types of work, e.g. platform work
- Accessibility to social security for all eligible population
- How social security systems can achieve their objectives in the context of changing patterns of work, family and demography
- Supporting people through an increasing number of transitions, due to increasingly flexible and atypical work careers and diverse family models
- Meeting new needs of persons in all ages, and adapting to demographic ageing
- Key enablers to optimize the resilience of social security systems
- Business continuity, service upscaling and delivery during a crisis
- Institutional capacity and risk management approaches
- Link with crisis preparedness for social security institutions
- Enhancing the contribution of social security to environmental sustainability
Strategies for closing financing gaps, identifying the appropriate financing mix and enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of social security systems.
Products and services
As the ISSA enters the 2023–2025 triennium, the Association will consolidate its strong focus on knowledge and analysis and further innovate to respond to member needs for networking and exchanges. New product and service developments will focus on facilitating and strengthening member collaboration, capacity-building and co-creation of innovation in social security administration.
- Develop new Guidelines on long-term care
- Review and update nine of 15 sets of Guidelines
- Enhance access to and classification of good practices to support the Guidelines
- NEW: Expand the ISSA Recognition Programme to new and updated Guidelines
- Flagship reports for the four regional forums and the World Social Security Forum
- Studies and analysis related to the topical priorities, and also reports by the ISSA technical commissions
- Special issues of the International Social Security Review, linked to the topical priorities, in addition to regular issues
- Support member institutions develop innovative projects and strengthen their permanent innovation capacity
- Focus on outputs that provide innovative, immediate, and practical solutions
- Work with partner organizations, technical commissions and experts to support and coach members
- Regular updates of the online database with social security profiles for 180 countries and territories
- Finalization of country profiles redesign project to strengthen the value and responsiveness to user needs
- Improved access to information and data on the ISSA web portal
- Actuaries, Statisticians and Investment Specialists 2023
- Co-organized with the ILO: World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2023
- Regional Forums: Africa 2023, Americas 2023, Asia and the Pacific 2024, Europe 2024
- Information and Communication Technology 2024
- World Congress on Rehabilitation Disability Management 2024
- NEW: Management and Innovation 2025
- World Social Security Forum 2025
- Technical seminars, webinars and workshops
- Diploma training courses on the ISSA Guidelines in partnership with the EN3S, ITCILO, Muhanna Foundation and others
- NEW: ISSA virtual short courses on topics of demand
- NEW: Executive Master’s in Public Performance Management and International Social Security, in partnership with Sciences Po Bordeaux and the Forhom Institute (Egis Conseil)
Social security institutions are adopters of innovations, but they also have great innovative capacities themselves. The new ISSA Collaborative Innovation Hub is a way to bring ISSA members together to co-create innovations that will help solve and overcome challenges in social security management, implementation and delivery.
A new ISSA Special Distinction for Innovation, as part of the ISSA Good Practice Award competitions, aims to highlight good practices with considerable promise to define new pathways to achieve the goals of social security at an institutional, national or regional level. The first special distinction was awarded at the Regional Social Security Forum for Africa 2023.
Technical commissions and their workplans
The 13 ISSA technical commissions in many ways represent both the brains and the engine in producing new knowledge and outputs of the Association.
The technical commissions will play a key role in updating and developing new ISSA Guidelines during the 2023–2025 triennium. They will also produce technical reports linked to the priority topics of the Association, contribute to studies and analysis, to innovation projects, and to the organization of conferences, webinars and other events. In addition, working groups cover cross-cutting priority topics and the international prevention sections support the Special Commission on Prevention.
Between 7 and 21 March 2023, the ISSA Technical Commissions gathered virtually for their yearly Forum. In addition, to plenary sessions, all technical commission held individual meetings to develop their workplans for the triennium. The workplans will be guide their work until the end of 2025.
- Contribution Collection and Compliance
- Employment Policies and Unemployment Insurance
- Family Benefits
- Information and Communication Technology
- Insurance against Employment Accidents and Occupational Diseases
- Investment of Social Security Funds
- Medical Care and Sickness Insurance
- Mutual Benefit Societies
- Old-age, Invalidity and Survivors’ Insurance
- Organization, Management and Innovation
- Policy Analysis and Research
- Statistical, Actuarial and Financial Studies
- Special Commission on Prevention
- Agriculture
- Chemical Industry
- Construction Industry
- Culture of Prevention
- Education and Training
- Electricity, Gas and Water
- Health Services Information
- Iron and Metal Industry
- Machine and System Safety
- Mining Industry
- Research
- Trade
- Transportation
- Rehabilitation
- International Social Security Agreements and Data Exchange
