Transcript Jasmina Papa

Social inclusion: bridging social
protection and employment policies
CREATING JOBS FOR EQUITY AND
PROSPERITY
REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMPLOYMENT
AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE AND TURKEY
16-17 APRIL 2015, SKOPJE
Social protection legacies and trends
• Broadly universal in theory - in practice gaps in access,
coverage, adequacy and quality
• SP expenditures – 18-25% of GDP; but lion’s share for
pensions and/or ‘captured’ by specific interest groups
(war veterans and their families)
• 0,5-2 % of GDP spent on social assistance/social
protection of last resort: low coverage and lack of
adequacy
• Appropriate social services slow to develop in face of
new risks and restricted finance
EU poverty and exclusion measurement:
exposing weaknesses
Country
At risk of
poverty or
social
exclusion
(AROPE)
At risk of
poverty after
social
transfers
Groups at risk of poverty
- age
- gender
- household type
- Labour market status
FRY Macedonia
50.9 %
27.1 %
Children 43 %
Women 27,5 %
HH 2 adults 3+ children 57%
Unemployed 48,7%
Serbia
44.3%
24.6 %
Children 30%
Women 24,3%
HH, 2 adults 3+ children 44%
Unemployed 48,7%
Croatia
32.3%
20.5 %
Older than 65 - 30,4%
Women 21, 6%
1 person HH, women 42,7%
Unemployed 42. 9%
Social Exclusion Chain
Individual characteristics
interact
with
Drivers of social exclusion
Structures and institutions; values and
behavior patterns; policies
Drivers are external factors, influenced by
legacies, that either speed up or slow
down the process of individual
vulnerabilities turning into social exclusion
(social exclusion risk factors),
like poor education, disability,
minority status
in context of
Specific local conditions
Predominant industry, single or multiple
employment opportunities, local
infrastructures, history of violent conflict
or environmental disaster
…and result in
Social exclusion status
of the individual in three dimensions—
exclusion from economic life, social
services, and civic and social
participation
Dimensions of Social Exclusion
at the South-East Europe
Economic life
labour, financial and
housing markets
Social Services:
Participation
in civic and social life
and networks
Exclusion from employment
• Exclusion from (formal) employment: lack of income and related
insurance based benefits, cut off from social interactions and
networks
• Working poor and informality
• Different impact on women and men
Exclusion from social services
• The role of SP and social services:
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to avoid risks of exclusion
to manage/cushion the effects of risks
To provide a springbaord back to inclusion
Baskets of cash and care
Social work practice, case management, tailored and integrated services
Social inclusion policy
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Transformative role of social inclusion:
• Design and promotion of innovative social services and
advocacy for inclusive and integrated services
• Supporting groups, and re-shaping public services,
policies and legislation
• Developing social planning (aligning needs and services):
area based approaches
• Achieving optimal welfare mix of providers
• Anti-discrimination and rights based approahces
Social inclusion interventions:
new focus on long term unemployed
Renewed attempt by the EC to promote integrated approach to make labour
markets inclusive
«Preventing and reducing long-term unemployment: through improved efficiency of
public employment services, the effectiveness of activation and make work pay
measures, and by investing in human capital as well as tailor-made active
labour markets policies and integrated social services.»
Council Conclusions on "2015 Annual Growth Survey and Joint Employment Report" and on
"Inclusive labour markets" (9 March 2015)
Call for social casework !?
To consider:
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Importance of global, regional and sub-regional
social policies
• Social Protection Floor:
Minimum income schemes; Child benefits; Social
pensions; Basket of cash and social services;
integrated and tailored services
Evidence-base for policy choices:
• EU – SILC as a starting point; but more
dissagregation based on national assessments of
vulnerability, reselience and geographical areas
• Social impact assessment and policy
evaluations: especially of ALMPs
ThankJasmina.
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