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EUROSOCIAL II
PROGRAM
EUROSOCIAL
Is a cooperation initiative launched in 2005 by the European
Commission to promote social cohesion in Latin America.
Its main objective is to support national public policies aimed at
improving the levels of social cohesion, as well as strengthen the
Institutions which implement them.
Eurosocial es more than a technical cooperation program: not only
was it conceived at the highest possible political level; it was
actually born to promote a political concept – social cohesion –
and has thus far contributed to structuring a certain amount of
political consensus around the need to re-orient public policies
towards the achievement of a larger cohesion amongst our
societies.
EUROSOCIAL I
(2005-2009)
Examples of success stories
Areas: Justice, Education, Employment, Taxation, Health.
Participants: over 9,000 persons and 1,700 institutions
Some results:
• Larger dissemination and absorption of the conceptual framework of social cohesion in Latin
America. Rising acceptance levels. It has become an anchor value.
• 100 rules of Brasilia, regarding access to the justice system for people in a vulnerable state
• Trainer network for indigenous people
• Tax Administrations network which, in 2009 already counted with 276 institutions: 194 from
Latin America, 64 from the European Union and 18 supranational.
• Latin American network for Education and Imprisonment Contexts to promote integral and
integrated public policies which favor attention to education within the context of an
imprisonment
• Creation of Social Defense Structures – Providing health care to the town of Wayuu
venezuelan/colombo – Training of professionals in Paraguay
• Fiscal education in El Salvador
BASIC DATA EUROSOCIAL II
• Agreed upon at the “Heads of State and Government Summit” between
EU – LA
• Duration: 4 years (2011-2014)
• Budget: 40 M€ (56M US$)
• Recipients: 18 Latin American countries
• Execution: consortium led by the FIIAPP and made up of
approximately 90 public entities from EU and LA
RESULTS AND PROGRAM TOOLS
EXPECTED RESULTS
The actions of the program must be designed in accordance with the
needs and demands of the Latin American countries, and must strive
to achieve results in one or more of the following areas:
→ policy-making and/or implementation of reforms;
→ problem solving within the design and/or execution of policies;
→ design and/or implementation of strategic plans or programs within
the policies framework.
¿WHAT TOOLS DOES IT USE?
Through actions of technical collaboration amongst counterpart
public institutions from different countries (between EU and LA
public administrations, as well as between LA public
administrations amongst themselves).
TOOLS
Types of technical collaboration actions between counterpart public
institutions from different countries (combined amongst them)
Visits of one or more of the LA countries to other EU and/or LA
countries to get to know the other´s policies, tools and available
services.
Exchange workshops between countries, development of evaluations
between counterparts
Technical advice awarded to a country´s Ministry (by the public
administration of one or more countries) to accompany the reform,
design and/or policy implementation, plan, etc. Process.
Creation of common products between Latin American countries
partnered in one same action
Training activities, using learning methods such as e-learning
Preferentially binds more latin american institutions with similar demands and that take the initiavie to work
as a group in a same action
TOOLS
The transfer process between public administrations ,regarding lessons
learned and good practices, pertaining design, application, policy
management and institutional procedures with repercussions on social
cohesion.
Exchange needs always originate in the Latin American public
administrations. Relevant experiences can be searched for in both Latin
America and in Europe.
INTERVENTION AREAS
Strategic Policies within each Government´s Agenda that will be
supported
During the formulation stage of the second phase of the program, the European
Commission identified the most pressing needs of LA governments. As a result of this
exercise we obtain 10 areas of intervention:
AXES
AREA OF INTEREST
I. Universal access to quality
social services
1. Health
2. Education
and 3. Institutionalization and Development of Public Social Policies
II.
Social
protection
promotion of active employment
policies
III. Tax systems and public
finances which better enable the
redistribution and efficiency of
expenditures
IV.
Democratic
institutions,
coordination
between
the
different
government
levels,
promotion of legality and fight
against corruption.
V. Public security, rights and
access to justice
4.Active Employment Policies
5. Public finances
6. Democratic Institutions
7. Social dialogue
8. Decentralization
9. Citizen security
10. Justice
SOCIAL PROTECTION AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDELINES
AREA OF
INTEREST
GUIDELINE
Institutionalizati Strengthening of those
on
and Institutions responsible of
development of coordinating social policies
social policies
Design
and/or
implementation of social
protection systems, with
particular emphasis on the
fight against poverty.
- Improve the design of the social policies
management system as well as that of the
institutional structures.
- Reinforce internal expertise in specific subjects such
as, for example, design and management of national
plans, intersectoral coordination and between the
different levels of government, its evaluation and
uses, and information systems, among others.
- Support the design or review of social politics both
at a global level as well as towards specific target
populations (extreme poverty, youth).
-Support the transition process from the original
plans and programs up to the protection systems
conceived with an overall perspective, meaning:
inclusive, universalist and intersectoral positions.
SOCIAL PROTECTION AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDELINES
AREA OF
INTEREST
Active
employment
policies
GUIDELINE
Promotion of youth
employment
-Support reforms or improvements of high school
and professional education curricula.
-Support the design and implementation of ad hoc
measures to smooth the process of youth insertion in
the labor markets.
