In Argentina, Decree No. 90 of 23 February 2023 amends Law No. 26,844, which establishes the Special Employment Contract Scheme for Domestic Workers (Régimen Especial de Contrato de Trabajo para el Personal de Casas Particulares), and Law No. 24013 (Employment Act), to grant unemployment insurance and access to family allowance benefits for domestic workers.

As part of the roll-out of health coverage to the entire Togolese population – an estimated 10 million people – Togo’s National Institute of Health Insurance (Institut nationale d’assurance maladie – INAM) set out to provide rapid access to health care facilities to insured persons across the country.

The Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social – IMSS) provides social security to more than 21 million workers linked to more than 1 million registered employers. These employers must register their workers with the IMSS and pay social security contributions. The collection of such contributions accounts for 93 per cent of IMSS revenue, i.e. its operating funds.

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is a key strategic goal for the government of Zambia. In pursuit of UHC, the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) is extending health insurance coverage to the poor and the vulnerable. This extension requires robust estimates of the cost and fiscal implications to the government, and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Gabon’s National Health Insurance and Social Guarantee Fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie et de garantie sociale – CNAMGS) is made up of four funds that cover different categories of members. When the CNAMGS was created, the Gabonese authorities committed to making the system of mandatory health insurance and social guarantee a reality, starting with cover for the most vulnerable population sectors who are not able to directly contribute to funding their own health care.

South Sudan Pensions Fund (SSPF) is in the process of receiving the contributions from Khartoum for all the pensioners who worked in Sudan before South Sudan was given autonomy in 2005, and subsequently, became independent in 2011. This is in line with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and South Sudan Pensions Fund Act, 2012.

South Sudan, as sovereign nation, has the Constitution and Pension Fund Act, 2012 mandate to follow up and ensure the contributions for the civil servants who worked in Sudan before independence was transferred to South Sudan.

Uruguay’s Social Insurance Bank (Banco de Previsión Social – BPS) manages the National System of Labour Certification, (Sistema Nacional de Certificación Laboral – SNCL), which centralizes the register of medical leave certificates for active workers for social security purposes.

In 2022, the National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale – CNPS) entered into a three-year partnership with Cameroon’s Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (Ministère de l’Élevage, des Pêches et des Industries animales – MINEPIA) to extend social security coverage to workers in the informal economy of the livestock and fish farming, aquaculture, animal and fisheries industries sub-sector.

With a view to increasing social security coverage among non-salaried workers and ensuring contributor loyalty, Algeria’s National Social Security Fund for Non-Salaried Workers (Caisse nationale de la sécurité sociale des non-salariés – CASNOS) launched a portal centred on a workflow of human interaction, digital processes and technology.

In Argentina, joint trade union–employer agreements (Convenios de Corresponsabilidad Gremial – CCG) encourage the formalization of employment relationships, primarily in rural areas. They are agreements between workers’ representative bodies with trade union status and employers, which aim to facilitate social security access for workers and their families.

Social security is such a fundamental human right that it is absolutely vital for any responsible government to put in place mechanisms to ensure it for all.

The State can proceed by sector of activity. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there was one category of public-sector employees – career civil servants – who benefitted from a good social protection system as part of a contributory scheme. Other types of public-sector employees, such as the military, police, teachers and magistrates, were not covered.

The body’s poor assimilation of food leads to a pathological state known as malnutrition, which can take varying degrees of severity and have different clinical manifestations. It is considered a disease with high morbidity and mortality rates.

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.

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Setting up managed entry agreements for innovative medicines is a step forward in Improving access to innovative and costly medicines. They give the Tunisian National Health Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie – CNAM) considerable leverage to negotiate with pharmaceutical laboratories to ensure access for the maximum number of people eligible for the treatment, whilst also guaranteeing the budgetary sustainability of the system.

