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The majority of the Social Security Department's technical cooperation is demand lead; it is always client oriented. A typical request is, for example, to carry out an actuarial and financial valuation of a national social security scheme and to provide policy recommendations. Such requests are usually made by government institutions and also by social partner institutions.
The department responds to such requests within a formal technical project arrangement. In the context of such a project, it provides assistance by adjusting and applying its quantitative PC based social budget model family (or one or several of its components) to the specific circumstances of the country involved. For more information on these see the section on Quantitative model family
In this context it is paramount for the Social Security Department to provide national counterparts with ownership of the model. In other words, the aim is to enable national counterparts using the model family (or - depending on the type and scope of the valuation - one or several of its components) to be able to do so independently and permanently for their own purposes of good governance and routine policy advice. In order to achieve this the Social Security Department arranges, on a case-by-case basis, intense training usually at ILO headquarters in Geneva and sometimes at the International Training Centre of the ILO (in Turin). Within the framework of the technical cooperation project, up to three counterparts are trained by modelling specialists within the department for periods ranging from 2 weeks to 6 months (depending on requirements). Not only does this approach enhance national governance capacities but it also serves mutual interests of long-term cooperation between the ILO's Social Security Department and national institutions.
Training on various other issues, such as related to the design and administration of social security schemes is also provided to not only staff of social security institutions but also to social partners. Effective capacitation of social partners is an essential tool for more informed and participatory social dialogue.
For further information contact by email: Wolfgang Scholz
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