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Improving the quality of services at day care centers for persons with disabilities
- 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.
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Development of Strategic Plan for the Employment Service Agency of the Republic of 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.
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Development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk
- 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.
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Assessment of human ressources of the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI)
- 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
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Improving the linkage between cash benefits and social services and the specific needs of persons with disabilities (PwDs)
- Start activities
- 03-08-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- 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.
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Design of a comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Management Model for the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC)
- 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.
