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Arab Employment Forum, 19-21 October in Beirut
The Forum addresses the broad challenges and opportunities posed by the financial and economic crisis, providing a platform for senior policy-makers and high-level representatives of workers and employers from across the Arab ...
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2009-10-15
Potentials and challenges of Health Microinsurance schemes - discussed in "Alternatives Internationales" No.44 Sept. 2009
A series of articles in the September 2009 issue of the Journal “Alternatives Internationales” (No. 44, p. 67-74) discusses the role that micro-insurance approaches can play to improve Social Health Protection. The articles provide ...
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2009-09-22
Active labour market policies protect public health in times of crises
A study on 25 EU countries published in The Lancet recently presents evidence that in times of economic and financial crisis, as unemployment rates rise and people suffer economic hardship, suicide and homocide rates also increase. A rise of 3% ...
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2009-09-21
Towards a universal social protection floor - Course, from November 2 to 13 2009, Turin, Italy
ITC-ILO
The International Training Centre of the ILO, in close collaboration with the Social Security Department of the ILO and other agencies of the UN System involved in the social protection floor initiative, will be holding its annual two-week ...
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2009-09-18
Tripartite meeting of experts on social security, ILO (September 2009)
ILO, Social Security Department
The documents of the "Tripartite meeting of experts on strategies for the extension of social security coverage" organized by the ILO Social Security Department, in Geneva, 2-4 September 2009 are available on line ...
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2009-09-15
Newsletter: Social Security Policy Matters
A new issue of the ILO Social Security Department's Newsletter is available online. The newsletter gives information of the origin of the Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All in 2001 and also different articles can be found ...
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2009-09-04
Workshop: "Promoting the Hemispheric Agenda of Decent Work: Expanding the coverage of social protection in Latin America"
From the 16th to 18th of September, the workshop: “Promoting the Hemispheric Agenda of Decent Work: Expanding the coverage of social protection in Latin America”, will be held in Brazil, organized by the Secretary of Social Policies ...
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2009-09-04
Séminaire de formation : gestion de l'assurance maladie par les mutuelles et caisses de solidarité
SIGEM
La Société Ivoirienne de Gestion d'Expertise et de Management (SIGEM), en collaboration avec le Secrétariat Permanent de l'Assurance Maladie au Burkina Faso, organise du 13 au 15 octobre 2009 à Ouagadougou au Burkina ...
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2009-09-02
Training: a tool that favours knowledge and experience sharing to extend social protection coverage. Example from Peru's and costa Rica's coffee producers
Article and testimony from the Director General of EsSalud (Peru), Mr Javier Rosas, available in the ILO International Training Centre website.
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Posted:
2009-08-21
Training course: "Financing and Governance of Social Security Institutions: Responses to the Financial Crisis", Colombia, 18-28 August 2009
V. Pinheiro, QUATRAIN-AMERICAS, ILO
QUATRAIN-AMERICAS, the ILO International Training Centre and the EUROsociAL programme in collaboration with IABD, OECD and CISS organise a training course on “Financing and Governance of Social Security Institutions: Responses to the ...
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2009-08-20
