Social Protection

Building social protection floors
and comprehensive social security systems

Information for participants

A questionnaire of 30 questions to collect information on the national pensions systems has been developed by the Office in close collaboration with the Bureau for Workers' Activities and the Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACTRAV and ACT/EMP) as well as ILO social protection specialists. Participants to the round table are requested to complete the questionnaire and send their responses to the ILO latest by 1 November 2020. The responses to the questionnaire will inform the discussions of the round table.

The round table will include:

  • An overall introduction to recall ILO principles, and stress the importance of achieving them all for universal, comprehensive, adequate and sustainable pension systems.
  • A presentation of global trends on pension reforms (based on the ILO monitor) and of current reforms in selected countries that may be linked to demographic change and the emergence of new forms of employment.
  • Tripartite country presentations from the 14 countries to learn from countries’ experiences in designing, extending and reforming their pension systems, discuss policy and reform options in light of ILO core principles and minimum parameters.
  • A final session dedicated to a presentation by each of the three groups (workers, employers and governments) on the main take-away messages from the discussions.

Prior to the tripartite round table, each participant will provide a narrative document of a maximum of 2 pages from which the participant can distill the main issues to be presented orally during her/his presentation. A template which indicates the questions to be addressed in this document is provided. This written narrative document will be made available to all the participants to the tripartite round table. Participants are requested to submit the narrative document to the ILO latest by 23 November 2020.

Contacts:

Shahra Razavi, Director, Social Protection Department
Karuna Pal, Head, Programming, Partnerships and Knowledge-Sharing Unit
Leillah Abdallah, Senior Secretary Administration

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A separate preparatory meeting for the round table was organized for each of the regions on 21 and 22 October 2020. The aim of the preparatory meetings was to provide, amongst others, an overview of the purpose of the round table and its agenda, to explain the rationale of the questionnaire and its structure, and to provide clarifications requested by participants to the round table. The recordings of the meetings are provided below:

Please note that only the English version is available.

Disclaimer: The interpretation of proceedings serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic or verbatim record of the proceedings. Only the original speech is authentic.