The ISSA Guidelines for Social Security Administration were prepared by the ISSA General Secretariat with the ISSA technical commissions.

The ISSA Guidelines on the Promotion of Sustainable Employment were produced as a result of the close collaboration of the ISSA General Secretariat and the Technical Commission on Employment Policies and Unemployment Insurance.

These Guidelines were prepared by Georges Carlens, Chair of the Technical Commission on Employment Policies and Unemployment Insurance, with the support of Michèle Baukens, and by Dominique La Salle and Magid Fathallah from the ISSA General Secretariat. They were peer reviewed by Uwe G. Becking from the IBM Cúram Research Institute. Commentary and other inputs were generously provided by Thomas Bender from the European Commission and by Azita Berar Awad, Valérie Schmitt, Céline Peyron Bista, Aidi Hu and Thibault Van Langenhove from the International Labour Office (ILO). The ISSA also thanks its members for useful comments and suggestions.

The elaboration of these Guidelines has been made possible by calling upon literature sources, the good practices of ISSA member organizations, and the ISSA’s tool for measuring the adequacy of unemployment benefits. The ISSA sources are complementary to these present Guidelines, which together support the efforts of ISSA member organizations to improve their systems of unemployment protection. Such improvements can in part be measured using the ISSA’s adequacy tool. A certain number of these Guidelines’ objectives have been defined in relation to the parameters and indicators used by the ISSA to measure adequacy.