Academy on Social Security

Through plenary sessions and elective courses the Academy covers topics including:

• Global trends and international best practices: global data, best practices and international social security law
• Extension of coverage: building social protection floors and increasing the reach of contributory schemes to the informal sector
• Financing social protection: identifying fiscal space, and undertaking actuarial planning
• Impacts of social protection: The latest evidence and key techniques to assessing impact
• Hot topics: Pension reform, universal health coverage, effective targeting, food security and rural poverty reduction
• Effective management and administration: Good governance, coordination, M&E and capacity development
• Political acceptability: Ensuring social dialogue and engaging with the political economy

What will I be able to do?

• Assess the performance of national social protection systems keeping in mind global trends and benchmarks, country experiences, and international labour standards
• Identify priority approaches and innovations for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of social protection systems, making use of well-established analytical tools and methodologies
• Evaluate the feasibility of social protection system development from a range of perspectives, including technical correctness, political supportability and organisational implementation.

Why should I join?

• Learn from and exchange with some of the world’s leading thinkers on social protection.
• Participants join and interact with a diverse network of professionals working on social protection across the globe.
• The course uses a mix of training methods: lectures, plenary discussions, good practices, electives, case studies, group work, and individual exercises.
• Take a step towards achieving the ITCILO Diploma for Social Protection, a new accreditation for the next generation of social protection practitioners

Diploma for Social Protection Analysts

This course qualifies for the ITCILO Diploma for Social Protection Analysts. Take three out of four eligible courses within a five year period, and complete a capstone project, to become part of a global cadre of practitioners with a recognised set of skills in social protection policy analysis.