How can social economy contribute to local development

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How can social economy contribute to local
development? Tivoli 4-5 December 2006 The
little community that could Barka Foundation

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Background information

• SWOT analysis
• WEAK SIDES
• Weak societys preparation to the free market
  economy and democracy, lack of financial
  support, legal regulations and lack of citizens
  societys structures
• Societal stagnancy and lack of co-operation at
  administrative, private and individual levels
• Lack of entrepreneurial activities traditions
• Passive welfare approaches, lack of
  re-socialization programs
• Unbeneficial changes in the situation of many
  people, who were not prepared to the political
  and economic transformation (homelessness as
  result of evictions and liquidation of workers
  hotels, long term unemployment, closure of
  unprofitable companies, addictions as result of
  worsening life conditions, increase of violence)
• Lack of educational programmes for staff
  education in the area of social economy, etc.

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Background information

• SWOT analysis

• STRONG SIDES
• Entry into a free market economy and democracy
  created possibilities for search of new
  solutions
• Relief for the financial strain on the national
  system of social welfare can be found through the
  social economy
• Leaders determination to shape a new social
  policy in Poland and create an alternative system
  of support
• The EU enlargement process emphasizes the
  strengthening of citizens society initiatives and
  development of active forms of support to
  socially excluded people, as well as the
  development of human resources through financial
  instruments, mainly the EFS.

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Background information
HOMELESSNESS, ADDICTIONS, DELINQUENCY, PASSIVITY
1st step - communities creation LACK OF SKILLS
2nd step - socio-educational programme, which
gave the basis for the creation of the act on
social employment LACK OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
3rd step - work places creation programme and
social entrepreneurship - Barka prepared a
proposal of a new legislation to obtain legal
recognition of social cooperatives law on
social cooperatives SHORTAGE, OVERCROWDED AND
DAMP HOUSING 4th step - housing programme -
an example of public-social and public-private
partnerships - act on activities of public
benefit and volunteerism (in which the Barka
Foundation participated as consultant) and act on
financial support in the period 2004-2006 for
creation of social housing, shelters and hostels
for the homeless
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Background information

• existing support structures
• Civil societys involvement and volunteerism -
  Act on Activities of Public Benefit and
  Volunteerism
• Social Integration Centres trade training and
  general education for long term unemployed people
  - Law on Social Employment
• Clubs of Social Integration groups of support
  and education
• Emerging social cooperatives - Law on Promotion
  of Employment and Job Market Institutions

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PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE

• 1. Barka Foundation for Mutual Help (project
  coordinator international cooperationpromotion)
  
• 2. Barka-Kofoed School Association - Social
  Integration Centre (training programs for
  longterm unemployed and educational programmes
  for local leaders)
• 3. Social Emergency Association (selection of
  final beneficiaries and their involvement)
• 4. Association for Social Cooperatives (CES
  Poznan - big city)
• 5. Polish Alliance for Social Integration
  (support for local partnerships building)
• 6. Barka Sport Association for Social
  Integration (social integration of final
  beneficiaries)
• 7. WIELKOPOMOC Association for Integration of
  Local Communities (work with participants)
• 8. Barka Association for Social Integration -
  SIW Barka (work with participants)
• 9. Barka Community House Foundation in
  Drezdenko (CES Drezdenko small town)
• 10. Regional Socio-Educational Centre Association
  For the People and the Environment
• (CES Kwilcz countryside province)
• 11. Publishing Association (project romotion and
  social integration activities in Clubs)
• 12. The rural Kwilcz Commune (promotion of
  activities undertaken by CES Kwilcz)
• 13. Institute of Political Studies PAN-Polish
  Academy of Sciences (monitoring and evaluation)
• 14. MaroonPoint Poland (projects website and
  IT training to final beneficiaries)

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DP Social Economy in Practice
Analysis of needs for support

• MAIN OBJECTIVE
• Elaboration of a system of support to social
  economy initiatives to promote changes of the
  social status of socially excluded persons in
  three diverse local environments
• . Big city (CES Poznan),
• . Small town (CES Drezdenko Lubuskie
• region)
• . Rural district (CES Kwilcz Wielkopolska
• region)

