The International Labour Organization, in collaboration with the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies (UWI) - Mona campus, hosted a four-day training programme on Actuarial Methods and Social Security Financing for non-specialists on 1-4 December 2008, at the Mona School of Business, UWI.
The programme is part of the ILO's new training initiatives - QUATRAIN - AMERICAS, which was launched by the Social Security Department of the ILO (Geneva) in cooperation with the International Training Centre of the ILO based in Turin, Italy, to strengthen the capacity of governments, employers and trade unionists, in the fields of actuarial methods and the financing of social protection.
The training programme will provide basic knowledge and management tools needed for managing social security schemes. It is being organized in response to requests from the region for enhanced knowledge and expertise in quantitative techniques related to social security schemes. Programme participants will include technical staff of various ministries as well as representatives of National Insurance Schemes, and of employers' and workers' organizations from across the Caribbean region.
Using a highly participatory approach, the programme covers topics such as: international trends in social security financing; basic actuarial and financial elements of social security financing; basic elements of modelling of pension schemes and health care schemes; financial governance of social security; and social security investments.
The training will be delivered by international and regional experts from the International Labour Office, Geneva; the Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS) based in Mexico; the Occupational Safety and Health Commission (CSST) based in Quebec, Canada, and an ILO external collaborator from the Dominican Republic.
QUATRAIN - AMERICAS was designed to equip constituents so that they could work towards achieving the Decent Work Agenda in the Americas (2006-2015), which has, as one of goals, to strengthen and extend the coverage of social protection schemes.
