Transcript Ministerul Educației, Cercetării și Inovării

The Romanian plan of action in the field of
social inclusion: the results of the
consultation process regarding the
identification of the priority objectives for
2010-2012
International conference
Bucharest, 17-18 November 2009
Ms Adina Dragotoiu
Director, Directorate for social inclusion programmes
Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection
Romania
Proiectul Phare 2006 “Asistenţă tehnică pentru promovarea
campaniei naţionale de conştientizare în domeniul incluziunii sociale”
Ministerul Muncii,
Familiei şi
Protecţiei Sociale
CHALLENGES
Romania is currently facing a series of
challenges:
Demographical changes;
 Changes on the labour market;
 School dropping;
 Poverty level.
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
demographical
 Life expectancy at birth (2007):
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Men: 69,71 years
Women: 76,86 years
 Life expectancy at 65 years (2007):
Men
Women
EU - 27
16,84
20,9
Romania
13,94
16,86
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
demographical
 Healthy life years (2007):
Men
Women
EU - 27
61,6
62,3
Romania
60,4
62,4
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
employment (ILO)
Employment rate 15 – 64 years:
EU target for 2010: 70,0%
 In 2007:
 Romania: 58,8% (men: 64,8%; women: 52,8%)
 EU27 – 65,4% (men: 72,5% ; women: 58,3%)
 In 2008:
 Romania: 59,0% (men: 65,7%, women : 52,5%)
 EU27 – 65,9% (men: 72,8% ; women: 59,1%)
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
employment (ILO)
Unemployment rate at 15+:
In 2007:
 Romania: 6,4% (men: 6,7%; women: 5,4%);
 EU27: 7,1% (men: 6,6%; women: 7,8%)
In 2008:
 Romania: 5,8% (men: 6,7%; women: 4,7%)
 EU27: 7,0% (men: 6,6%; women: 7,5%)
Unemployment rate 15 – 24 years (1st quarter
2009):
 Romania: 19,6%
 EU27: 18,3%
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
employment (administrative data)
Number of registered unemployed persons
in 2009
Registered unemployment rate in 2009 (%)
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625140
600000
572562
526803
653939
500000
513621
601673
400000
444907
517741
300000
548930
477860
200000
100000
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7
6
5.3
5.6
5.7
5.8
6
Mar-09
Apr-09
May-09
Jun-09
6.3
6.6
6.9
7.1
Sep-09
Oct-09
5
4
3
2
1
0
Feb-09
Jul-09
Aug-09
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
employment (forecast)
 According to the Autumn forecast of the
National Commission of Prognosis:
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8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
registered unemployment rate
4.4
7.6
6.2
5.7
5.3
4.9
4.6
ILO unemployment rate
5.8
8.4
7.7
7.5
7
6.6
6.3
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
education
Rate of early school dropping
25
23.2
23.6
20
20.8
16.3
15
19
15.8
15.5
19.2
15.2
15.2
10
5
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
EU-27
16.3
15.8
15.5
15.2
15.2
Romania
23.2
23.6
20.8
19
19.2
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
poverty rate
Trend of
poverty rate in
Romania
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Relative poverty rate
17.3
17.9
18.2
18.6
18.5
18.2
Absolute poverty rate
25.1
18.8
15.1
13.8
9.8
5.7
Extreme poverty rate
8.6
5.9
4.6
4.1
2.4
1
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
poverty rate (2008)
Trend of
poverty rate in
Romania per
development
regions
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Relative poverty rate
17.3
17.9
18.2
18.6
18.5
18.2
Absolute poverty rate
25.1
18.8
15.1
13.8
9.8
5.7
Extreme poverty rate
8.6
5.9
4.6
4.1
2.4
1
BACKGROUND INDICATORS
poverty rate
Dynamics of absolute poverty per type of residence
60
50
47,8
44,7
40
42,4
38
35,9
Rural area
30,6
30
28,9
25,9
20
25,1
18,8
Urban area
27,3
23,6
22,3
15,1
13,8
Country total
18,8
17,6
13,8
10
11,6
8,1
15,8
9,8
6,8
4,9
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
9,8
5,7
2,3
2008
12,4
7,4
3,2
2009
What is social inclusion?
 According to the Law no. 47/2006 regarding the
national social assistance system:
Art. 5.a - “ the process of social inclusion
represents the set of multidisciplinary measures
and actions from the fields of social protection,
employment, housing, education, health,
information-communication, mobility, security,
justice and culture aiming to combat social
exclusion.”
What is social inclusion?
How social inclusion was interpreted at the
working groups in the previous 9 conferences:
 Equal access to social, civil and econimic rights for all;
 Observe human dignity;
 Facilitate citizens’ opportunities for personal
development;
 Participation to the democratic processes and to
decision-making.
Lisbon Strategy (2000-2010) : EU> the most dynamic economy
based on knowledge, able to have a sustainable economy growth
with more and better jobs and a better social cohesion
Common objectives
Aggregate indicator
Community Action
Programme for
Combating Social Exclusion
Action Plan on
Social Inclusion
2010-2012
National Strategic Report
for Social Protection and
Social Inclusion
2006-2008
National Strategic Report
for Social Protection and
Social Inclusion
2008-2010
Monitoring Report
Start for a new cycle, post Lisbon
 Commission and European Parliament renewed
 Impact of the financial and economic crises on
employment rate and on the social domains (Plan of
Economic Recovery)
 Preparations for post Lisbon strategy (2010 - 2015),
including a new European Employment Strategy
(EES), a new “Social Agenda” and new cycle for
OMC
 Treaty adoption
Priority areas for the promotion
of social inclusion (hierarchy)
Education 1078
Employment 695
Health 640
Social protection
601
Communication
426
Housing 271
Justice 88
Culture 59
Security 57
Mobility 15
PRIORITY FIELDS OF ACTION
1. EDUCATION
2. EMPLOYMENT
3. HEALTH
4. SOCIAL PROTECTION
5. INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION
Specific actions
1. EDUCATION:
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Preventing school abandon;
Developing educational programmes accorded to the labour
market needs;
Intercultural education as methodology and intercultural spirit;
School counselling/ information for families in deprived
communities regarding the benefits of participating to the
educational process;
Developing lifelong learning programmes;
Facilitating access to education of children in remote
communities;
Increasing the quality of the schooling in rural areas;
Developing pre-school education;
Further strengthening the “school-after-school” programme.