Employment policies and
national services
-Support the design or reform processes for labor
policies.
-Support the improvement on the system
components, chief among them employment
services and job placement.
Coordination
between
social protection and active
employment policies
-Support the coordination of welfare benefits for the
poorest population sectors as well as for the
unemployed, providing job training and other similar
measures , aimed at the insertion/reinsertion of
these persons into the labor markets.
- Support the strengthening of the social dialogues
mechanisms.
ACTION SCHEDULING
1st EXCHANGE AND PROGRAMMING MEET
(scheduled to take place in Brazil, October 2011)
SUBJECT: Institutional management of social policies, with special emphasis
on the following aspects: (a) evaluation (ex ante and of results); (b)
information systems (for action management as well as beneficiary
identification and follow up); (c) coordination amongst ministries and the
different levels of government.
2nd EXCHANGE AND PROGRAMMING MEET
(scheduled to take place in Central America, Oct. or Nov. 2011)
SUBJECT: Active policies for Youth employment with emphasis on two areas:
(a) Orderly school-job transition; (b) policies, devices and services to ease
youth insertion in the labor market.
COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN EUROSOCIAL AND RIPSO
RIPSO´s priorities definitely present a clear convergence with EUROSOCIAL guidelines and vice-versa.
RIPSO PRIORITIES
EUROSOCIAL PRIORITIES
AS: Intersectoral coordination of social policies
Strengthening of institutions responsible for the
coordination of social policies.
AS: Job promotion and generation of income
for vulnerable populations
Design and/or implementation of the social
protection systems, with particular emphasis on
the fight against poverty
AS: Integral social protection strategies
Promotion of youth labor
AC: Evaluation and monitoring of social
programs
National labor policies and services
AC: Eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger (goal 1 ODM)
Coordination between social protection and active
employment policies
AC: Institutional strengthening of social policy
agencies
COMPLEMENTARITY WITH RIPSO
•
Even though the network promoted by OAS includes a wider range of countries, RIPSO
and EUROSOCIAL have common objectives, their work is based on existing demands
and their tool menu (offer) is very similar as well.
•
RIPSO is also a partner of the EUROSOCIAL program.
•
EUROSOCIAL counts among its chief acting criteria, defined by the European
Commission: (a) privilege the regional dimension; (b) ease cooperation processes
between Latin American countries; (c) insure coordination with other programs and
initiatives within the region.
•
EUROSOCIAL aims to establish a strategic alliance with RIPSO, as well as with other
existing networks in Latin America. This has very specific reasons: the superimposition
and dispersion of analog initiatives carries very negative consequences for all, and chiefly
for the countries themselves; working in coordination and even synergy among each
other, enhances the ability to impact the various actors pursuing similar objectives.
COMPLEMENTARITY WITH RIPSO
The added value of EUROSOCIAL for RIPSO:
– Incorporates the experience of various public European administrations and policies
within the exchange network and the cooperation among counterparts (in a crucial
historic moment for the future of the European Social State)
– Works from an intersectoral point of view to face the problems and challenges of
social protection
– Counts with an ample methodological trajectory in the matter
– Its resources are added to those already in existence to promote exchange and
cooperation
COMPLEMENTARITY NEEDS TO BE PLANNED. THERE ARE ACTIVITIES WHICH
MAY BE ASSUMED JOINTLY, WHILE OTHERS NEED TO BE DEVELOPED EXCLUSIVELY
WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF RIPSO, WITHOUT INTERVENTION FROM
EUROSOCIAL, AND VICE-VERSA.
IN ORDER TO DO THIS, BOTH INITIATIVES MUST SHARE INFORMATION
REGARDING REQUESTS AND OFFERS, AS WELL AS THEIR RESPECTIVE WORK PLANS.
SOCIAL INVESTMENT EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA
Social public expenditure as a GDP percentage ( LA and EU)
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Fuente: Cepalstat 2007
Besides Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica, average social spending for Latin
American countries is 10 points lesser than the EU average.
± 23% EU average ± 13% LA average
SOCIAL COHESION EUROPE/ LATIN AMERICA
Social cohesion indicators: Income ratio between the richest and poorest quintile in
LA and the EU
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Fuente: Cepalstat 2008
In LA the inequality problem persists, the average Gini in LA es 0,50 in
comparisson to the EU´s 0,30
EU STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION
According to the 2011 report from the Social Protection Committee regarding the social
dimension of the “European Strategy 2020”, the main priorities and measures adopted by
member states to fight poverty and social exclusion are related to:
• Increasing employment rates and favoring a more inclusive labor market. (Better access
for vulnerable groups to public employment services and training, the inclusion of
women in the labor markets, people with handicaps, and more efficient incentives).
• Guarantee the sustainability of social protection through reforms on the pension
systems, and to improve the impact of the social transference devices on the poorest
population.
• Reinforce active inclusion strategies.
• Improve the quality of the services, specially in regards to life-long access to and health
care itself, as well as housing.
• Fight against child poverty, through the integral protection of families.
• Assistance to the elderly living in poverty.
• Support to groups at risk (immigrants, handicapped, etc.)