• Labour & Employment Policies

    Guatemala strengthens its strategy for more inclusive employment with the support of the EU Facility SOCIEUX+

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    Uruguay strengthens employment services with SOCIEUX+ support

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  • Establishment of a Unified Registry for Social Protection (URSR) in Lebanon: Supporting MoSA to take ownership of the project and validated the USR target system model

    Middle East and Gulf Countries LEBANON
    Start activities
    18/11/2023
    End activities
    01/03/2025
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions); Information management systems
    Code
    2023-44
    Description
    SOCIEUX's intended contribution through this action was to support the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) in building the internal capacity needed to strategically lead the EU-funded project for the establishment of a Unified Registry for Social Protection (URSP Project) in Lebanon. To this end, experts from France and Spain mobilised by SOCIEUX+ accompanied the creation of the Programme Management Unit (PMU) in defining its mandate, its role in the URSP Project and the necessary material and human components of the PMU.

  • The National Employment System of Costa Rica as a tool for competitiveness and productivity, generation of human capital, social inclusion and employment promotion

    Central America COSTA RICA
    Start activities
    13/05/2024
    End activities
    31/05/2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS)
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2024-05
    Description
    This technical cooperation, developed with the Costa Rican Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS), saw experts from France and Germany contribute their expertise and best practices in areas related to the labour market, public employment services, vocational training and other related topics. This cooperation took place within the framework of the International Forum on Public Employment Services and the National Employment System of Costa Rica on 23-24 May 2024.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Expert presentations on the promotion of green jobs and business management at the 2024 National Meeting of Public Service Employment Service Providers

    COLOMBIA South America
    Start activities
    16-09-2024
    End activities
    06-12-2024
    Partner Institution
    Public Employment Services [Unidad del Servicio Público de Empleo] (UAESPE)
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2024-13
    Description
    The Colombian Public Service Employment hosted from 18-20 November 2024, a conference bringing together its service providers to shape the future of work. Partnering with SOCIEUX+, the event tapped into expertise from Spain on green jobs and job intermediation, focusing on the development of small and medium enterprises. In addition to keynote speeches, the event featured interactive co-creation laboratories, fostering collaboration and idea-sharing among participants. Hot topics such as labor market trends and the impact of artificial intelligence were tackled head-on, sparking discussions on the present and future of Colombia's workforce. The conference underscored the importance of innovation and collaboration in addressing labor market challenges and opportunities.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Kosovo delegation visits Ireland to study good practices in the area of labour market data

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  • Strengthening the organizational capacities of the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund to achieve the objectives of the Public Administration Reform Strategy

    WESTERN BALKANS Montenegro
    Start activities
    13-11-2023
    End activities
    10-05-2024
    Partner Institution
    Pension and Disability Insurance Fund
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning, Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2023-20
    Description
    The action in collaboration with the Pension and Disability Fund of Montenegro aimed to improve the quality of service and transparency to the insured and beneficiaries in line with the Public Administration Reform Strategy. Experts from Bulgaria, Romania and France mobilised by SOCIEUX+ assessed organisational and functional capacities, as well as services and communication and together with the partner institution elaborated a Strategic Plan for the period of 2024-2027. Three missions in Podgorica focused on the development and modernization of the organization and work of the Fund for the realization of the objectives of the Public Administration Reform Strategy.

  • International Guest Expert lectures at Mahidol University: Health financing and Social Health Protection in Europe

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA Thailand
    Start activities
    29-04-2024
    End activities
    31-05-2024
    Partner Institution
    ASEAN Institute for Health Development (AIHD)
    Type of Assistance
    Awareness raising (roundtables, seminars, workshops, etc)
    Code
    2024-03
    Description
    The ASEAN Institute for Health Development (AIHD) at Mahidol University focuses on educating leaders in health system management, enhancing the health workforce, and supporting innovative research. Key strategies include conducting research in primary health care, global health, and active aging, investing in education for future leaders, and providing long-term capacity building. AIHD also collaborates on the ILO's “Support to the extension of social health protection in Southeast Asia” project, enhancing social health protection capacities. Since 1978, AIHD has offered a Master’s in Primary Healthcare Management, training about 800 health leaders globally. In collaboration with the ILO, AIHD added a Social Health Protection (SHP) component to this program in 2020, aiming to promote universal health coverage (UHC) by equipping professionals with expertise in SHP. This includes modules on strategic purchasing, health systems, health financing, and health economics. This is the second collaboration with the AIHD, which requested SOCIEUX+ support in mobilizing two public EU experts - from Croatia and France this time - to deliver lectures on health financing.

  • Enhancing capacity for public employment services activities: outreach to employers, speed dating, job fairs and supervision of private employment agencies.

    SOUTH AMERICA SURINAME
    Start activities
    10/05/2021
    End activities
    11/11/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2019-31
    Description
    This action built on previous technical support provided by the ILO Caribbean to the Ministry of Labour of Suriname, notably on building the capacities of staff to enhance the outreach to employers. The action delivered technical support in two steps. First, the actual integration of the Public Employment Service network into the policy framework targeting improved labour market intermediation was assessed by Belgian and Dutch experts. Then, experts from Belgium and France organized and delivered training to the staff of the Ministry of Labour and of local PES addressing the most prominent capacity and organizational needs (relating to outreach and communication with employers and job-seekers) as to improve the provision of support services tailored to employers’ needs.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Online training for ERI experts in the field of targeted social assistance

    CENTRAL ASIA Kazakhstan
    Start activities
    16/08/2023
    End activities
    08/11/2023
    Partner Institution
    JSC Economic Research Institute
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2023-19
    Description
    The webinar “Social Assistance Measures: Experience of the European Union” was co-organized by SOCIEUX+ and the Economic Research Institute (ERI) of Kazakhstan on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. ERI, a think tank under the Ministry of Economy, had a mission to propose to the government social assistance measures based in international good practices to support the implementation of the new Kazakhstan Social code. The experts from France and Slovakia presented the ways that minimum income guarantee schemes and child guarantee initiatives are designed and implemented in different EU Member States. Around 40 participants – ERI experts as well as other partners from Kazakhstan and Central Asia – joined the webinar.

  • Cost-benefit analysis of options for the provision of rehabilitation services

    SOUTHERN AFRICA Tanzania
    Start activities
    20-03-2023
    End activities
    31-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Sectoral planning & budgeting
    Code
    2022-32
    Description
    In order to expand its offer of services for victims of accidents at work and occupational diseases, the Workers Compensation Fund of Tanzania (WCF) together with the experts from France, Italy and the Netherlands mobilized by SOCIEUX+ worked on identification of the best option of the rehabilitation services provision. As a result of the action, a cost-benefit analysis of different options was conducted, providing the necessary elements to finalize the WCF’s rehabilitation strategy.

  • Improving service delivery for business owners in Edo State

    WESTERN AFRICA Nigeria
    Start activities
    20-03-2023
    End activities
    15-09-2023
    Partner Institution
    Edo State skills development agency (EdoJobs)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2022-30
    Description
    The Edo State Skills Development Agency (EdoJobs) is a regional agency set up by the Edo State Government to support the creation of employment opportunities, job matching and skills reinforcement of the state population. This action, implemented remotely, contributed to the improvement of the services provided by EdoJobs to business starters and owners. Following an initial assessment and the elaboration of a roadmap for improved services, a ‘Mentorship and coaching guide for entrepreneurship’ was developed. The action was concluded with a capacity-building activity for a team of EdoJobs trainers. This cooperation involved Austrian, Lithuanian and Belgian expertise and was supported by the GIZ-SKYE project.

    Social services: Uzbekistan explores EU experience in a study visit to Romania

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  • Coordination between the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine and NGOs providing social assistance to veterans and their families

    Eastern Europe Ukraine
    Start activities
    18-07-2022
    End activities
    30-09-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Policy development
    Code
    2022-13
    Description
    The Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine reached out to SOCIEUX+ to assist in increasing their scope of action to incorporate coordination with NGOs providing social assistance to war veterans and their families. A fully at distance action translated into two activities led by Lithuanian expertise, aiming at showcasing existing initiatives and mechanism of social assistance provided to veterans and their families, as well as a proposition of a coordination mechanism with NGOs and Civil Society Organizations providing social assistance to war veterans. The MoVA of Ukraine had as a result of this technical assistance, a proposal for regulations to create council of Veterans as well as requirements for the development of a program for the socialization and employment enhancement of veterans.

  • Capacity building for improved reporting on Social Protection

    Western Balkans Serbia
    Start activities
    20-11-2023
    End activities
    08-04-2024
    Partner Institution
    Republic Institute for Social Protection
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Information management systems
    Code
    2023-35
    Description
    The action in collaboration with the Republic Institute for Social protection aimed to enhance its monitoring framework for the social protection system by developing concise and clear reports that inform general population, scientific community and decision-makers. Experts from Croatia, Portugal and France mobilised by SOCIEUX+ reviewed indicators, updated research methodology and design brief template that can effectively communicate relevant data. Three missions Belgrade resulted with development of the indicators that reflect gender, human rights, vulnerability, and equality, based on the EU models and best practices. An overall methodology applicable to monitoring and reporting of the social protection system is advanced.

  • Support for assuming the responsibilities under the EU regulation on data and information exchange within social security systems coordination scheme

    Western Balkans North Macedonia
    Start activities
    29-01-2024
    End activities
    14-06-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-39
    Description
    The objective of this action was to support and advise the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the institutions for employment, labour and social protection of North Macedonia in strengthening and reinforcing their capacities in view of the implementation of Regulations (EC) No 883/2004 and 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Social Security Coordination Regulations). The support provided by SOCIEUX+, with experts mobilised from the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia, resulted in a comprehensive assessment of data collection needs and the development of a roadmap with key milestones for the future integration of North Macedonia into the EU social security coordination mechanisms, with a particular focus on data collection requirements/needs for future integration into the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI).

  • Support to the CNSPS in reinforcing its organizational and institutional capacities

    Eastern Africa Comoros
    Start activities
    29-01-2024
    End activities
    14-06-2024
    Partner Institution
    National Solidarity and Social Welfare Fund (CNSPS)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2023-34

    Support to the disability sector in Kosovo*

    Western Balkans Kosovo*
    Start activities
    03-07-2023
    End activities
    12-04-2024
    Partner Institution
    Prime-Ministers Office
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-16
    Description
    In alignment with Kosovo*’s commitment to enhancing the inclusion, equitable rights, and social engagement of Persons with Disabilities, the Office on Good Governance has of mandate to be of advice to the Prime Minister in areas of good governance, human rights, equal opportunities and anti-discrimination issues. This is done by way of policy drafting, reviewing of draft legislation, awareness raising of the population on issues relating to human rights, involving civil society in policy making, drafting and implementation of strategic documents. The Office on Good Governance of the Prime Minister’s Office of Kosovo reached out to SOCIEUX+ to review and update the previous National Strategy and Action Plans for Persons living with Disabilities, which was implemented along with a monitoring and evaluation mechanism. This action mobilized Belgian, Romanian, Portuguese and Swedish expertise.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Virtual DOST: support to digitization of citizen-centric services

    Eastern Europe Azerbaijan
    Start activities
    01-05-2023
    End activities
    15-02-2024
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    Agency for Sustainable and Operative Social Provision (DOST Agency) under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population (MLSPP)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-37
    Description
    The Agency for Sustainable and Operative Social Provision (DOST) aims to improve the quality of services in the areas of employment, labour, social protection, and provision of social services. Through its request of accompanying functional digital transition, it aims to increase transparency and ensure the application of innovative solutions, accelerate the transition to e-services, reduce bureaucracy, and enhance citizen satisfaction. Through this action, which involved experts from France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Romania mobilized by SOCIEUX+, DOST has acquired a clear understanding of the steps to be taken to digitize its services and as to create a single integrated digital platform accessible to all users – the ‘Virtual DOST’. The experts also provided advice on the governance and management of the information systems, and the implementation of data protection standards.

    Capacity strengthening in the MLSW for updating the list of workplaces and occupations subject to insurance period calculated at an accelerated rate according to EU standards

    Western Balkans Montenegro
    Start activities
    13-11-2023
    End activities
    08-03-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-15

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Analysis of the disability assessment in Kosovo*

    Western Balkans Kosovo*
    Start activities
    28-08-2023
    End activities
    16-02-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Finance, Labour and Transfers
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2023-13

    Occupational health and safety for working at high and low temperatures

    Western Balkans Serbia
    Start activities
    20-11-2023
    End activities
    12-04-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2023-30
    Description
    The action in collaboration with the OSH Directorate of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy, aimed to promote and support the development of a preventive safety and health at work in Serbia. Experts from the Czechia, Spain and Latvia mobilised by SOCIEUX+ reviewed guidelines of the work at high and low temperature and trained OSH Administration and stakeholders on how to ensure the health of workers at high and low temperature. Two technical cooperation activities in Belgrade resulted with updated guidelines for safe and healthy outdoor work and increased knowledge for the OSH Administration, inspectors and social partners. The experts also contributed to the development of a brochure for wider distribution as part of the OSH Administration's awareness-raising activities.

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    Advice on Integration of data on labour market demand for improved evidence-based policy making

    Western Balkans Kosovo*
    Start activities
    29-01-2024
    End activities
    28-06-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Finance, Labour and Transfers
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Information management systems
    Code
    2023-38
    Description
    The Ministry of Finance Labour and Transfers of Kosovo* is working to improve the gathering of adequate data on the labour demand side, in order to ensure informed and responsive employment policies in response to high unemployment rates, informality, and skills mismatches. This action, which relied on the expertise of Irish, Swedish and French public experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+, successfully managed to strengthen the Ministry's capacity by implementing the following activities: (i) mapping the current situation of labour market data demand; (ii) developing a data governance framework; (iii) defining the characteristics/responsibilities of the team in charge of data administration and management; (iv) training selected staff of the Ministry on the developed data governance framework; (v) providing EU best practices on the role of data, evidence and analysis in the formulation of employment policies and labour market strategies through a study visit to Ireland.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Building cross-cutting capacities in the Ministry of Labour to foster labor market inclusion of persons with disabilities

    South America Ecuador
    Start activities
    24-04-2023
    End activities
    15-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour [Ministerio del Trabajo]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2023-01
    Description
    The Organic Law on Disabilities and the Labour Code of Ecuador establishes a mandatory quota of labour inclusion of persons with disabilities for the public and private sector with a minimum payroll of 25 workers. The Ministry of Labour of Ecuador, as the governing body of public policies in the labour field, needs to establish synergies between the supply and demand of employment in the country, through the development of innovative regulations that promote and facilitate the hiring of people with disabilities. Spanish experts mobilised by SOCIEUX+ contributed to the elaboration of a Diagnosis to know the degree of inclusion of people with disabilities in the Public Employment Service of the Ministry, and guidelines and recommendations were built to mainstream the disability approach. All of this was complemented with direct training for the institution's workers, especially labour inspectors for the regulation of companies on this topic.

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    Strengthening institutional capacities in São Tomé and Príncipe for the promotion of entrepreneurship

    Western Africa Sao Tome And Principe
    Start activities
    11-09-2023
    End activities
    28/06/2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Youth and Sport
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2023-41

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthen the capacity of the PNPE to deliver services to job seekers (especially vulnerable populations), and increase its capacity to develop employment opportunities with companies

    Western Africa Gabon
    Start activities
    23-10-2023
    End activities
    19-04-2024
    Partner Institution
    National Center for the Promotion of Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-27
    Description
    The Pôle National de Promotion de l'Emploi (PNPE) in Gabon aimed to enhance its services for job seekers and create youth contracts with employers. SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from France and Sweden to support this goal. The action focused on defining a core service offer and strengthening the individual capacities of employment counsellors. The new service offer is designed for uniform deployment across the country. The experts also helped in rethinking the internal organization, uniformizing practices, and identifying necessary IT system improvements to support the new service offer. The action has laid a strong foundation for improving employment services in Gabon, aligning with national development strategies and international best practices.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Building capacity in the FMLE to increase employers’ awareness, understanding and engagement to their labour intermediation services

    Western Africa Nigeria
    Start activities
    22-05-2023
    End activities
    06-11-2023
    Partner Institution
    Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development), Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-06
    Description
    Based on the request by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment (FMLE), this action aimed to strengthen the individual and organisational capacities of the Public Employment Service agencies to increase employers’ awareness, understanding and engagement with their services. To this purpose, experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ helped to asses gaps and needs and to formulate recommendations on individual capacities and training needs of job centres’ staff to effectively reach, engage and provide services to employers; they also helped to assess to what extent employers are aware of, understand and engage with PES services. As a result, an Employers’ Outreach, Engagement and Communication Strategy, was drafted in cooperation with experts. Finally, the last activity facilitated the design, preparation and deployment of a training of trainers’ (ToT) plan with two workshops. The first week was dedicated to the animation of a working group of FMLE managers aiming at designing and agreeing on services to employers and the second week to the ToT on outreach, engagement and provision of services to employers for a group of PES job counsellors/trainers. Throughout the action, experts from Austria, Lithuania and Sweden were involved.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Promote employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through a gender equity approach

    Central America Panama
    Start activities
    27-03-2023
    End activities
    16-02-2024
    Partner Institution
    National Disability Secretariat [Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2022-35
    Description
    Building on the previous support (Action 2022-21) provided by SOCIEUX+, this action supported the National Disability Secretariat (SENADIS) of Panama to promote the inclusive labour insertion, with a gender equality approach, by elaborating a roadmap for the improvement of the labour intermediation services specifically aimed at promoting the labour insertion of persons with disabilities. Different teams of experts from Spain have contributed to strengthening the skills of actors involved in the labour market integration of persons with disabilities, by delivering training modules. The experts have also framed the acquired knowledge and a compendium of practices into a Guide to support the work of those agents in charge of enabling persons with disabilities to find a decent and accessible employment.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Green skills for Kosovo* – Labour market and skills analysis

    Western Balkans Kosovo*
    Start activities
    18-12-2023
    End activities
    10-05-2024
    Partner Institution
    Employment Agency of the Republic of Kosovo
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-33

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Financial and policy advice on the establishment of the Unemployment Fund

    Southern Africa Namibia
    Start activities
    27-03-2023
    End activities
    13-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    Social Security Commission (SSC)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development, Sectoral planning & budgeting, Financial management (incl. budgeting)
    Code
    2022-36
    Description
    The Social Security Commission of Namibia aims to enlarge its offer of social security schemes to encompass unemployment benefits. The contribution requested to SOCIEUX+ was mainly on exploring policy and organizational possibilities according to the context; to this purpose, SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from France, Lithuania, Romania, and Spain. They have first been looking into the recent COVID-related stimulus package to protect laid-off workers and explore possibilities to integrate those measures into a structural instrument. Experts then looked at options for financing such a scheme, and how it would be governed and administered by the Social Security Commission. Such technical background will prove useful in the event Namibia will decide to move forward with the introduction of unemployed benefits.

  • Technical and institutional appraisal for the establishment of a unified registry for social protection in Lebanon

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Lebanon
    Start activities
    06-03-2023
    End activities
    15-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2023-02
    Description
    The Ministry of Social Affairs of Lebanon asked SOCIEUX+ support in the establishment of a unified registry for social protection (USRP), according to the National Social Protection Strategy. The goal is to have available a comprehensive data platform of beneficiary households of the existing social assistance benefits and schemes. In fact, today Lebanon’s economic crisis translates into persisting hardship for the poorest and impoverishment of the medium class; in such a situation, social transfers and basic services are key to secure essential livelihood and ultimately social stability. As those are massively funded by international donors, a national URSP would allow the Lebanese Government to steer social assistance delivery based on comprehensive data and IMS infrastructure. In this context, the planned EU support will be key to provide the necessary technical expertise to set up a functional and technological solution for setting up the URSP. The present Action – and the mobilized Spanish and French expertise - helped to prepare the terms of reference for the selection of the consultancy that will be in charge of ERSP’s development. The consultancy was actually selected, and the project started beginning 2024.

  • Strengthening inter-institutional coordination for the implementation of a National System of Employment Guidance Services

    South America Uruguay
    Start activities
    22-05-2023
    End activities
    06-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Security [Ministerio del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-11
    Description
    Action 2023-11 was implemented from May to November 2023. The first activity consisted in conducting an assessment of the national ecosystem of career guidance services (definition, actors, services, governance, management, etc.) in order to identify challenges and set priorities. Subsequently, the second activity focused on the organisation of an inter-institutional working seminar with the objective of gathering the different experiences at national and international level and generating working groups on career guidance services. Finally, the third activity ,initially planned to support the drafting of a proposal for an inter-institutional Agreement on the National System of Employment Guidance Services, was extended to include labour intermediation services in the same framework collaboration agreement, with the aim of extending its scope towards the creation of a "National Network of Employment Services".

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building for MLSW in the field of satefy and health at work for coordinators in Montenegro

    Western Balkans Montenegro
    Start activities
    05-02-2024
    End activities
    14-06-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2023-36
    Description
    In light of Montenegro's recent adoption of the Strategy for the Improvement of Occupational Safety and Health 2022-2027 (with its 22/23 Implementation Action Plan) to align its national legislation with the EU acquis, and in view of the challenges faced by the construction industry in terms of injuries at work, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW) requested support from SOCIEUX+ to improve the capacity of OSH coordinators to prevent accidents at construction sites. Specifically, the action successfully empowered the staff of the OSH Directorate of the MLSW to conduct training sessions for OSH coordinators (both design phase coordinators and construction phase coordinators), with the sharing of [EU and regional] expertise from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, Latvia, Serbia and North Macedonia.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Development of a target operating model for NHIMA

    Southern Africa Zambia
    Start activities
    22-05-2023
    End activities
    13-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Management Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2023-05
    Description
    In 2022, NHIMA collaborated with SOCIEUX+ to evaluate its scheme implementation, leading to a review of its Strategic Plan and a transition to the Ministry of Health. Now, NHIMA seeks to develop an independent operating model for HR and scheme implementation, reducing reliance on third-party administrators. This action led by German, Estonian, Belgian, and Polish expertise, resulted in a proposal for a new operating and organizational model and a study visit to the Polish National Health Fund for insights on IT and organizational capacities.

