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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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