Transcript UNICEF Workshop EU Enlargement, External Relations and the

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Europe 2020: Social policies
Walter WOLF
EU social inclusion policy coordination
in the EU 2020 strategy and
the European Platform
Against Poverty and Social Exclusion
Belgrade, 29 March 2011
EU Social Inclusion Process
‘Open Method of Coordination’ (OMC)
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=750
• Definition of common Objectives and
agreed indicators
• Reporting to national partners and to the
EU (EC, Council, EP)
• Facilitating mutual learning and
exchange of good practices
• EU and national poverty reduction
targets
EU social protection and inclusion strategy
Overarching Objectives
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social cohesion, equality between men and women
and equal opportunities for all through adequate,
accessible, financially sustainable, adaptable and
efficient social protection systems and social
inclusion policies.
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effective and mutual interaction between the
Lisbon objectives of greater economic growth,
more and better jobs and greater social cohesion,
and with the EU's Sustainable Development
Strategy.
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good governance, transparency and the
involvement of stakeholders in the design,
implementation and monitoring of policy
The 2006 Social Inclusion Objectives
Making a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty and
social exclusion by ensuring:
• access for all to the resources, rights and services
needed for participation in society, addressing exclusion,
and fighting all forms of discrimination
• the active social inclusion of all, both by promoting
participation in the labour market and by fighting poverty
and exclusion
• that social inclusion policies are well coordinated and
involve all levels of government and relevant actors,
including people experiencing poverty, that they are
efficient and effective and mainstreamed into all relevant
public policies
Europe 2020
’Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’
http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/index_en.htm
7 EU ’flagship initiatives’
• Smart: innovation, youth on the move
digital agenda
• Sustainable: resource efficiency,
competitiveness
• Inclusive: new skills and jobs, ’European
Platform against Poverty’
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Europe 2020
The 5 EU headline targets
• 75 % of aged 20-64 employed
• 3% of EU's GDP invested in R&D
• 20/20/20 climate /energy targets
• Early school leavers down to 10% and
30-34 with tertiary education up to 40%
• Lifting 20 million people out of
poverty and exclusion
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Despite economic and employment growth
poverty was not reduced before the crisis
At-risk-of poverty rates by groups, EU, 2005-2008
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Unemployed: 44%
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Children: 20%
Elderly: 19%
Total: 17%
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Employed: 8%
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2008
In-work poverty also remained stable at 8%.
The risk of poverty of the unemployed is much higher and
was even on the rise, highlighting concerns about the
adequacy of safety nets.
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Possible gains in the efficiency of social
transfers
Impact of social transfers (excluding pensions) on the
reduction of the risk of poverty - %, 2007
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20%
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Expenditure on social protection benefits (excluding pensions) - % of GDP, 2007
Source: SILC 2008 & ESSPROS 2007
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Gaps in social safety nets
• In some countries 80% of longer term unemployed do not get any
benefits poverty rate for unemployed is 44%
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Impact of the crisis
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Expected GDP growth for 2010 remains modest
Unemployment > 10% and expected to stay high
Social expenditure (social protection, education
and health) ~ 70% of public expenditure in EU
Social protection > 40% of public expenditure
Fiscal consolidation will affect social expenditure:
a challenge for social polices aimed at
addressing poverty and exclusion
The social situation is likely to further deteriorate
and poverty is likely to increase.
