Workshop on Social Innovation

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Workshop on Social Innovation

• 19- 20 of January, Brussels,
• Barbara Sadowska

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Barka system for education and employment of the
long term unemployed people

• 6/9 Sw. Wincentego str.
• 61-003 Poznan,
• POLAND
• tel./fax [phone]
• e-mail barka_at_barka.org.pl
• www.barka.org.pl

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Background information

• 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 in the
  area of social economy, etc.

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Background information

• 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

• New Legislation 2002 - 2006
• Building public social partnership - Act on
  Activities of Public Benefit and Volunteerism
• Social Integration Centres and Clubs of Social
  Integration trade training and general
  education for long term unemployed people - Law
  on Social Employment
• Emerging social cooperatives - Law on Social
  Cooperatives
• Housing for people with low wages - Law on
  Accesible Housing

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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 Integration Centre
Social Economy Centre
Hostels Community houses for homeless
People not qualified to participate in
the Social Integration Centre
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Networks relationships
LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS
Local authority welfare office
District work offices
1. Center of Social Integration 2. Social Economy
Centre
Local authority
Businesses
NGOs
Inhabitants councils
Educational institutions
Social cooperatives
Parishes
Housing cooperatives
SOCIAL ECONOMY LEADERS EDUCATION
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LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS - new mechanism of
cooperation

• Local welfare institutions select the social
  clients for the integration programs. Than
  instead of distribution a social money, they
  order different tipes of services to the social
  cooperatives, which consist of former clients (in
  commune Lwowek 11 former social clients are
  prepared to take care of ederly people)
• Housing company in Poznan order to take care of
  the green area to the people who havent payed
  for the rent of flats. These gave them possiblity
  to be self-employed and pay back their debts

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Results of cooperation

• 18 social cooperatives
• 3 social enterprice run by assosiations and
  foundations
• 3 limited companies
• 7 ceters of social integration
• 6 centers of social economy
• 12 community houses
• 32 social houses as a last step of integration

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Evaluation

• Opinion presented by local partners
• Media presentation
• Stories of people who have rebuilt their life
  presented in publications
• Report of the visitors from different regions of
  Poland and from Europe (England, Irland,
  Copenhagen, Ukraine, Bielarus presented in
  www.barka.org.pl
• Evaluation of Polish and international
  researchers (Diesis, Rambol, Velux Foundation
  etc.)

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Poznan, LwOwek, Drezdenko, Kwilcz

• Examples of reintegration programes

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CARPENTRY Social enterprice - Poznan

• 5 workers are engaged in renovation and
  production of furniture.

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Social Cooperative - ARTSMAK Poznan

• Serving food for students in schools and
  occasional events 7 workers

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ECO- FARMA SOCIAL COOPERATIVES Lwowek

• 11 workers, production of organic food

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Social Enterprice - recreation center , 3 workers
Kwilcz
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Gardening SOCIAL COOPERATIVEworking in
cooperation with housing company 8 workers
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SOCIAL ENTERPRICE - STREET PAPER

• The unemployed people in Poznan who sell the
  Street Paper earn 50 of the price yearly 50
  vendors

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Production of bicycles, CooP, Poznan 5 workers
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32 social houses the last step to start
independent life Poznan
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Darzybor Settlement built in public private
partnership
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First families living in the Darzybor
Settlement 150 persons
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Mainstreaming

• infuence for 4 new legistations
• The model of public social partnerships between
  local welfere offices and social cooperatives (
  following by 11 local authorities in different
  regions of Poland)
• The model of partnerships between housing
  cooperatives and people who have debts( 3 social
  local settlements)
• System of support of social cooperatives Center
  of Social Economy followed by 11 new local
  communities
• Added value inclusion of the migrants inside of
  EU, who were not succeed in UK, Irland and
  Copenhagen who enter Barka system of integration
  in Poland
• influence of revision of the English and Irish
  system of suppot

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Programs in Poland www.barka.org.pl