Autorizations

Conference Program

Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Kazakhstan

Joint Stock Company ‘State Social Insurance Fund’

International Association of Pension and Social Funds

International Association of Social Security

Social Security amid Global Crisis:
National Response to the Challenges of the Day

International Conference

June 8-9, 2010

Astana city, Kazakhstan

Program of Conference

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

9.00-9.30

Registration of the conference participants

9.30-9.40

Opening of the International Conference

Welcome Address,

Mr. Karim Masimov, Kazakhstan’s Prime-Minister

9.40-11.10

Session I. Role and tasks of the social security scheme at crisis

Moderator–

Leading Topics:

·      increase in social risks amid the global financial and economic crisis;

·      flexibility and durability of modern models and social security schemes;

·      supportability of basic social guarantees and human rights amid the global financial and economic crisis;

·      promotion of employment and prevention of mass unemployment;

·     social protection of economically active population. Social partnership and administration of social responsibility between the state, employers and employees;

·      institutionalization of self-employment and widening the social welfare system’s scope of self-employed population;

·    national policy of income adjustment, safeguarding and improvement of the population’s living standard;

·      social assistance to the unemployed and other agents of the socially underprivileged;

·  Migration Policy subordination to the interests of progress;

·     observance of migrants’ rights and their social welfare.

Reports:

Ms. Gulshara Abdykalikova – Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population, Kazakhstan.

‘Social risks: prevention and management’.

Mr. Hans-Horst Konkolewsky– The Secretary General of the International Social Security Association

Mr. Alexander Kurtin – Chairman, International Association of Pension and Social Funds; - First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Pension Fund Board

‘First results of the pension reform and their impact on the new development of the pension system of Russia’.

11.10-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Session II. Social risks’ insurance: the system’s situation and projections.

Moderator –

Leading Topics:

·    national insurance models of basic types of social risks;

·        stabilization of the social insurance system under recessionary conditions;

·       forms and methods of enlarging population coverage by social security scheme;

·       facilitating mechanism of welfare payment appropriateness in the event of social risks;

·        social vulnerability insurance at old age;

·        durability and appropriateness of pension benefits;

·        updating pension scheme models: research and solutions.

Reports and Speeches:

Mr. Almas Kurmanov – President, JSC National Social Security Fund

‘Mandatory social security in Kazakhstan’.

Mr. Wim Franssen – Chairperson, Social Insurance Bank (Netherlands) (SVB), Treasurer of the ISSA

Ms. Mariya Borta – Chairperson, the National Social Insurance Office of Moldova.

‘State and perspectives of the national social insurance scheme in Moldova’.

Ms. Mariko Ouchi - Social Security Specialist, Subregional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Moscow

‘Insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases in CIS countries’

Mr. Bisengali Tadzhiyakov – Vice-Chairman of NBK, Board Member of JSC Social Insurance State Fund

‘Stability of financial sector of economy guarantees growth of social protection system’.

Discussion

13.00-15.00

Lunch

15.00-16.30

Session III. Retirement benefits: guarantee of pension benefits’ appropriateness.

Moderator –

Leading Topics:

·         optimization of welfare services managing;

·         state and business in infrastructure of social insurance systems;

·         opportunities, conditions and advantages of implementing up-to-date information technology;

·        information management of social security scheme;

·        transparency and confidentiality of social security information system;

·         transition to computer-controlled systems of social benefits use.

Reports and Speeches:

Mr. Valentin Roik – Deputy Director General, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Research and Development Establishment of Labor and Social Insurance of Russia.

‘Formation of social insurance system of Russia: institutional incompleteness and new global challenges’.

Mr. Boris Zaichuk – Chairman, Pension Fund Board of Ukraine.

Mr. Zakir Babayev – Deputy Chairman, Social Security State Fund of Azerbaijan.

‘Reform of security system of Azerbaijan: progress and prospects’.

Ms. Yelena Nikiforova – Deputy Director, Department of Supervising Capital Issues Market Entities and Accumulative Pension Funds

‘Impact of world financial crisis on accumulative pension scheme of Kazakhstan’

Discussion

16.30-17.00

Coffee Break

17.00-18.30

Session IV. Social security schemes’ infrastructure: administration and information technology.

Moderator –

Leading Topics:

·       approaches to the social security scheme administration;

·       information support of the social security scheme;

·      supply of available social services;

·      information technology applied at social services

Reports and Speeches:

Mr. Abdikarim Turekulov – General Director, National Centre on Pension Payment.

Role of the National Centre on Pension Payment in Pension Savings Fund and Mandatory Social Insurance System of Kazakhstan.

Mr. Ivan Korol – First Deputy Governor of the Population Social Protection Fund, the Republic of Belarus. ‘Administration and information technology within the Fund’

Discussion

19.30

Dinner

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

9.00-13.00

Session V. Discussion of pension insurance points

Moderator –

Reports and Speeches:

Mr. Nurzhan Alimukhambetov – Chairman of the Board, JSC ‘National Annuity Company ‘Life Insurance Company’.

‘Issues and future development of pension and annuity insurance’.



Mr. Ruslan Yerdenayev - Managing Director, JSC ‘GNPF’ Pension Savings Fund. ‘Current situation and development perspectives of the Pension Savings Fund GNPF’

Ms. Larisa Kusainova – Deputy Chairman of the Board, JSC NefteGaz-Dem Pension Savings Fund.

‘Some issues of development of Pension Savings Fund in Kazakhstan’.

Ms. Maira Kichigina – Executive Director of JSC ‘People’s Bank of Kazakhstan NPF’.

‘Potential for Kazakhstan’s Pension Fund Development’

Discussion

11.30-12.00

Coffee Break

Discussion and adoption of recommendations of the International Conference.

Summing-up the International Conference.

13.00-15.00

Lunch

15.00-19.30

Social Program

19.30

Dinner