Guideline 53. Strategy and action plan

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The institution establishes a strategy and an action plan to implement the international social security agreements.

Guideline code

ICT_07100

Mechanism

The strategy for the implementation of the operational activities of the international agreements may include some of the following elements:

The institution’s goals on improving the effectiveness related to the operations of the agreements. These may include increasing the integrity of the programme, minimizing errors and undue payments, reducing delays in operations, reducing disputes with other institutions, etc.;
The institution’s policies on ICT security and data protection, as well as on the authentication of operations;
Incremental development of the international project, starting with a subset of functions and branches, and implementing pilots;
Carrying out parallel training activities for the staff to be involved in the ICT-based operations of the agreement.

The management, with the assistance of the competent units, should define an action plan for the implementation of international agreements.
The board should approve and communicate the strategic plan for the implementation of international agreements in conformance with the institutional strategic plan. The management should approve, adopt and communicate the action plan.

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Structure

The board and the management should establish a strategy for implementing the operational activities of international agreements. This strategy should be included in the institution’s strategic plan.
The management, in accordance with the defined strategy, should establish an action plan to implement the operational activities of international agreements. This includes defining roles and responsibilities based on the defined governance structures.
The strategic plan for implementing international agreements should follow the principles defined in the ISSA Guidelines on Good Governance.
The defined strategy and an action plan to implement the international social security agreements should be based on the institutional ICT Governance and Management processes recommended in the current set of Guidelines.