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Advice for equal employment opportunities of people with disabilities
- Start activities
- 24-07-2023
- End activities
- 29-10-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Employment Service
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2023-14
- Description
- The action in collaboration with the National Employment Service aimed in improving service for unemployed persons with disabilities, aligning with Serbia's overarching strategic frameworks. Experts from Spain, Romania and France assessed capacities of NES to implement new concept of work with Persons with disabilities. The missions undertaken in Belgrade aimed at conducting a diagnosis of the NES practices concerning the support to employment of PwD. As well, a handful of job counsellors also benefited from a training of trainers to have a multiplying effect among the other employees.
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Improving the quality of services at day care centers for persons with disabilities
- Start activities
- 29-08-2023
- End activities
- Ongoing
- Partner Institution
- PI Institute for social activities
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2023-17
- Description
- Following the last analysis carried out by the Institute of Social Activities in June 2022, the technical assistance provided by SOCIEUX+ through mobilized EU public experts addressed the qualitative dimension in the provision of services by the day-care centres to persons with disabilities. The Action unfolded in three activities, for which experts from Portugal and Romania have been mobilized. The first peer-to-peer on-site activity focused on analyzing the current state of play of day care centres for persons with disabilities, while the second one supported the modernization of standards and procedures for social service delivery in the day-care centres for persons with disabilities by developing an improved manual. The third and last activity concluded the technical cooperation with the elaboration of a general framework for monitoring and evaluating the quality and pertinence of the social services provided in the day-care centres for persons with disabilities.
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Development of Strategic Plan for the Employment Service Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia
- Start activities
- 17-07-2023
- End activities
- 09-10-2023
- Partner Institution
- Employment Service Agency
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2023-22
- Description
- National Employment Service of North Macedonia requested SOCIEUX + support to gain more knowledge on how to effectively implement formalised strategic planning process and elaborate a three-year strategic plan of the institution. Strategic plan was a legal requirement in accordance to the Law on Budgets and it should have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance in several months. Senior expertise was mobilized from Swedish, Polish, and French institutions. Partner institution along with the experts developed strategic plan and officially started its implementation.
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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
- Description
- Experts from Lithuania, Austria, Spain and France, mobilised by SOCIEUX+, collaborated with the State Labour Inspectorate (SLI) of North Macedonia to identify organisational gaps and formulate recommendations for optimising human resources management. Following an initial functional analysis of HR management within SLI, experts worked with their peers on two main components: the review, reformulation and standardisation of job descriptions used for recruitment and management purposes; and the matching of job profiles to organisational objectives as well as to objectives linked to the deployment of the labour inspection mandate of SLI.
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Support to the Social Security Corporation of Jordan in adopting a referral mechanism
- 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.
