Actions in Access to basic services
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Developing specialized and urgent foster care measures
- Start activities
- 15-05-2023
- End activities
- 03-12-2023
- Code
- 2023-03
- Description
- The social and child welfare and protection system implemented by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro is oriented towards the development of social and child protection services to prevent the separation of children from their biological families, guarantee alternative forms of care and achieve reintegration, wherever possible by its international commitments. Ending institutionalisation has been a priority for Europe and is also one of the conditions for accession to the European Union. Experts from Hungary, Croatia, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands mobilised by SOCIEUX+ supported the Institute for Child and Social Welfare in the development of a Foster Care Action Plan and the design of a curriculum for the Institute's social workers on foster care competencies.
- Partner Institution
- Institute for Social and Child Welfare [Zavod za socijalnu i dječju zaštitu]
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development
Support on the development of individual foster care plans
- Start activities
- 17-10-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Code
- 2023-32
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Health, Work and Social Policy
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
Development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk
- Start activities
- 04-09-2023
- End activities
- 01-12-2023
- Code
- 2023-23
- Description
- The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy requested development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk implemented in the institution of 25.maj in Skopje. The peer-to-peer technical assistance represented by Croatian, French and Czech expertise allowed to develop a methodology and standards for new services. These standards create an enabling environment for empowerment to the vulnerable youth, children and families at risk and will serve as a pilot project in the country with the possibility for multiplication.
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
Improving the linkage between cash benefits and social services and the specific needs of persons with disabilities (PwDs)
- Start activities
- 03-08-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Code
- 2023-24
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
Methodology for processing “Medium-term development program for people with disabilities and their families (2023-2025)”
- Start activities
- 31-10-2022
- End activities
- 19-05-2023
- Code
- 2022-12
- Description
- The Action has mainly resulted in information sharing and methodological support. The General Authority for development of persons with disabilities intended to develop a strategic approach for serving persons with disabilities at its best. To this goal, SOCIEUX+ mobilized an extraordinary, diversified expertise from Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden, for the very purpose of exposing the Partner to a varied set of models and practices. Individual capacity building of Partner’s staff has been part of this strategy. The last step of the cooperation has been to set up a full-fledged methodology on how to develop a medium-term action plan for persons with disabilities and their families, inclusive of potential actions and services inspired by EU best practices fostering social inclusion and independent living.
- Partner Institution
- General authority for development of persons with disabilities
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
Improving and structuring social services in Uzbekistan
- Start activities
- 16-11-2022
- End activities
- 15-05-2023
- Code
- 2022-09
- Partner Institution
- Agency for the Development of Medical and Social Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
Set-up of a foster care system for minors without parental support and protection
- Start activities
- 23-05-2022
- End activities
- 24-03-2022
- Code
- 2021-24
- Partner Institution
- Commissioner for Children's Rights
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
Capacity building on social protection for persons with disability
- Start activities
- 15/09/2020
- End activities
- 17/06/2022
- Code
- 2020-09
- Description
- The National Social Protection Council (NSPC) of Cambodia has the mandate to develop, supervise and regulate the social protection system and to ensure harmonization of the different strategies, policies and other social protection activities, including for the people with disabilities. To the three activities, deployed at distance, contributed experts from France, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Finland, who first presented international and EU best practices and cases with regards to social protection coverage of people with disabilities. A mapping of the existing policies, measures, initiatives, both from national institutions and development partners was then co-developed, with a view to identifying possible coverage gaps or inconsistencies. The final activity coached NSPC’s staff on building a methodology for developing an action plan for disability-inclusive social protection.
- Partner Institution
- National Social Protection Council
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development
Support to the implementation of allowances to disabled people
- Start activities
- oct-2016
- End activities
- oct-2016
- Code
- 2016-11
- Description
- To improve the implementation of mechanisms of social transfers (grants) to people living with disabilities through better identification and delivery systems.
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSAVY)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
Supporting vocational rehabilitation of persons living with disabilities
- Start activities
- feb-2015
- End activities
- feb-2015
- Code
- 2014-13
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (MLSPF) is the national authority having overall responsibility for the development, promotion and implementation of social protection for people with disabilities. MLSPF plays a directing role in implementing the Social Inclusion Strategy for Persons with Disabilities (2010-2013) approved by law in 2010. Among one of the first steps taken by the Ministry for the implementation of the Strategy was the plan for the creation of a small department in charge of services for vocational rehabilitation of persons with severe disabilities within the Republican Experimental Prosthetic, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Centre (CREPOR). Knowledge from the provision of such services in the EU and focusing on the practical organisation and implementation of these by the CREPOR. A study visit to in Ireland was organised for senior staff of various Moldovan institutions in charge of rehabilitation services. Within a second activity, a general training needs assessment of the newly created vocational rehabilitation department was conducted with the support of a EU peers. This was the occasion to identify the needs and challenges in the provision of such services and the specific training needs of the CREPOR.
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Familiy
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
Support for the formulation of a disability policy for the region of Cundinamarca, Colombia
- Start activities
- nov-2014
- End activities
- nov-2015
- Code
- 2014-16
- Description
- The Secretariat of Health of the Department of the Cundinamarca region is responsible for implementation of the National Public Policy for Disability and Social Inclusion at the regional level. Colombia published a National Public Policy on Disability and Social Inclusion in 2013. The Department’s Government intention was to develop a regional policy on the lines of the national policy. The Department’s Secretariat of Health had already put forward a number of activities as starting points for this development, including the identification of difficulties affecting people living with disabilities among the 116 municipal areas, and) consultations involving all sectors of society. Within five activities implemented in less than one year, the Public Policy for Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities if Cundinamarca was developed, adopted and publicly presented as the result of a process led by the regional Government with the support of mobilised experts. It is organised around five axes which enable the inclusion, equality and legal guarantees of people living with disabilities to be reinforced, providing opportunities for participation, accessibility and capacity development through the recognition of diversity.
- Partner Institution
- Provincial Government of Cundinamarca - Health Secretariat [Secretaría de Salud, Departamento de Cundinamarca]
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development