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Setting up a comprehensive internal capacity-building and training system for MoSD
- Start activities
- 27-06-2022
- End activities
- 03-03-2023
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2022-07
- Description
- The Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) of Palestine is the leader, coordinator and organizer of the social development sector and is responsible for developing policies and trends, in addition to the tasks of control and supervision. The MoSD is committed to invest in developing the skills and knowledge of all employees to boost performance, achieve strategic objectives, and enhance service delivery to citizens. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Bulgaria, Belgium and France in the framework of SOCIEUX+, an assessment of capacities and skills requirements was conducted. This led to the formulation of a capacity-building and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) training strategy for the MoSD, along with providing the necessary functional design, elements, and tools for establishing a Training Management System (TMS).
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Capacity building and functional review of the Department of Social Policy, Research and Planning (DSPRP)
- Start activities
- 25/07/2022
- End activities
- 10/02/2023
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and the Blue Economy
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2022-06
- Description
- In September 2020, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda passed the National Social Protection Act. This Act represents a shift in the Government’s approach to social protection, from a focus on poor relief, to a social protection sector committed to a rights-based approach and attainment of Universal Social Protection (USP). To support the implementation of the 2020 Social Protection Act, the Government also developed a National Social Protection Policy to shape the intention of social protection sector reform. The key aspiration of the Policy is to achieve Universal Social Protection. The Policy is joined by an Action Plan that identifies activities to be undertaken in the short term (1-3 years), medium term (4-7 years) and long term (8+ years). In this framework, the Department of Social Policy, Research and Planning of the Ministry of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development and the Blue Economy has expressed the need to undergo a functional review, with the aim of improving service delivery and efficiency, and for its staff to receive training/individual capacity building in order to strengthen effectiveness with which policies are translated into actions and outcomes. In that context, experts from Belgium and Croatia achieved a functional review of the Department.
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Technical assistance for the evaluation of the real cost of health care procedures and the updating of the basic prices for the reimbursement of health care services
- Start activities
- 05/09/2022
- End activities
- 24-02-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Health Insurance Institute [Institut National d'Assurance Maladie du Togo] (INAM)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-05
- Description
- The National Health Insurance Institute (INAM) of Togo is a SOCIEUX+ long-standing partner. Together, strategic and organizational topics have been addressed, thus enhancing INAM’s role into the management of health insurance, particularly in view of the roll-out of the 2021 Law instituting the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This Action focused on specific components of health insurance management such as tariffication of health procedures and the assessment of the quality/performance of health service provision covered by the insurance. Experts from Belgium and France helped updating the reimbursement prices of a sample, based on a price-setting methodology that will remain in INAM’s availability.
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Strengthening capacities of the public health insurance fund in Uzbekistan in the area of price setting
- Start activities
- 23-06-2022
- End activities
- 20-03-2023
- Partner Institution
- State Fund Health Insurance
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-01
- Description
- Uzbekistan State Health Insurance Fund established in December 2020 is invested with the mandate to improve the access to healthcare services and the efficiency of the sector. At the initial stage, the fund is responsible for the formulation and piloting of new public health funding schemes. The peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Estonia, France, Czech Republic, and Germany reinforced the capacities of the Fund to manage this process, from identification of packages of reimbursable healthcare services to proposing guidelines for the price-setting mechanism and performance-based assessment. The Fund was also supported in implementing the pilot project in one of the regions.
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Supporting integration of NEETs into labour market
- Start activities
- 15-06-2022
- End activities
- 15-05-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-26
- Description
- The National Employment Agency (ANOFM), the public employment service of Moldova, seeks to provide better and more specialized support to young people who are not in education, training, or employment (NEET), a big and particularly vulnerable group far from labor and often missed by public services, who need a targeted approach and tailor-made accompaniment. As a result of the joint action of SOCIEUX+ and ANOFM first, the assessment was conducted concerning the situation in Moldova and the needs of the ANOFM to reinforce the services provided to this group of users, then some tools were proposed, with a specific focus on coordination mechanisms to ensure global comprehensive accompaniment of beneficiaries, and on operational work of job counsellors via capacity building sessions. At all stages of cooperation, EU good practices were shared by the experts from Belgium, Latvia, France, and Sweden and discussed from the point of view of their relevance for Moldova context.
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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).
