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Reform of the WC system in Kenya based on social insurance models
- Start activities
- 09-01-2023
- End activities
- 21-07-2023
- Partner Institution
- Directorate of Occupational safety and Health Services
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-24
- Description
- The Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kenya was committed in 2023 to transforming the current employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. The mobilization of public expertise from Spain, Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, and Czech Republic in the framework of SOCIEUX+ played a significant role in advancing the adoption of a reform proposal for the current Workers' Compensation (WC) framework in Kenya. The results of the collaborative efforts included a comparative analysis of WC systems based on social insurance and a presentation of international good practices, an assessment of the current legal framework, a policy paper setting the stage for a reform proposal, including the insurance scheme’s main components and the strategic and operational steps to be undertaken, and the drafting of specific parts of the new regulatory framework. The activities emphasized the link between prevention, compensation, and rehabilitation, and cultivated support from social partners for the proposed legislative reforms.
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Survey on pension adequacy and spending of the single elderlies
- Start activities
- 14-11-2022
- End activities
- 24-02-2023
- Partner Institution
- Training, Assessment and Research Institute for Labor and Social Protection (TARILSP)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-23
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Best practices and strategy for collection of voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds
- Start activities
- 17-10-2022
- End activities
- 10-02-2023
- Partner Institution
- State Social Protection Fund
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2022-21
- Description
- Through two activities, Finnish, French, and German experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ provided the State Social Protection Fund of Azerbaijan with EU good practices in collecting voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds, followed by a strategy to create, attract and create incentives to non-state pension funds.
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Exchange of experience in providing special social services to persons with disabilities on regional level
- Start activities
- 12-12-2022
- End activities
- 20-04-2023
- Partner Institution
- Department of employment and social protection of the city of Nur-Sultan
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development), Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2022-20
- Description
- Department of Employment and Social Protection of the city of Astana is the main entity at the regional level to organize the provision of social services to vulnerable population, including persons with disabilities (PwDs). In its structure, the Department has several residential and daycare institutions which provide social services. In this action, the experts from Romania conducted the assessment and contributed to the improvement of special social services delivered to PwDs, including the services that support personal autonomy and independence of beneficiaries. Peer-to-peer cooperation resulted in both the reinforcement of the skills of the staff working directly with beneficiaries and in the reinforcement of the collective capacities of the care institutions concerned.
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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.
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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.