MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL POLICY BULGARIA

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• MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL POLICYBULGARIA

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Bulgarian National Poverty Reduction and Social
Exclusion Strategy, Action Plan, Joint Inclusion
Memoranda and National Programme From Social
Assistance to Employment
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Millennium Development Goal Report

• Following Bulgarias commitments as a signatory
  to the UN Millennium Declaration of September
  2000.
• Set of eight MDGs to be achieved by 2015.

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Millennium Development Goals

• 1.     Halve extreme poverty and malnutrition
• 2.    Improve primary and secondary education
• 3.    Promote gender equality and empower women
• 4.    Reduce child mortality
• 5.    Improve maternal health
• 6.  Limit the spread HIV/AIDS, Syphilis and
  Tuberculosis
• 7.    Ensure environmental sustainability
• 8.    Develop partnership for development.

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National Poverty Reduction and Social Exclusion
Strategy 2003 2006

• Adopted by the Council of Ministers on 6th of
  October 2003.
• General goal of the Strategy - reducing poverty
  and preventing the risk of social exclusion.
• The Strategy has accepted as its strategic goals
  the goals, adopted by the Member states.

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Action Plan to Combat Poverty and Social
Exclusion 2004

• Adopted by the Council of Ministers on 19th of
  January 2004.
• Operational tool for implementing the Strategy in
  short-term period.
• Takes into account the MDG as defined in the
  Millennium Declaration.

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The Joint Inclusion Memoranda

• Main key challenges
•        Developing an inclusive labour market
•        Tackling educational disadvantages
•        Housing
•        Improving delivery of services
•        Social services
•        Regenerating areas of multiple
  deprivation
•        Healthcare
•        Transportation.

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National Programme From Social Assistance to
Employment

• Beneficiaries (Target groups)
• long-term unemployed, who benefit from monthly
  social assistance allowances in an active age
• unemployed, who permanently look after disabled
  and seriously ill persons in an active age
• up to 20 of the persons are long-term
  unemployed, skilled workers who do not benefit
  from social assistance allowances.

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Activities under the Programme

• training and literacy courses
• community services
• urban works
• maintenance and protection of municipal and state
  property
• maintenance and protection of the environment
  maintenance and protection of cultural heritage
  industrial activities
• social activities
• the Personal Assistant service, and other
  activities.

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Outcomes for 2003

• Employed under the programme - 117 761 people
• Dropped out from the social assistance system -
  more than 74 000 persons and families
• Overcoming of social exclusion
• Improved literacy and vocational training of long
  term unemployed
• Earn money/income/ instead of social benefits.

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Involved institutions and partners

• - Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
• Employment Agency
• Agency for Social Assistance
• Local authorities
• Public and private employers
• NGOs and others.