International Labour Organization promotes social security standards in Uzbekistan

The toolkit contains a comprehensive set of international social security Conventions and Recommendations, core principles of which  lay down the foundations of comprehensive social security systems and the key parameters ensuring their sustainability and adequacy.

Participants discussed links between social security standard and principles laid down in Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 102) and Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1953 (No. 102) and national social protection policy in terms of scope, objectives and the content. The toolkit will be a main resource for constituents, not only as a reference point for working groups throughout the policy making process, but also as an advocacy tool for national social protection floors that comprise at least: 1. access to essential health care, including maternity care; 2. basic income security for children, providing access to nutrition, education, care and other necessary goods and services; 3. basic income security for persons in active age who are unable to earn sufficient income, in particular in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity and disability; and 4.basic income security for older persons.

Further editions of webinars will focus on social insurance schemes design and social protection financing thus contributing to on-going reforms in social assistance, social insurance/pension system and labour market policies. Practical examples such as introduction of social insurance principles, design of unemployment protection and practitioners will present maternity protection schemes and social security administration agency from Thailand, Canada and Costa Rica.

The training was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan– leading government’s agency responsible for development of National Strategy on Social Protection. The training participants  included  representatives of the Technical Working Group drafting the Strategy: Pension Fund, Confederation of Employees, Ministry of Healthcare, Agency for Medical and Social Services, Ministry for Makhalla and Family Support, Ministry of Public Education, Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, General Prosecutor’s Office.   

The activity is conducted within the UN Joint Programme on Strengthening Social Protection System in Uzbekistan.