Dear Sir or Madam,

"Meeting Today's Challenges in Social Protection and Retirement Systems"

Social protection systems, including social insurance organizations, Pension Funds and Provident Funds are facing tough challenges. These systems are affected by the on-going global financial crisis but also by the various events affecting the region. The effects of the crisis and the regional events are expected to change the way these social protection systems and funds are operating and the way they are planning for the future.

The Muhanna Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance of Cyprus is organizing this truly regional conference to bring forward and define these challenges and outline future looming troubles that social protection and retirement systems in the region will have to face under the new realities.

The conference is bringing together ministries, social protection agencies, social insurance and pension funds, in addition to unions and corporations and companies and other employers from the region. Moreover, experts in poverty, unemployment, labour markets, and other social protection areas as well as professionals in pension governance, supervision, investment, and administration, and risk management will examine and discuss the tough challenges of today and if possible, bring to light solutions that will benefit their people and the prosperity of the region's countries.

The key note addressees will come from the International Social Security Association, the Muhanna Foundation, the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance of Cyprus, the International Labour Organization, the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, and the European Union. Other important global and regional organizations have also been invited to contribute and we are awaiting there confirmation. Please check our website regularly for updates to both the speakers and the program.

In closing I would like to thank you in advance for your participation and contribution to this event. I would like to thank the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance of Cyprus, Mrs Sotiroulla Charalamous for her kind invitation to organize this conference in Cyprus.

For more information on the conference please contact us.

Sincerely yours,

 

Ibrahim E. Muhanna
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
The Muhanna Foundation