QUA TRAIN seeks more social protection managers

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(2000), "QUA TRAIN seeks more social protection managers", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 24 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.2000.00324iab.014

QUA TRAIN seeks more social protection managers

QUA TRAIN seeks more social protection managers

Keywords: Training, Management development

"One single, responsible, skilled and determined financial manager in a national social protection scheme somewhere in Africa can save more lives [and] help avoid more suffering than any individual doctor in his entire working life". So said ILO Executive Director Assane Diop during the launch of a global quantitative training initiative for social protection managers (QUA TRAIN), held at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in June.

Mr Diop also told delegates that "it takes one social security actuary to avoid pension schemes from going bankrupt, leaving hundreds of thousands of pensioners in poverty". At the heart of this initiative, which is supported by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European governments, is the world's first ever master's course in Social Protection Financing, at Maastricht University in The Netherlands. QUA TRAIN has set a target of having at least three highly skilled managers of social protection finances working in every country of the world by the end of 2010.

For further information, please contact the International Financial and Actuarial Service (ILO FACTS), Tel: +41 22 799 7565; Fax: +41 22 799 7962; E-mail: actnet@ilo.org