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Start-up of the National Organisation of State Social Security Institutes and its technical secretariat
- Start activities
- Sep-17
- End activities
- May-18
- Partner Institution
- Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato [Instituto de Seguridad Social del Estado de Guanajuato]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-17
- Description
- The main outcome of this action in partnership with the Institute of Social Security of the State of Guanajuato (ISSEG) was the establishment of the National Platform of State Social Security Institutes, namely the Organización Nacional de Instituciones Estatales de Seguridad Social (ONIESS). Members agreed on a light legal basis and substantiated it by displaying a working process with clear objectives and a one-year action plan. The role of experts from France, Germany and Spain was, beside technical expertise, one of facilitators of the debate among the participating State institutes. They contributed to the work with technical inputs, work methodology, examples from relevant EU and personal experiences, their overall spirit and the motivation to achieve a common goal.
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Strengthening social protection conventions for Peruvian migrant workers
- Start activities
- 22-01-2018
- End activities
- 23-11-2018
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-12
- Description
- The outcome of the action relates to the development of individual capacities of staff of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru with regards to the conduct of bilateral negotiations for the establishment of social security conventions. It has regarded several dimensions of bilateral conventions, from the legal and technical spheres, up to the negotiations techniques and the follow-up of the implementation of the convention. In particular, the Partner wanted to get detailed information on social security systems in countries – such us Germany and Belgium – with which bilateral negotiations were ongoing. The Partner’s relevant staff has proactively interacted with experts, thus generating a peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge, and received detailed information and data on the two distinct social security systems.
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Capacity building for East and Central African social security agencies
- Start activities
- sep-17
- End activities
- nov-17
- Partner Institution
- East and Central Africa Social Security Association
- Type of Assistance
- Training
- Code
- 2017-05
- Description
- The action aimed to strengthen the capacity of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to design and conduct training in favor of its member organizations The three activities’ deliverables are similar and consist in the materials presented by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts/trainers throughout the three sessions and pertaining to social protection coverage, leadership and ethics, and occupational safety and health. The participating experts came from Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands
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Health financing reform and introduction of mandatory health insurance
- Start activities
- apr-16
- End activities
- nov-17
- Partner Institution
- State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance under the Cabinet of Ministers [Nazirlər Kabineti yanında İcbari Tibbi Sığorta üzrə Dövlət Agentliyinin]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2015-23
- Description
- Support the government of Azerbaijan and in particular to the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance (SAMHI) in creating the necessary conditions for the introduction of mandatory health insurance
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Capacity Building (Training) of Social Assistance Staff of implementation of the RISE Families Programme
- Start activities
- nov-2015
- End activities
- dic-2016
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Development - Department of Social Services, Nevis Island Administration (NIA)
- Type of Assistance
- Individual capacity building (human resources development)
- Code
- 2015-16
- Description
- Following an initial capacity assessment of the Department of Social Services of the Ministry of Social Development of Nevis, a proposal describing the training needs, the target group, the duration, the proposed training activities, was prepared by experts from Croatia and the United Kingdom. The following training involved case workers of the Restore, Inspire, Secure and Empower social-support Program (RISE) and included: engagement with people in need of assistance; people’s risk assessment; attitudes and professionalism of social workers; confidentiality; managing people’s anger; managing information and data; engagement with other public agencies; understanding family dynamics; assessing cases of child sexual abuse. Finally, experts summed up all materials, methods and information delivered throughout the training and compiled a practical manual that is now available to train the newly hired RISE Program case managers.
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Support to the development of the legal, institutional and structural framework for social assistance
- Start activities
- nov-2015
- End activities
- dec-2016
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of State, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs & Vocational Education
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2015-06
- Description
- The action was grounded on the National Strategy for Social Protection and focused on territorial social assistance as a fundamental tool to outreach vulnerable (and often peripheral) populations. The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs & Vocational Education of Ivory Coast supported engaged with different teams of experts from France. The main action’s result has been the definition of a vision and concrete guidelines for structuring and strengthening decentralized social assistance in Ivory Coast, by providing an organizational path for strengthening the local social development centers.