Specific actions
2. EMPLOYMENT(I):
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Objective analysis of labour market needs and
development of educational and training programmes that
are adapted to them;
Diversifying of workplace retraining programmes;
Making labour market more flexible (through part-time
jobs, work-at-home) by means of employment projects
targeted at beneficiaries of the minimal guaranteed
income;
Need-adapted employment measures destined to disabled
persons, and creating incentives for employers to hire this
group;
Developing abilities for new jobs;
Specific actions
2. EMPLOYMENT(II):
 Facilitating the creation of new jobs mainly for
disadvantaged groups, be means of developing the social
economy sector: define the concept of social enterprise and
support the establishment of social enterprises.
 Creating jobs to promote traditional crafts;
 Creating a national system of prognosis for the labour
market;
 Raising awareness and information levels of employers to
eliminate their reluctance at hiring people in difficulty;
 Ensuring financial resources for the implementation and
multiplication of the active employment measures.
Specific actions
3. HEALTH:
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Make sure that at least 97% of total population hold a health
insurance in the national public system;
Amenities and free-of-charge services for vulnerable persons
and categories;
Morbidity prevention programmes, centred on deprived
communities in particular;
Facilitate equal access to health services in the public system
and improve the quality of the medical performance;
Enhance the role of family doctors as “social actors”;
Develop the emergency care system;
Introduce health insurance e-card;
Strengthen health care services in coordination with social and
long-term care services.
Specific actions
4. SOCIAL PROTECTION (I):
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Evaluate existing social needs in communities;
Make the use of available financial resources more
efficient;
Evaluate the effects/ impact of paid social benefits, and
develop programmes aiming at integration, and not on
generating dependency on the social system;
Tangible measures targeting the necessities of people in
need (subsidies for electricity and utilities bills, etc.);
Systems of social inclusion services that are well
coordinated among all relevant sectors;
Increase the ratio of expenditures for active measures
within the total of social expenditures.
Specific actions
4. SOCIAL PROTECTION(II):
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Set of minimal social services that must be ensured in a
community;
Unitary public pensions system;
Stimulate the development of social services that would
help intensify the degree of self-determination and
autonomy for people in difficulty;
Encourage public-private partnerships; outsourcing the
delivery of social services;
Increase the investment in the human capital in the field
of social services.
Communication –
general considerations
 Working groups participants described
communication as a necessary and
compulsory prerequisite for achieving the set
social inclusion objectives.
 As a result, it will be the first time when
communication activities will be an integral part
of the national plan of action in the field of social
inclusion.
 The lack of communication between institutions
was demonstrated by the genuine interest that
the exchange of information and views generated
among the participants to the working groups.
Specific actions
5. INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION:
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Develop information campaigns in the field of social inclusion for
the general public;
Establish structure with definite communication tasks at local
level;
Organize information sessions of legislative changes for the
actors involved in the social inclusion process;
Inform beneficiaries about the rights they have in an accessible
manner;
Improve communication between the various actors involved in
the social inclusion process;
Develop national/ local promotion campaigns focused on
examples of successful social inclusion of people belonging to
vulnerable groups.
Good governance
1. COORDINATION OF LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
 Eliminate legislative incongruities and limit the recurrent
changes in law;
 Efficient inter-institutional collaboration and mutual
exchange of information regarding legislative proposals;
 Draft impact assessment studies on the degree of
implementation of existing legislation before it is changed/
amended.
Good governance
2. DESCENTRALIZATION
 The county level is the optimal level of descentralization;
 Introduce administrative, financial and human resources
criteria in evaluation the capacity of local authorities to
take over a certain service;
 Allocate human and financial resources in parallel with the
descentralization of responsibilities.
Good governance
3. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILIZATION
 At the level of local authorities:
 Information campaigns to raise awareness among all local
authorities on the roles and tasks they have;
 Establish citizens’ information centres with data about the
social rights (within the Public Social Assistance Services);
 Measures to rebuild trust and respect for professionals working
in local structures.
 At the level of citizens:
 Inclusive education, to determine citizens to get involved in
the social life of their communities;
 Promote participation to decision-making and develop joint
projects;
 Introduce in school curricula lectures about the “civic spirit”.
Good governance
4. PARTNERSHIPS
 Redefine the connections between the civil society,
business community, authorities and state to raise
awareness of the sense of common belonging to the
society as a whole;
 Existance of a joint/ unitary collaboration mechanism to
achieve a global perspective of social needs and existing
measures.
Good governance
5. CONTINUE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE DATA
COLLECTION SYSTEMS
 Continue efforts to make the National and County
Commissions for the Promotion of Social Inclusion
function more effectively;
 Consolidate data collection mechanisms, especially at
local level;
 Create a set of indicators in the social sector that will
provide a clear reflection of the existing needs and
programmes at the county and community levels;
 Develop IT infrastructure to facilitate the administrative
data collection process.