Social Security Webinar

The Committee for Caribbean Research on Social Security (CCROSS) Webinar Series

The Committee for Caribbean Research on Social Security (CCROSS) held its inaugural meeting on 15th August 2023. CCROSS is a collaboration of representatives of academic, private sector, national, regional, and international social security organizations and researchers committed to share ideas and work closely together to find solutions to the sustainability and viability of our social protection systems. While the current chair of CCROSS resides in the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), the Secretariat is housed at the HEU, Centre for Health Economics, The University of the West Indies.

The broad objectives of CCROSS are to develop a regional targeted research agenda for social security to support policy action; conduct relevant and meaningful research as guided by defined research agenda; develop databases of existing research, facilitate greater regional collaboration, dialogue and engagement to engender policy action; and to establish a platform to disseminate research and knowledge products on social security. As CCROSS engages in its webinar series and executes its research agenda, its target audience includes professionals in the fields of social security; health; labour and finance; employers' associations; trade unions; local, regional and international social security organizations; academic institutions; and in-school youths.

Social Security Reform in the Caribbean: The Issue and Importance of Good Governance

**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

SOCIAL SECURITY WEBINAR SERIES

The broad goals of our Social Security Webinar series are:

To facilitate a regional dialogue on social security in the face of all the challenges to the economic system and the health system; and
To share ideas and experiences and build on best practices so that we can learn from each other and engender action to safeguard our social security systems against the multiplicity of threats we as a region are facing.

Social Security in the Caribbean: Facing Challenges and Building Resilience

The HEU, Centre for Health Economics, at The University of the West Indies seeks to explore the issues surrounding social security in the Region with the first in a series of webinars entitled, “Social Security in the Caribbean: Facing Challenges and Building Resilience” on February 4th, 2021 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m AST.

Agenda: Social Security Webinar Agenda (2).pdf

PRESENTATIONS

View the Webinar below.

Social Security and the Informal Economy

This webinar is the second, in a webinar series entitled: “Social Security in the Caribbean: Facing Challenges and Building Resilience”. Workers in the informal economy may be wage earners or self-employed and the extension of social protection to these workers remains challenging for many countries in the region where there is high and increasing rates of informality. In this webinar “Social Security and the Informal Economy” the nuances of this topic in the Caribbean context are explored by our presenters.

The broad goals of our Social Security Webinar series are:

To facilitate a regional dialogue on social security in the face of all the challenges to the economic system and the health system; and
To share ideas and experiences and build on best practices so that we can learn from each other and engender action to safeguard our social security systems against the multiplicity of threats we as a region are facing.

Agenda: Social Security and the Informal Economy.pdf