Case Study The Portuguese Approach

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Case Study The Portuguese Approach
Developing a methodological framework for
developing Local and Regional Plans for Social
Inclusion
Alexandra Amorim
Portugal
INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SECURITY Ministry of Labour
and Social Solidariaty
1st PEER REVIEW Prague, 8th-11th February 2006
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Summary

• 1- NAPIncl ? National Process
• 2- NAPIncl ? Participation Project (2003-05)
• 3- Social Network Programme
• 4- LAPs / RAPS Project ? Portuguese Approach

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NAPincl Process
Coordination and Follow-up Structures
Participation Structures
Civil Society
NAPincl Interministerial Commission
Social Inclusion Strategy
Social Partners
Ministry Working Group
NGO Forum
Technical Team
Monitoring / Evaluation
Participation Project
Information System
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NAPIncl?Participation Project
Aim
Mobilising all relevant actors (4th Common
Objective)
Main Measures

• Strengthening the NAPincl Interministerial
  Commission
• Improving the social partners participation
  (Council for Economic and Social Cooperation)
• Setting up the NAPincl NGOs Forum
• Developing Activate Participation Project (EAPN
  Portugal)
• Fostering the participation at local level

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Participation at local level
3 Strategic Steps towards Local Level

• The plan was presented and discussed in 9 Public
  Sessions across the country with local
  organizations in partnership with the Portuguese
  EAPN ? between March-April 2004
• 7 Local Workshops (2 days work between Jul-Dec
  2004) were organised to debate the Plan
• National Seminar

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Participation at local level
Geographical and administrative context

• 18 districts
• 278 municipalities
• 4047 parishes
• 5 territorial units (statistic and planning
  issues)

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Participation at local level ? Local Workshops
Macedo de Cavaleiros
Famalicão
Oliveira do Bairro
Peniche
Cascais
Reguengos de Monsaraz
Portimão
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Participation at local level Local Workshops
Purpose

• Deepen the NAP inclusion knowledge and
  establish forms producing measures and social
  policies integrated at local level

Main objective
Experience solutions to produce and implement
integrated social inclusion measures
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Participation at local level Local Workshops
Methodology

• Participative methodology Nominal Group
  Technique
• small working groups, representing cross-cutting
  issues (education, employment, social security,
  helth, ONG, and others)
• guided through a limited set of questions
• aiming to produce a social diagnosis, strategic
  objectives and structural projects for the region
  or district on
• vulnerable groups
• vulnerabilities and problems
• In the framework of the Social Network Programme

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Participation at local level Workshops Process
Strutural Projects
Strategic Objectives
Diagnosis
Vulnerable groups
Vulnerabilities and problems
Outcomes
NAPincl Interministerial Commission
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Social Network Programme

• An instrument to fight poverty and social
  exclusion
• Launched in the beginning of 2000 in 41 pilot
  municipalities
• Today there are 275 municipalities with Social
  Network (out off 278)

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Social Network Programme
Purpose

• Promotion of the local and social development
• Development of partnership structures
• Introduction of participated strategic planning

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Social Network Programme
Objectives

• Implementation of participated planning processes
• Development of integrated projects at
  municipalities and parishes
• Development of solutions for problems/ needs of
  families and persons
• Promotion of adequate delivery of services and
  equipments in those municipalities
• Dissemination of knowledge concerning the
  municipalities realities

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Social Network Programme
Methodological Approach

• Municipalities (at a local level) accomplish the
  following actions
• Constitution of a Local Social Action Committee
  (CLAS)
• Dynamization of Actions of Social Parish Councils
  (CSF)
• Internal Regulation
• Social Diagnosis
• Social Development Plan (3-5 years) and Action
  Plans (1 year)
• Information System

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Social Network Programme
Innovator and Positive Contributes

• Definition of intervention priorities in the
  municipalities
• Partnerships agreement on common goals to set up
  coherent strategies of intervention

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LAPs / RAPS Project ?Portuguese Approach

• National level
• NAPincl

Central Administration Sectorial
Policies Social Partners NGO Fórum
Local Administration Local Authorities NGO
Local level Social Development Plan ?Social
Network
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LAPs / RAPS Project ?Portuguese Approach
Central Administration Mainstreaming Social
Inclusion Social Partners NGO Forum
National level NAPIncl
Supra-Municipality Structures FARO
Local Administration Local Authorities NGO
Local level Social Development Plan ?Social
Network