SARL Members Capacity Building Assignments

Title

Supporting Unit for the Network of local social inclusion Centres (Ministry of Health and Social Welfare)

Objectives

The Supporting Unit for the Network of local social inclusion Centres was an initiative of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to promote local policies against poverty and social exclusion. During this Project, AUAS designed a set of modules to identify social needs of excluded persons and increase their integration through empowerment techniques.

Timeframe

2002 – 2005

Budget

980.000 €   (total budget)

65.000 €  (AUAS)

Title

The development of Social Economy initiatives (European Union Initiative Equal II)

Objectives

The Project focused on the development of local initiatives to foster Social Economy and Entrepreneurship settings in Greece. During this Project, AUAS designed a set of training modes (assessment of training needs, training material and self-assessment guides) for people interested to establish or participate in social economy organizations.

Timeframe

2005 – 2008

Budget

1.200.000 € (total budget)

43.000 € (AUAS)

Project

A new national primary social care scheme (Ministry of Health and Social Welfare)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of an Action Plan for the introduction of the national primary social care scheme, which included the following components:

§  evaluation of existing policies in the primary social care field;

§  identification of European best practices;

§  the scope and the principles of new initiatives;

§  d) models for institutional and funding arrangements of the new scheme.

Timeframe

2005 – 2006

Budget

40.000 €

Project

The role of Local Authorities in the provision of social care services (Cypriot Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of an Action Plan for the introduction of social care services at local level through the establishment of networks between the Government and local authorities. It examined the conditions to create 10 new social care programmes at local level and increase the capacity of civil society actors.

Timeframe

July 2007 – December 2007

Budget

36.550 £  (total budget)

18.000 £  (AUAS)

Project

The development of Demographical Policies for needy families (Cypriot Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of a Strategy to increase the adequacy of Demographical Policies for needy families, which included the following components:

§  evaluation of existing policies;

§  identification of European best practices;

§  the scope and the principles of new initiatives;

§  d) models for institutional and funding arrangements of a new scheme.

Timeframe

December 2008 – December 2009

Budget

68.000 €

Project

Data base for NGOs and migrant’s organizations (Ministry of Interior)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of a data base for NGOs and migrant’s organizations through analysis of primary sources and the development of an implementation guide

Timeframe

2011

Budget

70.000 € (total budget)

25.000 € (AUAS)

Project

The Local Action Plan on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Municipality of Athens)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of a Local Strategy on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which introduced new values and principles on the cooperation between local governments and social and solidarity economy actors.  It was published in May 2013 and received mass coverage by the media and social and solidarity economy organizations (third sector, foundations and charities, social enterprises) given that – for the very first time in Greece – a municipality adopted a concerted Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship framework with the following pillars:

a) Regulatory reform in order to enhance the Municipality’s administrative capacity to foster social innovation culture and practices;

b) Field research to identify local social needs and trends, demand for services and products provided by social enterprises;

c) Training courses for target groups and stakeholders of the Strategy;

d) Establishment of Local social innovation partnerships;

e) Establishment of a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator;

f) Development of a CSR Network in Athens;

g) Initiation of a nation-wide Network of Municipalities fostering Social Entrepreneurship.

Timeframe

October 2012 – May 2013

Budget

70.000 €

Project

The Central Mechanism supporting the development and promotion of Social Cooperative Enterprise and the broader social economy initiatives in Greece (Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Welfare

Objectives

The fundamental task of the Central Mechanism is to develop an enabling ecosystem for the social economy based on partnerships between civil society organizations, public administrations and private enterprises. The main elements nurturing the ecosystem that public policy can provide or shape will be:

Þ    A broad range of advisory, training and business development services to support the start-up, development and growth of social enterprises;

Þ    Fora and networks of stakeholders organizing awareness-raising, mobilisation and capacity building actions;

Þ    Commitments of key stakeholders to facilitate and promote the start and development of Social Enterprises (Social Economy Pacts);

Þ    Direct financial support for the starting and developing a social enterprise;

Þ    A favourable legal and administrative framework;

Þ    A social finance sector providing access to capital for consolidating and scaling social enterprises

Timeframe

April 2014 – December 2015

Budget

750.000 € (total budget)

100.000 € (AUAS)

Project

The National Strategy Framework to prevent and combat homelessness (Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Welfare)

Objectives

The Project focused on the design of a concerted Strategy to prevent and combat homelessness as a means to fulfil the objectives of the National Social Inclusion Strategy 2014-2020. The new framework included the following components:

a) evaluation of existing policies;

b) identification of European best practices;

c) the scope and the principles of new initiatives;

d) models for institutional and funding arrangements of a new Strategy to prevent and combat homelessness;

e) the Action Plan for the implementation of the new Strategy.

Timeframe

October 2014 – June 2015

Budget

100.000 €