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Best practices and strategy for collection of voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds
- 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.
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Exchange of experience in providing special social services to persons with disabilities on regional level
- 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.
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Support to the Social Security Corporation of Jordan in adopting a referral mechanism
- 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.
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Improving the system of monitoring and evaluation of social projects within the framework of grant funding for NGOs
- 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.
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Methodology for processing "Medium-term development program for people with disabilities and their families (2023-2025)"
- 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.
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Developing procedure of selection and certification of the disability assessors and SOP of Disability Assessment Centres
- 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.
