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SOCIEUX+ launches e-course Acting Upon Inequality
SOCIEUX+ has launched the e-course “Acting upon inequality”, designed to training and raise awareness among experts engaged in the Facility's technical cooperation activities, and also open to anyone interested. With an estimated duration of 2.5 hours, the course can be accessed on the SOCIEUX+ platform in English, French and Spanish. Read more and enroll in the course here.
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SOCIEUX+ mobilizes public experts to support São Tomé and Príncipe's entrepreneurship strategy
As part of the preparation of São Tomé and Príncipe's National Entrepreneurship Strategy, the Director of Entrepreneurship and experts mobilized by the EU initiative SOCIEUX+ meet with the Minister of Youth and Sports. This new peer to peer cooperation involves Portuguese and Cape Verdean experts, together with the São Toméan partners (SOCIEUX+ 2023-41). Click here to see Zunta TV's news on this cooperation.
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SOCIEUX+ launches metapaper on Climate Change, Social Protection and Labour Policies
The EU Facility SOCIEUX+ has released a new publication titled Facing Climate Change: How can social protection and labour policies support adaptation and mitigation? The publication is the first in a new series of metapapers that synthesize knowledge from SOCIEUX+ technical cooperation cases, and it is aimed at policy makers and stakeholders worldwide.
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Launch of cooperation with the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of Montenegro
The EU facility SOCIEUX+ and the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of Montenegro have successfully accomplished the first activity of a new cooperation focused on strengthening the organisational capacities of this institution in view of the public administration reform, with the expertise of two experts from Bulgaria and Romania. See here the note published by the partner (SOCIEUX+ 2023-20).
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Launch of a training programme for public employment services in Gabon
The Minister of Labour of Gabon, Madame Solange Nguiakie, and the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the EU Delegation, Nicolas Kasprzyk, have jointly launched a training programme for the National Center for the Promotion of Employment (PNPE), with the technical assistance of SOCIEUX+. The aim of this activity is to strengthen the capacity to provide services to jobseekers, particularly vulnerable groups, and will count on the expertise of experts from France and Sweden (SOCIEUX+ 2023-27).
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Peer cooperation: Zambia NHIMA delegation visits Poland to study good practices in the area of health insurance
A delegation from Zambia visited Poland from 25 to 29 September to learn about EU good practices in the promotion of health coverage and health insurance mechanism and, specifically, to learn about the Polish experiences and lessons learned in this field.
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SOCIEUX+ presents the European Union's experience in social assistance measures
The EU Facility SOCIEUX+ and the Economic Research Institute of Kazakhstan held the webinar "Social assistance measures: experience of the European Union" on September 27; the event involved public experts from France (CNAF) and Slovakia (Comenius University in Bratislava), and honored the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Read here the note published by our partners (SOCIEUX+ 2023-19).
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SOCIEUX+ training in Kazakhstan: Enhancing NGO grant applications assessment procedures
Within the framework of a SOCIEUX+ technical cooperation in Kazakhstan, a training on improvement of procedures of the assessment of grant funding applications by NGOs that implement social projects was completed (2022-14). During the five-day training, independent experts and project managers of the Civil Initiatives Support Center learned about models of grant funding and exchanged experiences with European trainers from Romania and Portugal. Read here the article published by our partner.