Under the direction of the ILO, the Red de Referentes (reference network) for the ACYM (cooperatives and mutuals in the Americas) and GESS (Global Extension of Social Security) platforms was established in Argentina.
A workshop was held on May 8 with this aim, in the new Federada Salud offices in Buenos Aires, to provide training in the new IT tool and facilitate registering users who would be in charge of information exchange between social economy organizations in Argentina and the rest of Latin America.
The host was the FAMSA President, Dr. José M. Garriga, and the workshop was coordinated by Victoria Giroud-Castiella from Geneva, Switzerland, STEP information specialist, and Brenda Rial from Montevideo, Uruguay, coordinator for ACYM in South America.
The participants were officials and directors from FAMSA (Argentine federation of health mutuals), FAESS (Argentine federation of health solidarity entities). Río Uruguay Seguros Coop. Ltda, AAC/MIS (association of insurance cooperatives and mutuals in the Americas), the Rosario association of lawyers and IAIES-CIRIEC (Argentine institute for social economic research and international centre for research in and information on political, social and cooperative economy).
During the workshop all the participants worked online, connected to the GESS and ACYM platforms, adequate receiving training to be able to put it into practice subsequently.
At the end of the workshop, Dr. Garriga expressed his gratitude to the ILO for having selected Argentina as the seat for the project, which aims to extend social protection coverage worldwide, through action by cooperatives and mutuals.