  • Support to the normative and regulatory framework of professional elections in Mali

    Western Africa Mali
    Start activities
    18/09/2023
    End activities
    22-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-18
    Description
    In collaboration with the Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Mali (UNTM) and the ILO, this initiative, conducted online, enhanced capacities in conducting professional elections and establishing a normative and regulatory framework. Expertise from Belgium was enlisted to showcase best practices in professional elections during a weeklong seminar. Following the seminar, the Malian Labour Ministry assumed responsibility for drafting an electoral code, incorporating input from social partners. Subsequently, experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ provided comprehensive feedback on the draft.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building for the SSR on governance on administrative operations

    South-East Asia Cambodia
    Start activities
    24-07-2023
    End activities
    27-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-12
    Description
    Previous partner of SOCIEUX+, the Social Security Regulator (SSR) of Cambodia identified the technical knowledge, guidelines and expertise necessary to effectively fulfill its supervisory role of the National Social Security Fund. SOCIEUX+ stepped in to provide support by enhancing the operational and administrative capacities of the SSR staff. Romanian, Finnish, and Slovakian expertise worked with the SSR on establishing principles and modalities for effective supervision of administrative operations within the social security scheme’s management.

  • Development of the Social and Labor Dialogue on the Future of Work for working women, the youth, persons with disabilities and the LGTBI

    South America Peru
    Start activities
    03-04-2023
    End activities
    09-02-2024
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-34
    Description
    The National Council for Labor and Employment Promotion (CNTP) is a tripartite (government, workers and employers) mechanism for social dialogue and labour coordination within the Peruvian Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE), whose purpose is to discuss and coordinate policies on labour, employment promotion, job training and social protection, and is also responsible for participating in the regulation of minimum wages. Social dialogue is a fundamental component of the European social model. It enables the social partners to contribute, including through agreements, to the development of European social and labour policy. Experts from France, Italy and Spain, mobilized by SOCIEUX+, helped to broaden the social and labour dialogue in Peru to include vulnerable groups so that they could present their demands and needs in the dialogue forums. All of this was systematized in a Methodological Guide and action plan that will enable the country to incorporate this new inclusive paradigm and take a step towards real and effective compliance with Peru's regulatory commitments in this area.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Developing specialized and urgent foster care measures

    WESTERN BALKANS Montenegro
    Start activities
    15-05-2023
    End activities
    03-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social and Child Welfare [Zavod za socijalnu i dječju zaštitu]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Strengthening the capacity of social workers to create and apply protocols for dealing with dysfunctional families

    WESTERN BALKANS Montenegro
    Start activities
    07-08-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    PI Center for social work
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development) Capacity building Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-07
    Description
    The goal of this Action requested by Montenegro’s Center for Social Work was to contribute to the improvement of childcare services in Montenegro. The role of the social worker is to support the welfare of the child, but before interacting directly with the child, the social worker has to manage the relationship with the parents or the relationship between the parents. Activity 1 proposed a Protocol for social workers to develop their capacity to work with dysfunctional families: guidelines for monitoring supervised visits, preparing reports for the courts and making decisions in the best interests of the child. The second activity allowed experts to showcase a compendium of good practices, mainly based on the experiences of Austria and Romania. Finally, a critical review of the training practices applied by the Centers for Social Work, and recommendations for their improvement, were formulated.

  • Support to the Ministry of Health of Montenegro in creating a quality control system

    WESTERN BALKANS Montenegro
    Start activities
    23-05-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-08
    Description
    In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Montenegro, this initiative identified institutional and organizational capacity gaps, empowering the MoH to lead the development of a quality of care framework. Leveraging expertise from multiple EU countries—including Slovenia, Portugal, Croatia, Estonia, and France—the MoH gained insights and lessons from diverse perspectives. Emphasis was placed on enhancing governance and health information systems.

  • Sanidad

    Reform of the social and child protection system and costing of the Roadmap

    WESTERN BALKANS Montenegro
    Start activities
    21-08-2023
    End activities
    10-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
    Type of Assistance
    Sectoral planning & budgeting
    Code
    2023-10
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro is responsible for drafting legislative and policy proposals in the field of employment policies, labour markets, social welfare policies, social and child protection, and pension and disability insurance. Experts from Spain and France mobilised by SOCIEUX+ elaborated a Methodology for pricing social protection services and also calculated the five essential services of the institution, so that the Ministry could adapt these budgets to the needs of the context at any given time.

  • Advice for equal employment opportunities of people with disabilities

    WESTERN BALKANS Serbia
    Start activities
    24-07-2023
    End activities
    29-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Service
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-14
    Description
    The action in collaboration with the National Employment Service aimed in improving service for unemployed persons with disabilities, aligning with Serbia's overarching strategic frameworks. Experts from Spain, Romania and France assessed capacities of NES to implement new concept of work with Persons with disabilities. The missions undertaken in Belgrade aimed at conducting a diagnosis of the NES practices concerning the support to employment of PwD. As well, a handful of job counsellors also benefited from a training of trainers to have a multiplying effect among the other employees.

  • Review and completion of the legal framework of health insurance

    WESTERN BALKANS Kosovo*
    Start activities
    24-04-2023
    End activities
    17/07/2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development Institutional capacity buildin
    Code
    2023-09
    Description
    In the course of this single-activity Action, a proposal for a complete revision of the Health Insurance Law has been prepared by using an incremental and highly participatory approach involving SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from Luxembourg and Portugal and the members the multi-stakeholder working group, established for that purpose by the Ministry of Health of Kosovo* with the support of the World Bank. As result, provisions of the final draft of revised law are built on a large consensus. The reform proposal particularly looks at ways to extend health coverage to unprotected and uninsured individuals. The adoption of the revised text of now follows the legislative process of approval by the Cabinet of Ministers and the Parliament.

  • Support to the disability sector in Kosovo*

    WESTERN BALKANS Kosovo*
    Start activities
    03/07/2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Prime-Ministers Office
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-16

  • Support on the development of individual foster care plans

    WESTERN BALKANS Bosnia And Herzegovina
    Start activities
    17-10-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health, Work and Social Policy
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-32

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Improving the quality of services at day care centers for persons with disabilities

    WESTERN BALKANS North Macedonia
    Start activities
    29-08-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    PI Institute for social activities
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2023-17
    Description
    Following the last analysis carried out by the Institute of Social Activities in June 2022, the technical assistance provided by SOCIEUX+ through mobilized EU public experts addressed the qualitative dimension in the provision of services by the day-care centres to persons with disabilities. The Action unfolded in three activities, for which experts from Portugal and Romania have been mobilized. The first peer-to-peer on-site activity focused on analyzing the current state of play of day care centres for persons with disabilities, while the second one supported the modernization of standards and procedures for social service delivery in the day-care centres for persons with disabilities by developing an improved manual. The third and last activity concluded the technical cooperation with the elaboration of a general framework for monitoring and evaluating the quality and pertinence of the social services provided in the day-care centres for persons with disabilities.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Development of Strategic Plan for the Employment Service Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia

    WESTERN BALKANS North Macedonia
    Start activities
    17-07-2023
    End activities
    09-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    Employment Service Agency
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-22
    Description
    National Employment Service of North Macedonia requested SOCIEUX + support to gain more knowledge on how to effectively implement formalised strategic planning process and elaborate a three-year strategic plan of the institution. Strategic plan was a legal requirement in accordance to the Law on Budgets and it should have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance in several months. Senior expertise was mobilized from Swedish, Polish, and French institutions. Partner institution along with the experts developed strategic plan and officially started its implementation.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk

    WESTERN BALKANS North Macedonia
    Start activities
    04-09-2023
    End activities
    01-12-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Assessment of human ressources of the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI)

    WESTERN BALKANS North Macedonia
    Start activities
    13-11-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    State Labour Inspectorate (SLI)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building Organisational management (structures & functions) Human resources management
    Code
    2023-26
    Description
    Experts from Lithuania, Austria, Spain and France, mobilised by SOCIEUX+, collaborated with the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI) of North Macedonia to identify organisational gaps and formulate recommendations for optimising human resources management. Following an initial functional analysis of HR management within SLI, experts worked with their peers on two main components: the review, reformulation and standardisation of job descriptions used for recruitment and management purposes; and the matching of job profiles to organisational objectives as well as to objectives linked to the deployment of the labour inspection mandate of SLI.

  • Improving the linkage between cash benefits and social services and the specific needs of persons with disabilities (PwDs)

    WESTERN BALKANS North Macedonia
    Start activities
    03-08-2023
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-24
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy sought to enhance the system that links cash benefits and social services to the individual needs of persons with disabilities (PwD). The initiative focused on crafting a personalized approach to entitlements, ensuring that the benefits and services, including income replacements and long-term care benefits, are appropriately aligned with the needs of PwDs. Experts from Austria, Germany, Romania, and Slovenia provided relevant EU countries’ examples of tools and scales for individual needs assessment and linkage, while developing recommendations for the reinforcement of the legal framework existing in North Macedonia.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Peer cooperation: Zambia NHIMA delegation visits Poland to study good practices in the area of health insurance

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Job opportunities for young people: SOCIEUX+ cooperation with three Nigerian partners

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ E-learning Award recognizes engaging peer-to-peer experiences

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ forges new partnerships in the Western Balkans

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    How foster care works: a delegation from Kazakhstan visits the Czech Republic

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ launches E-learning award

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ completes evaluation of its support for the National Social Protection Council in Cambodia

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ peer-to-peer cooperation: information session in Montenegro

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Design of a comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Management Model for the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC)

    Central America Costa Rica
    Start activities
    27-02-2023
    End activities
    09/09/2023
    Partner Institution
    General Directorate of Civil Service [Dirección General De Servicio Civil] (DGSC)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-33
    Description
    Since 2018, the Personnel Recruitment and Selection Area of the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC) has been developing an initiative that aims to transform the recruitment and selection processes applying to civil servants of 45 institutions that operate under the Civil Service Regime, as to stimulate efficiency, automation, and accessibility in the supply of administrative positions. Against this framework, the action, through the involvement of various teams of Spanish experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+, aimed to significantly improve the civil service recruitment system mainly by accompanying a consultation process involving a sample of HR offices and their regional headquarters, as to take into account their perception and needs. Based on those consultations, experts helped co-constructing a new comprehensive operational model for recruitment, one that is transparent and in accordance with the directives of the Public Employment Framework Law. Finally, experts also helped to develop software requirements for the system’s automation and harmonization.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building of staff of Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation on PES delivery

    Western Africa Nigeria
    Start activities
    16-01-2023
    End activities
    16-06-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation and Youth Empowerment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-29
    Description
    Through collaboration with the Ogun Bureau of Job Creation in Nigeria, this initiative, executed remotely, significantly enhanced the capabilities of the Bureau staff in delivering Public Employment Services (PES). By conducting an organizational capacity assessment, French PES experts identified areas where job counselors required additional training. Subsequently, Spanish and Slovenian experts developed tailored training modules utilizing the SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform. These modules concentrated on essential aspects such as managing a PES service, fostering employer relationships and partnerships, and effectively communicating the services provided by the bureau to the public.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building of CIPRES in providing continuing trainings to OPS staff in the field of social protection

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    12-12-2022
    End activities
    21-04-2023
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale] (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-27
    Description
    The Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare (CIPRES) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in view of reinforcing its Executive Secretariat in training engineering capacities. CIPRES aims to put in place a training center that will provide trainings to technical staff. This action, led by French and Belgian experts, produced a complete training engineering guide tailored to CIPRES needs. The guide includes step by step instructions to do a training design, assessing training needs of an organization, operational aspects of delivering a training, and monitoring and evaluation of training delivery.

  • Review of the existing policy and regulatory frameworks in view of the introduction of an Unemployment Benefits scheme in Kenya

    Eastern Africa Kenya
    Start activities
    16-01-2023
    End activities
    12-05-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Social Security Fund
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-25
    Description
    Together with ILO, the National Social Security Fund of Kenya has been working in a set of policy and regulatory documents pertaining to the introduction of a unemployed benefits scheme. The resulting roadmap, actuarial study, legal gap analysis, legal drafting instructions, and draft bill and regulations constituted the framework of the peer-to-peer cooperation facilitated by SOCIEUX+. Policy discussions have mainly revolved around whether to adopt an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme or unemployment individual savings accounts (UISAs). At the end of the Action, experts from France, the Netherlands, and Sweden had helped the partner to review the existing policy and normative frameworks, setting the stage for the introduction of an unemployment benefits (UB) scheme, including its main components/design (benefit duration, benefit rate, contingency and persons covered, qualifying period, eligible reasons for job termination, waiting period, reference and insurable earnings, financing approach,…).

  • Reform of the WC system in Kenya based on social insurance models

    Eastern Africa Kenya
    Start activities
    09-01-2023
    End activities
    21-07-2023
    Partner Institution
    Directorate of Occupational safety and Health Services
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-24
    Description
    The Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kenya was committed in 2023 to transforming the current employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. The mobilization of public expertise from Spain, Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, and Czech Republic in the framework of SOCIEUX+ played a significant role in advancing the adoption of a reform proposal for the current Workers' Compensation (WC) framework in Kenya. The results of the collaborative efforts included a comparative analysis of WC systems based on social insurance and a presentation of international good practices, an assessment of the current legal framework, a policy paper setting the stage for a reform proposal, including the insurance scheme’s main components and the strategic and operational steps to be undertaken, and the drafting of specific parts of the new regulatory framework. The activities emphasized the link between prevention, compensation, and rehabilitation, and cultivated support from social partners for the proposed legislative reforms.

  • Survey on pension adequacy and spending of the single elderlies

    East Asia Mongolia
    Start activities
    14-11-2022
    End activities
    24-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    Training, Assessment and Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection (TARILSP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-23
    Description
    The Training, Assessment and Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection of Mongolia works on methodological improvements in data collection on social protection matters, which reverberate on the quality and relevancy of data analysis and, therefore, policy advise. Experts from Belgium, Finland, Portugal, and Slovakia mobilized by SOCIEUX+ have collaborated with the partner in reengineering data-collection methods (sampling and questionnaires) and provided examples of modern tools and methods for data analysis. The partner has engaged into the elaboration of policy advise, thus building the ground for the development of knowledge-based policy making in the area of social policy.

  • Best practices and strategy for collection of voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds

    Eastern Europe Azerbaijan
    Start activities
    17-10-2022
    End activities
    10-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    State Social Protection Fund
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-21
    Description
    Through two activities, Finnish, French, and German experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ provided the State Social Protection Fund of Azerbaijan with EU good practices in collecting voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds, followed by a strategy to create, attract and create incentives to non-state pension funds.

  • Exchange of experience in providing special social services to persons with disabilities on regional level

    Central Asia Kazakhstan
    Start activities
    12-12-2022
    End activities
    20-04-2023
    Partner Institution
    Department of employment and social protection of the city of Nur-Sultan
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-20
    Description
    Department of Employment and Social Protection of the city of Astana is the main entity at the regional level to organize the provision of social services to vulnerable population, including persons with disabilities (PwDs). In its structure, the Department has several residential and daycare institutions which provide social services. In this action, the experts from Romania conducted the assessment and contributed to the improvement of special social services delivered to PwDs, including the services that support personal autonomy and independence of beneficiaries. Peer-to-peer cooperation resulted in both the reinforcement of the skills of the staff working directly with beneficiaries and in the reinforcement of the collective capacities of the care institutions concerned.

  • Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth

    Eastern Africa Kenya
    Start activities
    17-10-2022
    End activities
    18-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-19
    Description
    To better implement the national policies on youth employment, the National Employment Authority (NEA) solicited SOCIEUX+ cooperation to support them to create a pilot one-stop-shop in employment services for youth in Thika, that could be replicated nation-wide in case of success. This SOCIEUX+ action focused on developing a strategy to set up this pilot one-stop-shop by first realizing a diagnostic of the National Employment Authority (NEA) for the establishment of Thika’s one-stop-shop, focused on youth, then by jointly developing an operational strategic plan for the creation of the pilot one-stop-shop in Thika. The 3rd activity focused on developing a toolkit on youth counselling activities for job counsellors in Thika. The action mobilized Belgian and Swedish expertise.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to the Social Security Corporation of Jordan in adopting a referral mechanism

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Jordan
    Start activities
    21-11-2022
    End activities
    10-03-2023
    Partner Institution
    Social Security Corporation
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-18
    Description
    The Social Security Corporation of Jordan provides social insurance to employees of the public and private sector, and retirees. They do not, at the stage of the request, provide health insurance. The SSC is planning to establish a health insurance scheme to cover private sector workers and relatives and to be made compulsory to SSC contributors and their family dependents. This action, supported by Belgian and Portuguese expertise, provided the SSC with a mapping of approaches to referral mechanisms with their pros and cons as well as a roadmap for adopting a referral system.

    Development of proposals for normative regulation of the activities of non-standard employment (digital platform) workers

    Central Asia Kazakhstan
    Start activities
    15-11-2022
    End activities
    16-06-2023
    Partner Institution
    JSC "Center for the Development of Human Resources"
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-17
    Description
    The Workforce Development Center is a think tank related to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kazakhstan. Its role is to provide analytical expertise and information support to the government on labour market related issues. With gig-economy becoming a wider phenomenon in Kazakhstan, the Center was engaged in the preparation of regulatory framework related to digital platform workers. With expertise from Hungary, Lithuania and Portugal mobilized for this cooperation, the action contributed to better understanding of the problematics by the Center’s staff by sharing knowledge of approaches already used in EU countries and supranational European recommendations. This was followed by an assessment of the existing legal framework in Kazakhstan and proposals and guidelines for a reform.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Review of the legal framework and strategy supporting veterans? entrepreneurial activities

    Eastern Europe Ukraine
    Start activities
    15-08-2022
    End activities
    17-03-2023
    Partner Institution
    The Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Policy development
    Code
    2022-16
    Description
    The Directorate of Civic Identity and Veteran Development is an independent structural unit of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. The Ministry indicated the need to review the existing legal framework regarding entrepreneurship support to ex-combatants, as well as the Ministry’s strategy supporting veterans’ entrepreneurial activities. The object of this action was geared towards reintegration, rather than reinsertion. Reintegration is the process by which ex-combatants acquire civilian status and gain sustainable employment and income. During the first activity, experts from France produced a review of the legal framework and strategy related to the reintegration of veterans through entrepreneurship. The second activity showcased good practices of programmes supporting veterans entrepreneurship in Croatia. Both activities were carried out remotely.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Improving the system of monitoring and evaluation of social projects within the framework of grant funding for NGOs

    Central Asia Kazakhstan
    Start activities
    24-10-2022
    End activities
    17-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    Non-profit joint-stock company "Center for Support of Civil Initiatives"
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-14
    Description
    Civil Initiatives Support Center (CISC) created in 2016 is the operator for all public and some private grants delivered to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Kazakhstan. Its mission is to maintain relations of confidence and transparency between the state and CSOs and to support the development of civil society in Kazakhstan in terms of funding as well as capacity building. Through the expertise from Romania and Portugal, this action supported CISC to make more efficient, transparent and homogenous the assessment of initial grant applications and the activities of monitoring and evaluation applied when the grant projects are being implemented. New procedures were proposed, and CISC staff and independent assessors were trained.

  • Methodology for processing “Medium-term development program for people with disabilities and their families (2023-2025)”

    East Asia Mongolia
    Start activities
    31-10-2022
    End activities
    19-05-2023
    Partner Institution
    General authority for development of persons with disabilities
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Support for the design and structuring of a sustainable business model for the Agricultural and Labour Training Centre of the Agricultural Chamber of the East

    South America Bolivia
    Start activities
    26-09-2022
    End activities
    21-04-2023
    Partner Institution
    Agricultural Chamber of the East
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions), Financial management (incl. budgeting), Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2022-11
    Description
    The Center for Agricultural Training (CFA) of the Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) of Bolivia was expected to take off in 2022 towards a modern professional training model tailored to the needs of agricultural producers and workers. The CAO was committed to work on the Institutional systematization of the CFA to ensure their services could reach most associates and meet the basic requirements of a training entity. Collaboration with experts from Spain and France through SOCIEUX+ was pivotal in providing resources and expertise for long-term sustainability of the CFA. An extensive organizational assessment led to the creation of an operational plan and a collaborative effort to design a pedagogical model for the CFA. Additionally, a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system was established to ensure the effectiveness and quality of the training programs.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Developing procedure of selection and certification of the disability assessors and SOP of Disability Assessment Centres

    Eastern Europe Armenia
    Start activities
    15-08-2022
    End activities
    10-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2022-10
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Armenia embarked on a significant reform initiative to transition towards the ICF-based approach for disability assessment and eligibility rule, establishing 48 ICF Disability Assessment Centres (DACs) nationwide. Through peer-to-peer cooperation with experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ from Greece and Cyprus, a Training of Trainers Manual was developed to implement the new methodology, alongside an e-learning course template for assessor training and certification. Staff at the DACs was trained to use the available test results and to better assign the correct IFC qualifier. A workflow tool was created to streamline administrative and scientific procedures at DACs, emphasizing the role of case managers and 86 trainee case managers were trained to support assessment committees effectively, managing e-code information and enhancing vignette development quality. Paramedics and active case managers participated in workshops to optimize test usage and appointment scheduling for clients to be assesed. This comprehensive approach enhanced the operational efficiency and quality of disability assessment services in Armenia.

