SOCIEUX (Social Protection EU Expertise in Development Cooperation)

In June 2015 SOCIEUX, the European Commission’s technical assistance facility for social protection in development cooperation, managed by GVG and its partners, pursued its cooperation with the Social Security Institute of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG) in Mexico which had already started with first activities in 2014 through a pensions training exercise and an assessment of ISSEG’s internal management system focusing on investment and risk management issues. The support provided by the two Spanish and German SOCIEUX experts was also the occasion to undertake a review of the Social Security Act of the State of Guanajuato in order to address potential needs for modification of the legislation. For more information: SOCIEUX 2014-25 MEXICO Post Info Note_EN .

SOCIEUX is a technical assistance facility established by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid – to support the efforts of partner countries to better design and manage social protection systems by means of short-term peer-to-peer inputs to be delivered by experts drawn primarily from the European Union Member States’ public administrations and mandated bodies.

A demand-driven programme, SOCIEUX has been receiving and implementing requests for assistance from countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific region, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and the European Neighbourhood area since beginning of 2014.