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Review of the existing policy and regulatory frameworks in view of the introduction of an Unemployment Benefits scheme in Kenya
- Start activities
- 16-01-2023
- End activities
- 12-05-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Social Security Fund
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-25
- Description
- Together with ILO, the National Social Security Fund of Kenya has been working in a set of policy and regulatory documents pertaining to the introduction of a unemployed benefits scheme. The resulting roadmap, actuarial study, legal gap analysis, legal drafting instructions, and draft bill and regulations constituted the framework of the peer-to-peer cooperation facilitated by SOCIEUX+. Policy discussions have mainly revolved around whether to adopt an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme or unemployment individual savings accounts (UISAs). At the end of the Action, experts from France, the Netherlands, and Sweden had helped the partner to review the existing policy and normative frameworks, setting the stage for the introduction of an unemployment benefits (UB) scheme, including its main components/design (benefit duration, benefit rate, contingency and persons covered, qualifying period, eligible reasons for job termination, waiting period, reference and insurable earnings, financing approach,…).
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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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Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth
- 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.