  • Improving and structuring social services in Uzbekistan

    Central Asia Uzbekistan
    Start activities
    16-11-2022
    End activities
    15-05-2023
    Partner Institution
    Agency for the Development of Medical and Social Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-09
    Description
    The National Agency for Social Protection (NASP) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan is committed to reinforce and modernize the offer of social assistance to vulnerable populations including persons with disabilities and older people. In this action, the Partner Institution was supported by the peer experts from Italy, Romania and Poland. After the initial analysis of the situation of organization and delivery of basic targeted social services in Uzbekistan the action displayed, including through a study-visit to different peer institutions in Romania, practical examples and conceived ways of improvement of the existing services. The NASP gained a practical understanding of how social services are set up and managed in communities, as well as contributed to outline a strategic vision and operational steps for the reform.

  • Mapping and improvement of VET services providers in Azerbaijan

    Eastern Europe Azerbaijan
    Start activities
    20-06-2022
    End activities
    16-12-2022
    Partner Institution
    State Employment Agency (Ministry of Labour and Social Protection)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-08
    Description
    The State Employment Agency (under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection) is committed to improving its services to the unemployed and job-seeking persons in their reintegration into the labour market, which includes its Vocational Training and Education (VET) services. SOCIEUX+ support was requested to map and assess the existing VET providers, and provide a benchmark of EU practices as well as roadmap for digitalizing VET. Swedish, French and Spanish expertise provided the SEA staff with practical solutions to increase capacities of VET providers and harmonize services.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Setting up a comprehensive internal capacity-building and training system for MoSD

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Territorio Palestino Ocupado
    Start activities
    27-06-2022
    End activities
    03-03-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2022-07
    Description
    The Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) of Palestine is the leader, coordinator and organizer of the social development sector and is responsible for developing policies and trends, in addition to the tasks of control and supervision. The MoSD is committed to invest in developing the skills and knowledge of all employees to boost performance, achieve strategic objectives, and enhance service delivery to citizens. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Bulgaria, Belgium and France in the framework of SOCIEUX+, an assessment of capacities and skills requirements was conducted. This led to the formulation of a capacity-building and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) training strategy for the MoSD, along with providing the necessary functional design, elements, and tools for establishing a Training Management System (TMS).

  • Capacity building and functional review of the Department of Social Policy, Research and Planning (DSPRP)

    Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda
    Start activities
    25/07/2022
    End activities
    10/02/2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and the Blue Economy
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-06
    Description
    In September 2020, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda passed the National Social Protection Act. This Act represents a shift in the Government’s approach to social protection, from a focus on poor relief, to a social protection sector committed to a rights-based approach and attainment of Universal Social Protection (USP). To support the implementation of the 2020 Social Protection Act, the Government also developed a National Social Protection Policy to shape the intention of social protection sector reform. The key aspiration of the Policy is to achieve Universal Social Protection. The Policy is joined by an Action Plan that identifies activities to be undertaken in the short term (1-3 years), medium term (4-7 years) and long term (8+ years). In this framework, the Department of Social Policy, Research and Planning of the Ministry of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and the Blue Economy has expressed the need to undergo a functional review, with the aim of improving service delivery and efficiency, and for its staff to receive training/individual capacity building in order to strengthen effectiveness with which policies are translated into actions and outcomes. In that context, experts from Belgium and Croatia achieved a functional review of the Department.

  • Technical assistance for the evaluation of the real cost of health care procedures and the updating of the basic prices for the reimbursement of health care services

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    05/09/2022
    End activities
    24-02-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Institute [Institut National d?Assurance Maladie du Togo] (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-05
    Description
    The National Health Insurance Institute (INAM) of Togo is a SOCIEUX+ long-standing partner. Together, strategic and organizational topics have been addressed, thus enhancing INAM’s role into the management of health insurance, particularly in view of the roll-out of the 2021 Law instituting the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This Action focused on specific components of health insurance management such as tariffication of health procedures and the assessment of the quality/performance of health service provision covered by the insurance. Experts from Belgium and France helped updating the reimbursement prices of a sample, based on a price-setting methodology that will remain in INAM’s availability.

  • Strengthening capacities of the public health insurance fund in Uzbekistan in the area of price setting

    Central Asia Uzbekistan
    Start activities
    23-06-2022
    End activities
    20-03-2023
    Partner Institution
    State Fund Health Insurance
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-01
    Description
    Uzbekistan State Health Insurance Fund established in December 2020 is invested with the mandate to improve the access to healthcare services and the efficiency of the sector. At the initial stage, the fund is responsible for the formulation and piloting of new public health funding schemes. The peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Estonia, France, Czech Republic, and Germany reinforced the capacities of the Fund to manage this process, from identification of packages of reimbursable healthcare services to proposing guidelines for the price-setting mechanism and performance-based assessment. The Fund was also supported in implementing the pilot project in one of the regions.

  • Sanidad

    Supporting integration of NEETs into labour market

    Eastern Europe Moldova
    Start activities
    15-06-2022
    End activities
    15-05-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2021-26
    Description
    The National Employment Agency (ANOFM), the public employment service of Moldova, seeks to provide better and more specialized support to young people who are not in education, training, or employment (NEET), a big and particularly vulnerable group far from labor and often missed by public services, who need a targeted approach and tailor-made accompaniment. As a result of the joint action of SOCIEUX+ and ANOFM first, the assessment was conducted concerning the situation in Moldova and the needs of the ANOFM to reinforce the services provided to this group of users, then some tools were proposed, with a specific focus on coordination mechanisms to ensure global comprehensive accompaniment of beneficiaries, and on operational work of job counsellors via capacity building sessions. At all stages of cooperation, EU good practices were shared by the experts from Belgium, Latvia, France, and Sweden and discussed from the point of view of their relevance for Moldova context.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Set-up of a foster care system for minors without parental support and protection

    Central Asia Kazakhstan
    Start activities
    23-05-2022
    End activities
    24-03-2022
    Partner Institution
    Commissioner for Children's Rights
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2021-24
    Description
    In Kazakhstan, the Commissioner for Children’s is engaged into deinstitutionalization reform as a lead of a consortium of NGOs, childcare institutions, and state administration. Professional foster families are considered an alternative to institutional placement for children without parental care. Through the peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Croatia and the Czech Republic, a set of methodological guidelines was developed with recommendations for different stages of working with foster families, from identification and selection to continuous support and evaluation. The outputs of the action also include the training curricula for prospective foster parents elaborated on the basis of EU countries best practices and good examples from Kazakhstan organizations. Finally, the action was an occasion for the partners to discover the practical set up of alternative care and services provision for vulnerable children during a study visit to Czech Republic (Prague, Pardubice).

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    SOCIEUX+’s cooperation with public employment services: Latest trends and cases

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    SOCIEUX+ cooperation opportunities and information session in Kosovo

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    The role of targeted social services: Case studies from recent SOCIEUX+ cooperation activities

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    SOCIEUX+ initiates cooperation on disability-inclusive social protection in Mongolia

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    SOCIEUX+ peer to peer cooperation activities expanded to Western Balkans countries

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  • Which skills development path is needed to stabilize rural population by developing the green economy?

    Pacific and Oceania New Caledonia
    Start activities
    18/04/2022
    End activities
    09-12-2022
    Partner Institution
    Department of Continuing Professional Training (DFPC)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2021-17
    Description
    This ambitious action, in partnership with the Department of Continuing Professional Training of the government of New Caledonia, is at the crossroads between employment of young and vulnerable persons, limiting rural exodus, climate resilience and food self-sufficiency. The goal of this action was to elaborate a need-based strategy to support agroecological value-chains, by encouraging traditional know-how and acquired skills of members of the Kanak communities and leveraging on traineeship opportunities for women and youth. Experts from Belgium and France produced a thorough diagnosis of the governance of the agroecological sector, a mapping of ongoing green economy projects in place, an action plan to promote green jobs, and a skills reference system for young rural workers to have better access to trainings in agroecology.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Comprehensive review of Botswana’s Worker’s Compensation framework, to develop a national framework reform proposal

    Southern Africa Botswana
    Start activities
    25-04-2022
    End activities
    10-12-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs (MLHA)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-03
    Description
    The Department of OSH at Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana was working on exploring whether and how it would be feasible to replace employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovenia in the framework of SOCIEUX+, the current national legislation and regulatory framework on workers' compensation was assessed against existing best practice and international standards and guidance and recommendations were provided for updating the current national legislation and regulatory framework, based on feasibility, technical capacity and sustainability considerations.

  • Operational Review of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Zambia

    Southern Africa Zambia
    Start activities
    18-04-2022
    End activities
    30-09-2022
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Management Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-02
    Description
    The purpose of this action was for the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) to optimize the management of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). NHIMA was established by the National Health Insurance Act No.2 of 2018. The Act provided for the establishment of a compulsory National Health Insurance Scheme under the management of NHIMA. The Scheme, as part of the Health Care Financing Strategy of the Ministry of Health, is aimed at providing sound financing of the national health system and enhance universal access to quality insured healthcare services for all Zambians. NHIMA wished to understand where they stand after two years of implementing the Scheme, where are their strengths or weaknesses, and identify potential bottlenecks. NHIMA also wished to gain more knowledge and guidance on strengthening their current health-financing system, as well as to understand possible health financing options in view of attaining universal health coverage. Mobilized experts from Estonia, Finland, France, and Germany accompanied the partner’s reflection in the framework of 3 activities.

  • Capacity building for the improvement of the Brazilian second pillar pension governance and supervision of the legal and regulatory framework

    South America Brazil
    Start activities
    21-02-2022
    End activities
    21-10-2022
    Partner Institution
    Cearense Association of Economists Pensioners and Retirees (ACEA)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2021-23
    Description
    The Associação Cearense dos Economiários Aposentados e Pensionistas (ACEA) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in order to provide capacity building, in the form of e-learning courses, to members of Brazilian organizations defending the rights of pensioners. ACEA noticed a clear need for members of such organizations to gain more extensive knowledge on governance, management, and supervision of occupational pension funds, in order to detect shortfalls in the system, apply due diligence, and prevent mismanagement and fraudulent behaviors. The e-learnings, crafted by Portuguese, Spanish, German, and French expertise covered topics such as basic knowledge of the functioning of second pillar pension funds, best practices for regulation and supervision of funds, legal and regulatory frameworks governing second pillar pension funds. This successful e-learnings were followed by hundreds of participants from various parts of Brazil.

  • Capacity building for the empowerment of the national disability associative movement

    Central America Panama
    Start activities
    25-04-2022
    End activities
    31-07-2022
    Partner Institution
    National Disability Secretariat [Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2021-22
    Description
    The Action contributed to a process of improvement of the institutional framework and enhancement of the Partner’s individual capacities to establish relationships with the external environment on matters relating to the protection and development of persons with disabilities. , both in terms of working in synergy with potential/existing partners (result 1) and increasing their outreach to the larger public (result 2). Empowerment, leadership and advocacy have been addressed as key elements for empowering the Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad to outreach target groups, including the vast landscape of NGOs defending and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities. Peer experts from Portugal and Spain delivered a mapping of the institutional landscape, deployed training on advocacy, communication and networking, and finally drafted a roadmap aimed to strengthen institutional relationships and governance mechanisms for the disability sector.

    One Year Later: Understanding the added value and results of SOCIEUX+ cooperation in Peru

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    SOCIEUX+ and Employers of Poland further cooperation with agreement

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    Strengthening managerial capacities for entrepreneurship and employment promotion in Benin

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    Kyrgyzstan delegation visits Finland to study good practices in the area of employment of people with disabilities

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    Building inclusive social protection data systems: the Nigerian example of NASSCO

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    SOCIEUX+ and Arbetsförmedlingen sign cooperation agreement to mobilise expertise

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    On World Health Day 2022, SOCIEUX+ reflects on its projects that impacted global well-being

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    The Delegation of the European Union to Mongolia and SOCIEUX+ co-host an information session for national partners in Ulaanbaatar

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    Interview with two experts mobilized to work on employability and soft skills in Cameroon

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  • Capacity building of the employment administration and its public service

    WESTERN AFRICA Mauritania
    Start activities
    15/03/2021
    End activities
    28-01-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports [Ministère de l'Emploi, de la Jeunesse et des Sports]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2021-10
    Description
    An initial activity produced an in-depth assessment of the existing state, capacities and needs in governance and services of the Directorate General for Employment (DGE) of the Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports of Mauritania. The following two activities aimed to help the partner to enhance managerial arrangements and organizational capacities, particularly by providing managers with the tools apt to make their teams to work better, such as job descriptions and performance-evaluation tools. Finally, experts from France and Belgium helped to develop a system for monitoring and evaluating the performance of teams.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Implementation of the Employability Enhancement Project for the development of Soft Skills

    WESTERN AFRICA Senegal
    Start activities
    12/07/2021
    End activities
    31-08-2022
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Youth Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2021-11
    Description
    The request from the National Agency for the Promotion of Youth Employment (ANPEJ) of Senegal supported by the Employment Direction (DE) of the Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training, and Handicrafts and GIZ Youmatch initiative aimed at promoting the soft skills-based approach in the service offer for young jobseekers. Experts from Belgium and France supported their peers from ANPEJ and DE to agree on a common definition of soft skills, to identify a set of skills most relevant for the labour market in Senegal as well as to elaborate specific tools for job counsellors. A training of trainers through SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform was conducted to enable ANPEJ and DE staff to practically apply the tools and concepts developed during the action.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Modernization of the management of public administration recruitment in the civil service regime of Costa Rica

    CENTRAL AMERICA Costa Rica
    Start activities
    05/08/2021
    End activities
    20-08-2022
    Partner Institution
    General Directorate of Civil Service [Dirección General De Servicio Civil] (DGSC)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2021-12
    Description
    Through this first Action in partnership with the Dirección General De Servicio Civil of Panama, SOCIEUX+ helped the Partner to reform the process of selection of the personnel of public administrations. Public experts from Spain first looked into the processes of recruitment and selection of the public administration staff, for then putting forward an alternative model focusing on knowledge tests. In the framework of the Action, a test of the new model was done through a pilot project, duly assessed at the end of the cooperation with SOCIEUX+. The latter ultimately provided technical ground and proposed specific models to contribute to the selection of civil servants with a knowledge-based, soft-skilled, meritocratic approach.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening the institutional capacity of the labour market observatory [Reforçar a capacidade institucional do observatório do mercado de trabalho]

    Cabo Verde
    Start activities
    01/11/2021
    End activities
    31-05-2022
    Partner Institution
    Observatory for labour market [Observatório do mercado de trabalho]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2021-16
    Description
    The Labour Market Observatory of Cabo Verde requested support on elaboration of its strategic development plan. Experts from France and Italy mobilized for this action supported the Observatory to identify strengths and challenges, better understand the environment and stakeholders involved into labour market research and evolution, find its value added, define a mandate, chose thematic scope of interventions for the next five years and formulate a development strategy. Training activities reinforced the capacities of Observatory’s Technical Unit staff to implement the strategic plan. The action was completed by a seminar where the Strategic development plan was presented to Observatory’s potential partners.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    International Guest Expert lectures at Mahidol University: Health Financing and Social Health Protection in Europe

    South-East Asia Thailand
    Start activities
    03/05/2021
    End activities
    31/05/2021
    Partner Institution
    ASEAN Institute for Health Development (AIHD)
    Type of Assistance
    Regional events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2021-18
    Description
    As an integral part of the Master in Primary Health Care Management and Social Health Protection, Mahidol University and the ILO deployed a series of three specialized virtual seminars on subjects related to health financing from the region and Europe. To that purpose, the Mahidol University requested SOCIEUX+ support to mobilize two European public experts for the preparation and delivery of a remote guest lecture to the students of the Master programme. The lecture, delivered from experts from Germany and France, referred to the design, implementation, and financing of health care systems, including challenges and reforms adopted, in their home countries.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Characterisation of the social protection’s supply and demand of the population of informal street vendors in two pilot cities in Colombia (Barranquilla and Cali)

    SOUTH AMERICA Colombia
    Start activities
    10/05/2021
    End activities
    28-10-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of the Interior [Ministerio del Interior]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2021-09
    Description
    The Ministry of Interior of Colombia wished to look into the issue of informal street vendors with the support of SOCIEUX+. The Action contributed to the territorial implementation of the Public Policy for Informal Vendors in 2 pilot cities (Barranquilla & Cali). Spanish experts participated to the development of at least two major practical instruments, namely a socio-economic analysis of informal street vendors, and a toolkit apt to guide the analysis of the demand of and needs in social protection of informal street vendors, and mapped available social protection options that may be used to cover informal workers from basic risks, such as health coverage, family support, and professional sickness and accidents.

  • Strengthening the services of the Ecuadorian Public Employment Service (Encuentra Empleo) for employers

    SOUTH AMERICA Ecuador
    Start activities
    10/05/2021
    End activities
    06/10/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour [Ministerio del Trabajo]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2021-07
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour requested SOCIEUX+ support to strengthen the capacity of the Ecuadorian Public Employment Service (PES - Encuentra Empleo) to offer quality advice and services to employers and to stimulate more companies to use the PES. The support provided by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts from public employment services of France, Spain, and Sweden has therefore focused, from one side, on a critical analysis functional to the improvement of services available to employers and, on the other side, on the development of a communication strategy to outreach employers. On-line workshops were delivered to present good practices of EU PES and their approaches to and means of communication with employers, as a basis to co-draft a strategy and a communication plan that help Encuentra Empleo to strengthen its the relationship with employers. Finally, experts addressed individual capacity needs on the same topic, by outlining a training plan and delivering short training modules to agents in charge of relations with employers.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    To prevent child labour in all its forms, through attention, generation of public policies and restitution of children rights

    SOUTH AMERICA Ecuador
    Start activities
    18/10/2021
    End activities
    30-09-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour [Ministerio del Trabajo]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2021-05
    Description
    The Action aimed to contribute to eliminate child labour by strengthening the inspection process run by the Ministry of Labour. In this perspective, experts from France and Spain analyzed the actual practices of the Ministry’s Labour Inspectorate and provided recommendations to reinforce interventions targeting the eradication of child labour. The logic of intervention encompassed awareness considerations, thus information sharing and training sessions aimed to sensitize labour inspectors, by presenting and clarifying existing applicable legal regulations, and showcasing European practices for the protection of the rights of children and adolescents.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Training course on managing employment disputes effectively

    SOUTH AMERICA Ecuador
    Start activities
    05/05/2021
    End activities
    12/07/2021
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour [Ministerio del Trabajo]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2021-03
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour in Ecuador is responsible for promoting social dialogue through the Labour Mediation Directorate, by attending hearings conducted by mediators as an effective means of resolving labour disputes and preventing workers and employers from going to court. The virtual training seminar organized by SOCIEUX+ experts from France and Spain channeled to the staff of the Labour Mediation Directorate, as well as to labour inspectors, models and practices for enriching labour conflicts resolution techniques.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Overall Assessment of the Disability Sector in the State of Mauritius

    SOUTHERN AFRICA Mauritius
    Start activities
    12/04/2021
    End activities
    02/11/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-37
    Description
    This action was implemented in parallel to the action 2020-35, with the Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity, in view of complimenting the efforts to create the action plan for Persons living with Disabilities. Experts from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France and Finland worked towards a goal of having a comprehensive picture of the current actors, governance mechanisms, services, legislation, and policies for persons with disabilities in Mauritius.

  • Elaboration of an Action Plan on Disability and setting up of a Monitoring and Evaluation mechanism

    SOUTHERN AFRICA Mauritius
    Start activities
    06/12/2021
    End activities
    03/04/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-35
    Description
    The Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity and its Disability Empowerment Unit requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in designing the National Action Plan 2021-2025 for Persons living with Disabilities (PwD). The peer to peer technical assistance represented by Swedish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, and French expertise allowed to develop a plan focusing on services provided to PwDs as well as governance of the disability sector. This plan aims to improve the policies concerning PwDs in the State of Mauritius, as well as the services provided to them, and creates an enabling environment for collaborative social initiatives to empower persons with disabilities.

  • Training seminar on tools for social dialogue in the framework of COVID-19

    SOUTH AMERICA Peru
    Start activities
    26/04/2021
    End activities
    04/06/2021
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-34
    Description
    The Peruvian National Council for Labour and Employment Promotion submitted a Request for remote technical cooperation on COVID-19, with the objective to strengthen the capacities of the social actors and officials responsible for promoting the regional and national social dialogue, handling new methodological and technical tools. The Spanish peer experts’ support focused on social dialogue as a mean and a process to address work-related problems generated by COVID-19, mitigating the possible consequences of failing businesses, job losses and possible limitations of labour rights.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Technical support for elaboration of strategic plan of ANPE /Appui Technique pour l’Elaboration d’un Plan Stratégique de Développement de l’Agence Nationale pour l’Emploi (ANPE)/

    WESTERN AFRICA Burkina Faso
    Start activities
    20/05/2021
    End activities
    15-09-2022
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Agency [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-32
    Description
    The National Employment Agency (ANPE) of Burkina Faso requested SOCIEUX+ assistance to revise its strategy and gain efficiency in the delivery of its labour-intermediation services. In two activities implemented remotely, experts from France first assessed the Agency internal organization and services, then supported the formulation of a strategic plan, as to provide to ANPE a framework for action. The two last activities were implemented on-site and allowed to confirm and consolidate the decisions taken through the distant cooperation. In particular, the strategic development plan of the ANPE was finalized and approved by all stakeholders that will be involved in its implementation (ministries, regional and local authorities, employers’ and civil society representatives, development partners).

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    National Forum on Maternal and Child Health: Lessons learned from PIMI II (Programa Integrado de Redução da Morte Materna e Infantil) and perspectives

    WESTERN AFRICA Guinea-Bissau
    Start activities
    08/03/2021
    End activities
    12/04/2021
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Public Health [Ministério de Saúde Pública] (MINSAP)
    Type of Assistance
    Awareness raising (roundtables, seminars, workshops, etc)
    Code
    2020-31
    Description
    The request concerned a single activity for SOCIEUX+ to participate in a national conference on child and maternal health, organized by the Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the EU-funded PIMI II’s programme. Due to the COVID-related travel restrictions, SOCIEUX+ experts from Portugal remotely participated to the national conference showcasing EU experiences relating to social protection financing and access to health, especially in the field of child and maternal health.

  • Contribution to a conference: Develop and Adapt labour market information systems

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA Malaysia
    Start activities
    24/11/2020
    End activities
    26/11/2020
    Partner Institution
    Social Security Organisation
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2020-30
    Description
    The request by the Social Security Organization of Malaysia was centered on the preparation and delivery of a webinar to enhance knowledge about Labour market information systems (LMIS) by sharing experiences of PES at different levels of economic development.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Soft skills: a strategic challenge for youth employment – e conference

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    12/03/2021
    End activities
    30/03/2021
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2020-29
    Description
    The online conference « Les soft skills : un enjeu stratégique pour développer l’employabilité des jeunes » organized by the National Agency for Employment of Togo together with SOCIEUX+ and the YouMatch Global Initiative on innovative employment services for youth funded by German cooperation agency GIZ gathered more than 80 participants from 15 African and EU countries to discuss how soft skills – or life skills and competences that are necessary to enter, to maintain and/or change employment, but that cannot be confirmed by formal working experience or diplomas (unlike technical skills) – are changing the labour market of the future and how public employment services can take the advantage of this emerging concept to reinforce the employability of vulnerable groups, including young people, rural population of women. Experts from France mobilized by SOCIEUX+ presented their expertise together with their peers from African Countries.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Webinar on Labour Market Information Systems for the New Decade

    EASTERN AFRICA Rwanda
    Start activities
    22/09/2020
    End activities
    30/09/2020
    Partner Institution
    Rwanda Workers' Trade Union Confederation (CESTRAR)
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2020-28
    Description
    The single activity was centered on the preparation and delivery of a webinar for staff of Rwanda Workers' Trade Union Confederation to enhance knowledge about Labour market information systems by sharing experiences of PES at different levels of economic development. The activity took place in the framework of the international training programme “Productive Employment and Decent Work for Sustainable Development”, carried out by Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish Public Employment Service.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Training of Trainers for employment counsellors on the development of soft skills for job seekers  [Formation des Formateurs, pour former les Conseillers emploi …]

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    05/04/2021
    End activities
    15/05/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    Human resources management
    Code
    2020-27
    Description
    Experts from Belgium and France conducted a remote assessment of the capacities, gaps and needs of the ANPE Togo, with particular reference to support services available to young entrepreneurs and jobseekers for reinforce their employability through the development of soft skills. Based on the assessment, experts delivered a training of trainers to selected ANPE’s staff.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening the capacity of the Employment Administration and its public services [Renforcement des capacités de l’administration de l’Emploi et de son service public]

    WESTERN AFRICA Mauritania
    Start activities
    15/03/2021
    End activities
    06/11/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports [Ministère de l’Emploi, de la Jeunesse et des Sports]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2020-26
    Description
    The Directorate General for Employment of the Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports of Mauritania requested SOCIEUX+ to formulate an organization audit and address the most needed gaps in terms of individual capacities. Following the assessment, a cycle of trainings has primarily targeted management strategies and human resources development. Among the topics covered by the training sessions were managers’ compliance with the organizational strategy, change management and female leadership.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Maintenance of the disability assessment formula

    EASTERN EUROPE Armenia
    Start activities
    18/01/2021
    End activities
    08/06/2021
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2020-24
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this short action conducted exclusively remotely aimed at measuring the participation of persons with disabilities in the disability assessment formula. In this action, MLSP was supported by their peers from Greece.

  • Building individual capacities on functional disability assessment

    EASTERN EUROPE Armenia
    Start activities
    oct-2021
    End activities
    29-10-2021
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2020-23
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this action was particularly focused on building up the capacities of multidisciplinary teams of professionals who conduct disability assessment in line with new rules and using protocols based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) adjusted to the context of Armenia. A team of 20 trainers (doctors, paramedical and social work professionals) was set up and benefited from a training on functional disability assessment logic and practices by experts from Greece and Cyprus mobilised by SOCIEUX+.

  • Linking disability assessment to social protection service provision for People with Disabilities (PdWs)

    Eastern Europe Armenia
    Start activities
    18/01/2021
    End activities
    15-03-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2020-21
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this action was particularly focused on linkage between disability assessment and services that persons with disabilities are entitled to receive from social protection system. Experts from Greece and France supported the Ministry in elaboration of guidelines for social workers and members of disability assessment commissions on how to identify beneficiary’s needs for social and functional-related services (including assistive technologies) in line with person’s age, disability type and level, administer those services, monitor their effectiveness and efficiency and evaluate them.

  • Community-based information on prevention of COVID-19 infections

    Western Africa Nigeria
    Start activities
    18/01/2021
    End activities
    04/09/2021
    Partner Institution
    National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO)
    Type of Assistance
    Awareness raising (roundtables, seminars, workshops, etc)
    Code
    2020-22
    Description
    This one-off action aimed to raise general awareness on communication strategies for reaching out to local communities, including but not limited to Covid-19 response. The activity consisted in a series of workshops providing a general-purpose methodology on social marketing and a series of relevant case studies. The result is a set of tools that the Partner will integrate in the current communication strategy.

  • Strengthening the NASSCO’s capacity for the development of a database of Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHHs) in shock response

    Western Africa Nigeria
    Start activities
    04/01/2021
    End activities
    24-03-2022
    Partner Institution
    National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-20
    Description
    This Action fell within the scope of DEVCO-ILO project with NASSCO “Strengthening and Expanding the National Social Registry (NSR) as a shock-responsive social protection system in Nigeria”. Experts from France and Germany first assessed individual capacity needs on knowledge management for informing policies for building social protection systems. Based on the assessment a training was delivered and a methodology and a series M&E tools on tracking staff performance were jointly built. Experts from Belgium and France then provided guidance on data security for NASSCO’ monitoring and information system (MIS). The activity consisted in the combination of synchronous and asynchronous training modules on SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform around the two topics of data policies and procedures and data sensitivity and security.

  • Assessment of School Feeding Programme for pre-primary and primary school in Zanzibar

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    15/10/2020
    End activities
    15/12/2020
    Partner Institution
    President’s Office, Regional Administration, Local Government and Special Departments (PORALGSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-19
    Description
    The Action served the purpose of assessing the state of the art and actual institutional arrangements involved in the implementation of the Zanzibar School Feeding Programme (SFP), providing fresh meals to all Zanzibar’s pre-primary public schools. A situation analysis was carried out by experts from Bulgaria and Italy who focused on three key aspects: the optimal capitation grants to adequately cover the SFP’s operational costs; the current school feeding supply chain, as well as the administrative and organizational arrangements in place; and the identification of operational bottlenecks to the efficient running of the SFP. The report shall be of use for the institution – namely the Ministry of Education of the Government of Zanzibar - that will be in charge of running the SFP.

  • Territorial location of national public policy guidelines on informal vendors in public space: support for pilot projects in Barranquilla and Cali

    South America Colombia
    Start activities
    10/05/2021
    End activities
    23/09/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of the Interior [Ministerio del Interior
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-18
    Description
    The Action run in parallel and originates from the same request than Action 2021-01. The request submitted by the Ministry of Interior of Colombia aimed to gain insights that be useful to the deployment of the national policy on informal street vendors, which encompasses both social security and employment promotion goals. Through this Action, the relevant staff of the Partner institution improved capacities and gained tools directed to the collection and analysis of data on informal street vendors, with the ultimate objective of shaping more effective strategies in support of their employability, formalization, and entrepreneurship. Experts from France and Spain particularly looked into informal work dynamics in the streets of Barranquilla and Cali.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support in the implementation of the policy of health and social action of the CPPF for insured people

    WESTERN AFRICA Gabon
    Start activities
    01/12/2020
    End activities
    03/08/2021
    Partner Institution
    Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents (CPPF)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-15
    Description
    The Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat (CPPF) of Gabon is a long-standing SOCIEUX+ partner. In this circumstance, CPPF wished to explore suitable options for extending social assistance coverage, in particular with regards to health and social action policies for government employees in vulnerable situations. Experts from Finland and France, plus a former SOCIEUX+ partner from Ivory Coast, have showcased EU and international models of health and social action policies for state agents, then co-drafted a strategic and operational guidance note that details the set-up of the institutional and organizational arrangements needed to deploy such a social assistance scheme.

  • Development of the consolidated risk mapping

    WESTERN AFRICA Gabon
    Start activities
    04/01/2021
    End activities
    31/07/2021
    Partner Institution
    Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-13
    Description
    The Action targeted organizational and individual capacities in the area of internal risks management. Peers from Germany and France first analyzed the mechanisms and procedures for analyzing and managing insurance-related risks pertaining to various schemes run by the CPPF. They further deployed training sessions to the benefit of CPPF’s relevant staff on insurance-related risk mapping and management.

  • Support for the definition of the strategic plan of the Niger employment agency, and adaptation of the services provided to companies and job seekers

    Central Africa Niger
    Start activities
    23/12/2020
    End activities
    06/03/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-12
    Description
    The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in enhancing the quality of its services to job seekers. French and Spanish experts worked on providing the ANPE with concrete actions to take place to streamline and improve its services among the different agencies, with the resources available. A handful of job counselors also benefited from a training of trainers to have a multiplying effect with newcomers.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building on social protection for persons with disability

    South-East Asia Cambodia
    Start activities
    15/09/2020
    End activities
    17/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Social Protection Council
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Design of training structure and formalization of a training course for young business creators in Mauritania

    Western Africa Mauritania
    Start activities
    04/01/2021
    End activities
    17/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    Patronal Federation of Services and Self Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-08
    Description
    The Action responded to the partner’s need to have available strategies and practices apt to enhance entrepreneurship’s skills through training to young entrepreneurs. Experts from Belgium and France assessed the existing entrepreneurship support ecosystem and defined of a roadmap for setting up comprehensive training services for young entrepreneurs and training of trainers/coaches. The further activities were dedicated to jointly build training modules of the curriculum in entrepreneurship, and to deploy a 5-days training of trainers on entrepreneurship for the partner’s agents.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Enhancing rehabilitation capacities of Workers Compensation Fund

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    23/11/2020
    End activities
    26/03/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2020-07
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania leads the Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) insurance branch. It requested SOCIEUX+ to enhance its internal capacities to deal with rehabilitation of workers affected by work-related injuries and/or sickness. In the course of four training activities experts mobilized by the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) provided to WCF staff an introduction on rehabilitation management, tackled procedures case managers have to deploy, and strengthened WCF and its partners’ knowledge in the field of labour medicine. The four training activities involved WCF technical and administrative staff as well as staff from collaborative medical facilities and touched up several OSH-related areas such as legislative framework, case management, medical notions, communication to right-holders. The activities progressively identified gaps and proposed recommendations for further action.

  • Feasibility study for the establishment of a compulsory or voluntary health insurance mechanism in Kongo Central

    EASTERN AFRICA Congo, Republic of
    Start activities
    05/04/2021
    End activities
    30/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    Kongo Central Provincial Government [Gouvernement provincial du Kongo Central]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-06
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ has been solicited by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of the Province of Kongo Central to formulate a feasibility study regarding the establishment of a compulsory or voluntary health insurance mechanism in the Province. To this end, SOCIEUX+ facilitated exchanges (on site and on-line) between the national partners (including mutualist organizations) and European experts in the field of health systems (financing, governance and health care delivery). Several experts from France delivered an inventory of the health system’s components in place in the province of Kongo Central, then a study on the financial feasibility of the health insurance system, and a prospective study on how such a health insurance system should be governed and organized.

  • Development of a Strategic Plan for the ECASSA Institute of Social Protection (EISP)

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    31/10/2020
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-05
    Description
    Through the collaboration among peers and the presentation of European and international cases and good practices related to the set-up and development of an international research and training institution, experts from Italy and Slovenia developed and transferred a working methodology aimed at building a multi-year strategic plan. As a result of the action, the newborn Institute of Social Protection of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA), whose role is to develop knowledge and offer capacity-building opportunities for the staff of the social security organizations adhering to ECASSA, is endowed with a strategic plan based on extensive consultations and taking into account key areas of organizational development.

  • Organisational capacity building on Management Information Systems

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/10/2020
    End activities
    24/12/2020
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-03
    Description
    The East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) brings together social security entities in the African subregion. The Association runs an Institute for Social Protection (EISP) to offer vocational training for professionals of the organizations in charge of social protection in ECASSA member countries. The experts from French institutions provided both academic and IT expertise to outline the main requirements and specifications for a new information management system on the Institute and developed a set of guidelines of for the implementation of IT solutions for the management of the IESP.

  • Social dialogue and public-private partnerships for green jobs in the Forestry sector of Loreto

    South America Peru
    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Regional Government of Loreto
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2019-38
    Description
    The Action aimed to support the regional government of Loreto to promote opportunities for decent green jobs. It focused on the potential of public-private mechanisms for the sustainable development of Loreto's forestry sector with the generation of green, formal and decent jobs for the local youth. The Regional Direction of Employment chose to join an existing Regional Forestry Roundtable. Experts from France, Germany and Spain mapped the value chains of the forestry sector, made an analysis of the needed professional skills to access quality green jobs. In that perspective, experts formulated a proposal for a pilot training programme for young people, that could act as a catalyst for creating employment opportunities in the regional forestry sector.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Technical support on rehabilitation services and capacity building

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    09/04/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-35
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania asked SOCIEUX+ to help looking into its own rehabilitation strategy, in the perspective of addressing gaps and plan improvements thanks to inspirational exchanges with EU peer experts. Experts from Germany (the German Association of Accident Insurance – DGUV) and Lithuania first overviewed the existing WCF’s rehabilitation strategies, then provided technical advice for its improvement; they particularly stressed the importance to conceive rehabilitation work in relation to the three distinct dimensions physical, social, and vocational rehabilitation, all important for allowing injured works to go back to active professional life.

  • Guidelines for tackling cases of school bullying or violence for the Procuradurías for the protection of children and adolescents

    NORTH AMERICA Mexico
    Start activities
    01/10/2020
    End activities
    30/12/2020
    Partner Institution
    National System for Integral Family Development
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-34
    Description
    Only one activity was carried out following a request from Mexico’s National System for Integral Family Development to elaborate and transfer to case managers and prosecutors a set of guidelines for tackling bullying and violence in schools. Experts from Portugal and Spain brought examples from their own systems to the attention of partners and produced a first draft of the guidelines, according to a psycho-social approach incorporated as a basic targeted social service as part of the school system.

  • Derechos

    Capacity building of employment advisors and job developers on soft skills

    Western Africa Cameroon
    Start activities
    08/10/2020
    End activities
    15/04/2022
    Partner Institution
    Natinal Employment Fund [Fond National de l'Emploi] (FNE)
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2019-33
    Description
    This action in collaboration with the National Employment Fund of Cameroon, aimed at improving services provided to job seekers, more specifically by assessing capacities of job counsellors on the topic of soft skills. Experts from France and Belgium focused on empowering job counselors in the appropriation of techniques and key skills of job counseling, with an emphasis on young job seekers. A large number of job counselors took part in the construction of training of trainers, involving staff from Yaoundé and Douala.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building for the general directorate of entrepreneurship promotion

    Western Africa Benin
    Start activities
    18/01/2021
    End activities
    05/02/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises, and Employment Promotion
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2019-32
    Description
    The action aimed at supporting the Directorate for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Employment (DPEE) of Benin and other agencies under supervision of the Ministry of Labour in improving its performance, managerial capacity and ability to deliver services in the field of entrepreneurship and employment promotion. French peer experts focused on analyzing specific needs and gaps and identified four axes for trainings, to be implemented through the following activities. Trainings targeted both the managerial and organizational capacities of decision-makers and technical agents within the Ministry, and capacity development at the 'operational' level of the various key actors in the promotion of entrepreneurship and employment services.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Enhancing capacity for public employment services activities: outreach to employers, speed dating, job fairs and supervision of private employment agencies

    East Asia Suriname
    Start activities
    10/05/2021
    End activities
    11/11/2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2019-31
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour of Suriname requested SOCIEUX+ support to enhance the capacity of the national Public employment Service to serve employers through better recruitment and labour market intermediation services. Experts from Belgium, France, and the Netherlands applied a progressive approach that involved local stakeholders into a constructive dialogue that allowed to assess the current state of art of PES’ services to employers and envisage corrective measures that could bring improvements, based on a shared knowledge and drawing inspiration from practical measures in place the experts’ own countries.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening employment opportunities for people living with disabilities

    CENTRAL ASIA Kyrgyz Republic
    Start activities
    11/01/2021
    End activities
    20/01/2022
    Partner Institution
    Union of people with disabilities
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2019-19
    Description
    The Organization of persons with disabilities “Ravenstvo” (Equality) is committed to the improvement of the situation of persons with disabilities in Kyrgyz Republic, their autonomy and equal participation in all spheres including labour market. Supported by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Ravenstvo worked together with the experts from Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Portugal mobilised by SOCIEUX+ to develop a project of a university disability-friendly career center for students of secondary and higher education. A study visit to Finland provided Kyrgyz partners from the ministry, civil society and universities with practical understanding of how education and labour market integration works in the EU.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Regulations of the Law of the Institute of Security and Social Services of Workers of the State of Campeche

    NORTH AMERICA MÉXICO
    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Security and Social Services of Workers
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2018-15
    Description
    Based on the outcomes of previous Action 2016-15, which resulted in the preparation of a text of Law for updating the social security Law of the Mexican State of Campeche, the present action co-constructed the administrative regulations necessary for the Law's implementation. This process was steered by a team of experts coming from Spain throughout three activities, which also included a capacity-building of ISSSTECAM staff on regulatory methods.

  • Strengthening of organisational and individual capacities of the national School for the Formation of Labour Inspertors

    CENTRAL AMERICA MÉXICO
    Start activities
    05/08/2018
    End activities
    16/08/2018
    Partner Institution
    Directorat General for Federal Labour Inspection
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building
    Code
    2017-14

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Definition of a national social security policy

    WESTERN AFRICA CÔTE D'IVOIRE
    Start activities
    15/03/2019
    End activities
    03/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment and Social Protection [Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Protection Sociale] (MEPS)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-11
    Description
    The partner institution (MEPS) has now available a roadmap for developing a consistent and modern social security strategy. This relates to three main dimensions of social security reforms that were undertaken by experts from France in the course of three distinct activities: strengthening the governance of the social security system; including in the system’s coverage new populations to be entitled with social security benefits, including new users with peculiar socio-economic characteristics; strengthening of skills available among staffs of social security institutions and organizations.

    Employability and soft skills: SOCIEUX+ experiences in cooperation

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Public employment services and communication with employers: Experiences and good practices from Europe and Latin America

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Universal health coverage: the challenges that SOCIEUX+ and global partners address through peer-to-peer cooperation

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Training of trainers on functional disability assessment in Armenia

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Disability-inclusive social protection: How SOCIEUX+ is addressing the needs and rights of persons with disabilities

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Labour and Employment: Green Economy and Green Jobs

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Cooperation with Gabon on financial management, health and social policies

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Sharing experiences on equal access to the civil service in Costa Rica

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ Extends Network of Focal Points

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ in the news: In support of universal health insurance coverage in Congo

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Summary report on the impact of COVID-19 on public employment services released

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    AFD and SOCIEUX+ hosting Lab Debate Adaptive social protection in the development agenda at European Development Days 2021

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Seminar on tools and good practices for social dialogue in Peru

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Improving the lives of persons with disabilities in Mauritius

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Health and safety at work: SOCIEUX+ training experiences in Nigeria and Tanzania

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
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    SOCIEUX+ and Actiris sign cooperation agreement

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
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    SOCIEUX+ and DGUV extend their collaborative agreement

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ launches e-learning platform for online training and peer-to-peer exchange

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ presents its comments on the proposed United Nations’ Global Fund for Social Protection

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX launched a new phase of work for the next four years

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Promoting Vision Zero: Web-based training on occupational safety and health in Nigeria

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Setting the ground on disability policies

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    The SOCIEUX+ response to COVID-19

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Webinar: Experiences of cooperation that positively impact the rights of people with disabilities in Latin America

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Joint Survey on Public Employment Services during COVID-19

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    SOCIEUX+ supports the promotion of employment for vulnerable groups in Côte d’Ivoire

    Start activities
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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Definition of a national social assistance policy

    WESTERN AFRICA CÔTE D'IVOIRE
    Start activities
    15/03/2019
    End activities
    10/01/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment and Social Protection [Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Protection Sociale] (MEPS)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-09
    Description
    This Action provided the partner with a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the situation and the formal framework of social action in Côte d'Ivoire, particularly with regard to the situation of the elderly. Furthermore, experts from France have developed draft national policy documents including concrete recommendations of policy measures – some immediately exploitable, other requiring more preparation and concertation – the partner has agreed with, which may support decision-making and policy dialogue, both at the intergovernmental level and with regards of other stakeholders (particular attention is paid to the territorial level and the role of voluntary and non-profit organizations).

