Result achieved
(1) Technical support
Number of knowledge and policy products that have been endorsed by tripartite constituents
01.11.2020 OMN154 Public 2020-21 | 8.1.1
Linked projects
- OMN/19/02/OMN - Support to the implementation of PASI Provident Fund and extension of coverage to non-Omani workers
- OMN/19/01/OMN - Eighth Actuarial valuation of the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) and the comprehensive study to review the coverage and benefits of the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI)
Outcome summary
An unemployment insurance scheme came into forceOutcome achieved
On 17 August 2020, the Sultanate of Oman instituted its first unemployment insurance scheme for all Omani workers in the public, private and military and security sector, through a Royal Decree No.82/2020. The scheme came into force on 1 November 2020, providing temporary income support to insured Omanis who have lost their employment involuntarily and who seek to become re-employed. The scheme design was guided by international labour standards and social partners involvement.ILO's contribution to the outcome
Since 2015, the ILO’s technical advisory services to Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI), the Ministry of Labour and social partners represented in PASI’s Board of Directors, resulted in designing and establishing the new unemployment insurance scheme. ILO’s technical support focused around several interventions including a feasibility study for determining the financing mechanism, actuarial valuation for ensuring the sustainability of the fund, policy design focusing on the main parameters of the scheme, support in drafting of the legislation, and a study on the administration for the implementation of the fund.Gender equality & non-discrimination
In the ILO Pension reform options advisory report (March 2020) several considerations were offered with regard to improving gender equality . This has led to PASI to consider the extension of maternity care to all sectors and non-Omanis, as well as family benefits. An actuarial valuation for these short-term benefits will be performed in Q4 of 2021.SDG
Goals
- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Targets
- 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable