Highlights

The 23rd of March, 2015 marked the beginning of knowledge exchanges organized by the World Bank, Agence Française de Développement (AfD) and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI). This activity was related to the establishment of Integrated Social Protection Systems.

The target audience was composed of high-level technical government officials from Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia. A total of 18 government officials were benefited from this activity.

Scope of the Activity

The first part of The Knowledge Exchanges consisted of a two-day technical workshop in Marseille. The purpose of this workshop was to share emerging knowledge on the building blocks of an integrated SP system, in order to improve the delivery of social services. In particular, the activity focused on key concepts and international experiences in the establishing of robust identification systems, social registries and Management Information Systems (MIS).

The second part of this activity consisted of a two-day study tour to Brussels, which complemented the workshop in Marseille and seek to bridge theory with practice by exposing the same participants to an international best practice of identifying target populations of Government programs. 

Links to Resources

Full Agenda (French and English)

List and contacts of participants

Participants’ Presentations

Marseille:

• Day one: 
  • Mr. Phillippe Leite, Senior Social Protection Economist, World Bank:  “Foundation of a System: Introduction (social) Registries”
  • Mr. Gustavo Demarco, Program Leader, World Bank: “Social Protection in MENA: Key features and challenges”.
  • Dr. Joseph J. Atick, Chairman, Identity Counsel International, Consultant Partner to World Bank on Identity Matters: “Robust Identification as the Foundation for the Efficient Administration of SP Programs”
  • Bureau International du Travail– Genève : “Comprehensive mechanisms to develop, coordinate implementation and deliver social protection floors – an ILO perspective”
  • Mr.Diego F. Angel-Urdinola, Senior Economist, World Bank: "Social Protection and Labor (SP&L) Delivery Systems–Definitions, objectives, elements, & trends"
• Day two:
  • Mr. Andrei Tretyak, Head of Social Protection Unit, Agence Française D’expertise Technique Internationale:  “French experience in targeting social benefits”
  • Bureau International du Travail– Genève: “Country case studies on coordinated implementation of social protection floors: Indonesia, Mongolia, and others”
  • Oleksiy Sluchynsky, Senior Economist, World Bank: “Modernizing Social Protection Systems: Institutional Reforms and MIS Projects”
  • Mr. Phillippe Leite, Senior Social Protection Economist, World Bank:  “More on Targeting”
  • Richard Chirchir, Senior MIS Specialist: “Building Integrated Social Protection (SP) Delivery Systems”

Posters presented:

• Jeniffer Carla de Paula, Brazil’s Cadastro Unico: an enduring bridge to consolidated targeting efforts
• Veronica Acha, Chile’s ‘integrated system for social information’: integration of policy, integration of data and information
• Sudarno Sumarto, Indonesia’s Unified Database (UDB): rationalising a fragmented system
• Virginia Petersen, Caesar Vundule and Carin Koster South Africa’s SOCPEN: a legacy system which still delivers
• Turkey’s Integrated Social Assistance Services System: recent effort, impressive virtual integration

Brussels:

• Day one:
  • Sylvie Lacroix, Managing Partner, World Bank:  World Bank and MENA Countries visit to FEDICT_eID tools: trust, efficiency and online security (French and English)
• Day two
  • Peter Grouwels, Directorate-General Institutions and Population: Identity management in Belgium
  • Margarida Abecasis, European Commission: ISA, ISA2 and interoperability
  • Miguel.Alvarez-Rodriguez, European Commission: Services’ Catalogue (French)  
  • Vassilios Peristeras, European Commission:  Promoting Semantic Interoperability in Europe and Open Data
  • European Commission:  Access to Base Registries
  • C. GATTEGNO, European Commission: Highlights on the State of Play of Interoperability in Europe 2014
  • Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations, World Bank: Belgian Government Strategy: Exploiting the eID