Cross-country study on the basic income security and health protection systems in Central and Eastern Europe

We were invited by ILO to conduct an assessment of the basic income security and health protection systems in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine.

Based on legislative and statistical information collected by national experts, the study conducts a comparative review of the basic income security and health protection systems.

The key assessment areas include:

-                  (population) coverage,

-                  rights and entitlements (e.g. legal base, qualifying conditions),

-                  benefit adequacy (e.g. the level of minimum benefits),

-                  consistency between programmes (e.g. relation between different benefits and the minimum wage),

-                  stability of the systems (e.g. financial situation, recent reform trends),

-                  socio-economic impact (e.g. poverty reduction, social cohesion).

The comprehensive review is meant to help ILO to contribute to the improvement of the effectiveness of current policies to ensure basic income security and health protection systems in four areas of basic social security guarantees in order to fulfil the goals of the ILO Recommendation No. 202 in CEE countries.