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Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms: A new approach
Coheur, Jacquier, Schmitt-Diabaté, Schremmer, 2007 (17 pages)
The extension of social security is very urgent for those most exposed to health and accident risks, such as informal economy workers: This paper intends to both underline the high potential of coverage extension strategies that build on linkages between various extension mechanisms and to respond to the existing gap of both empirical and conceptual considerations on linkages. It focuses on statutory social security (SSS) schemes and community-based social protection (CBSP) mechanisms in order to develop a typology of potentially promising linkages between these types of mechanisms. Both SSS schemes and CBSP mechanisms have each their specific advantages and disadvantages in terms of their capacity to cover different types of population groups in developing countries. Linking the two in order to compensate for their respective weaknesses and to exploit their respective strengths therefore appears to have important potential. And indeed, this paper provides innovative empirical examples on some of these types of linkages based on a joint ILO/ISSA/AIM study covering a number of countries in three regions. Country reports are accessible on the ISSA Extranet site and the ILO/GIMI platform.
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Health Microinsurance Schemes: Monitoring and Evaluation Guide. Volume 1 and 2.
ILO/STEP, ISBN: 978-92-2-119669-3, 2007 (228 pages)
The guide has two objectives: to strengthen the capacity of managers to monitor and evaluate their health microinsurance schemes (HMIS); and to strengthen the capacity of technical and financial support agencies and private insurers to assess the viability and performance of the HMIS. The guide consists of two volumes. Part I of Volume 1 presents the main definitions and basic concepts. Part II deals with the subject of administrative and technical monitoring – based on the major functions of insurance management – as well as with budget and cash flow monitoring. Part III deals with evaluating the viability of health insurance viewed as a financial instrument, through the use of a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators. Part IV deals with evaluating the institutional viability of the HMIS. Finally, Part V offers some indications for assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of an HMIS, merely providing some pointers to users interested in this kind of assessment. Volume 2 contains practical indications for completing tables and calculating indicators described in Volume 1.
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Social protection and inclusion: Experiences and policy issues.
ILO/STEP, ISBN 978-92-2-119196-4, 2006 (248 pages)
This book focuses on the role of social protection in the process towards inclusion in economic, social and political life. It presents some of the most innovative and promising experiences worldwide in this field..
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Social exclusion in Central-Eastern Europe. Concept, measurement and policy interventions.
Fighting Social Exclusion Series, Working Paper
ILO/STEP, ISBN 978-92-2-118537-6, 2006 (50 pages)
Provides an analytical basis for the formulation of future strategies and policy interventions in Central-Eastern Europe. It describes (1) the conceptual issues related to social exclusion, (2) its measurement, and (3) the scope of the problem.
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Minimum income and social integration: Institutional arrangements in Europe.
Fighting Social Exclusion series, Working Paper
ILO/STEP, ISBN 978-92-2-119198-8, 2006 (31 pages)
This document deals with the different institutional arrangements of minimum income and social integration policies in Europe. It stems from the synthesis report the authors prepared for the EU peer review process, which aimed at placing the Belgian DIS policy in a comparative European context.
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