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Progress Programm of European Union
Croatia: Project
Partnership for social inclusion
September 16, 2009.
http://www.socijalna-ukljucenost.net
Predrag Bejaković
The Guide for Social Impact Analysis
Project coordinator
The Institute for Public Finance, Zagreb
Smičiklasova 21, Zagreb
Phone: +385 1 4886 444
Fax: +385 1 4819 365
www.ijf.hr
This programme is co-financed by
Delegation od the European Commision in the
Republic of Croatia
Trg žrtava fašizma 6, Zagreb
Phone: +385 1 4896 500
Fax: +385 1 4896 555
The European Commission is an executive body of European Union.
“European Union consists of 27 EU Member States determined to unite their knowledge, resources and
destines. With mutual co-operation during 50 years they established an area of stabilily, democracy and
sustainable development, keeping their cultural diversity, tolerance and personal freedom. European Union is
devoted to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and people out of its own borders.”
www.delhrv.ec.europa.eu
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http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/poverty_social_exclusion_en.htm
The content of the presentation
• What is about
• General background
• Analysis role in improvement of social picture
• Some principles in implementation
• Key areas
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Reasons and importance of the Project
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Significant number of Croatian citizens is in
unfavourable social position because they do not have
adequate access to existing public goods and services,
and due to economic recession, increased
unemployment and budget problems, one could expect
further deterioration of the social picture.
The aim is to improve the social picture through
workshops, round tables, user’s guides and
enhancement of public awareness on social exclusion.
The situation can be improved with the realisation of the
Analysis of social impact.
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What is about?
• The Social Impact Analysis (SIA) refers to the analysis of the
distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or
welfare of different stakeholder groups, with particular focus on
the poor and vulnerable
• The User’s Guide presents both economic and social analysis
tools and methods.
• Analysis may include the likely repercussions of extensions or
reductions in the duration of unemployment benefits,
increasing the amount or broadening the number of users of
the maintenance allowance etc.
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General background
• Market forces alone can never be relied on to produce a fair or
equitable society.
• The state must be committed to the reduction of poverty and
inequality, and in order to do so, it must maintain a transparent and
equitable system of social protection that relies on a foundation of
universal coverage and non-discrimination.
• It is necessary to strengthen the social safety net through improved
targeting and monitoring of social welfare programmes, empowering
civil society in the provision of social services, decentralisation of
some social services and better design of employment policy..
• A primary aim of policy must be to get people into work - or back into
work.
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Analysis role in improvement of social picture
• It is an approach that intends to inform policy formulation and
choice, rather than being any specific tool or method.
• It draws on a host of different tools from many disciplines
depending on what is appropriate for the particular issue.
•SIA takes account of the intended and unintended
consequences of various policies not only those with an explicit
poverty reduction aim.
• Its ambition is to improve policy formation as well as measures
for impact evaluation of policy interventions on the well-being of
different social groups, with a focus on poor and vulnerable
people.
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Main principles (I)
A multi-dimensional and disaggregated view of poverty
and asses the distributional impacts on various
social groups.
In order to provide a full view of these effects a
combination of quantitative and qualitative data will
be required.
A range of social, economic, political and institutional
approaches to analysis could be used.
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Main principles (II)
Country ownership - National actors should be involved
in all discussions and should take the lead in
identifying policy issues.
Enable broad stakeholder engagement.
Be able to foster transparency and accountability.
Be pragmatic and appropriate to purpose.
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Key areas (I)
With all mentioned, SIA helps the project make better
use of existing community assets. SIA addresses
seven key areas:
1. What is being analyzed
2. What is the welfare measure being assessed
3. Whose welfare is being analyzed
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Key areas (II)
4. How impacts are channelled
5. How do institutions affect outcomes
6.When do impacts materialize
7. What are the risks of an unexpected outcome
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Elements of Good Social Impact Analysis
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Asking the right questions
Identifying stakeholders
Contemplating enhancement and compensation
measures
Assessing risks
Monitoring and evaluating impacts
Fostering policy debate and feeding back into policy
choice
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Thank you for your attention!
All proposals, improvements and opinions are welcomed.
Contact:
Predrag Bejaković
The Institute for Public Finance, Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: +385 1 488 64 55, Fax: +385 1 48 19 365
e-mail: [email protected], www.ijf.hr
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