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DP Social Economy in Practice
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Objective 1
Implementation of diverse forms of local
cooperation and programmes of socio-professional
integration through building of six local
partnerships. Objective 2 Preparation of
social economy leaders staff (workers of social
economy bodies and people experienced by poverty)
through elaboration and implementation of a
program of continuous education in the framework
of self-educational groups. Objective 3
Creation and development of effective mechanisms
of support to persons entering the work market
through creation of three model Social Economy
Centres and support to creation of social
cooperatives and social enterprises. Objective
4 Promotion of an efficient understanding
between the partners and creation of a mechanism
for the promotion of the project through
construction of an efficient IT system.
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DP Social Economy in Practice
Analysis of needs for support

• Two main results
• A model structure of support to social economy
  bodies SOCIAL ECONOMY CENTRES (SEC)
• Mechanism for local partnerships building. The
  tool is the education of leaders in the framework
  of social economy.

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DP Social Economy in Practice
Target population 1st GROUP socially excluded
people or threatened by exclusion unemployed
people, homeless, released from prisons, leaving
orphanages and correctional houses, addicted and
people without any income 2nd GROUP workers of
institutions of social support, local
admnistration, NGOs, social animators,
representatives of housing settlements councils,
parishes, educational institutions, housing
cooperatives, trade unions, entrepreneurs, social
enterprises staff, media representatives and
leaders of partner organizations.
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Support structures (local level)
Long term unemployed people
Open labour market
HOUSING
Social Cooperatives and Social enterprises
Social Economy Centre
Social Integration Centre
Hostels Community houses for homeless
People not qualified to participate in
the Social Integration Centre
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Support structures (internal)
Social Economy Centre
Recruitment and information agency
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
JOB AGENCY
AID FUND
Vocational counseling and training agency
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DP Social Economy in Practice

• Social Economy Centre
• Recruitment and information agency selection of
  final beneficiaries, information on the project,
  conduct of survey forms final beneficiaries
• Job agency analysis of the local work market,
  work mediation for employment of final
  beneficiaries in commercial companies and social
  enterprises
• Vocational counseling and training agency
  training process organization, implementation and
  supervision with special attention to trade
  training and training regarding creation and
  management of social cooperatives
• Development agency building local market for
  social cooperatives, testing diverse
  possibilities of cooperation of social
  cooperatives and other bodies functioning in the
  local community, cooperation with partners
  (mainly with the business sector and financial
  institutions), support to initiative groups and
  emerging social cooperatives, evaluation of
  business plans, counseling regarding creation of
  social enterprises in non-governmental
  organizations and assistanse in searching for
  possibilities of financing them, promotion of
  products and services made by social cooperatives
  and social enterprises, testing of diverse
  possibilities of financing for SEC
• Aid Fund local fund of support to social economy

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DP Social Economy in Practice
Analysis of labour market

• DEMAND
• Care for the handicapped and the elderly
• Childrens care
• Cleaning, gardening and building services
• Printing office
• Ecologic food
• Cemeteries/graves cleaning
• Recykling and sale of second hand goods
• OFFER
• Services in gastronomy, gardening, commerce,
  hotelarly, preserves produce, recreation
  (management of a public beach space, rent of
  aquatic equipment), recykling (second hand
  clothing, furnitures, scrap metals), public and
  green spaces cleaning, rickshaws, small printing
  office, etc.

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DP Social Economy in Practice
Networks relationships
Local authority welfare office
LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS
District work offices
Local authority
Businesses
Social Economy Centre
NGOs
Inhabitants councils
Educational institutions
Social cooperatives
Parishes
Housing cooperatives
SOCIAL ECONOMY LEADERS EDUCATION
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DP Social Economy in Practice
Networks relationships
Social Economy in Practice
TP IFIPO
TP SETEN
BARKA FOUNDATION
EAPN
FEANTSA
EuroMI European Network for Migrants Integration
Schwab Foundation For Outstanding Social
Entrepreneurs
ASHOKA Innovators for the Public
GDN Global Development Network
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• Human resources (key staff)
• development agents 5
• trainers 50
• guidance and counselling 20
• information officers 20
• financial and legal experts 20
• Financial resources
• public national financial resources
• EU resources
• Own resources
• in-kind donations
• Private resources
• Physical premises
• BUILDINGS (hostels, communities houses)
• EDUCATIONAL Social Integration Centres, Social
  Economy Centres, conference centres
• ECONOMIC BUILDINGS (rural and urban areas)

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
• Barbara Sadowska
• www.barka.org.pl
• www.ces.net.pl