• Labour & Employment Policies

    Support for the definition of the strategic plan of the Niger employment agency, and adaptation of the services provided to companies and job seekers

    Central Africa Niger
    Start activities
    23/12/2020
    End activities
    06/03/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Agency for the Promotion of Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-12
    Description
    The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in enhancing the quality of its services to job seekers. French and Spanish experts worked on providing the ANPE with concrete actions to take place to streamline and improve its services among the different agencies, with the resources available. A handful of job counselors also benefited from a training of trainers to have a multiplying effect with newcomers.
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  • Access to basic services

    Capacity building on social protection for persons with disability

    South-East Asia Cambodia
    Start activities
    15/09/2020
    End activities
    17/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    National Social Protection Council
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2020-09
    Description
    The National Social Protection Council (NSPC) of Cambodia has the mandate to develop, supervise and regulate the social protection system and to ensure harmonization of the different strategies, policies and other social protection activities, including for the people with disabilities. To the three activities, deployed at distance, contributed experts from France, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Finland, who first presented international and EU best practices and cases with regards to social protection coverage of people with disabilities. A mapping of the existing policies, measures, initiatives, both from national institutions and development partners was then co-developed, with a view to identifying possible coverage gaps or inconsistencies. The final activity coached NSPC’s staff on building a methodology for developing an action plan for disability-inclusive social protection.
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  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Design of training structure and formalization of a training course for young business creators in Mauritania

    Western Africa Mauritania
    Start activities
    04/01/2021
    End activities
    17/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    Patronal Federation of Services and Self Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-08
    Description
    The Action responded to the partner’s need to have available strategies and practices apt to enhance entrepreneurship’s skills through training to young entrepreneurs. Experts from Belgium and France assessed the existing entrepreneurship support ecosystem and defined of a roadmap for setting up comprehensive training services for young entrepreneurs and training of trainers/coaches. The further activities were dedicated to jointly build training modules of the curriculum in entrepreneurship, and to deploy a 5-days training of trainers on entrepreneurship for the partner’s agents.
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  • Enhancing rehabilitation capacities of Workers Compensation Fund

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    23/11/2020
    End activities
    26/03/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2020-07
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania leads the Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) insurance branch. It requested SOCIEUX+ to enhance its internal capacities to deal with rehabilitation of workers affected by work-related injuries and/or sickness. In the course of four training activities experts mobilized by the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) provided to WCF staff an introduction on rehabilitation management, tackled procedures case managers have to deploy, and strengthened WCF and its partners’ knowledge in the field of labour medicine. The four training activities involved WCF technical and administrative staff as well as staff from collaborative medical facilities and touched up several OSH-related areas such as legislative framework, case management, medical notions, communication to right-holders. The activities progressively identified gaps and proposed recommendations for further action.
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  • Feasibility study for the establishment of a compulsory or voluntary health insurance mechanism in Kongo Central

    EASTERN AFRICA Congo, Republic of
    Start activities
    05/04/2021
    End activities
    30/06/2022
    Partner Institution
    Kongo Central Provincial Government [Gouvernement provincial du Kongo Central]
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2020-06
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ has been solicited by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of the Province of Kongo Central to formulate a feasibility study regarding the establishment of a compulsory or voluntary health insurance mechanism in the Province. To this end, SOCIEUX+ facilitated exchanges (on site and on-line) between the national partners (including mutualist organizations) and European experts in the field of health systems (financing, governance and health care delivery). Several experts from France delivered an inventory of the health system’s components in place in the province of Kongo Central, then a study on the financial feasibility of the health insurance system, and a prospective study on how such a health insurance system should be governed and organized.
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  • Development of a Strategic Plan for the ECASSA Institute of Social Protection (EISP)

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    31/10/2020
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-05
    Description
    Through the collaboration among peers and the presentation of European and international cases and good practices related to the set-up and development of an international research and training institution, experts from Italy and Slovenia developed and transferred a working methodology aimed at building a multi-year strategic plan. As a result of the action, the newborn Institute of Social Protection of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA), whose role is to develop knowledge and offer capacity-building opportunities for the staff of the social security organizations adhering to ECASSA, is endowed with a strategic plan based on extensive consultations and taking into account key areas of organizational development.
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