  • Analysis of the Social Security Law of the State of Yucatan

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    27/02/2019
    End activities
    03/01/2020
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security for State Workers of Yucatan [Instituto de Seguridad Social de los Trabajadores del Estado de Yucatan] (ISSTEY)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2019-08
    Description
    The Institute of Social Security for State Workers of Yucatan requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in view of the reform of the State Law on Social Security with the goal of introducing normative arrangements that may ensure the financial sustainability of services and payments to rightsholders. The comprehensive reform proposal is largely based on European experiences of similar reforming efforts of pensions systems. In particular, the teams of public experts from Spain have focused on the existing challenges to the Institute’s financial reserves and formulated proposals aimed to increase the financial sustainability of the Institute’s accounts; they have taken inspiration in the formulation of reforms’ proposals, to European trends in the determination of the balanced income of the system, formulas of taxation, determination of the requirements for access to pensions and their calculation. The final, concrete result of the cooperation is a reviewed text of Law introducing articles and norms that act on the economic and financial sustainability of the Institute’s accounts.

  • Consolidation of the strategy

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    01/02/2019
    End activities
    30/07/2020
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social Economy [Instituto para la Economia Social] (IPES)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-02
    Description
    The second cooperation between IPES and SOCIEUX+ aimed to guide the implementation of the psychosocial care component of the strategy “Modelo de Atencion Integral” intended to provide ad-hoc support to vulnerable informal street vendors in the streets of Bogota. The ultimate aim of the strategy and the “Modelo” is to provide some sort of social security coverage and support to a category that has traditionally be excluded from formal social security schemes. Experts from Italy and Spain have facilitated the creation of a working group made up by local entities that are in a position to, or actually provide social services to which the target population would be eligible. They then helped defining of a unified conceptual and methodological psycho-social intervention model applicable by the IPES sub-directorates and exploitable by field agents.

  • Support to the revision of legislative and regulatory texts in the fields of Labour and Public Services

    WESTERN AFRICA TOGO
    Start activities
    25/11/2018
    End activities
    01/03/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection [Ministère de la Function Publique du Travail et de la Reforme Administrative]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-26
    Description
    The Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection of Togo had the objective to fill current gaps and identified deficiencies in the application of the Labour code and in the regulations governing civil servants’ employment. The support provided through French public expertise served this purpose, by first looking into the current regulations and identifying problems, inconsistencies, and bottlenecks; then by drafting a report and presenting its conclusions to selected partners as a way to formulate practical suggestions as to improve the civil servants’ employment system.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Labour Inspection Manual development

    Western Africa GHANA
    Start activities
    26/08/2019
    End activities
    30/08/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR)
    Type of Assistance
    Expertise: Labour inspection, Work, Working Conditions
    Code
    2019-22

  • Promotion of Decent Employment for informal workers

    South-East Asia THAILAND
    Start activities
    02/12/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW)
    Type of Assistance
     Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2019-21

  • Green Jobs Programme development (Renforcement des capacités de l’Agence Nationale Pour l’Emploi du Togo pour la promotion des Emplois verts parmi les jeunes)

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    21/08/2019
    End activities
    28/05/2020
    Partner Institution
    Public Employment Service [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-16
    Description
    The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment (ANPE) of Togo aimed, through this action, to acknowledge possible concrete measures to accompany young people towards green jobs. At first the employability potential of the youth in green jobs has been assessed; in particular, possible skills deficits and gaps between the demand for new or adapted qualifications for green jobs and the current offer of vocational training were identified. On this basis, experts supported the partner in initiating a dialogue with the training institutions to start adapting the training offer to the potential of Togolese organic agriculture. The final activity resulted in a methodology to develop training curricula in the sector of organic agriculture. Participants came. Throughout the Action, experts from France and the Netherlands engaged with peers from the ANPE and various vocational training institutions to identify capacity needs for the green economy as well as to let emerge a network of public and private actors active in the promotion and training on green jobs.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Professional risks in the public sector

    Western Africa GABON
    Start activities
    14/03/2019
    End activities
    20/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents [Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat] (CPPF)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-05
    Description
    The Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents (CPPF) of Gabon shared with SOCIEUX+ its intention to expand the package of benefits available to its right-holders, namely State agents, by including insurance coverage for professional accidents and diseases State agents may run into in the deployment of the statutory functions. In that perspective, mobilized public experts from France and Luxembourg have first established an inventory of the existing system of coverage of risks linked to occupational diseases and accidents at work of Gabonese public officials, then drafted normative texts that can duly amend the scope of the system of benefits provided by CPPF, for extending coverage to occupational safety and health risks.

  • Promotion of employment among vulnerable groups (Promotion de l’emploi des couches vulnérables)

    Western Africa CÔTE D'IVOIRE
    Start activities
    29/03/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment and Social Protection [Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Protection Sociale] (MEPS)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2018-22
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ has responded to the request of the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection of Ivory Coast, in view of improving labour insertion of persons with disabilities. Mobilized experts from Belgium, France and Spain have first assessed the current strategies and tools available to the partner to address the target group’s difficulties to access stable and dignified employment. They have then deployed capacity building activities involving key partner’s staff and associated structures; experts have mostly presented good practices from European and African countries (Morocco), as a way to enlarging the set of tools that can be deployed to enhance employability of persons with disabilities.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Supporting the development of work-linked training facilities and opportunities (metodología dual)

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    18/08/2019
    End activities
    29/02/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2018-07
    Description
    Dual Training is the set of actions that aims to provide the apprentice with a professional qualification that combines the formal vocational training with the practice in a company, thereby involving the companies in active training in order to facilitate the labour insertion of the apprentices. The General Directorate for Vocational Training of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion has deployed with the mobilized experts from Portugal and Spain a progressive approach that first assesses the current Dual Training opportunities and, on this basis, develops proposals for reinforcing this public-private partnership aimed to increase youth employability.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    M&E tools for the Vocational Counselling and Occupational Information Service (SOVIO)

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    24/06/2020
    End activities
    12/08/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2018-06
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru has collaborated with experts from France and Spain in view to develop the coverage of the Vocational Guidance and Information Service (SOCIO) through the incorporation and professionalization of new actors and public and private institutions offering services to young people. The team worked on the development of a policy of partnerships between the public and the private sector, aiming at increasing the volume of services offered on the platform.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Assessing viability of microfinance for creating opportunities for social protection coverage of atypical workers

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    25-02-2019
    End activities
    12-06-2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2019-01
    Description
    This technical cooperation action has allowed to deepen the Partner’s understanding of the possibilities (and the difficulties) linked to the promotion of micro-insurance for providing essential coverage to uninsured workers. A specific target population has been indicated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru as main target group: the dockers of the agricultural market of La Vitoria, in the outskirts of Lima. Experts’ teams – from France, Italy and Spain - have met and discussed with the representatives of the dockers and their unions, in order to explore whether the option of a micro-insurance that meet basic-coverage needs with regards to pensions and the risk of running into working-related sickness or accidents, could represent a suitable option for the workers. Experts also met with private micro-finance organizations in order to explore the actual micro-insurance plan that could be proposed to the dockers.

  • Promotion of employment among people living with disabilities (Promoción del empleo para personas con discapacidad)

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    24/06/2019
    End activities
    12/06/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion; Directorate for Promotion of Employment for Workers with Disabilities
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-23
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ has addressed the needs formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru in view of improving labour insertion of persons with disabilities. The action strategy has addressed three dimensions. Firstly, experts from Spain assessed the current Department’s tools and policies aimed at promoting employment among persons with disabilities. Secondly, they provided capacity building for key partner staff, particularly regarding the setup of appropriate communication channels. Finally, experts accompanied the partner’s efforts to reinforce public-private partnerships, namely to involve private firms in strategies aimed at meeting the needs of the target population and to promote their labour insertion.

  • Evaluation and monitoring instruments for public policies and national guidelines on Vocational Training (Capacitación técnica para el diseño de instrumentos de evaluación …)

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    23/09/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-09
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru requested SOCIEUX+ support in view to enhance its capacity to assess the quality and impact of vocational education and training (VET) programmes deployed at the regional level, as the competences, obligations and responsibilities for the design, implementation and evaluation of VET are entirely transferred to the Regions. Mobilized experts from France and Spain have first carried out an inventory and a characterization of the VET existing initiatives. They have thus elaborated a system for monitoring the VET initiatives based on three levels: macro (responding to national priorities and regulations), meso (conceiving a practical role for regional officers to intervene in the deployment of VET), and micro (in relation with private firms and companies supplying employment opportunities).

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening of staff capacities of the Miinistry of Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship (Formation du personnel du Ministère de la Jeunesse et de la promotion de l’entreprenariat des jeunes)

    Western Africa BURKINA FASO
    Start activities
    25/02/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Youth, Vocational Training and Integration [Ministère de la Jeunesse, de la Formation et de l?Insertion Professionnelles]
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-24
    Description
    The Ministry of Youth, Vocational Training and Integration of Burkina Faso requested the assistance of SOCIEUX+ for organizational matters and to improve staff capacity, through the setting-up of a capacity building plan aimed at professionalizing the staff of different departments. Experts from Belgium and France progressively addressed the issue in the course of four activities, engaging the partner’s key staff in the elaboration of a training plan that addresses the needs and gaps identified by the partner institution’s staff.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Drafting guideline and legal documents for the Regulation and Supervision on Social Security Fund

    South-East Asia CAMBODIA
    Start activities
    21/10/2019
    End activities
    09/06/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2019-26
    Description
    The Action has channeled knowledge to the staff of the Cambodia’s National Social Protection Committee (NSPC ) on the guiding principles inherent to investment policies, regulation and supervision of the social security system. This happened in a phase of passing legislation building the social security system governance in Cambodia, as well as its core rules of functioning. Mobilized experts from Finland and Lithuania accompanied the Partner’s reflection on the role of the NSPC as main regulator and supervisor of the social security system in Cambodia. In that purpose, regulatory texts have been jointly prepared, such as one settling the function of regulation and supervision of social security operator, the code of conduct for staff of the NSCP, the guidelines for policy disclosure, for e-audit and risk management within social security schemes, and investment guidelines. A study-visit to Finland was also implemented in the framework of the Action: the Cambodian delegation has been hosted by the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Pension Alliance, the Finnish Centre of Pensions, the Finance inspection, and the Social Insurance Institution.

  • Labour Standards strengthening

    Eastern Europe GEORGIA
    Start activities
    24/06/2019
    End activities
    28/06/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2019-07
    Description
    Georgia main social Ministry has cooperated with SOCIEUX+ in view to improve labour standards, enhance safety in the labour environment, and to prevent the violation of dignified working conditions. A single activity was implemented by a team of three experts – from Poland, Hungary, and France. Main topics presented during the interventions related to the cost-benefits of applying occupational safety and health measures, what these measures should be about, how the systems of norms should be managed, and the importance of a tripartite dialogue. The action resulted in a transfer of knowledge and gave the partner’s staff the opportunity of a genuine peer-to-peer exchange on matters of its competence.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Green job opportunities for the youth (Empleos Verdes: Una oportunidad para los jóvenes)

    South America URUGUAY
    Start activities
    22/09/2019
    End activities
    27/09/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Ministerio del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social)
    Type of Assistance
    A.02 Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2019-18
    Description
    The request from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS) of Uruguay focused on developing knowledge and skills for the promotion of green jobs for young people, identifying tools and good practices for their incorporation into the policy and organizational arrangements of the MTSS, of local governments, of the related directorates/regional offices and other agencies working at the promotion of green jobs’ opportunities for young people. The SOCIEUX+ intervention was part of the PAGE Uruguay Program, to which the ILO participates. Experts from Belgium and the Netherlands supported the deployment of two distinct workshops on Green employment strategies for young people, sharing experiences mainly of EU countries. The action gave the MTSS the opportunity to advance policy dialogue and create synergies with other ministries (Education and Industry) in view to improve the circular economy and to promote green jobs among the youth, though adapted curricula and vocational training.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Development of Occupational Safety and Health in Nigeria

    Western Africa NIGERIA
    Start activities
    09/07/2019
    End activities
    04/09/2020
    Partner Institution
    Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2019-13
    Description
    A series of training sessions and a study visit to Germany have addressed the partner’s request to promote a preventative safety and health culture in the workplace. The Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation cooperates with the Lagos State Safety Commission in view to ensure the adequate occupational safety and health preventive and reactive measures are in place in the factories and firms of one of the most industrialized regions in the whole Africa. Training delivered by experts belonging to the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) concerned principles of prevention, assessing risks in the workplace, the ‘Vision Zero’ concept, and the specific area of road safety.

  • Soft skills policies development: capacitación tecnica para la formulación de politicas públicas en materia de competencias blandas

    South America PERU
    Start activities
    02/09/2019
    End activities
    29/05/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-08
    Description
    The General Directorate of Vocational Training of the Ministry of Labour provides training in Basic and Transversal Skills (renamed employability skills) to boost the employability of young people. Experts from Spain have accompanied the partner in mapping existing capacities and actors involved in providing employability skills training and have formulated a strategy that addresses possible gaps and improves public training provision aimed at valuing soft skills as a potential for employability of the youth and, more generally, of persons with limited educational attainments.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Focus on results: SOCIEUX+ and ONIESS: The birth of state social security institutes in Mexico

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

    Visions from the field: SOCIEUX+ cooperation in Tanzania

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Vulnerability assessment of the Cash Transfer Programme beneficiaries

    Middle East and Gulf Countries PALESTINA
    Start activities
    23-09-2019
    End activities
    10/04/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Planning
    Code
    2019-24

  • Strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation system at the Ministry of Social Development

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Territorio Palestino Ocupado
    Start activities
    23-09-2019
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2019-25
    Description
    The Action has served the purpose of preparing the terms of reference for the provision of technical assistance for “Strengthening (…) the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system of the Palestinian Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)”. The outcome of the Action is also at a more general level. An assessment of the current weaknesses of the M&E in operation at MoSD has allowed to open a debate about the possible ways to improve it, which resulted in the definition of a shared vision by the management of MoSD on the nature and purposes of a M&E system. Peer experts working with Palestinian counterparts came from public administrations of Ireland, Lithuania, and the Netherlands.

  • Analysis of the pension legislative framework and strategic guidance

    Central Asia TAJIKISTAN
    Start activities
    16/08/2016
    End activities
    28/03/2017
    Partner Institution
    Gency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2016-04
    Description
    An assessment report of the existing pension legal framework has been elaborated by experts from Bulgaria and Latvia identifying gaps, risks and challenges, and formulating specific mitigation strategies and measures. The experts also prepared a compendium of requirements for the implementation of the legal framework, taking into account the administrative functions needed to operationalize the system. Following this, experts from Latvia and Lithuania produced a functional assessment and reviewed the business processes and workflows of the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) of Tajikistan in view of their adequacy in terms of human and material resources, technical competencies and tools, corporate organization and workflows. In particular, experts reviewed the current methodologies, formulas and processes used by ASIP for the calculation of pension benefits.

  • Advice on sustainability and investment of pension funds

    South-East Asia CAMBODIA
    Start activities
    24/10/2018
    End activities
    02/08/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-28
    Description
    The Action had an essential capacity building motive. The National Social Protection Committee of Cambodia – a long-standing SOCIEUX+ partner - wishes to enhance its role as a guardian and a regulator of an expanded and reformed social protection system. The present Action focused on pensions, in the light of the planned reform, which finally came into force in 2022, bringing in the system private sector workers, together with public civil servants. NSPC’s staff have received significant exposure to EU and international cases and practices, particularly on the issue of (sustainably) financing pensions. Relevant international standards were presented by experts from Finland and Lithuania, with a focus on taxation, collection of contributions, the very build-up of a pension system, and its financing.

  • Support in the implementation of a health financing reform and introduction of mandatory health insurance

    Eastern Europe AZERBAIJAN
    Start activities
    11-04-2016
    End activities
    24-11-2017
    Partner Institution
    State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance (under the Cabinet of Ministers)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2015-23
    Description
    Peer-to-peer exchanges involving experts from Croatia, Estonia, France, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom supported the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance (SAMHI) of Azerbaijan in setting the stage for the introduction of a mandatory health insurance scheme. First, experts advised on the national policy paper “Concept for Health Financing Reform and Introduction of Mandatory Health Insurance” and the Action Plan for its implementation, with a particular attention to the development of indicators for performance assessment of healthcare providers. A study-visit to Estonia allowed Azeris officials to witness how mandatory health insurance was introduced in a country transitioned from a former Soviet model. The final action’s deliverable was a roadmap detailing the concrete steps for the reform of the health system based on mandatory health insurance.

  • Support to the International Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    03/03/2019
    End activities
    03/05/2019
    Partner Institution
    Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-32
    Description
    The Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES) is a long-standing partner of SOCIEUX+. It gathers social security entities from 18 countries, mainly from Francophone Africa. In this circumstance the CIPRES Secretariat requested SOCIEUX+ to mobilize two public experts to share their country experiences and models on the occasion of the annual Forum on health coverage in the CIPRES area. Experts from France and Luxembourg have covered the following themes: an intervention of the financing of universal health coverage and good practices on the governance of organizations running health insurance schemes. The Forum took place in Lomé (Togo) in March 2019.

  • 2nd International Forum on Pensions in the CIPRES zone

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    22-10-2018
    End activities
    27-10-2018
    Partner Institution
    Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES)
    Type of Assistance
    Regional events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2018-25
    Description
    The Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale (CIPRES) is a long-standing SOCIEUX+ partner. It gathers social security entities from 18 countries, mainly from Francophone Africa. In this circumstance the CIPRES’ Secretariat requested SOCIEUX+ to mobilize public expertise to share EU country experiences and models on the occasion of the annual Forum on pension systems in the CIPRES area. A single expert from Lithuania took part to the Forum and delivered a presentation entitled: "Towards new models of pension system: European Union recommendations and comparative analysis".

  • Capacity building of ECASSA’s members

    Southern Africa TANZANIA
    Start activities
    18-03-2019
    End activities
    22-03-2019
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-30
    Description
    The East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) brings together social security entities in the African subregion. Through its partnership with SOCIEUX+, it aimed to deploy a set of training modules intended to upgrade the skills and competences available to staffs of the constituent organizations, on a number of relevant managerial and topic-related themes. A single training on “Human Resource Management for Non-Human Resource Managers” was delivered by experts from Belgium, with the participation of the ECASSA organizers and 10 relevant resource-persons of ECASSA member institutions. A compendium of 17 presentations has been made available by the experts to all participants of the training, and to ECASSA, which has further disseminated them among the larger membership.

  • Capacity development for Stragtegic on Employment [Diagnostico, capacitación, diseño e implementación de estrategias relacionadas con temas de empleabilidad

    South America COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    08/12/2018
    End activities
    13/08/2018
    Partner Institution
    Local Government - Valle de Aburra Metropol, Antioquia [Area Metropolitana del Valle de Aburra
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2018-12
    Description
    The local government of the Area Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá in Colombia wished to reduce skills mismatch and bottlenecks in the labour market at regional level through efficient labour intermediation. Experts from France and Spain mobilised by SOCIEUX+ conducted, together with the partners, an assessment of the services provided to job seekers by the relevant regional entities. They then shared suggestions based on European models during a workshop that brought together local authorities and labor-market stakeholders.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Audit of the existing sectors and job descriptions at the CPPF

    Western Africa GABON
    Start activities
    14/03/2019
    End activities
    26/07/2019
    Partner Institution
    Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents [Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat] (CPPF)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2019-04
    Description
    The Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents (CPPF) of Gabon requested SOCIEUX+ support on organizational matters. In particular, CPPF wished to review and eventually improve its actual human resources management system. In the course of two activities, French experts have accompanied the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of HR management at CPPF and put forward proposals and recommendations for improvement, mainly concerning the recruitment process, the (re)formulation job descriptions and the reorganization of functional and hierarchical responsibilities and workflows.

