Thursday, 24 August 2023, 16:00–17:30 (UTC/GMT+2 or CEST)

Languages: Simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Spanish (Simultaneous interpretation – Frequently asked questions)

Transparency is one of the five core principles of good governance for social security institutions in the ISSA Guidelines on good governance. It is about ensuring the availability and accessibility of accurate, essential, and timely information to ensure stakeholders are well informed of the true state of social security programmes and how they are being managed. It also sets the basis for providing objectivity in the performance review of programmes, and promotes a core set of corporate values such as integrity, excellence and respect for individual rights.

Giving visibility to objective verifiable information on the strengths and challenges of social protection programmes is therefore fundamental to ensure accountability and foster public trust. This is why new information access mechanisms have been developed in social security. Institutions have established new approaches, including communication strategies that have helped engage internal and external stakeholders, supporting the vision of broader and participative social dialogue.

Join us for this ISSA Webinar that will share experiences from institutions that have established new strategies for improving information accessibility for better transparency.

Speakers

	Carlos Alberto Franco, Deputy Manager, Planning and Development, Social Security Institute of Guatemala, Guatemala
	Henry Sahdalá, Treasurer, Social Security Treasury, Dominican Republic
	Sebastián Zuker, Deputy Planning Manager, SRT, Argentina

This webinar will examine the following questions:

• What is the main purpose in providing transparency to social protection programmes?
• What are the main challenges in establishing information access mechanisms?
• How does new information access provide stakeholders insight into the state of the social protection system?
• How has information accessibility helped institutions’ objectives of transparency?

Agenda

• Welcome by Marcelo Abi-Ramia Caetano, Secretary General, ISSA
• Introduction
• Case experience of IGSS, Guatemala
• Case experience of TSS, Dominican Republic
• Case experience of SRT, Argentina
• Q&A – Discussion
• Conclusions

Moderated by Ernesto Brodersohn, Senior Officer in Social Security, ISSA

Practical information

The webinar is open to delegates of ISSA member organizations and invited institutions without registration fees.