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The pattern of project execution has changed from the provision of service to a client to a participatory approach where local expertise is co-opted. And the focus has changed from providing a one-off service to the transfer of skills which ideally should put the recipient into a position to use the applied technologies independently and in future become self-reliant with respect to actuarial and financial work.
Requests from member States for actuarial or financial services are serviced either by ILO staff or experienced external experts under the guidance of ILO staff. In some cases, ILO officials are unable to provide all the services and evaluations themselves and the ILO may hire external collaborators. These consultants will be provided with all the technical tools – in the form of computer modules – and expertise developed by the service to date. In order to properly fulfill its mandate and to ensure high quality and uniformity in its technical work, the Internal guidelines for the actuarial analysis of a national social security pension scheme (pdf 116 KB) have been set up.
ILO FACTS is a non-profit public service. Country-specific advisory services or training activities in most cases require specific fees. Fees charged are strictly cost-based. The technical services are usually rendered through technical cooperation projects, the cost of which are borne by outside donors as e.g. international or bilateral donor organizations such as UNDP, the World Bank, or national aid agencies. Increasingly, recipient countries finance the services through Funds-in-Trust projects; ILO FACTS quite often shares a substantial proportion of the costs.
For further information contact by email:
Anne Drouin / Florian Léger
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