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Design of a comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Management Model for the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC)
- Start activities
- 27-02-2023
- End activities
- 09/09/2023
- Partner Institution
- General Directorate of Civil Service [Dirección General De Servicio Civil] (DGSC)
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-33
- Description
- Since 2018, the Personnel Recruitment and Selection Area of the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC) has been developing an initiative that aims to transform the recruitment and selection processes applying to civil servants of 45 institutions that operate under the Civil Service Regime, as to stimulate efficiency, automation, and accessibility in the supply of administrative positions. Against this framework, the action, through the involvement of various teams of Spanish experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+, aimed to significantly improve the civil service recruitment system mainly by accompanying a consultation process involving a sample of HR offices and their regional headquarters, as to take into account their perception and needs. Based on those consultations, experts helped co-constructing a new comprehensive operational model for recruitment, one that is transparent and in accordance with the directives of the Public Employment Framework Law. Finally, experts also helped to develop software requirements for the system’s automation and harmonization.
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Improving the system of monitoring and evaluation of social projects within the framework of grant funding for NGOs
- 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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Strengthening the services of the Ecuadorian Public Employment Service (Encuentra Empleo) for employers
- Start activities
- 10/05/2021
- End activities
- 06/10/2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour [Ministerio del Trabajo]
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2021-07
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour requested SOCIEUX+ support to strengthen the capacity of the Ecuadorian Public Employment Service (PES - Encuentra Empleo) to offer quality advice and services to employers and to stimulate more companies to use the PES. The support provided by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts from public employment services of France, Spain, and Sweden has therefore focused, from one side, on a critical analysis functional to the improvement of services available to employers and, on the other side, on the development of a communication strategy to outreach employers. On-line workshops were delivered to present good practices of EU PES and their approaches to and means of communication with employers, as a basis to co-draft a strategy and a communication plan that help Encuentra Empleo to strengthen its the relationship with employers. Finally, experts addressed individual capacity needs on the same topic, by outlining a training plan and delivering short training modules to agents in charge of relations with employers.
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Development of the consolidated risk mapping
- Start activities
- 04/01/2021
- End activities
- 31/07/2021
- Partner Institution
- Pension and Family Benefits Fund for State Agents
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2020-13
- Description
- The Action targeted organizational and individual capacities in the area of internal risks management. Peers from Germany and France first analyzed the mechanisms and procedures for analyzing and managing insurance-related risks pertaining to various schemes run by the CPPF. They further deployed training sessions to the benefit of CPPF’s relevant staff on insurance-related risk mapping and management.
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Analysis of the pension legislative framework and strategic guidance
- Start activities
- 16/08/2016
- End activities
- 28/03/2017
- Partner Institution
- Gency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP)
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2016-04
- Description
- An assessment report of the existing pension legal framework has been elaborated by experts from Bulgaria and Latvia identifying gaps, risks and challenges, and formulating specific mitigation strategies and measures. The experts also prepared a compendium of requirements for the implementation of the legal framework, taking into account the administrative functions needed to operationalize the system. Following this, experts from Latvia and Lithuania produced a functional assessment and reviewed the business processes and workflows of the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) of Tajikistan in view of their adequacy in terms of human and material resources, technical competencies and tools, corporate organization and workflows. In particular, experts reviewed the current methodologies, formulas and processes used by ASIP for the calculation of pension benefits.
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Enhance the effectiveness and coordination of social protection in Ghana
- Start activities
- sep-2015
- End activities
- sep-2015
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2015-18
- Description
- Follow-up action from 2014-12. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP), has a core mandate and leading role in the planning, implementation and coordination of social protection policies in Ghana. In particular, the Ministry’s Directorate for Policy, Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation is responsible for assessing the progress in implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS). An updated 2012 NSPS aimed at bringing the multitude of social protection programmes under a common umbrella. However, the NSPS 2012 had not been approved as from June 2014 when the MGCSP approached SOCIEUX. As part of the initial work in action 2014-12, experts mobilised by SOCIEUX worked with their peers on a review of the first draft of the Policy. The Policy was officially launched by the Government in June 2016, aiming at aimed at “delivering a well-coordinated and inter-sectoral social protection system that would enable people to live in dignity”.
