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Set-up of a foster care system for minors without parental support and protection
- Start activities
- 23-05-2022
- End activities
- 24-03-2022
- Partner Institution
- Commissioner for Children's Rights
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2021-24
- Description
- In Kazakhstan, the Commissioner for Children’s is engaged into deinstitutionalization reform as a lead of a consortium of NGOs, childcare institutions, and state administration. Professional foster families are considered an alternative to institutional placement for children without parental care. Through the peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Croatia and the Czech Republic, a set of methodological guidelines was developed with recommendations for different stages of working with foster families, from identification and selection to continuous support and evaluation. The outputs of the action also include the training curricula for prospective foster parents elaborated on the basis of EU countries best practices and good examples from Kazakhstan organizations. Finally, the action was an occasion for the partners to discover the practical set up of alternative care and services provision for vulnerable children during a study visit to Czech Republic (Prague, Pardubice).
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Comprehensive review of Botswana's Worker's Compensation framework, to develop a national framework reform proposal
- Start activities
- 25-04-2022
- End activities
- 10-12-2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs (MLHA)
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-03
- Description
- The Department of OSH at Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana was working on exploring whether and how it would be feasible to replace employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovenia in the framework of SOCIEUX+, the current national legislation and regulatory framework on workers' compensation was assessed against existing best practice and international standards and guidance and recommendations were provided for updating the current national legislation and regulatory framework, based on feasibility, technical capacity and sustainability considerations.
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Operational Review of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Zambia
- Start activities
- 18-04-2022
- End activities
- 30-09-2022
- Partner Institution
- National Health Insurance Management Authority
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2022-02
- Description
- The purpose of this action was for the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) to optimize the management of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). NHIMA was established by the National Health Insurance Act No.2 of 2018. The Act provided for the establishment of a compulsory National Health Insurance Scheme under the management of NHIMA. The Scheme, as part of the Health Care Financing Strategy of the Ministry of Health, is aimed at providing sound financing of the national health system and enhance universal access to quality insured healthcare services for all Zambians. NHIMA wished to understand where they stand after two years of implementing the Scheme, where are their strengths or weaknesses, and identify potential bottlenecks. NHIMA also wished to gain more knowledge and guidance on strengthening their current health-financing system, as well as to understand possible health financing options in view of attaining universal health coverage. Mobilized experts from Estonia, Finland, France, and Germany accompanied the partner’s reflection in the framework of 3 activities.
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Capacity building for the improvement of the Brazilian second pillar pension governance and supervision of the legal and regulatory framework
- Start activities
- 21-02-2022
- End activities
- 21-10-2022
- Partner Institution
- Cearense Association of Economists Pensioners and Retirees (ACEA)
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2021-23
- Description
- The Associação Cearense dos Economiários Aposentados e Pensionistas (ACEA) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in order to provide capacity building, in the form of e-learning courses, to members of Brazilian organizations defending the rights of pensioners. ACEA noticed a clear need for members of such organizations to gain more extensive knowledge on governance, management, and supervision of occupational pension funds, in order to detect shortfalls in the system, apply due diligence, and prevent mismanagement and fraudulent behaviors. The e-learnings, crafted by Portuguese, Spanish, German, and French expertise covered topics such as basic knowledge of the functioning of second pillar pension funds, best practices for regulation and supervision of funds, legal and regulatory frameworks governing second pillar pension funds. This successful e-learnings were followed by hundreds of participants from various parts of Brazil.
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Capacity building for the empowerment of the national disability associative movement
- Start activities
- 25-04-2022
- End activities
- 31/07/2022
- Partner Institution
- National Disability Secretariat [Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad]
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-22
- Description
- The Action contributed to a process of improvement of the institutional framework and enhancement of the Partner’s individual capacities to establish relationships with the external environment on matters relating to the protection and development of persons with disabilities. , both in terms of working in synergy with potential/existing partners (result 1) and increasing their outreach to the larger public (result 2). Empowerment, leadership and advocacy have been addressed as key elements for empowering the Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad to outreach target groups, including the vast landscape of NGOs defending and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities. Peer experts from Portugal and Spain delivered a mapping of the institutional landscape, deployed training on advocacy, communication and networking, and finally drafted a roadmap aimed to strengthen institutional relationships and governance mechanisms for the disability sector.
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Characterisation of the social protection’s supply and demand of the population of informal street vendors in two pilot cities in Colombia (Barranquilla and Cali)
- Start activities
- 10/05/2021
- End activities
- 28-10-2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of the Interior [Ministerio del Interior]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2021-09
- Description
- The Ministry of Interior of Colombia wished to look into the issue of informal street vendors with the support of SOCIEUX+. The Action contributed to the territorial implementation of the Public Policy for Informal Vendors in 2 pilot cities (Barranquilla & Cali). Spanish experts participated to the development of at least two major practical instruments, namely a socio-economic analysis of informal street vendors, and a toolkit apt to guide the analysis of the demand of and needs in social protection of informal street vendors, and mapped available social protection options that may be used to cover informal workers from basic risks, such as health coverage, family support, and professional sickness and accidents.
