The idea of setting up self-service areas in Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR) receptions stems from a desire to offer users open access to the CMR’s digital services, while ensuring reception and orientation staff are on hand to provide support and guidance in their use.

This type of space offers a range of digital services, enabling users, for example, to access their data, monitor the status of their files, and editing or uploading requested documents.

Open Lab is an innovation space created by the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR), based on an ecosystem-oriented business model. It relies on the collective intelligence of participants (collaborators, users, partners and other stakeholders) to design and test innovative solutions to the “pain points” encountered by users and/or to develop new services or products, improve internal processes and implement new methodology.

Article 12 of Law No. 5508 on the Promotion, Protection of Maternity and Support for Breastfeeding establishes that maternity allowance should be paid to employed women by the social security scheme of Paraguay’s Social Insurance Institute (Instituto de Previsión Social – IPS). This amount is equivalent to 100 per cent of her salary at the time of delivery, and is paid for the prescribed months of rest. This used to be given to women in a single payment.

The issue of population growth and social security planning is one of the biggest challenges facing governments today, and is a key part of a good social security system that instils confidence in its members.

The Retirement and Pension Fund for Employees of Banks and Related Institutions (Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones de Empleados de Bancos y Afines) (Bank Fund, hereinafter) is in constant communication with its members. It therefore continuously updates its databases, in order to have a better understanding of members’ current realities, experiences and needs.

The royal project to expand social security coverage in Morocco was launched in accordance with Framework Law No. 09-21 on social protection. The implementation of the royal project to expand social security coverage has been entrusted to the National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale – CNSS), a major player in social protection in Morocco and will take place in line with a staggered implementation schedule.

For the population groups:

Good practice in health – service quality.

As health-care systems have evolved to become more complex and due to the resultant increase in patients coming to harm in health care settings, patient safety has emerged as a health-care discipline.

Like most of the world’s countries, Paraguay has adopted lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These steps taken by the government have impacted the productive sector, leading to mass suspensions of employment contracts for persons insured with the Social Insurance Institute (Instituto de Previsión Social – IPS) of Paraguay.

As part of the measures adopted to help limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and in order to avoid any risk of resource disruption for beneficiaries, Morocco’s CDG Prévoyance, which is responsible for managing the National Pension and Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de retraites et d’assurances – CNRA) and the Collective Pension Scheme (Régime collectif d’allocation de retraite – RCAR), set up a new system to simplify entitlement checks through the exchange of data with institutional partners and on digital platforms.

Paraguay’s Social Insurance Institute (Instituto de Previsión de Social – IPS) used to make sick leave payments at its administrative offices, which had associated administrative costs and meant beneficiaries had to visit the IPS service counter in person.

Morocco’s Interprofessional Retirement Fund (Caisse interprofessionnelle marocaine de retraites – CIMR) has developed a new, cutting-edge technology to offer its pensioners enhanced security and comfort. Pensioners affiliated to the CIMR can now provide proof of life at a distance, from the comfort of their own homes. They need simply make use of the CIMR DIALCOM mobile application, complete with dynamic-selfie facial recognition software.

As part of its digitization strategy, the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR) has developed an IT platform called “e-retraite CMR” for the paperless management of pension files. This platform serves as a data exchange interface between the CMR and employers, enabling the latter to scan pension records and transfer them to the CMR as well as monitor, in real time, the status of these files. It also keeps stakeholders and clients abreast of developments in their files.

The remit of Morocco’s Deposit and Management Fund Insurance branch (Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion Prévoyance – CDG Prévoyance), hereafter referred to as CDG Insurance, is to consolidate operational capacities in the field of provident funds so as to support the State in managing the pension schemes and solidarity funds that fall under its mandate.

The remit of Morocco’s Deposit and Management Fund Insurance (Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion Prévoyance – CDG Prévoyance), thereafter referred to as CDG Insurance is to consolidate operational capacities in the field of provident funds so as to support the State in managing the pension schemes and solidarity funds that fall under its mandate. CDG Insurance serves around a million clients (affiliates, beneficiaries and members) with whom it is in constant contact.

Morocco’s Deposit and Management Fund Insurance (Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion Prévoyance – CDG Prévoyance), hereafter referred to as CDG Insurance, manages a diverse range of provident fund products. It must respond, within a reasonable timeframe, to public authority requests regarding the management of new funds and products. It is in this context that it launched, in 2017, an ambitious project to develop a business model to standardize how provident fund objects are defined and the relationships between them, regardless of the product in question.

Since the reorganization of the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites – CMR) in 2011, which placed the client at the forefront of its concerns, the Fund’s “client relationship” has changed considerably, in particular owing to the introduction and use of a marketing and multichannel approach.

In 2016, the CMR witnessed:

Prior to the introduction of the Collective Scheme for Retirement Allowances (Régime collectif d’allocation de retraite – RCAR) in 1978 and in the absence of a statutory retirement scheme to cover them, several public establishments in Morocco managed their own retirement funds (special schemes, railway workers, mining personnel, water and electricity managers). This however suffered from the following limitations and drawbacks:

Faced with the disparity and geographical decentralization of its members and poor medical coverage, the General Mutual Fund for Civil Service Employees (Mutuelle générale du personnel des administrations publiques – MGPAP) has developed its local activities through two projects:

1. Local medical programmes.
2. Expansion of geographical presence through partnerships with the local authorities and government.
    

Good governance on Fund financing requires a set of regular checks including proof of life.

In this context and in anticipation of a national and computerized civil register allowing death investigations, the Pension Fund of Morocco (Caisse marocaine des retraites (CMR)) has adopted an innovative practice based on pension provision control in the beneficiary's bank branch. Thus, targeted pensioners simply go to their usual bank branch to get their pensions by e-mandate. This release is therefore treated as a proof of life.

The RCAR set up a link between its IT corporate system and its institutional site in 2003. This enabled its employer clientele to consult their financial records, its members to visualise their status and its pensioners to find out their payment status. Today, the RCAR sees the WEB as a particularly effective channel for communication and distribution. The RCAR has recently restructured its site completely, changing the graphics and functions in order to make it more user-friendly, richer and more robust.