Prior to 2020, less than 10 per cent of the active Ivorian population had suitable social security coverage. This deficiency has prompted the State of Côte d’Ivoire to develop a national social protection strategy aimed at ensuring inclusive social protection and human development.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on South Africa’s economy and the livelihood of its citizens. Many South Africans lost their incomes as a result of the pandemic and subsequent lock-down regulations. In an effort to provide relief, South Africa introduced a special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant (cSRD) to address income support gap and food insecurity.

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF, hereafter the Fund) of the United Republic of Tanzania has a goal of extending membership coverage to large part of the population. Most of the members covered are those from formal sector of the economy, specifically public servants.

Despite the significant growth of workers in the social security system during the last decade, more than 7 million workers still remain unintegrated.

Investments in operational and technological management to simplify and facilitate declaration and contribution collection, which have contributed to the results achieved, have not been sufficient to change this situation.

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Health is a fundamental right in Colombia. However, there are certain segments of the population that because they live in geographically remote regions, have difficulties accessing health services in areas such as prevention, treatment and sourcing quality medicines. In general, the country’s health and medicine-dispensation services are located in the municipal capitals, which can be hard for rural dwellers to reach.

The informal sector workers, including youth, are not covered by any regulated savings or social insurance schemes to help cushion the workers from shocks, loss of jobs, etc. In line with the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of Kenya Act No. 45 of 2013 and Government agenda of providing universal social security coverage, NSSF developed a product “haba haba” which has short term maturity period.

For more than 18 years, the COLSUBSIDIO - Colombian Family Allowances Fund (COLSUBSIDIO - Caja Colombiana de Subsidio Familiar) has been running educational and cultural programmes to support the comprehensive development of children and young people in rural and urban areas, helping to close social gaps.

EjoHeza is a voluntary digital pension fund managed as a defined contribution system, officially launched by Government of Rwanda on 14 December 2018, with the objective to increase coverage. All Rwandan residents including foreigners with a national identity number have the right to register, save to the scheme and benefit at the age of 55 years.

Algeria’s National Fund for Paid Leave and Weather-Related Lay-Offs in the Construction, Public Works and Hydraulics Industries (Caisse nationale des congés payés et du chômage intempéries des secteurs du bâtiment, des travaux publics et de l’hydraulique – CACOBATPH), the only organization of its kind on the African continent and in the Arab world, offers workers in the construction, public works and hydraulics (CPWH) sectors, in addition to paid holidays, coverage for lay-offs owing to bad weather (snow, rain, ice, strong winds and so on) with a view to preserving the health and s

This good practice was introduced in 2014, based on the search for administrative solutions among health providers in Uruguay that guarantee care and coverage for specific vulnerable populations. We identified that these target groups would likely struggle to reach and access care, given that they lived far from the capital, primarily in suburban and rural areas. Moreover, beneficiaries were generally covered by the universal health-care system but worked in the informal sector.

Due to the transformation of thousands of contributors to beneficiaries who receive cash benefits and pensions, unemployment among recent graduates from universities, and the large geographical area of Libya, it has therefore become essential for the Social Security Fund (SSF, hereafter the Fund) to establish new service facilities in order to provide services, deploy and utilize the youth, reduce the gap between contributors and insured persons, as well as motivate all sectors to produce decent jobs for young people.

The progressive establishment of Mutual Benefit Society for Public Employees (Mutuelle de la fonction publique – MFP) agencies in Burundi’s provinces encourages a gradual decentralization of services – notably registration, benefit checks and contribution collection – and also promotes the extension of health-care coverage throughout the country.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the transport sector is considered an informal sector. As such, the workers in this sector do not generally benefit from social security coverage. This notwithstanding, Niger’s National Social Security Fund (Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale – CNSS) came up with a strategy to provide social security coverage to this sector.

The progressive opening of Mutual Benefit Society for Public Employees (Mutuelle de la fonction publique – MFP) counters in Burundi’s public and accredited hospitals helps to combat fraud, social security evasion and identification, and prescribing errors while promoting the gradual extension of health-care coverage throughout the country. This results in job creation, as benefit controllers are recruited to work in the hospitals in question. There are also significant advantages for the MFP, as vast amounts of money are returned to the fund and fraud and error are prevented.