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Enhancing rehabilitation capacities of Workers Compensation Fund
- 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.
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Feasibility study for the establishment of a compulsory or voluntary health insurance mechanism in Kongo Central
- 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.
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Development of a Strategic Plan for the ECASSA Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
- 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.
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Organisational capacity building on Management Information Systems
- 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.
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Technical support on rehabilitation services and capacity building
- 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.
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Guidelines for tackling cases of school bullying or violence for the Procuradurías for the protection of children and adolescents
- 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.
