Platform
What ?
COOPAMI is a cooperation platform that supports countries that wish to develop or modernize a universal, unified and sustainable social protection in the interest of the population.
Who ?
The platform COOPAMI, which was created within the NIHDI (National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance), brings together individuals and organizations from Belgium with a specific expertise in the field of social protection. The composition of the group of participating individuals and organizations may vary, depending on the subject or project.
Organigramme of the NIHDI
Why ?
- • Social protection is the protection that a society provides to individuals in order to have access to health care and a guaranteed income in case of old age, unemployment, sickness, disability, .... Setting up a system of social protection is therefore an important step in fighting poverty and social exclusion.
For many countries, ensuring a basic social protection for its population seems to be a major problem. The countries are primarily responsible for the implementation of social protection. But the request for technical support from these countries has grown tremendously in recent years.
Therefore the platform COOPAMI wishes, through exchange, to make its expertise available for countries asking for it with the purpose of achieving a universal, unified and sustainable social protection.
- • The platform COOPAMI also aims at promoting and strengthening the cooperation in the field of social protection, between different people, organizations and countries.
At the Belgian level, COOPAMI seeks closer cooperation between the different departments of the NIHDI, the public institutions for social security, the federal public services of Public Health and Social Security, the various political levels, universities, … and other platforms.
How ?
COOPAMI focuses its activities on two areas: projects and training.
- COOPAMI supports its partner countries by developing projects in the field of social protection. A specific approach is needed because each country is different. A model of social protection that could be applied to every country doesn’t exist.
The platform offers various services, according to the context:
- Feasibility studies;
- Multi-year programs aimed at developing the social protection, to support the knowledge transfer and to implement modern management methods in the existing social protection system;
- Training for intermediaries who are involved in the implementation of a project on the field
COOPAMI has a video-conference installation that facilitates the exchange of expertise and support for development cooperation projects in the field with all countries with a similar installation.
- In collaboration with several partners, COOPAMI organizes training programs in Belgium on Social Security Management in French and in English.
Logo
The logo COOPAMI 
is inspired by the two basic elements of the
NIHDI logo 
- the protecting arm representing in French and in English the “C” for development Cooperation
- the central disc is transformed into a terrestrial globe to refer to the international dimension of this development cooperation
The same colours are used.
