The Volume before you contains the total of 3 monitoring reports drafted within the framework of the call for proposals for the implementation of monitoring of the social protection programme (operational and action plans) of the local self-government units of Veles, Kumanov and Probistip.
The publication of the present volume of monitoring reports is a part of the project “Promoting Social Inclusion through Effective Use of EU Funding”, which is financially supported by the European Union and is implemented by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje (IDSCS), Association for Democratic Initiatives (ADI) and the Organisation of Women of the Municipality of Sveti Nikole (OŽOSV). In view of the full implementation of the activitities in the selected municipalities, the Project has entered into a Memorandum of Cooperation with the municipality of Probistip.
The overall topic addressed by the studies concerns the monitoring of the social protection programmes (operational and action plans) of the municipalities of Veles, Kumanovo and Probistip. The reports are structured as public policy documents, thus they suggest practical recommendations for improvement of the identified deficiencies in the implementation of the social protection programmes, which may be particularly useful to the public policy makers and the decision makers at local level.
The representative of the civil society organizations that implemented this activity in accordance with the “Methodology for monitoring of municial social inclusion action plans”, developed within the frames of the present project, used a combination of research methods, in particular: desk and field research. Furthermore, the representatives of the civil society organizations formulated their recommendations taking into account the experience and knowledge acquired during the study visit to Slovenia, which had been organized within the frames of the present project.
We hope that the available documents, brought together in a volume such as the present one, shall be of particular interest for both the profesional and the general public, as well as for the policy makers and decision makers, who should seek inspiration and guidelines for their future activitites in the Social Protection and Inclusion at Local Level Volume of Monitoring Reports findings and recommendations contained therein.
Social protection and inclusion at local level – Volume of monitoring reports