• Labour & Employment Policies

    Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth

    Eastern Africa Kenya
    Start activities
    17-10-2022
    End activities
    18-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-19
    Description
    To better implement the national policies on youth employment, the National Employment Authority (NEA) solicited SOCIEUX+ cooperation to support them to create a pilot one-stop-shop in employment services for youth in Thika, that could be replicated nation-wide in case of success. This SOCIEUX+ action focused on developing a strategy to set up this pilot one-stop-shop by first realizing a diagnostic of the National Employment Authority (NEA) for the establishment of Thika’s one-stop-shop, focused on youth, then by jointly developing an operational strategic plan for the creation of the pilot one-stop-shop in Thika. The 3rd activity focused on developing a toolkit on youth counselling activities for job counsellors in Thika. The action mobilized Belgian and Swedish expertise.
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  • Support to the Social Security Corporation of Jordan in adopting a referral mechanism

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Jordan
    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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  • Labour & Employment Policies

      Development of proposals for normative regulation of the activities of non-standard employment (digital platform) workers

      Central Asia Kazakhstan
      Start activities
      15-11-2022
      End activities
      16-06-2023
      Partner Institution
      JSC "Center for the Development of Human Resources"
      Type of Assistance
      Legislative & regulatory framework development
      Code
      2022-17
      Description
      The Workforce Development Center is a think tank related to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kazakhstan. Its role is to provide analytical expertise and information support to the government on labour market related issues. With gig-economy becoming a wider phenomenon in Kazakhstan, the Center was engaged in the preparation of regulatory framework related to digital platform workers. With expertise from Hungary, Lithuania and Portugal mobilized for this cooperation, the action contributed to better understanding of the problematics by the Center’s staff by sharing knowledge of approaches already used in EU countries and supranational European recommendations. This was followed by an assessment of the existing legal framework in Kazakhstan and proposals and guidelines for a reform.
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    • Labour & Employment Policies

      Review of the legal framework and strategy supporting veterans? entrepreneurial activities

      Eastern Europe Ukraine
      Start activities
      15-08-2022
      End activities
      17-03-2023
      Partner Institution
      The Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
      Type of Assistance
      Institutional capacity building, Policy development
      Code
      2022-16
      Description
      The Directorate of Civic Identity and Veteran Development is an independent structural unit of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. The Ministry indicated the need to review the existing legal framework regarding entrepreneurship support to ex-combatants, as well as the Ministry’s strategy supporting veterans’ entrepreneurial activities. The object of this action was geared towards reintegration, rather than reinsertion. Reintegration is the process by which ex-combatants acquire civilian status and gain sustainable employment and income. During the first activity, experts from France produced a review of the legal framework and strategy related to the reintegration of veterans through entrepreneurship. The second activity showcased good practices of programmes supporting veterans entrepreneurship in Croatia. Both activities were carried out remotely.
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    • Improving the system of monitoring and evaluation of social projects within the framework of grant funding for NGOs

      Central Asia Kazakhstan
      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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    • Acceso a servicios básicos

      Methodology for processing "Medium-term development program for people with disabilities and their families (2023-2025)"

      East Asia Mongolia
      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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