Post on 04-Jan-2016
NationalNational ActionAction Plan for Inclusion Plan for Inclusion
Fernanda RodriguesFernanda Rodrigues
National Co-ordinator National Co-ordinator
2 previous plans: 2001-2003, 2003-2005, 2 previous plans: 2001-2003, 2003-2005, and an up-dating (2005)and an up-dating (2005)
The place of social inclusion at the The place of social inclusion at the governmental programmes governmental programmes
Initiative of the President of Republic Initiative of the President of Republic announced on the 25th April 2006announced on the 25th April 2006
EU – orientationsEU – orientations
Brief PresentationBrief Presentation
EU orientationsEU orientations
To address the weak implementation of the preceding NAPincl´s To improve the co-ordination with other strategies To increase the strategic focus To promote the mainstreaming and coordination To mantain and to reinforce the multidimensional approach To strengthen the governance mechanisms
- Local, regional and nacional articulation
- To involve all relevant actors
- To increase public awareness
To improve monitoring and evaluation- To assess the impact of measures- To improve statistical data
To stimulate exchange of knowledge and experiences
High levels of poverty
Specific vulnerable groups
Low qualifications, failure and early school leaving
Significant rates of unemployment
Low levels of social protection
Exogenous factors influencing/producing poverty
National contextNational context
NAPinclusion - conceptionNAPinclusion - conception
Main actorsMain actors
Interministerial Follow-up Commission Task force of the Ministery of Labour and
Social Affairs (MTSS) Experts working group Non Governmental Forum for Social Inclusion Social Network Programme Parliament Commission for Labour and Social
Affairs
Main PrinciplesMain Principles
CitizenshipCitizenship
Responsability and mobilisation Responsability and mobilisation
Integration and multidimensionalityIntegration and multidimensionality
Universality and positive differentiationUniversality and positive differentiation
Territorial approachTerritorial approach
Equal opportunities and gender Equal opportunities and gender perspectiveperspective
Inclusion - strategy Inclusion - strategy
Priorities Priorities
I.I. To combat children and elderly poverty, through To combat children and elderly poverty, through measures which ensure their basic rights of measures which ensure their basic rights of citizenship;citizenship;
II.II. To correct the disadvantages in education and To correct the disadvantages in education and training / qualification; training / qualification;
III.III. To overcome discriminations by re-enforcing the To overcome discriminations by re-enforcing the integration of people with disabilities and integration of people with disabilities and immigrants;immigrants;
SOCIAL INCLUSION - STRATEGYSOCIAL INCLUSION - STRATEGY
Main reasons to prioritiesMain reasons to priorities
To combat persistent poverty To combat persistent poverty
To increase levels of education and To increase levels of education and qualification qualification
To respond to the diversity of problems To respond to the diversity of problems experienced by disabled people aiming at to experienced by disabled people aiming at to overcome an historical deficit overcome an historical deficit
To promote inclusion and to counteract To promote inclusion and to counteract discriminatory phenomena towards discriminatory phenomena towards immigrantsimmigrants
Priority IPriority I
Transversal MeasuresTransversal Measures
Social housing programmes
Re-ínforcement of the insertion dimension at the Minimum Income Programme (RSI)
Development of projects addressing groups and territories at risk
Measures to combat over-indebtedness
Priority IPriority I
Children – focalised measures Children – focalised measures Increasing social protection towards single-parent
families
Improving the network of kinder-garden facilities
Qualification of the interventions adressed to children at risk and in boarding schools
De-institutionalisation of children and youth people
Priority IPriority I
Elderly – focalised measures Elderly – focalised measures
To reduce monetary poverty
Reinforcement of the social facilities
Improvement of housing conditions (pilot project)
Priority IIPriority II
Prevention measuresPrevention measures
Full time schoolFull time school
Early intervention measures Early intervention measures Early leaving, school failure and poor qualification of youth
Reparation measures Reparation measures Qualification and accreditation for active age adults (at risk of labour market exclusion)
Info-exclusion measures Info-exclusion measures Increasing free access to internet in public places
Increasing training in the domain of TIC
Priority IIIPriority III
Disabled peopleDisabled people To increase early intervention social answers To enlarge the number of places at social facilities To guarantee a national network of specialised
attendance places To create instruments at the education system To guarantee training /employment To improve accessibilities
Priority IIIPriority III
Immigrants - domains of intervention Immigrants - domains of intervention Increasing of information (CNAI, CLAI) Correction of disadvantages on the domain of
portuguese language learning Improvement trainig and insertion in the labour
market Reinforcement of the understanding and suport to
the victims of trafic of human beings Implementation of legal instruments towards a
better insertion
MeasuresMeasures
MeasuresMeasures Site Immigrant SOS Service Trainers Center of Resources Cabinet for Intercultural Education and Training National Center for Atendance and Integration Programme for Unemployed Immigrants Teaching Portuguese as a no mother language (national curriculum) Escolhas Programme Standing Observatory for Security Social Support model for victims of human beings Immigration Law Nationality law
Sub-national dimensionSub-national dimension
Unequal distribution of poverty along the countryUnequal distribution of poverty along the country
Diverse understandings vs. Diversity of tolerance Diverse understandings vs. Diversity of tolerance (natural phenomenum or a societal problem)(natural phenomenum or a societal problem)
Vulnerabilities and access to opportunities, Vulnerabilities and access to opportunities, social, cultural, economic and political social, cultural, economic and political participationparticipation
Adequacy and a better use of resources Adequacy and a better use of resources
Improving access to adequate informationImproving access to adequate information
PNAI – regional scalePNAI – regional scale
* Around 60 political measures * Around 60 political measures
* 2/3 of them have a direct implication with sub-national scale kind of * 2/3 of them have a direct implication with sub-national scale kind of interventionintervention
* Diversity of areas: * Diversity of areas:
- insertion - insertion
- employment- employment
- housing- housing
- local projects (CDS, Progride, Rede Social)- local projects (CDS, Progride, Rede Social)
- acessibilities- acessibilities
- voluntary work- voluntary work
Situation (Portugal) Situation (Portugal)
Existing programmes and tools able to Existing programmes and tools able to address the regional challenge for inclusionaddress the regional challenge for inclusion
To deal with historical differences To deal with historical differences
To deal with diverse sizes and paces in To deal with diverse sizes and paces in changechange
To consolidate and to stimulate new ways of To consolidate and to stimulate new ways of cooperationcooperation
Experience and consolidationExperience and consolidation
Sub-national dimensionSub-national dimension
Taylored dynamics, agents and resourcesTaylored dynamics, agents and resources
Role of multisectorial and transversal local Role of multisectorial and transversal local partnerships (community intervention as a partnerships (community intervention as a priority)priority)
Combination of universal and selective Combination of universal and selective investments investments
Managment and “voice”Managment and “voice”
Promotion of replicability based on tested and Promotion of replicability based on tested and concrete experiencesconcrete experiences
Regional dimension – other variablesRegional dimension – other variables
More or less centralised contexts Unsufficient level and kind of development of welfare and
development How consolidate are integrated and participatory approachs To counteract the existence have various instruments ignoring
each other How to overcome small scale pilot projects How to consolidate the illustrating effect of “good practices”
PNAI - governancePNAI - governance
To improve political co-ordinationTo improve political co-ordination
To simplify policies and to rationalise the To simplify policies and to rationalise the existing policy measuresexisting policy measures
Re-inforcing mobilisation and participation of Re-inforcing mobilisation and participation of all actorsall actors
Improving access to informationImproving access to information
Fernanda RodriguesFernanda Rodrigues
Coordenadora Nacional do PNAICoordenadora Nacional do PNAI