  • Green Jobs promotion by Public Employment Services [L’implication des Services Publics de L’Emploi dans les Emplois Verts]

    Central Africa CHAD
    Start activities
    09/12/2018
    End activities
    13/12/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Youth, Sports and Employment [Ministère de la Promotion des Jeunes, des Sports et de l’Emploi]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2018-29
    Description
    The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Employment of Chad has requested SOCIEUX+ to facilitate the participation of a public expert as key speaker on the occasion of the international conference of the World Association of Public Employment services (WAPES). The mobilized Dutch expert has addressed the question of the potential of ‘green jobs’ within the expected transformation of the agro-industry in the African country.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    SOCIEUX+ supports the promotion of green jobs among young people in Togo

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    Girardota City Council receives CIPDH-UNESCO Award for its inclusive local policies

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    Type of Assistance
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    Peer cooperation: Cambodian delegation visits Finland to study social security system

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    Type of Assistance
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    SOCIEUX+ and CISS sign memorandum of understanding

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    Views from the field: SOCIEUX+ cooperation in Palestine

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    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
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    Peer to peer cooperation: Decent work plan for municipalities

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    Type of Assistance
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    Social protection with micro insurance: Development of a pilot programme for inland stevedores in Peru

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    Type of Assistance
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  • Inclusive Social Protection Systems in Asia and the Pacific

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  • How to bring work and training together for youth employability

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  • Appui à la révision des textes législatifs et réglementaires dans les proposée domaines du travail et de la fonction publique (code du travail et statut général de la fonction publique)

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    25-11-2018
    End activities
    03-01-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministère de la Function Publique du Travail et de la Reforme Administrative
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2018-26

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to implementation of the Management Information System (MIS) of the Zanzibar Universal Pension Scheme (ZUPS)

    SOUTHERN AFRICA TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    20-11-2018
    End activities
    30/09/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2018-27
    Description
    The Action supported the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children of Zanzibar in the roll-out of the MIS system for social pensions in Zanzibar (Pemba and Unguja). Experts from Germany and Spain provided technical advice and quality assurance, and ensured, with the participation of the UNICEF country office, that all actors achieved their tasks in due time. The main contribution of the experts was to keep the process on the right track, both in terms of technical requirements and implementation pace.

  • Design of a comprehensive training plan for State Social Security Institutions

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    12/11/2018
    End activities
    17/05/2019
    Partner Institution
    Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2018-20
    Description
    The Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS) is a platform gathering social security agencies of adhering Mexican states. Its role is one of policy coordination, capacity support of member organizations, and advocacy towards federal authorities in areas related to the social security mandate of the member organizations. In practice, ONIESS is primarily concerned with pension systems. Through this action, ONIESS has been supported by SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from France and Spain to assess the needs in capacity building of the staffs of ONIESS’ member organizations and, on this basis, to formulate a comprehensive training plan. The plan encompasses four principal areas of concern, namely professional risks, the future of social security policy, financial and actuarial techniques, and administration and planning of social security schemes.

  • Design of a work plan for the elaboration of a general diagnosis of social security in Mexico

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    15-10-2018
    End activities
    03-04-2020
    Partner Institution
    Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2018-18
    Description
    The Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS) is a platform that brings together social security agencies from adhering Mexican states. SOCIEUX+ has supported the emergence and formal establishment of ONIESS through various actions (including 2017-17, 2015-24, and 2014-25). The present action supports ONIESS’ initial endeavors as decided by the General Assembly. ONIESS has been provided by experts from Belgium and Spain with two important tools, which are, from one side, the questionnaire for defining the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of the different State social security systems and, from the other side, a draft proposal for a General Social Security Law. This document is to be conceived not as a ready-to-be-approved proposal of Law, but rather as a tool that allows ONIESS to set up a minimum common denominator defining their social security systems and engage in policy dialogue with the federal authorities over future proposals of reform of the social security system at large.

  • SOCIEUX+ in Peru: Enhancing social protection policies for labor migrants and atypical workers

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  • SOCIEUX+ participates in EU-Georgia Dialogues on social issues

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  • SOCIEUX+ supports Armenia towards better inclusion of people with disabilities

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    Type of Assistance
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  • ARTICLE ON HEALTH FINANCING IN ZIMBABWE AND ST.LUCIA

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    SOCIEUX+ holds its regional meeting in Mexico City

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  • Assessment mission to Niger

    Central Africa NIGER
    Start activities
    Nov-13
    End activities
    Nov-13
    Partner Institution
    Cabinet of the Premier Minister, Social Protection
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2013-01

  • Peer cooperation: A Mexican delegation visits the Spanish Social Security Institute

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    Type of Assistance
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  • SOCIEUX+ in Colombia: Capacity building in labour market intermediation

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Cambodia: Financial regulations for social protection

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Mexico: Institutional development for strengthening the protection of girls, boys, and adolescents

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Cameroon: Workshop on formalization of informal sector workers and social security for migrants

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  • Towards an Inclusive Census: Collecting and Analyzing Disaggregated Data for People with Disabilities in Burkina Faso

    Western Africa BURKINA FASO
    Start activities
    10-10-2018
    End activities
    18-10-2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministère de la femme, de la solidarité nationale et de la famille
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2018-21

  • Sharing of International Experience for a National PES Reforms

    East Asia China
    Start activities
    Jun-18
    End activities
    Jul-18
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2018-13
    Description
    A single-activity action in partnership with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China. Experts from Austria and Sweden shared European and regional models and practices on the work of public employment services as to feed ongoing efforts by Chinese authorities in view to set up a consistent employment policy framework in China.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    SOCIEUX+ in Mexico: Establishment of the National Organization of State Social Security Institutions

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  • Social security for internal migrants and the informal sector [Sécurité sociale des travailleurs migrants et formalisation des travailleurs du secteur informel]

    Western Africa CAMEROON
    Start activities
    04/02/2018
    End activities
    09/02/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2017-20
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ organized and delivered a training involving staff of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Cameroon regarding the transition to formal work and the social rights to which informal workers should be entitled. Experts from France have displayed international principles and norms and presented indicators that can accompany a policy of formalization.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Advise on financial regulation of social protection (social insurance)

    South-East Asia CAMBODIA
    Start activities
    Aug-2018
    End activities
    25-01-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2018-04
    Description
    The technical cooperation developed with the Ministry of Economy and Finances of Cambodia has firstly contributed to building the capacity of policymakers and technical staff with regards to the design and set-up of a supervisory mandate over social protection schemes, in view of EU and international best practices and affirmed mechanisms. Furthermore, experts from Bulgaria, Germany, and Lithuania, and the partner, jointly identified concrete options of financial supervision and regulation of Social Protection schemes which are applicable to the Cambodian context.

  • Feasibility study on the introduction of mandatory health insurance in North Kivu

    Central Africa CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    16-5-2018
    End activities
    27-5-2018
    Partner Institution
    Division provinciale de la Santé, Nord-Kivu
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2018-10

  • The role of a national health insurance institution in ensuring quality of services

    South-East Asia LAO PDR
    Start activities
    1-10-2019
    End activities
    4-10-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-11
    Description
    The Action contributed to an increased understanding among relevant stakeholders and the National Health Insurance Board’s (NHIB) staff on the need for having a clearly defined benefit package included in health insurance, on the functions of a health insurance management agencies, and on their role in ensuring quality of healthcare services. Mobilized experts from Estonia, France, Hungary and Italy have also addressed the institutional, administrative and technical aspects required to hand over the management of the formal sector health insurance schemes to the NHIB in line with the national policy and regulations.

  • SOCIEUX+ in Peru: Fostering the production and use of labor market indicators from administrative data-es

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Bogotá: Strengthening innovation, entrepreneurship, and formation of informal sector vendors-es

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Tanzania: Capacity building of ECASSA and its members through training and research-es

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Mexico: Reforming pensions for increased sustainability of reserve funds-es

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    Type of Assistance
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  • SOCIEUX+ participates in the 11th WAPES World Congress-es

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  • SOCIEUX+ in Togo: Creating conditions for universal health coverage-es

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    Type of Assistance
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  • SOCIEUX+ in Kenya: National dialogue to enhance social protection coverage-es

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    Type of Assistance
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  • SOCIEUX+ in Peru: Promoting green jobs

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  • SOCIEUX+ in the news

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  • Assessment of local employment policy in Girardota Municipality [Asesoría Profesional en la realización de la política pública de empleo del Municipio de Girardota]

    South America Colombia
    Start activities
    Jun-18
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Municipality of Girardota - Public Employment Services [Agencia Pública de Gestión y Colocación de Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2017-33
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ partnered with a local authority (the Municipality of Girardota) to provide policy advice for the promotion of decent work opportunities in the local labour market. Spanish experts helped the partner to identify the challenges and bottlenecks faced by the municipal Public Employment Service in promoting decent work. As a result, the municipality of Girardota elaborated and adopted a municipal policy for the promotion of decent work, articulated on a few key areas: enhancing employability through VET, fostering entrepreneurship, socio-labour support to vulnerable groups. In addition, indicators for monitoring and evaluation of the policy were jointly developed.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    International Seminar: Suficiencia y Sustentabilidad Previsional: los retos de la Seguridad Social

    South America Argentina
    Start activities
    19/02/2018
    End activities
    20/03/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MTEySS)
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2018-01
    Description
    Experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ contributed to the panel "Reconciling sufficiency and sustainability. Lessons and experiences " through a presentation on the financing of Social Security in France, especially the design, implementation and results of the Generalized Social Contribution (CSG). A report prepared by the expert also addressed other components of Social Protection, including health expenditure, family benefits, compensation for loss of employment and insurance against occupational risks and diseases.

  • Introduction of a human-rights based approach to disability assessment and eligibility rules

    Eastern Europe Armenia
    Start activities
    26/02/2018
    End activities
    09/03/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2017-38
    Description
    This was the first request that the Ministry of Social Development of Armenia submitted to SOCIEUX+, in view to adopt a new methodology for disability assessment that be based on functional capacities rather than on purely medical conditions. In the course of four activities, managed by Greek expert’s teams, the partner accomplished the preparatory work required for the adoption of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and constructed most of the necessary components (scales and formulas) for a reliable, fair and suitable disability assessment system. Experts showcased the practical implications of the transition towards the ICF-based approach, then presented the processes and tools pertaining to disability assessment, and finally set up a strategy for communicating policy changes to relevant constituencies. An Armenian delegation, led by the vice-Minister of Social Development, visited assessment centers in Cyprus.

  • Develop an online job matching database to improve employment service delivery at Kampala Capital City authority

    Central Africa Uganda
    Start activities
    16-1-2019
    End activities
    19-12-2019
    Partner Institution
    Kampala capital City Authority /Employment Services Bureau
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2017-41

  • Improving technical management tools available to INAM

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    02/04/2018
    End activities
    02/08/2019
    Partner Institution
    National Health Insurance Institute (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2017-39
    Description
    The experts’ contribution targeted several dimensions of organizational capacities and tools that are key to allow the Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM) of Togo to efficiently run an extension of health insurance coverage to private sector’s workers and aim to full, universal coverage. Among the matters tackled by mobilized teams of experts from France, Italy, and Romania were contracting capabilities and management of agreements with health care providers, costing of medical procedures, and economic and actuarial analysis. The technical assistance has thus provided very specific, methodological and operational recommendations that aim to enlarge INAM’s set of tools and knowledge necessary to efficiently run health insurance.

  • Support to the Implementation of an Employment Injury Insurance System for Malawi

    Southern Africa Malawi
    Start activities
    24-06-2018
    End activities
    29-3-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-02
    Description
    The SOCIEUX+ contribution was mainly directed to uphold the current, joint Government of Malawi – ILO efforts towards the establishment of the Workers Compensation Scheme for Malawi. The Government of Malawi has embarked on the process of establishing a social insurance-based employment injury insurance system through the Workers Compensation Fund. The system is to replace the existing employer-liability system and functions on the basis of risk pooling. This reform entails the development of a system that mandatorily collects appropriate premiums from all employers and provides compensation towards injured workers from a Government-managed fund.

  • Contribution to the National Social Security Policy Round Table in Kenya

    WESTERN AFRICA KENYA
    Start activities
    24/03/2018
    End activities
    19/03/2018
    Partner Institution
    National Social Protection Secretariat
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2018-03
    Description
    The action aimed to contribute to policy dialogue on social security in Kenya. Participation of experts from France in a round table on employment injury insurance, maternity protection and the role of social partners and social dialogue in insurance schemes took place on demand of the National Social Protection Conference on the occasion of a national conference held in Nairobi from 20 to 23 March 2018.

  • Support to the organisation of a pension forum

    Western Africa Togo
    Start activities
    jul-2016
    End activities
    jul-2016
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2015-20
    Description
    The Inter-African Conference for Social Welfare (CIPRES) is a regional organisation of fifteen Western and Central African countries created by the Ministries in charge of finances and social affairs in 1993. It formulates common management guidelines for social protection institutions. It also conducts studies, formulates harmonisation proposals on legislations, and facilitates training of managerial and technical staff at the regional level. As part of its thematic responabilities, the CIPRES also responds to the needs of its members for innovative and coherent mechanisms for reforms which will guarantee financial sustainability of pensions. For this purpose, CIPRES decided to organise a a regional pension forum to discuss the future of pensions systems, and to initiate a reflection and an exchange about best possible solutions for mitigating financial risks. European experts mobilised by SOCIEUX participated in the three-day Forum on Pensions for the CIPRES Region, which took place in Abidjan, Cameroon, end of July 2016. They were speakers on European best practices, and participated as resource persons in the debates of the panels on financing of pension systems and policies for the placement of reserve funds, and on perspectives of pension funds for the civil service/public sector, and factors for their viability.

  • Pensiones

    Enhance the effectiveness and coordination of social protection in Ghana

    Western Africa Ghana
    Start activities
    sep-2015
    End activities
    sep-2015
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2015-18
    Description
    Follow-up action from 2014-12. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP), has a core mandate and leading role in the planning, implementation and coordination of social protection policies in Ghana. In particular, the Ministry’s Directorate for Policy, Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation is responsible for assessing the progress in implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS). An updated 2012 NSPS aimed at bringing the multitude of social protection programmes under a common umbrella. However, the NSPS 2012 had not been approved as from June 2014 when the MGCSP approached SOCIEUX. As part of the initial work in action 2014-12, experts mobilised by SOCIEUX worked with their peers on a review of the first draft of the Policy. The Policy was officially launched by the Government in June 2016, aiming at aimed at “delivering a well-coordinated and inter-sectoral social protection system that would enable people to live in dignity”.

  • Derechos

    Building capactiy of the UTM to enable the management of universal health insurance coverage

    Western Africa Mali
    Start activities
    oct-2015
    End activities
    jun-2016
    Partner Institution
    Technical Unition of Mutual Health Insurance [Union Technique de la Mutualité] (UTM)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2015-14
    Description
    The Technical Union of Malian Mutual Insurers (UTM) is one of three functioning bodies responsible for health insurance coverage. The UTM functions as an umbrella organisation for about 30 (of 164) voluntary mutual health insurance schemes. The UTM supports the creation, development and technical supervision of schemes and the management of a common health insurance platform for all its members. The National Strategy to Extend the Coverage of Mutual Health Insurers was adopted in 2011 to improve the accessibility to healthcare of populations in the rural and informal sectors. It is backed by a 10-year Health and Social Development Plan for 2014-2023, which aims at increasing insurance coverage to 20% of the target population and, in the long-term, universal health coverage. In this context, UTM began to redefine its strategies to improve its capacity and political position in the perspective of shouldering responsibility in achieving universal health coverage. At an operational level, it produced an internal organisation reform plan for 2014-2016. Organisation and individual capacity building was essential to enable the implementation of this plan. Experts mobilised by SOCIEUX worked with the UTM staff on outlining scenarios for strategic options and organisational structure. To do this, they started by assessing the existing institutional strategy and corporate capacities. An outline of the needed structures and competences followed. A first draft of a guideline to develop the UTM’s Strategic Development Plan resulted from this work, which set preliminary core objectives, mission, vision and main working axes for the UTM.

  • Sanidad

    Support to the development of the legal, institutional and structural framework for social assistance

    Western Africa CÔTE D’IVOIRE
    Start activities
    nov-2015
    End activities
    dec-2016
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of State, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs & Vocational Education
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2015-06
    Description
    The action was grounded on the National Strategy for Social Protection and focused on territorial social assistance as a fundamental tool to outreach vulnerable (and often peripheral) populations. The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs & Vocational Education of Ivory Coast supported engaged with different teams of experts from France. The main action’s result has been the definition of a vision and concrete guidelines for structuring and strengthening decentralized social assistance in Ivory Coast, by providing an organizational path for strengthening the local social development centers.

  • Inclusión social

    Strengthening the policy dialogue, policy implementatiaon and capacity of the NAF

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Jordan
    Start activities
    jun-2015
    End activities
    jan-2016
    Partner Institution
    National Aid Fund
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2015-01
    Description
    The Jordan National Aid Fund (NAF) provides social assistance to the most deprived and vulnerable through cash transfers since its establishment in 1986. The Fund is oversight by the Ministry of Social Development but is an independent body with network of 41 local offices. The NAF identified an urgent need for policy dialogue leading to the development of both a strategy and its implementation plan for 2014-2016, and for associated need capacity building of its top-level management. SOCIEUX mobilised experts support the efforts of their peers in strengthening the NAF’s technical, administrative and benefit-delivery capacities.  An initial thorough analysis of internal processes and activities of the NAF provided the necessary vision to plan further capacity development for its human resources and organisation, as well as specifically on targeting mechanisms. Experts also addressed the development of consistent indicators at organisational- and operational-level. Know-how for the integration of indicators in a future information management was also transferred. Finally, experts and their peers worked on preparatory activities for elaboration of a Public Relations and Communications Strategy for the NAF.

  • Sistema de bienestar

    Support to non – and contributory pensions

    NORTH AMERICA Mexico
    Start activities
    jun-2015
    End activities
    nov-2015
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato [Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Guanajuato]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2014-25
    Description
    Follow-up from action 2014-04 This action built on these achievements of the first action with the ISSEG, and allowed European experts and their Mexican peers to formulate practical recommendations for the coordinated development at federal level of state pension funds. Exchanges addressed in particular legal, actuarial and administrative aspects. ISSEG’s experience and leadership was first presented to two Mexican States pension funds, which was a significant step to boost state-level coordination and cooperation. The final action’s activity was a National Inter-State Pensions Conference which brought together all state funds of Mexico. The first conclusion reached by consensus during the conference was the need to work towards establishing a new framework law, which contains general principles aimed at guaranteeing a "decent" and coordinated pension system for all Mexicans and which is disassociated from salaries.

  • Pensiones

    Support for the formulation of a disability policy for the region of Cundinamarca, Colombia

    South America COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    nov-2014
    End activities
    nov-2015
    Partner Institution
    Provincial Government of Cundinamarca - Health Secretariat [Secretaría de Salud, Departamento de Cundinamarca]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Supporting vocational rehabilitation of persons living with disabilities

    Eastern Europe MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    feb-2015
    End activities
    feb-2015
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Familiy
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    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.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Strengthening the capacities of the Ministry of Social Care to better monitor and evaluate social protection programmes/ projects

    CARIBBEAN BARBADOS
    Start activities
    aug-2015
    End activities
    aug-2015
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Care, Constituency, Empowerment and Community Development
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2014-11
    Description
    The Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment and Community Development (MSCD) is the central Government authority responsible for the delivery of social services and the implementation of social protection programmes, which are designed to promote social development and reduce poverty in Barbados. A number of important initiatives have been undertaken by the Government to enhance institutional and administrative mechanisms for addressing poverty reduction and monitoring results, as well as general service delivery. For these, the MSCD’s functions in data collection and analysis require substantial capacities, in particular adequate information management systems. Mobilised expert carried out an assessment of the existing structures, capacities and gaps in the administration and management of information by the MSCD and their supervised programmes. Priorities for technical assistance were so identified for the development and of a central and comprehensive social relational database within a future management information system.

  • Inclusión social

    Providing EU Expertise for the South Asia Labour Conference 2014

    South Asia PAKISTAN
    Start activities
    apr-2014
    End activities
    apr-2014
    Partner Institution
    Department of Labour, Provincial Government of Punjab
    Type of Assistance
    Regional events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2014-09
    Description
    Within the Framework of Pakistan’s membership in the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the Provincial Government of Punjab organised a three-day Ministerial-level conference under the theme "South Asia Labour Conference" (SALC) with support of the Federal Government of Pakistan. SALC’s objective was to bring together representatives of labour and social affairs ministries from the Federal Government of Pakistan and the SAARC countries, representatives of employer and worker organisations, civil society, selected dignitaries from neighbouring countries and EU representatives in a first step towards regional collaboration to promote labour productivity and improve working conditions and rights in the region. The SALC brought together 250 representatives of the concerned ministries and other stakeholders from Pakistan and SAARC. A SOCIEUX mobilised expert participated in two technical sessions of the Conference, providing a contribution on the coordination of social security schemes for migrant workers within the EU. In particular, he illustrated topics such as like the EU migration context and common coordination principles and practices.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Supporting the MTPE in concluding and drafting social security agreements for migrant workers

    South America Peru
    Start activities
    oct-2014
    End activities
    oct-2014
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2014-07
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) has the responsibility for conducting negotiations on bilateral and/or multilateral social security agreements and acts as a liaison body with regard to requests for information on the nationals of the contracting parties concerned by such agreements. Skills and knowhow required to negotiate effective and appropriate social security agreements strengthened among the staff of the MTPE’s require good knowledge General Office for Cooperation and International Affairs. Mobilised experts trained their Peruvian peers in key concepts of which’s knowledge would prepare them to face the challenges of the complex and lengthy negotiations drafting of agreements, in particular on social protection floors, minimum content of social security agreements and the implementation of such agreements.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Supporting the implementation of the Social Protection Strategy on social safety nets

    Eastern Africa DJIBOUTI
    Start activities
    dec-2014
    End activities
    dec-2014
    Partner Institution
    State Secretariat for National Solidarity [Secrétariat d’Etat auprès du Premier Ministre chargé à la Solidarité Nationale]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2014-05
    Description
    State Secretariat for National Solidarity (SESN) is a public entity directly attached to the Prime Minister of Djibouti. It coordinates the implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation processes of the national strategy for socioeconomic development "Vision Djibouti 2035". In 2013, Djibouti adopted a safety net-based National Social Protection Strategy [Stratégie Nationale « Filets Sociaux de Sécurité » 2013-17]. The Strategy, developed by SESN, serves as a road map for the design and implementation of social safety nets, the widespread promotion of employment and equity, and the strengthening of synergies between all stakeholders. For overseeing the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy, the Inter-sector Committee for Social Protection. The Committee was to rely on a permanent technical secretariat, the STP-CI/PS, within the SESN. Mobilised experts contributed in the building of institutional capacities of the SESN and individual technical capacities of its key staff for the setting up of the STP-CI/PS. This was primarily by working with their peers on assessing existing capacities of the SESN, formulating their needs and appropriate responses for the setup of the STP-CI/PS.

