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Elaboration of an Action Plan on Disability and setting up of a Monitoring and Evaluation mechanism
- Start activities
- 06/12/2021
- End activities
- 03/04/2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2020-35
- Description
- The Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity and its Disability Empowerment Unit requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in designing the National Action Plan 2021-2025 for Persons living with Disabilities (PwD). The peer to peer technical assistance represented by Swedish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, and French expertise allowed to develop a plan focusing on services provided to PwDs as well as governance of the disability sector. This plan aims to improve the policies concerning PwDs in the State of Mauritius, as well as the services provided to them, and creates an enabling environment for collaborative social initiatives to empower persons with disabilities.
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National Forum on Maternal and Child Health: Lessons learned from PIMI II (Programa Integrado de Redução da Morte Materna e Infantil) and perspectives
- Start activities
- 08/03/2021
- End activities
- 12/04/2021
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Public Health [Ministério de Saúde Pública] (MINSAP)
- Type of Assistance
- Awareness raising (roundtables, seminars, workshops, etc)
- Code
- 2020-31
- Description
- The request concerned a single activity for SOCIEUX+ to participate in a national conference on child and maternal health, organized by the Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the EU-funded PIMI II’s programme. Due to the COVID-related travel restrictions, SOCIEUX+ experts from Portugal remotely participated to the national conference showcasing EU experiences relating to social protection financing and access to health, especially in the field of child and maternal health.
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Maintenance of the disability assessment formula
- Start activities
- 18/01/2021
- End activities
- 08/06/2021
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2020-24
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this short action conducted exclusively remotely aimed at measuring the participation of persons with disabilities in the disability assessment formula. In this action, MLSP was supported by their peers from Greece.
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Building individual capacities on functional disability assessment
- Start activities
- oct-2021
- End activities
- 29-10-2021
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2020-23
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this action was particularly focused on building up the capacities of multidisciplinary teams of professionals who conduct disability assessment in line with new rules and using protocols based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) adjusted to the context of Armenia. A team of 20 trainers (doctors, paramedical and social work professionals) was set up and benefited from a training on functional disability assessment logic and practices by experts from Greece and Cyprus mobilised by SOCIEUX+.
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Linking disability assessment to social protection service provision for People with Disabilities (PdWs)
- Start activities
- 18/01/2021
- End activities
- 15-03-2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2020-21
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Armenia has been engaged into a disability assessment reform and introduction of functional and human-rights based approach to disability. As a part of a longer cooperation between the Ministry and SOCIEUX+, this action was particularly focused on linkage between disability assessment and services that persons with disabilities are entitled to receive from social protection system. Experts from Greece and France supported the Ministry in elaboration of guidelines for social workers and members of disability assessment commissions on how to identify beneficiary’s needs for social and functional-related services (including assistive technologies) in line with person’s age, disability type and level, administer those services, monitor their effectiveness and efficiency and evaluate them.
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Community-based information on prevention of COVID-19 infections
- Start activities
- 18/01/2021
- End activities
- 04/09/2021
- Partner Institution
- National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO)
- Type of Assistance
- Awareness raising (roundtables, seminars, workshops, etc)
- Code
- 2020-22
- Description
- This one-off action aimed to raise general awareness on communication strategies for reaching out to local communities, including but not limited to Covid-19 response. The activity consisted in a series of workshops providing a general-purpose methodology on social marketing and a series of relevant case studies. The result is a set of tools that the Partner will integrate in the current communication strategy.
