1. The Future of Social Security in Arab States Amman, 6-8 May 2008
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR
SOCIAL SECURITY
Lynn Villacorta
8 May 2008
International Training Centre

2. International Training Centre of the ILO
Turin, Italy

3. 160,000 participants from 190 countries since 1965
GLOBAL REACH
160,000 participants from 190 countries since 1965
International Training Centre

4. Social Security Training for Arab States
What have we delivered?
Since 1999
Annual courses (10)
274 participants from 17 countries
28% women (38% in last four years)
Representatives of the social partners
Next course 30 June to 11 July
International Training Centre

5. International Training Centre
CHALLENGES
Provide advanced training in Arabic
examples: Social budgeting; financial governance and investment; Governance of social security boards
Adapt courses to the different sub-regions
International Training Centre

6. International Training Centre
Postgraduate social security training piloted by the Social Security Department
Since 2001 the Social Security Department is building partnerships with universities to provide individual masters level training in
Social security financing
Social security policy development
So far two universities have joined the initiative (U Maastricht, U Lausanne)
Target group: present and future social security planners, administrators and financial managers
So far about 150 experts are being/have been trained
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7. Special regional training initiatives QUATRAIN…
A special programme in quantitative techniques in social security for Latin America (QUATRAIN AMERICAS) was launched in 2007 consisting of
group courses for individual countries/institutions
sponsoring further university based programmes
developing computer based e-learning facilities that seek to modernise the life long learning of social security specialists
A similar programme (QUATRAIN AFRICA) is being launched in June
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8. Successes and challenges in postgraduate training
We have a number of former graduates in research and managerial positions in national social security schemes (inter alia Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman…) who have impact on national policies and practices
Challenges
We need to identify partner universities in the Arab States, Asia, Latin America and Africa to bring the university based training closer to our clients
we need to expand QUATRAIN to the Arab States and Asia
…this implies adapting contents and language
… and finding the resources
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