Guideline 6. Meeting statutory requirements

Guideline 6. Meeting statutory requirements

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COM_00800
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COLL10-GL06
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7

Transparency and accountability strategy: Development of the Social Report

At the initiative of the Management Board of the Mutual Association for the Protection of the Family (Asociación Mutual de Protección Familiar (AMPF)), and as a key element of an accountability strategy, in 2000 work began to develop the Social Report. The aim is to make known the work performed and the main decisions taken within the organization in pursuit of institutional transparency.

Importance of standardization in the social insurance system

China has the largest social insurance system in the world covering nearly 1.4 billion people and includes old-age, medical, work injury, maternity and unemployment insurance schemes. There are more than 8,000 social insurance agencies at and above the county level in China, with nearly 180,000 staff, undertaking 1.99 billion individual service transactions annually. Due to historical reasons, many branch-based operational agencies follow different management and service standards, and do not even have a unified name. This practice is inefficient and errors easily occur.

External peer review

The Office of the Chief Actuary commissions an external peer-review process for each triennial actuarial report of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). The Board (federal and provincial finance ministers) endorses the peer-review process. 
 
The three peer-reviewers must be actuaries enrolled with the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Corporate social responsibility

The National Social Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale de prévoyance sociale (CNPS)) of Cameroon is an important tool of the State for the promotion of social policy and has therefore decided make social, environmental and economic issues an integral part of its activities and relations with its partners, with the double aim of participating in the sustainable development of the country and reducing the Fund's administrative costs.