• Best practices and strategy for collection of voluntary contributions to non-state pension funds

    Eastern Europe Azerbaijan
    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

    Central Asia Kazakhstan
    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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  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth

    Eastern Africa Kenya
    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.
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  • Support to the Social Security Corporation of Jordan in adopting a referral mechanism

    Middle East and Gulf Countries Jordan
    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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  • Labour & Employment Policies

      Development of proposals for normative regulation of the activities of non-standard employment (digital platform) workers

      Central Asia Kazakhstan
      Start activities
      15-11-2022
      End activities
      16-06-2023
      Partner Institution
      JSC "Center for the Development of Human Resources"
      Type of Assistance
      Legislative & regulatory framework development
      Code
      2022-17
      Description
      The Workforce Development Center is a think tank related to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kazakhstan. Its role is to provide analytical expertise and information support to the government on labour market related issues. With gig-economy becoming a wider phenomenon in Kazakhstan, the Center was engaged in the preparation of regulatory framework related to digital platform workers. With expertise from Hungary, Lithuania and Portugal mobilized for this cooperation, the action contributed to better understanding of the problematics by the Center’s staff by sharing knowledge of approaches already used in EU countries and supranational European recommendations. This was followed by an assessment of the existing legal framework in Kazakhstan and proposals and guidelines for a reform.
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