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UPGRADING ISSA KNOWLEDGE AND SERVICES

During this last year, the ISSA has innovated to upgrade and renew the products
and services provided to its members. COVID-19 has led to an increased focus

on social security, and increased demand for regular analysis of developments,

information sharing and mutual learning activities.

Virtual summit and symposiums New Country Profiles
COVID-19 MONITOR
The Virtual Summit for the Americas, the In July 2020, the ISSA launched
Virtual Symposium on Leadership in Social the new and improved online The online COVID-19
Security and the Virtual Symposium on ICT in database, covering 184 country Monitor attracted over
Social Security have been quality substitutes and territory profiles on social 40,000 views of its
while waiting for the possibility to organize security and with information on pages, covering:
presence based conferences. international agreements.
- country measures
- analysis
Webinars e-workshops - news
Since the first one in April 2020, the ISSA The ISSA has developed a new - webinars
has organized close to 90 webinars and other e-workshop programme for - links to other sources
online events. They are all recorded and mutual discussion, exchanges
available on the ISSA website. and problem-solving in a virtual
environment.
Virtual bilateral cooperation
e-learning
On request, the ISSA has facilitated bilateral
meetings and cooperation. The ISSA Diploma programme courses are
being offered in English, Arabic and French
on online training platforms provided by the
WEEKLY ANALYSIS ISSA training partners.

The ISSA provides a weekly analysis of Regional structures
good practices, trends and developments
in social security on its website. Regional structures have adapted their
services and been involved in organizing ISSA
webinars. The ISSA has launched a new regional
structure for the English-speaking Caribbean.
New My ISSA

The new logged-in environment for ISSA
members with a personalized online
dashboard, and online spaces for sharing,
networking and collaboration.

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