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