  • Inclusión social

    Supporting contributory pensions coverage extension, investment management and administration

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    End activities
    aug-2014
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato [Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Guanajuato]
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2014-04
    Description
    The Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG) is responsible for providing insurance benefits to the formal sector [public employees and civil servants] in the Mexican State of Guanajuato. The amounts of pensions originally guaranteed by the ISSEG were pre-defined as a percentage of the affiliate’s wage at time of compliance of retirement criteria. The underlying solidarity fund is financed by contributions of workers and employers, as well as the returns generated by investments. Due to the challenges in funding the existing system, the ISSEG was considering reforms to set benefits on actual historical contributions. Mobilised experts contributed in building capacities of the ISSEG for planned reforms by addressing issues with their peers in policy definition and administrative requirement definition by sharing EU Member States and common experience in making pension schemes affordable in the face of changing economic, policy and demographic environments. In particular, they transferred understanding on legal, actuarial and financial implications of the implementation of the proposed reforms.

  • Pensiones

    Support capacity building and institutional frameworks for the implementation of social protection

    CARIBBEAN JAMAICA
    Start activities
    jul-2014
    End activities
    nov-2014
    Partner Institution
    Planning Institute of Jamaica
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2014-03
    Description
    The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIoJ) is the foremost economic and social planning agency of the Jamaican Government. The PIoJ had a leading role in the elaboration of the Social Protection Strategy of the country, in 2014. Further, the PIoJ is in charge of coordinating the implementation of the Strategy’s actions and monitoring and evaluation corresponding operations. The success of which depends to a large extent on a careful and effective financial management to withstand economic shocks, which have been frequent in the Caribbean region. Experts mobilised transferred their experience and knowledge to their peers of the PIoJ in the areas of financing, monitoring and evaluation social protection. In addition, experts were to support the costing the existing Social Protection Floor [the minimum package of social assistance and protection services already in place] and the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for social protection.

  • Inclusión social

    Social Insurance: assistance in the development of the State agents pension system

    Western Africa GABON
    Start activities
    may-17
    End activities
    aug-17
    Partner Institution
    Pensions and Family Benefits Fund of State Agents [Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2016-07
    Description
    This action results from 5 distinct requests by the Caisse des Pensions et des Prestations Familiales des Agents de l'Etat (CPPF). The action's technical products - an assessment report on the organizational strategy of CPPF; recommendations on the development of social marketing and communication policy; recommendations for a revised IT architecture; a roadmap in view of the development of a new insurance branch, namely a complementary pension scheme – were all intended to contribute to the strengthening of the organizational capacities of the young CPPF. Teams of experts with different profiles and country origin (France, Morocco, the Netherlands) have exchanged with the Partner’s teams in the course of four activities.

  • Training on the pension systems and a capacity development needs assessment

    EASTERN AFRICA BURUNDI
    Start activities
    jun-2014
    End activities
    jun-2014
    Partner Institution
    National Pensions and Occupational Risks Office
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2014-02
    Description
    The National Office for Pensions and Occupational Risk (ONPR) for civil servants, magistrates and judicial personnel implements contributory pensions, vocational hazards and associated benefit social insurance in Burundi since 2010. The ONPR faced challenges of efficiently managing increasing expansion of the scheme including at organisational level. To address these challenges, experts mobilised by SOCIEUX+ worked with their peers on the elaboration of an internal management strategy, the establishment of monitoring and control procedures, and the improvement of quality assurance mechanisms. The staff of ONPR, and other stake holding institutions in the area of pension, was to be trained key concepts of social protection to widen their understanding of the functioning of pension systems. Further, the intervention assessed and formulated recommendation on how to best respond to identified needs of the partner institutions for the efficient and effective management of the pension scheme.

  • Pensiones

    Support to the Social Cash Transfers-Secretariat

    Western Africa LIBERIA
    Start activities
    jun-2014
    End activities
    jul-2014
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2014-01
    Description
    The Social Cash Transfer Secretariat of the Ministry of Gender and Development is responsible for the management of the National Social Cash Transfer Programme. As an element of the social protection system, a social cash transfers were piloted at programme level, in 2011. The number of pilot sites was to be scaled up from two to five (third of the 15 counties forming the administrative segments of the country). To achieve this scale-up individual, organisational and institutional capacities of the Secretariat need to be strengthened. Experts mobilised worked with their Liberian peers in an assessment of institutional capacities for this action, and to provide proposals both to improve the organisation Programme and strengthen the individual capacities of the Secretariat’s staff.

  • Inclusión social

    Support to revise the SP Strategy of the MoSD in Jordan

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Jordan
    Start activities
    aug-2015
    End activities
    dec-2015
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2015-11
    Description
    The Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) is responsible for the provision of social services to a wide range of beneficiaries, including young people and children, families and people living with disabilities. These services are provided at a local level though social service directorates and offices. The strategic objective of the MoSD is to contribute to the development and implementation of an integrated social policy in Jordan. Social protection is delivered through four major public programmes: a social insurance programme; a public programme for the civil service and military (phasing out); a social assistance programme; and, an assistance programme for Palestinian Refugees (delivered through the UN Relief and Works Agency). There was a need to strengthen and rationalise programmes so that they better serve the most vulnerable. Moreover, addressing needs of the Syrian refugee crisis, and its impact on the country, remains a major challenge for the Government. Jordan had recently drafted a Poverty Reduction Strategy (2013-2020) and the Response Plan for the Syria Crisis. In this context the MoSD engaged in a more strategic planning approach to rationalise and strengthen existing programmes, and the needed capacities to do so. Over a period of several months, experts mobilised by SOCIEUX work with the peers on the elaboration of a draft Strategic Plan 2016-2021 for the MoSD entitled “Together – Tackling Disadvantage: Realising the potential of all our citizens and building sustainable communities”. Moreover, the experts submitted a roadmap for a communication strategy for the dissemination and endorsement of the Strategic Plan as well as a monitoring and evaluation framework for its implementation titled Business Performance.

  • Inclusión social

    Support for setting up an advanced business intelligence system (BIS) in the field of social protection

    Northern Africa Tunisia
    Start activities
    may-2015
    End activities
    apr-2016
    Partner Institution
    Center for Research and Social Studies [Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2014-17
    Description
    The Centre for Social Research and Studies (CRES) is a public institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Affairs mandated to carry out operational research and studies, and provide decision and policy-making support in the field of social protection. The Tunisian Government relies on the competence of the CRES to implement reforms that are based on sound evidence. The agency’s main task consists in carrying out studies and assessments of the current gaps and weaknesses of the social protection system. The CRES has therefore developed a business intelligence system (BIS) since 2012 which builds the basis of CRES’ research activities. Experts mobilised by SOCIEUX worked with their Tunisian peers in analysing existing BIS and assess the CRES team’s capacities to upgrade, capitalise and maintain its data warehouse. They also to strengthened knowledge and skills in key areas such as statistical analysis, design social security indicators and drafting analytical reports on pension and health insurance schemes. Exchanges were continued through a study visit to Belgian institutions.

  • Inclusión social

    SOCIEUX+ in Mexico

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Labour Market Information Expert Meeting

    Eastern Africa KENYA
    Start activities
    sep-2017
    End activities
    sep-2017
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services
    Type of Assistance
    International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2017-21
    Description
    Experts from Finland and Portugal took part to a high-level seminar on Labour Market Indicators (LMI), on the demand of the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services of Kenya. The experts’ presentation focused on labour market information systems and showcased models and practices from EU member states.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Seminar on informal economy and labour

    South America ARGENTINA
    Start activities
    may-2017
    End activities
    may-2017
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security [Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social de la Nacíon]
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2016-06
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MTEySS) of Argentina has requested SOCIEUX+ support for strengthening the dialogue with social partners on how to address socio-economic and labour-related vulnerability. Experts from France, Spain and Peru deployed training seminars on the occasion of the inauguration of the Latin American Training Centre for Unionized Workers and Employers Organizations. Participants belonged to social partners (unions and employers’ organizations), and decision-makers of the MTEySS. The training concerned three main topics: Methodologies and data collection system on informal sector workers for strategic decision-making; Social dialogue approaches responding to vulnerability; Transition towards formality.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to the implementation of allowances to disabled people

    South-East Asia CAMBODIA
    Start activities
    oct-2016
    End activities
    oct-2016
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSAVY)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2016-11
    Description
    Experts from France and the United Kingdom worked together with staff of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSAVY) in view to elaborate an Orientation Report providing recommendations for implementing the relevant country’s regulations governing the Community-based Pension Support Scheme in favor of poor persons with disabilities and their households. The report provides analysis and recommendations with regards to three main areas: Policy, implementation and institutional development; Legislation; Disability assessment mechanisms.

  • Acceso a servicios básicos

    Support to the extension of social protection in Cambodia

    South-East Asia CAMBODIA
    Start activities
    oct-2016
    End activities
    nov-2016
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions)
    Code
    2016-02
    Description
    An initial fact-finding mission aimed at narrowing down the areas of support drawn from the request submitted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia (MEF). Following activities resulted in a general mapping and assessment of the country’s social protection framework, which allowed to identify gaps and areas of improvement in coverage. Finally, a training on pension systems for MEF officials allowed EU experts to present different pension systems and how they are governed and regulated by line ministries. The actions, which mainly consisted in knowledge transfer and resulted in enhanced regulatory capacities for relevant personnel, saw the involvement of EU public experts from France, Germany, and Lithuania.

  • Inclusión social

    Support finalising and implementing MoSD strategy

    Middle East and Gulf Countries JORDAN
    Start activities
    abr-2016
    End activities
    oct-2016
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2015-25
    Description
    The specific objective was to support the development of the MoSD Strategy for 2016-2020 and the related Action Plan, and to share best practice from the EU in strategic planning for social protection policy.

  • Inclusión social

    Follow up support to the reform of the pension system in Mexico

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Feb-16
    End activities
    May-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2015-24
    Description
    In response to a request of from the Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG), this action started the process of constitution of a national platform of social security State Institutes, with the objective of setting up a framework for cooperation and information-sharing among State Institutes. Spanish experts supported ISSEG in finalizing a declaration for the creation of a National Pension forum, to be delivered to the 16th edition of the National Social Security Conference. Experts also advised ISSEG and other State Institutes on the specific stages required for establishing a National coordination body, including the elaboration of the constituent documents and the legal framework of a national platform (which will become the Organización Nacional de los Institutos Estatales de Seguridad Social - ONIESS).

  • Pensiones

    Capacity Building (Training) of Social Assistance Staff of implementation of the RISE Families Programme

    Caribbean SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
    Start activities
    nov-2015
    End activities
    dic-2016
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development - Department of Social Services, Nevis Island Administration (NIA)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2015-16
    Description
    Following an initial capacity assessment of the Department of Social Services of the Ministry of Social Development of Nevis, a proposal describing the training needs, the target group, the duration, the proposed training activities, was prepared by experts from Croatia and the United Kingdom. The following training involved case workers of the Restore, Inspire, Secure and Empower social-support Program (RISE) and included: engagement with people in need of assistance; people’s risk assessment; attitudes and professionalism of social workers; confidentiality; managing people’s anger; managing information and data; engagement with other public agencies; understanding family dynamics; assessing cases of child sexual abuse. Finally, experts summed up all materials, methods and information delivered throughout the training and compiled a practical manual that is now available to train the newly hired RISE Program case managers.

  • Inclusión social

    Support for the set up of universal health insurance

    Western Africa TOGO
    Start activities
    oct-2015
    End activities
    sep-2016
    Partner Institution
    Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2015-09
    Description
    Experts mobilized from France and Lebanon delivered an analysis of Togo’s Institut National d’Assurance Maladie (INAM)’s institutional organization and capacities. The assessment focused on the challenges faced by INAM in view of the extension of health coverage, clarified the institutional responsibilities, while identifying issues requiring further technical assistance to INAM, such as the preparation of a strategic plan, the enhancement of internal capacities in the field of “risk management,” and the development of a management information system. The first two topics were then addressed by experts through peer-to-peer exchanges with the relevant INAM’s executives and staff, presenting models and good practices applicable to INAM’s context and needs.

  • Sanidad

    Support to extension of social protection to the informally employed, unemployed and graduates in first employment

    Southern Africa NAMIBIA
    Start activities
    oct-2015
    End activities
    oct-2015
    Partner Institution
    Social Security Commission Development Fund
    Type of Assistance
    Regulatory & Policy
    Code
    2015-03
    Description
    The Social Security Commission Development Fund (SSC-DF) is a Government-owned institution mandated to design and operate several social insurance schemes that cater for matters such as maternity leave, occupational injuries, extended sick leave, medical cover and retirement benefits. It also has a non-contributory branch which acts as a labour market institution to promote employability and stimulate employment creation. The SSC-DF aspires at becoming the leading agency for social security and insurance in Namibia. The original objectives of the action were to support the extension of the coverage of social protection to the informal economy, and to explore the feasibility of setting up a national internship and/or apprenticeship programme, helping to bridge the transition from school to work for recent graduates. Upon an assessment mission which reviewed and provided the SSC-DF with recommendations on how to address the existing political and institutional processes associated with the extension of social protection coverage to the identified target groups. The needs however to implement these recommendations were beyond sole short-term technical assistance as what SOCIEUX could provide alone.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Support to Universal Pension Scheme

    Southern Africa TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    may-2015
    End activities
    feb-2017
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children (MoESWYWC)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2014-26
    Description
    The action was instrumental to present to the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children of Zanzibar a relevant European experience in establishing and managing Universal Social Pensions. Experts from Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and Spain provided technical advice on what is affordable for Zanzibar in relation to its policy, fiscal, and demographic environment. They particularly focused on the information management system needed to deploy a social pensions scheme. They helped to draft an implementation plan, then supported the development of a project proposal and the technical specifications needed to develop a management information system.

  • Pensiones

    Human resources development planning for the Vietnam Social Security organisation

    South-East Asia VIETNAM
    Start activities
    jun-2015
    End activities
    oct-2016
    Partner Institution
    Vietnam Social Security [Bảo hiểm xã hội Việt Nam]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2014-15
    Description
    The action started with a situational analysis and quick assessment of the human resources development strategy and practice within the partner institution, Vietnam Social Security (VSS). Based on the findings, experts from France, Germany and the Netherlands proposed an organizational approach, based on peer groups, to change the management of VSS on matters relating with human resources and internal skills development, research, and analysis.

  • Inclusión social

    Capacity building of the Social Prosperity Department

    South America COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    apr-2015
    End activities
    oct-2016
    Partner Institution
    Social Prosperity agency [Prosperidad Social - formerly Agencia Nacional para la Superación de la Pobreza Extrema]
    Type of Assistance
    Training
    Code
    2014-19
    Description
    The Administrative Department for Social Prosperity [Prosperidad Social] integrated towards end of 2015, the National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE) which coordinates the implementation of the National Strategy for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (UNIDOS) created in 2008. UNIDOS currently brings together a large number of entities involved in the provision of basic social services for the extremely poor. The Strategy is complemented by the departmental and municipal governments, including over 1000 municipalities, more than 50 strategic partners from the private sector, and stakeholders in social innovation and from international cooperation. Social Prosperity has engaged a process of re-designing the UNIDOS to strengthen its conceptual and operational aspects such as the design of the surveys, aspects of monitoring, the assistance given to families as well as the information system. The aim was to make Social Prosperity more efficient through better technical and technological tools and instruments, and human and physical capital. SOCIEUX+ mobilised experts conducted with the peers an assessment of the technical capacities of ANSPE to identify gaps and training needs. The scope of the technical assistance extended to red-design of beneficiaries identification mechanisms, information management systems and instruments for monitoring and evaluation. The latter having focused on analysis and further development of business and of information-data under the General Sub-Directorate for Overcoming Poverty, which is part of Social Solidarity. SOCIEUX+ supported also individual capacity building workshops which resulted in the development of a step-by-step guide to impact evaluation planning for the three key programmes led by Social Prosperity’s programmes (UNIDOS, Jóvenes en Acción, and Red de Seguridad Alimentaria). Additionally, technical advice was provided on determining pertinent criteria for the exit and entry of beneficiary families to the “More Families in Action” cash transfer programme.

  • Inclusión social

    Support the implementation of OECD’s recommendations on human capital development

    South America Peru
    Start activities
    nov-2017
    End activities
    In process
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Promotion of Employment of Peru (Ministerio de Trabajo y de Promoción del Empleo (MTPE)), Dirección de Normalización y Certificación de Competencias Laborales.
    Type of Assistance
    Training
    Code
    2017-13

  • Diálogo social

    Labour & Employment Policies

    Management of funding proposals for income-generating activity grants

    Western Africa GABON
    Start activities
    apr-16
    End activities
    apr-17
    Partner Institution
    National Fund for Social Assistance [Fonds Nationale d'Aide Sociale (FNAS)]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2015-21
    Description
    French experts accompanied by regional experts from Cameroon and Madagascar assessed the Income-generating Activities (AGRs) programme of the Fonds Nationale d'Aide Sociale (FNAS) of Gabon, as well as the capacity building needs of its staff. Strategic and technical support was provided to the elaboration of the FNAS’ plan of action for 2021, followed by a strategic orientation to the definition of corporate long-term objectives. The third activity focused on the formulation of a Logical Framework mirroring the three axes of the strategic orientation, namely: Governance, strategic approach and framework of actions; Financial capacity and autonomy; Development of operational modalities and FNAS procedures for AGRs. A final training clarified ways for FNAS staff to play a role in implementing the objectives and expected results of the new Logical Framework.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building of the Scientific Research and Training Centre on Labour and Social Problems

    Eastern Europe AZERBAIJAN
    Start activities
    jul-16
    End activities
    oct-17
    Partner Institution
    Scientific Research and Training Centre on Labour and Social Problems [Əmək və Sosial Problemlər üzrə Elmi-Tədqiqat və Tədris Mərkəzi]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2015-22
    Description
    Experts from Finland, Lithuania, Romania and the United Kingdom first assessed the competences and analytical tools available to the Scientific Research and Training Center on Labour and Social Problems of Azerbaijan to conduct research and policy advise on social security matters, particularly that of access and inclusion of persons with disabilities. A training of researchers presented indicators for measuring accessibility and inclusion and how state policies respond to the specific needs of persons with disability.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Health financing reform and introduction of mandatory health insurance

    Eastern Europe AZERBAIJAN
    Start activities
    apr-16
    End activities
    nov-17
    Partner Institution
    State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance under the Cabinet of Ministers [Nazirlər Kabineti yanında İcbari Tibbi Sığorta üzrə Dövlət Agentliyinin]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2015-23
    Description
    Support the government of Azerbaijan and in particular to the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance (SAMHI) in creating the necessary conditions for the introduction of mandatory health insurance

  • Support to the strengthening of social dialogue and to the extension of social protection in Togo

    WESTERN AFRICA Togo
    Start activities
    apr-17
    End activities
    apr-17
    Partner Institution
    Ministry for Public Function, Labour and Administrative Reform [Ministère de la Function Publique du Travail et de la Réforme Administrative]
    Type of Assistance
    National events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2016-01
    Description
    The Ministry of Public Function, Labour, Administrative Reform and Social Protection of Togo requested SOCIEUX+ support to reshuffle the institutional framework for social dialogue, notably the role of the Conseil National pour le Dialogue social. Deepening the social dialogue is seen as part of an economic development strategy based on greater social cohesion and a fair allocation of the dividends of growth. Experts from Belgium and France have analyzed the current situation and provided methodological recommendations with a view to organising a round table aimed to renew and restart the institutional framework for social dialogue; to this purpose, experts have prepared an orientation note, a proposal of agenda, and supporting documentation.

  • Support for evaluating the National Strategy for the prevention of bullying and other types of violence

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    nov-16
    End activities
    dec-17
    Partner Institution
    National System for Integral Family Development [Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2016-05
    Description
    The Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Familia (SNDIF) requested SOCIEUX+ support to evaluate the National Strategy for the Prevention of Bullying and Other Types of Violence as well as to enhance the capabilities of municipal community agents in their efforts to foster community involvement in order to modify cultural behaviors as to lower the levels of violence. The “Guides” developed by experts from Argentina and Spain, based on the assessment of the National Strategy, are online courses intended to prepare community promoters to the role that the Strategy assigns to them, in connection with the community and families.

  • Support to the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs in shaping Social Protection in Vietnam

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA VIETNAM
    Start activities
    feb-17
    End activities
    feb-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs [Viện Khoa Học Lao Động Và Xã Hội]
    Type of Assistance
    Assessment
    Code
    2016-13
    Description
    Improve social protection systems design, monitoring and evaluation, and implementation in Vietnam.