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Poverty reduction Target
 EU level
– “Lifting 20 millions people out of poverty or exclusion
by 2020”
– Based on 3 existing EU social inclusion indicators:
• At-risk-of-poverty rate
• severe material deprivation
• people living in jobless households
• National level
– Member States are free to chose the most appropriate
indicator to set their national target
– Member States to show how they will contribute to
meeting the EU level target, in dialogue with the
Commission
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Severe material deprivation
• Definition: People whose living conditions
are severely constrained by a lack of
resources:
They experience at least 4 out of 9 deprivations:
people cannot afford i) to pay their rent or utility bills, ii) keep their home
adequately warm, iii) face unexpected expenses, iv) eat meat, fish, or a
protein equivalent every second day, v) a week of holiday away from home
once a year, vi) a car, vii) a washing machine, viii) a colour TV, or ix) a
telephone
• A non monetary measure of poverty
• Based on a single European threshold –
reflecting the disparities across the EU
It concerns 8.3% of the EU population varying from 1% in LU to 33% in RO
• List of items to be reviewed in 2015
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People in workless households
• People (aged 0-59, not students) living in a
family where no one works (or very little)
• Reflects long-term exclusion from the
labour market, for individual workers and
the family members who depend on them
• Strong link to child poverty and
intergenerational transmission of poverty
• It concerns approx. 8% of the total EU
population, varying from 4% to 14%
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120 Million people
at risk of poverty or exclusion
80 Mio people
at risk of
poverty
40 Mio people
materially
deprived
40 Mio people
in workless households
Million people
People at-risk-of-poverty
80
+ Those materially deprived, not at-risk-of-poverty
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+ Those living in a workless household, not at-risk-of-poverty, not
deprived
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Total: People at-risk-of poverty or exclusion
120
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Country A focusing on
raising living standards
People at risk
of poverty
People
materially
deprived
People in
workless households
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Country B focusing on
labour market inclusion
People at risk
of poverty
People
materially
deprived
people in
workless
households
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Next steps
• National targets
–Member States set their targets on the
most appropriate indicators, given
national circumstances and priorities
• Monitoring of the target at EU level
–Part of the monitoring of the 5 headline
targets
• Eurostat website
–http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/pa
ge/portal/europe_2020_indicators/headlin
e_indicators
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Candidate Countries
• Expressed their interest to be
associated to EU2020
• Could serve as source of inspiration
• Setting their own targets on the most
appropriate indicators, given national
circumstances and priorities
• The Joint Social Protection and Social
Inclusion Memorandum Process will
prepare CC for their full participation
in EU2020 upon accession
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European Platform Against
Poverty and Social Exclusion
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Adopted on December 17, 2010
To support concrete and innovative actions
and a broader involvement of stakeholders
Four main pillars:
1. Stepping-up Member States coordination to
address common challenges
2. Promoting effective partnerships and the
social economy
3. The fight against poverty beyond social policy
4. Community Funding in support of social
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inclusion
Five areas for action
• Delivering action across the policy spectrum
• Making EU funds deliver on the social inclusion and
social cohesion objectives
• Developing an evidence-based approach to social
innovation and reforms
• Promoting a partnership approach and the social
economy
• Stepping up policy coordination between the
Member States
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Delivering action across the
policy spectrum (1)
• Enhancing access to employment and active inclusion of vulnerable
groups
– Communication on active inclusion, 2012
• Making social protection and services more responsive to new
social needs
– White paper on Pensions, 2011
– Further develop quality framework on social services
– Follow-up to communication on health inequalities
• Breaking the cycle of disadvantage
– Recommendation on early school leaving, 2011
– Recommendation on child poverty, 2012
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Delivering action across the
policy spectrum (2)
• Promoting the inclusion of disadvantaged groups
– EU framework for national Roma Integration Strategies , 2011
– Follow-up to 2010 consensus conference on homelessness
• Tackling poverty beyond social policies
– Implementation of energy internal market legislation
– Combating digital divide (implementation of Digital Agenda)
– Legislative initiative on access to basic bank services, 2011
• Social impact assessment
– improving cooperation with EU institutions and Member States
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Making EU funds deliver on
social inclusion objectives
• 2010 Budget review stresses need to linking more
directly structural funds and ESF to Europe 2020
headline targets (incl. poverty target)
• Commission Proposals for next Multi-Annual Financial
Framework (2011) will explore following options:
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Enhancing ESF contribution to achievement of poverty target
Devoting necessary resources to social inclusion
Reinforcing support to disadvantaged groups
Simplified access grant schemes for local partnerships
Greater synergies and complementarities between EU funds
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Promoting evidence based social
innovation
• Build on existing tools to guide structural reforms
peer reviews, mutual learning…
• Major social experimentation initiative
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Pooling resources from various EU funds
Fine-tuning methodology
Development of wider scale experiment
Communication and dissemination
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Promoting partnership and the
social economy
• Strengthening existing partnerships and involving new
actors (social partners, regional/local authorities, NGOs)
– Voluntary guidelines on stakeholders’ involvement and
participation of people experiencing poverty (2012)
– Regular dialogue on thematic priorities
• Harnessing the potential of the social economy
– Improving legal structures (e.g. foundations)
– Social Business Initiative (2011) to support socially innovative
corporate projects (Single Market Act)
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Implementation and next steps
• Regular reporting within Europe 2020
(e.g. Annual Growth Survey)
• Poverty Round Table to be transformed into an
Annual Platform Convention:
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Bring together key actors
Take stock of progress made towards headline target
Review implementation of activities
Suggestions for future action
• Implementation reviewed in 2014
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG Employment, Social Affairs and
Equal Opportunities
Further Information
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
‘Social Inclusion’ website
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=751&langId=en