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Support on the development of individual foster care plans
- Start activities
- 17-10-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Health, Work and Social Policy
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2023-32
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Development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk
- Start activities
- 04-09-2023
- End activities
- 01-12-2023
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2023-23
- Description
- The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy requested development of counselling standards and services for children and youth at risk implemented in the institution of 25.maj in Skopje. The peer-to-peer technical assistance represented by Croatian, French and Czech expertise allowed to develop a methodology and standards for new services. These standards create an enabling environment for empowerment to the vulnerable youth, children and families at risk and will serve as a pilot project in the country with the possibility for multiplication.
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Assessment of human ressources of the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI)
- Start activities
- 13-11-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Partner Institution
- State Labour Inspectorate (SLI)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building Organisational management (structures & functions) Human resources management
- Code
- 2023-26
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Improving the linkage between cash benefits and social services and the specific needs of persons with disabilities (PwDs)
- Start activities
- 03-08-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2023-24
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy sought to enhance the system that links cash benefits and social services to the individual needs of persons with disabilities (PwD). The initiative focused on crafting a personalized approach to entitlements, ensuring that the benefits and services, including income replacements and long-term care benefits, are appropriately aligned with the needs of PwDs. Experts from Austria, Germany, Romania, and Slovenia provided relevant EU countries’ examples of tools and scales for individual needs assessment and linkage, while developing recommendations for the reinforcement of the legal framework existing in North Macedonia.
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Capacity building of CIPRES in providing continuing trainings to OPS staff in the field of social protection
- Start activities
- 12-12-2022
- End activities
- 21-04-2023
- Partner Institution
- Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare [Conférence Interafricaine de la Prévoyance Sociale] (CIPRES)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building, Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-27
- Description
- The Inter-African Conference on Social Welfare (CIPRES) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in view of reinforcing its Executive Secretariat in training engineering capacities. CIPRES aims to put in place a training center that will provide trainings to technical staff. This action, led by French and Belgian experts, produced a complete training engineering guide tailored to CIPRES needs. The guide includes step by step instructions to do a training design, assessing training needs of an organization, operational aspects of delivering a training, and monitoring and evaluation of training delivery.
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Review of the existing policy and regulatory frameworks in view of the introduction of an Unemployment Benefits scheme in Kenya
- Start activities
- 16-01-2023
- End activities
- 12-05-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Social Security Fund
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-25
- Description
- Together with ILO, the National Social Security Fund of Kenya has been working in a set of policy and regulatory documents pertaining to the introduction of a unemployed benefits scheme. The resulting roadmap, actuarial study, legal gap analysis, legal drafting instructions, and draft bill and regulations constituted the framework of the peer-to-peer cooperation facilitated by SOCIEUX+. Policy discussions have mainly revolved around whether to adopt an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme or unemployment individual savings accounts (UISAs). At the end of the Action, experts from France, the Netherlands, and Sweden had helped the partner to review the existing policy and normative frameworks, setting the stage for the introduction of an unemployment benefits (UB) scheme, including its main components/design (benefit duration, benefit rate, contingency and persons covered, qualifying period, eligible reasons for job termination, waiting period, reference and insurable earnings, financing approach,…).