Training Course on Designing and Implementing Unemployment Benefits Linking with Active Labour Market Policies, 19-28 October 2015, Malacca, Malaysia.

Sharing knowledge, experiences and lessons for the development of policies aimed at protecting and supporting the unemployed and underemployed


Malacca, Malaysia, 19-28 October 2015

The training course was organized by the International Training Center of the ILO (ITC ILO) in partnership with the ILO/Japan Project "Promoting and bulding social protection and employment services in ASEAN"..


The training aimed at guiding policy makers in the design and implementation of integrated unemployment protection programmes and employment support policies. More specifically, the course explored different aspects of the design and implementation of unemployment protection schemes targeting at both informal and formal economy workers. This included international labour standards related to unemployment protection, financial aspects, laws and regulations, options for institutional set-up and importance of social dialogue in developing such measures.


More specifically, the training achieved the following objectives:

  • Understand the place of unemployment benefits and employment support in ILO’s strategy to extend social protection;
  • Learn about the ILO’s Conventions and Recommendations related to unemployment protection;
  • Determine the different parameters that will form an unemployment benefits scheme (contributory and non-contributory);
  • Learn tips from other experiences and good practices to facilitate the dialogue among social partners on unemployment benefits;
  • Calculate a cost estimate of unemployment protection measures by using ILO tools;
  • Envisage linkages between unemployment benefits and employment support services;
  • Provide inputs to draft the legal framework regulating the unemployment benefits schemes and amendments to existing laws;
  • Establish procedures to run a unemployment protection scheme;
  • Define a strategy and targets for the performance of the system;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report

The report of the training is now available!

ILO/Japan Project: Promoting unemployment insurance and employment services in ASEAN

The training builds on two and half year of research, documentation of experiences, knowlege sharing and technical services facilitated by the ILO/Japan-ASEAN UI Project to ASEAN countries in search of improved unemployment protection for their workers.

Read more about the project.

Resources

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)

Employment Promotion and Unemployment Protection Convention, 1988 (No. 168)

Recommendation on Social Protection Floors, 2012 (No. 202)

Comparative Review of unemployment and employment insurance experiences in Asia and worldwide

 

Flyer | Agenda | List of participants | Photographs | Report |  Videos - coming soon!

 

Module 0: Introduction and getting started: The course and How to use the Good Practices Guide?

Module 1: Introduction and extension of social protection: What role does unemployment protection play in a comprehensive social security system?

Module 2: International standards and ILO’s approach: What are ILO's Conventions and Recommendations on unemployment protection?

Module 3: Developing broad policy options on combined unemployment protection packages: How can a national consensus be reached on broad policy options for the improvement of unemployment protection?

Module 4: Institutional set-up: Who will be responsible for coordinating and implementing the combined unemployment protection package? Learning from the Ayutthaya Employment Services Centre.

Module 5: Legal framework: What are the implications and constituents of unemployment protection laws and regulations?

Module 6: Cost estimation: How much does it cost to have unemployment benefits? Who will pay for it and how can we ensure that the scheme will be sustainable?

Module 7: Implementation schedule and operations: How can effective procedures be established, in order to guarantee effective implementation of the system?

Module 8: Monitoring and evaluation: How can we keep improving the system?

Module 9: Recap, evaluation and conclusion: What have we learned and how can the network of expertise be maintained?

Case study 1: The challenge of providing unemployment insurance and non-contributory income protection in Coresia

Case study 2: The challenge of providing employment insurance linked to active labour market policies in Coresia

Case study 3: The challenge of providing income support and employment guarantee to the youth in Coresia

Case study 4: The challenge of providing basic income security and enhancing skills of rural Coresia

Case study 5: The challenge of improving skills and providing access to better jobs in Coresia

Download the course time-table

 

Monday 19 October

Session M0.1:  Opening

Session M1.1   Introduction & determining participants' expectations from the course

                         Charles Cravier, ILO ITC/Turin

Session M1.2:  Unemployment protection, as part of a comprehensive social security 

                         Celine Peyron Bista, ILO 

Session M1.3:  Challenges in ASEAN: Labour Market and Social Protection Situation

                         Celine Peyron Bista, ILO 

 Session M1.4: Who wants to be a protectionnaire?

 

Tuesday 20 October

Session M2.1:  ILO standards for unemployment protection

                         Group exercise: Comparative review of national laws with ILO's Conventions

                         Céline Peyron-Bista, ILO

Session M2.2:  Review of different UI and EI schemes

                         Celine Peyron Bista, ILO and John Carter

Session M2.3:  ASEAN's experiences

 

Wednesday 21 October 2015

Session M3.1: Understanding the labour market and social protection situation by Célline Peyron-Bista, ILO

Session M3.2: Facilitating a national dialogue for the introduction of UI

                       John Carter, International Unemployment Protection Expert

Session M3.3: Case study 1: Introduction; Exercise 1

 

Thursday 22 October 2015

Session M4.1: Coordinating existing income security and employment support policies

                      Introduction by Celine P. Bista and John Carter

Session M4.2: Integrating unemployment benefits and employment services

                     Single Window Services as a mechanism in extending social protection programme in Indonesia by Ratnawati Muyanto

Session M5.1: Drafting the legal framework & enforcement of the laws

                      Introduction by John Carter

                     Case study Exercise 3: Preparing a draft law

 

Friday 23 October 2015

Session M4.3: Visit to the Department of Labour, Social Security Office and Employement Centre of Ayatthaya

                     Presentation by the Provincial Labour Office

 

Monday 26 October 2015

Session M6.1: From broad options to scenarios

                     Introduction by Loveleen De

                     Case study Exercise 4: Translating options into concrete scenarios

Session M6.2: Basic knowledge of costing and actuarial principles by Charles Crevier, ITC ILO

                     Exemple of dynamic graph by Charles Crevier, ITC ILO 

Session M6.3: Case study Exercise 5 - costing of unemployment protection schemes

                      Assumptions for unemployment benefits in Coresia, word document 

                      Additional data for UI calculations, excel spreadsheet 

                      Blank RAP for Coresia, excel spreadsheet 

 

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Session M7: Operations by Ngo Thi Loan and John Carter, ILO

                   Example of training needs assessment  

Session M8: Monitoring & Evaluation by Ngo Thi Loan and John Carter, ILO

 

Wednesday 28 October 2015

Session M9: Recap exercises

                    Presentation by group 1

                    Presentation by group 2

                    Presentation by group 3

                    Presentation by group 4

                   

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