Iniziativa Comunitaria Equal

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Agenzia di Cittadinanza Sviluppo
territoriale del welfare di responsabilità

• Iniziativa Comunitaria Equal
• Fase 2 - IT-G2-LOM-061

Warsaw, 10-12 May 2006
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• FIRST PHASE PROJECTS OBJECTIVES

• Agenzia di cittadinanza DP had two essential
  aims
• to support and strengthen social enterprises
• to facilitate co-operation between public bodies
  and the third sector.
• It succeeded in stimulating public debate and in
  transforming the social service delivery system
  in the Milan area from one based on competition
  to one operating via co-operation and networks.

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• HOW CAN PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
  WORK TOGETHER?

• Is public tendering the only way of public
  authorities and social enterprises working
  together?
• Agenzia di cittadinanza launched and experimented
  the operating model of TERRITORIAL LABORATORIES
  (area offices).
• Agenzia di cittadinanza supported the
  participation of third sector in joint planning
  of social interventions and services (law
  328/2000).
• Agenzia di cittadinanza supported public
  authorities while assigning contracts to type B
  social cooperatives.

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• ROLES OF TERRITORIAL LABS

• What do we mean for territorial laboratories?
• Meeting places for local third sector
  organisations, local authorities and individual
  citizens who want to start social initiatives.
• The laboratories had three main roles
• To find out and analyse what local needs were
• To plan jointly actions to answer those needs
• To support the third sector and social
  enterprises to promote social integration and
  local development.

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• MAIN RESULTS OF TERRITORIAL LABS

• Some results of the matching between the local
  needs identified and the public policies and
  local development opportunities, carried out by
  territorial laboratories
• By using a national initiative called contratti
  di quartiere (neighbourhood contracts), the North
  Milan lab inserted a social dimension into a
  urban and infrastructural restoration
• The south Milan laboratory supported a group of
  citizens undertaking training in planning a
  solidarity building, under the frame of a process
  of joint planning for the social and urban
  regeneration of a district with social problems.

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• THE AREAS WHERE THE PROJECT TAKES PLACE

Province of Milan

• Municipalities 97 (out of 189)
• Population
• 2,3 millions (out of about 4)
• Territorial Laboratories
• Milano city
• Nord Milano
• Est Milano
• Nord Ovest Milano
• Ovest Milano
• Sud Milano

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JOINT PLANNING OF SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS AND
SERVICES
Agenzia di cittadinanza contributed locally to
the implementation of the national law 328/2000,
which innovated in local welfare systems, giving
a new role to all the actors involved. This law
has set up a system of joint negotiated planning
in areas usually such as child and family care,
handicap, elderly care and severe poverty. It
works through committees composed by
representatives mainly of municipalities and
third sector organisations. The DP has won direct
representation on some of the committees.
Article 1 says that the Municipalities have to
co-operate with the third sector in the planning,
designing, management and assessment of the
integrated system of social interventions and
services.
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SOME RESULTS OF THE PARTICIPATION IN JOINT
PLANNING

• The North East Milan Laboratory has gained direct
  representation in the committees of joint
  planning of the area near Vimercate. The Piano di
  zona of Vimercate decided to engage the whole
  fund to the new poverties, in particular to face
  for the first time housing problems.
• A 50.000 rotating fund was set up in order to
  meet the financial deposit and anticipation of
  rent tenants need before they can move into a new
  house (project A roof for everybody).
• A permanent association ASCA has been set up to
  provide guarantees to help marginalised people to
  rent houses.
• With the project Casa di Ruth, a system of
  vouchers has been set up to provide from one-day
  to a few weeks periods of respite care.

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TOOLS OF PARTICIPATED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

• Agenzia di cittadinanza produced a guide called
  Erkadé giving public administrations practical
  tools to implement the law in order to promote
  the work insertion of disadvantaged people
  (article 5 of national law 381/1991).
• Some advantages
• the development of a real partnership between
  public authorities and social cooperatives that
  overcomes the classical client / provider
  relationship and allows early diagnosis and
  response to emerging social problems in the local
  communities
• a saving because a disadvantaged citizen
  integrated in the labour market means less costs
  for the public administration in terms of care
  and subsidies.

The Italian law on social cooperatives
establishes that public authorities can assign
contracts for public services to type B social
co-operatives without tendering procedures.
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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

• Agenzia di cittadinanza in the second phase of
  Equal decided to focus on public procurement.
• At local level, innovative legal forms in the
  relationship among the public, private and
  non-profit sectors for the delivery of social
  services will be investigated. In particular we
  want
• to create a public-private agency to rent
  affordable housing (with the participation of
  municipalities, ALER and social cooperatives)
• to give a stable legal form to a temporary
  association composed by municipalities and a
  social cooperatives consortium for the joint
  management of work insertion services.
• At transnational level, a comparative analysis of
  different models of cooperation between the
  public sector and the providers (both private and
  non-profit) of social services will be done.

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HOW TO MEASURE ADDED VALUE?
In the first round Agenzia di cittadinanza
promoted the use of bilancio sociale (social
accounting) among municipalities and social
cooperatives to calculate the costs and benefits
of different ways of delivering social services.
During the project 2 public authorities and 10
social cooperatives built their own bilancio
sociale. In the second round Agenzia di
cittadinanza is now experimenting the process of
building a territorial social balance in two
areas of the project. Will these tools be able
to measure the longer-term benefits of the
participative delivery of social services, such
as employment, housing, care, local economic
development?
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CONTACT DETAILS

• Agenzia di cittadinanza
• Via Brambilla 8/10 I - 20128 Milan
• Phone [phone]  -   Fax [phone]
• www.agenziadicittadinanza.it
• segreteria_at_agenziadicittadinanza.it
• Valentina Caimi
• Transnational Coordinator
• European Office
• Caritas Ambrosiana
• Via San Bernardino 4 I 20122 Milan
• Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
• v.caimi_at_caritas.it
• v.caimi_at_agenziadicittadinanza.it