  • Strengthening the Management of financial reserves of the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers of Campeche

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    nov-17
    End activities
    nov-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Security and Social Services for Workers of the State of Campeche [Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado de Campeche]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2016-15
    Description
    The Action contributed to achieve two significant results: first, to overview the state of the art of the financial reserves available to the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado de Campeche (ISSSTECAM) and to critically overview the management arrangements in view of their sustainability; secondly, to draft a text of Law of reform of the State Law on social security and pensions, which was later on presented to and approved by the State Parliament. In the course of three activities, the Partner’s staff worked closely with public experts from France and Spain.

  • Enhancing institutional capacities of the National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents in Mexico (SIPINNA)

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Nov-17
    End activities
    Dec-17
    Partner Institution
    National System for the Comprehensive Protection of Children, Children and Adolescents [Sistema Nacional de Proteccion Integral de Ninas, Ninos y Adolescentes]
    Type of Assistance
    Assessment
    Code
    2016-16
    Description
    The Executive Secretariat of the Sistema Nacional de Protección Integral de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes (SIPINNA) has engaged with peers from Spain. In the course of four activities experts brought an external view allowing to accompany SIPINNA’s staff and executives to review the institutional and organizational capacities necessary for the Executive Secretariat to carry out its role of coordination and propulsion of the overall system of protection and promotion of children’s rights in Mexico. Experts formulated organizational scenarios and identified practical tools for their implementation, including with regards to the coordination of the local SIPINNA’s Secretariats.

  • Reform of employment services and programs for the establishment of a one-stop-shop for employment promotion

    Western Africa BENIN
    Start activities
    Sep-17
    End activities
    Ene-18
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs [Ministère du Travail, de la Fonction Publique et des Affaires Sociales]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-01
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs of Benin wanted to address, with the support of SOCIEUX-mobilized public experts, the challenge of successfully promoting decent employment opportunities among the youth. The French experts mainly provided an assessment of the current policy framework for youth employment promotion, as well as specific recommendations, mostly aimed to operate a reorganization of the Fonds National d’Action Sociale (FNAS) and strengthen the capacity of its staff. FNAS finally adopted the co-constructed strategy and its staff became more familiar with monitoring and evaluation tools applied to initiatives aiming at youth’s employment promotion.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building in strategy and policy making

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Nov-17
    End activities
    Nov-17
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers [Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-03
    Description
    The technical assistance – its first phase of contextual analysis and technical recommendations, the second one allowing to observe the real practice of administrative workflows in the execution of sentences – helped the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) to lay down an internal strategy and adopt organizational tools allowing to reduce the time needed for the execution of sentences on claims brought by social security right-holders. At the same time, the Action actually improved intra-department communication and workflows. The measures introduced under the experts’ guidance produced practical and visible effects in the short term, with a significant reduction in the time needed to execute sentences. An ISSSTE delegation travelled to Madrid to observe the organizational practices of the Spanish Ministry of Social Affairs in the field of claims’ management.

  • Employability strategy for youth – Linking technical and Vocational education and training to vocational and labour market

    SOUTH ASIA PAKISTAN
    Start activities
    #N/A
    End activities
    #N/A
    Partner Institution
    Punjab Social Protection Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Other
    Code
    2017-04
    Description
    Assist the Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA) in the definition of its roadmap and development plan on Employment, TVET issues and especially for strengthening youth employment and qualification

  • Capacity building for East and Central African social security agencies

    SOUTHERN AFRICA TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    sep-17
    End activities
    nov-17
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association
    Type of Assistance
    Training
    Code
    2017-05
    Description
    The action aimed to strengthen the capacity of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to design and conduct training in favor of its member organizations The three activities’ deliverables are similar and consist in the materials presented by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts/trainers throughout the three sessions and pertaining to social protection coverage, leadership and ethics, and occupational safety and health. The participating experts came from Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands

  • Development of labour market indicators from administrative registries

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    30/04/2018
    End activities
    16/05/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Other
    Code
    2017-07
    Description
    This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to address the lack of reliable data needed to take informed decision on the labour market. Experts from France and Spain presented EU member states’ labour market information systems. They also helped the partner to review the indicator system for monitoring national employment policies. A significant part of the peers’ interaction was dedicated to the characterization of the Peruvian labor market. The discussions also dealt with informal labor indicators based on administrative records and surveys, underemployment indicators, gender and youth indicators, labor quality assessment, decent work. Lastly, attendants focused on statistical and econometric methods applied to small geographic areas, dealing notably with the use of Big Data and Machine Learning.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Public policies for the promotion of green jobs among the youth

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    09/04/2018
    End activities
    13/04/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-09
    Description
    This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to formulate a sectoral plan to promote the ‘green economy’ and ‘green jobs’. Experts from Germany, Italy and the Netherlands shared technical inputs, key-concepts and European and regional good practices with civil officers from the MTPE, other relevant Ministries, and local governments and communities. The main outcome of the action was a better understanding by local partners of the economic, occupational, social and environmental potential of the green economy, including in terms of employment.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Formulation of a national strategy for the promotion of employment to empower women in Peru

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    19/03/2018
    End activities
    23/03/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-10
    Description
    This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to set-up multi-sectoral public policies aimed to boost women’s employment. Experts from France and Spain presented key concepts on gender equality, including international declarations, resolutions and commitments for women’s rights, and looked into the legal national framework and policies. They presented good practices of EU member states, and worked out a basic toolkit that help to mainstream gender issues in employment policies and programs.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Implementation strategies for teleworking

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    01/12/2018
    End activities
    15/03/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-11
    Description
    This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to foster the implementation of the teleworking modality and to increase the understanding of private companies and public entities about this modality. Different issues related to employment and working conditions for employees involved in teleworking were discussed as well as the views of the social partners and European government policies on this form of work. The current national legislation on this labor modality has been examined jointly with national experts from the Netherlands and Spain. Possible initiatives to support the implementation of the telework promotion plans have been discussed.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening social protection conventions for Peruvian migrant workers

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    22-01-2018
    End activities
    23-11-2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-12
    Description
    The outcome of the action relates to the development of individual capacities of staff of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru with regards to the conduct of bilateral negotiations for the establishment of social security conventions. It has regarded several dimensions of bilateral conventions, from the legal and technical spheres, up to the negotiations techniques and the follow-up of the implementation of the convention. In particular, the Partner wanted to get detailed information on social security systems in countries – such us Germany and Belgium – with which bilateral negotiations were ongoing. The Partner’s relevant staff has proactively interacted with experts, thus generating a peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge, and received detailed information and data on the two distinct social security systems.

  • Implementation of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) peer-review recommendation on human capital development

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    06-08-2018
    End activities
    06-09-2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-13
    Description
    This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the action focused on ways to enhance competences and employability skills of the national workforce through vocational education and training (VET). French experts first carried out a functional and organizational analysis of the three sectorial committees created to establish occupational profiles in order to reinforce labour matching process. A training workshop then looked into mechanisms for promoting the participation of the productive sector in the definition of training and education policies. Overall, the action contributed to sensitize relevant partner’s teams to the challenges ahead in the implementation of a national qualifications’ framework and the need to reinforce basic and transversal competences through VET.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Organisational and individual capacities strengthening for the national School for the Formation of Labour Inspectors

    CENTRAL AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Aug-18
    End activities
    Ongoing
    Partner Institution
    Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare [Secretaría del Trabajo y Prévision Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-14
    Description
    To professionalise the STPS labour inspectors of federal and regional entities

  • Data architecture and management

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    oct-17
    End activities
    oct-17
    Partner Institution
    General Sub-Directorate for Overcoming Poverty - Social Prosperity agency [Subdirección General para la Superación de la Pobreza - Prosperidad Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-15
    Description
    Prosperidad Social of Colombia requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in view of improving the architecture and data management system of the Sub-Directorate-General for the Elimination of Poverty. Experts from France and Spain carried out an initial mapping of the data structure associated with the UNIDOS program, and the data exchange flows between this entity and the rest of functional units. They further prepared a preliminary data model, identifying and characterizing the data relevant to the Sub-Directorate-General based on its use and its origin. Recommendations for System requirements management and Project approval were developed.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strengthening innovation, entrepreneurship and formation of informal sector vendors

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    04/02/2018
    End activities
    12/07/2018
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social Economy [Instituto para la Economia Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-16
    Description
    The Instituto para la Economia Social (IPES) of Bogotá provides care and attention to informal street vendors. This action served the purpose of setting up tools for the design, the management and the follow-up of policies related to training, work and employment of informal street vendors. French experts first assessed IPES’ current programme in favor of street vendors, including orientation counselling, vocational training, training on merchandising. Recurrent problems were identified, and assessment results presented and discussed with the partner and its teams. A set of preliminaries recommendations was formulated. Specific attention was given to evaluate the actions aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among street vendors.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Start-up of the National Organisation of State Social Security Institutes and its technical secretariat

    NORTH AMERICA MEXICO
    Start activities
    Sep-17
    End activities
    May-18
    Partner Institution
    Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato [Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Guanajuato]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-17
    Description
    The main outcome of this action in partnership with the Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG) was the establishment of the National Platform of State Social Security Institutes, namely the Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS). Members agreed on a light legal basis and substantiated it by displaying a working process with clear objectives and a one-year action plan. The role of experts from France, Germany and Spain was, beside technical expertise, one of facilitators of the debate among the participating State institutes. They contributed to the work with technical inputs, work methodology, examples from relevant EU and personal experiences, their overall spirit and the motivation to achieve a common goal.

  • Development of a national social health insurance system

    NORTH AMERICA SAINT LUCIA
    Start activities
    29/01/2018
    End activities
    15/07/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health and Wellness
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-18
    Description
    The technical assistance was instrumental in letting emerge policy options for the financing of the health system in Saint Lucia in view of the introduction of a national health insurance (NHI). Experts from France, Germany and Italy accompanied emerging policy options on a concrete context analysis. A second outcome was an individual capacity development of key staff of the Ministry of Health and Wellness on policy design in relation to public health policies. The theoretical learning was linked to the current project of introduction of NHI, with experts helping to outline the distinct phases and steps that shall be accomplished for introducing NHI in Saint Lucia.

  • Support to the “International Forum on Health Coverage in the Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale Area (CIPRES)”

    WESTERN AFRICA TOGO
    Start activities
    Aug-17
    End activities
    Aug-17
    Partner Institution
    Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale]
    Type of Assistance
     International events (awareness raising)
    Code
    2017-19
    Description
    Experts from France and Luxembourg provided two written (paper) and visual (PowerPoint) presentations as background documents for the International Forum on Health Coverage in the CIPRES area, expected to take place in Brazzaville on 4-6 October 2017.

  • Developing of a policy for occupational health and safety in the public administration

    WESTERN AFRICA Cabo Verde
    Start activities
    05/03/2018
    End activities
    16/03/2018
    Partner Institution
    National Directorate of Public Administration - Ministry of Finances [Direcção Nacional da Administração Pública - Ministério das Finanças]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-22
    Description
    On the demand of the National Directorate of Public Administration of the Ministry of Finance of Cabo Verde, the main objective of this action was to assess the health and safety situation in the workplace in the public administration. During a single exploratory activity, information on partnerships, internal functioning, delegation system, procedural organization of services, hazard management, system of governance and management teams, was compiled and shared with relevant stakeholders by a Portuguese expert. That information was intended to feed a systemic diagnosis of the organization and services and to formulate a way forward to their improvement.

  • Design and implementation of local employment policy

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    16-04-2018
    End activities
    06-07-2019
    Partner Institution
    Municipality of La Estrella - Public Employment Services [Agencia Pública de Gestión y Colocación de Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-23
    Description
    The Public Employment Service of the Municipality of La Estrella faced the challenge of narrowing the gap between labour market demand and labor supply. Experts from France and Spain first helped to identify key challenges faced by the employment intermediation services in the Aburrá valley, while as second step a systemic and organizational analysis of the labor intermediation services provided by each of the 10 municipal public employment agencies was elaborated. Following the assessment results, a training program was formulated and deployed for local employment agents. Experts also contributed to the construction of the strategic lines and of an action plan and a communication plan of the local Public Employment Services.

  • Strengthening of entrepreneurial capacities

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    13-08-2018
    End activities
    22-08-2019
    Partner Institution
    Public Employment Services [Unidad del Servicio Público de Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-25
    Description
    The action was articulated in three activities to support to the Colombian Public Employment Service (UAESPE) to provide quality support and services to the employers and entrepreneurs in order to better match labour market demand and labour supply. The mobilized experts came from France and Spain. The first activity resulted in a detailed diagnosis of service delivery and organization. Secondly, a training session for UAESPE’s business managers led to a better understanding of the minimum standards of intermediation services, with particular attention to challenges deriving from the diversity of the profiles of jobseekers. Finally, UAESPE had to establish a communication plan; experts provided guidance on how to create a brand image and how to formulate strong messages for key audiences. Additionally, indicators to measure the impact of media campaigns and other communication initiatives were developed.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Social protection coverage in the informal economy

    SOUTH AMERICA COLOMBIA
    Start activities
    17-12-2018
    End activities
    24-11-2018
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Social Economy [Instituto para la Economia Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-26
    Description
    The main outcome of the technical assistance has been to put high in the local political and institutional agenda the issue of extending social protection coverage to the informal street vendors of Bogota, which are the main target population of the Instituto para la Economia Social (IPES)’s efforts in the area of local socio-economic development. Experts (three different teams coming from France, Italy, and Spain) first of all succeeded to clarify the terms of the debate through a stakeholders’ mapping and a feasibility study in view of the current situation and status of informal street vendors. Thanks to IPES’ proactive role, the missions of experts have become a tool for mobilizing a number of local actors, starting from the Municipality of Bogota and State agencies, all the way to local NGOs, around the idea of ensuring some sort of social support against life’s risks faced by informal street vendors.

  • Social Health Protection Reform and Policy

    WESTERN AFRICA Zimbabwe
    Start activities
    Jan-18
    End activities
    09/11/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health and Child Care
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-27
    Description
    The Ministry of Health and Childcare of Zimbabwe was committed, through this action, to engage the Cabinet of the President in the process of creating an inter-ministerial committee for national health insurance in collaboration with the other main institutional stakeholders. Experts from France, Germany, and Italy developed together with the partners a roadmap consisting of 9 different steps, including institutional tasks (set-up of an inter-ministerial steering committee, establishment of a statutory body in charge of pooling funds and enrolment of population), and technical ones (costing estimates, enrolment and contribution procedures, legal framework for the implementation of NHI).

  • Enlarging the scope of the social policy analysis conducted by the Institute of Labour Sciences and Social Affairs (ILSSA)

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA VIETNAM
    Start activities
    Feb-18
    End activities
    12/07/2018
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs [Viện Khoa Học Lao Động Và Xã Hội]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-28
    Description
    The Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA) of Vietnam has expressed to SOCIEUX+ a particular interest in knowing more about multi-dimensional poverty-measurement approach. The ultimate goal was to increase ILSSA’s role in the support to policy-making. The first activity was conceived as a training involving ILSSA’s researchers in view of increasing knowledge and analytical capacities involved in the analysis of the economic and social context in terms of multi-dimensional poverty. The second activity has allowed to look into the organizational capacity of ILSSA as a public research institution. Experts from Ireland, Italy, and France have participated to the peer-to peer exchanges with ILSSA’s staff.

  • Strengthening social protection for people living with disabilities

    SOUTH-EAST ASIA VIETNAM
    Start activities
    #N/A
    End activities
    #N/A
    Partner Institution
    Institute for Labour Science and Social Affairs [Viện Khoa Học Lao Động Và Xã Hội]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-29
    Description
    To improve social protection systems design, monitoring and evaluation, and implementation in Vietnam

  • Enhance effectiveness and coordination of social protection

    WESTERN AFRICA GHANA
    Start activities
    feb-15
    End activities
    feb-15
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2014-12
    Description
    The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP), has a core mandate and leading role in the planning, implementation and coordination of social protection policies in Ghana. In particular, the Ministry’s Directorate for Policy, Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation is responsible for assessing the progress in implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS). An updated 2012 NSPS aimed at bringing the multitude of social protection programmes under a common umbrella. However, the NSPS 2012 had not been approved as from June 2014 when the MGCSP approached SOCIEUX. Mobilised experts addressed key issues for the approval of the updated NSPS including coordination local stakeholders. The reviewed with their peers functions of the social security agencies and provided recommendations on organisational issues, more specifically on coordination and decentralisation of social protection service provision. They facilitated a workshop for high-ranking civil servants and representatives of NGOs. Finally, they contributed to the reflections of a high-level working group by sharing social protection policy development in the EU.

  • Derechos

    Prevention of Bullying in Schools

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Technical assistance for the extension of social protection coverage

    SOUTH AMERICA PERU
    Start activities
    12-02-2018
    End activities
    1-12-2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-30
    Description
    The primary outcome of the action has been to position the Directorate for Social Security of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru in the policy area of extending social protection to atypical workers. The report prepared by the experts from France and Spain was meant to constitute a piece of comparative knowledge to feed the institutional debate. The peer-to-peer dialogue allowed to broaden the horizon of the debate and reflection on the state of social protection of independent workers and workers of small and medium enterprises in Peru, but also to formulate a policy report which puts forward reasonable tools and approaches for advancing social protection in the area of atypical work.

  • Information and communication technology tools development

    WESTERN AFRICA GABON
    Start activities
    Jul-18
    End activities
    28/02/2019
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Office [Office national de l'emploi]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-31
    Description
    The request of the Gabonese National Center for the Promotion of Employment (ONE) was meant to mobilize peer support in view of the validation and deployment of a new digital tool designed to improve the labour intermediation services provided to Gabonese users. Only a single activity was implemented, bringing French experts to Gabon to conduct an audit of the information system and the web tools in place at ONE.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Strategic goals according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index in Panama

    CENTRAL AMERICA PANAMA
    Start activities
    Feb-18
    End activities
    31/05/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Development [Ministerio de Desarrollo Social]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
    Code
    2017-32
    Description
    The action has supported the Ministry of Social Development of Panama to define the goals of poverty-reduction strategies in connection with the Multidimensional Poverty Index. Together with expert teams from France, Italy, Portugal, and Colombia, the Partner increase its staff’s understanding of multidimensional measurements and their relationship with the design of public policies. Furthermore, the methodology of microsimulation of multidimensional poverty goals was presented and the steps for its implementation in the STATA software were identified. Finally, a systematic review of the existing policy instruments for reducing poverty has been conducted, which helped to determine how they might be adapted in view to tackle multi-dimensional poverty. Particular attention was dedicated to the “Plan Cero Pobreza” and the development of multidimensional poverty-related indicators.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Capacity building for better employment services, strategy and planning for youth employment

    WESTERN AFRICA BENIN
    Start activities
    Sep-18
    End activities
    24/01/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs (MTFPAS)
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2017-34
    Description
    The Agence Nationale pour l'emploi (ANPE) of Benin required SOCIEUX+ technical support to set up a ‘training and skills’ development plan to empower its intermediation services in 12 local agencies. The first mission was dedicated to a systemic and organizational diagnosis of the ANPE. The second activity was oriented to the definition and elaboration of a training plan for employment counsellors dealing with jobseekers, companies, and the self-employed, and for the heads of local agencies. The third activity focused on the services delivered by counsellors to jobseekers, namely, how to conduct a counselling interview). Finally, experts delivered a remote training workshop intended to give counsellors the right tools to strengthen their relationships with private firms and to meet employers' recruitment needs. All experts mobilized came from public entities, notably public employment services, of Belgium and France.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Organisational review of Public Employment Services for the improvement services for youth integration in labour market

    WESTERN AFRICA GUINEA
    Start activities
    Jul-18
    End activities
    29/11/2019
    Partner Institution
    Guinean Agency for Employment Promotion [Agence Guinéenne pour la promotion de l'emploi]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2017-35
    Description
    The action served the purpose of increasing the efficiency and visibility of the Guinea’s Agency for Employment Promotion (AGUIPE) in order to enable it to address the high rate of youth unemployment, especially among the graduated youth and those who benefitted from vocational education and training (VET). Two initial activities allowed French experts to carry out a systemic and organizational diagnosis of AGUIPE and to formulate recommendations in order to strengthen, develop and diversify AGUIPE's services. Finally, experts from Belgium and France have assessed the digital tools available to AGUIPE to promote its role and the services provided, particularly the website and the use of digital media as vehicle of communication towards large constituencies.

  • Labour & Employment Policies

    SOCIEUX+ in Saint Lucia: Facilitating National Health Insurance

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • SOCIEUX+ in Armenia: Sharing good practices in disability assessment

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Labour and Employment

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Constructing Social Protection

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • SOCIEUX+ in Zimbabwe: Financing Health Insurance

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • SOCIEUX+ in Panama: Outlining public policies for addressing multidimensional poverty

    Start activities
    End activities
    Partner Institution
    Type of Assistance
    Code

  • Job Impact Assessment of Public Investments

    WESTERN AFRICA GHANA
    Start activities
    21/05/2018
    End activities
    25/05/2018
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR), Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PPME)
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2017-40
    Description
    The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of Ghana requested SOCIEUX+ assistance for improving its internal capacity and analytical tools devoted to analyse labour market dynamics as a way to bring forward informed employment strategies. Training provided by public experts from the United Kingdom and Portugal to Ghanaian officials targeted the development of the labour market information system (LMIS), while methods of evaluation of active labour market policies were presented. Experts also formulated specific recommendations on how to systematically improve the operation of public employment services’ (PES) centers, which play a capital role in promoting employment opportunities and creating the conditions to match labour demand and supply.