Rodica Popescu, Confederal Secretary of CNSM: The Academy on Social Security is a unique opportunity to learn from the experiences of other states and subsequently to identify priorities for the Confederation in the field of social protection

During 18 – 30 September, the International Labour Organization (ILO) organizes in Torino, Italy, the Academy on Social Security attended by 150 people from 41 states, representatives of labour ministries, trade unions, employers’ organizations and non-governmental organizations around the world. The National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova (CNSM) is represented by Rodica Popescu, Confederal Secretary of CNSM.

The Academy on Social Security is a comprehensive training program in the field of social protection, implemented through the ILO International Training Centre.

During 20 courses, plenary sessions and interactive sessions, academics are addressing a wide range of topics focusing on widening social protection, effective governance and sustainable development.

“The Academy on Social Security is certainly a unique opportunity to learn from the experiences of other states and subsequently to identify priorities for the Confederation to be promoted at national level,” Rodica Popescu said.

“It is important to stress that social protection cannot replace economic growth or growth-oriented investments such as infrastructure building or health and education services. However, it can encourage growth by protecting goods and stimulating families to invest in higher-risk but more productive and profitable ones; it can also increase social spending by providing the most vulnerable means to use available services. Undoubtedly, the protection and promotion of human capital can have substantial long-term effects,” stressed the Confederal Secretary of the CNSM.

“The main conclusion we have drawn, being only at the beginning of the course, is that the sustainability of the social protection system can be ensured if the institutional and administrative capacity is adequate, if we develop inter-ministerial and intersectoral capacities and if we call for teamwork, because social protection tends to function better when it is in synergy with other social and economic policies and when it is supported by political commitment,” added the CNSM representative at the Academy on Social Security.

According to the organizers, for two weeks, participants have the opportunity to take advantage of a rich and flexible learning program that contributes to adapting decision makers from different countries to global social protection trends in a dynamic, digitized, changing, based on knowledge and innovations international environment.

The Academy aims to increase the capacity of key stakeholders involved in the social protection sector to build comprehensive and effective national social protection systems.

More details about the Academy can be found here.

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