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Title: Hungarian participation in the EU social inclusion process: The National Action Plan on Social Inclu


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Hungarian participation in the EU social
inclusion processThe National Action Plan on
Social Inclusion
April 3, 2006 István Sziklai
Ministry of Youth, Family, Social Affairs and
Equal Opportunities, Unit of Co-ordination for
Development
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Milestones in eradication of poverty
  • Lisbon European Council declares goal by 2010
    (March, 2000)
  • Nice European Council launches the Open Method
    of Co-ordination OMC (December, 2000)
  • OMC is a flexible method of policy coordination
    and was introduced in the field of employment in
    1997.

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Key target of decreasing poverty
Current level
Goal by 2010
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5 elements of the OMC
  • National Action Plans on Social Inclusion
  • Common Objectives
  • Common Indicators (Laeken Indicators)
  • Joint Reports on Social Inclusion
  • Community Action Programme to Combat Social
    Exclusion

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Common Objectives
  • Facilitating employment and providing
  • access for all to resources, rights,
  • goods and services
  • Fighting against the risks of social
  • exclusion
  • Supporting the most vulnerable
  • Involving all actors

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Key factors facilitating the implementation of
the NAPs
  • Improving the understanding of social exclusion
    and poverty with the help of comparable
    indicators
  • Organising exchanges on policies which are
    promoting mutual learning
  • Developing the capacity of actors involved

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Main elements of Community Action
  • Common understanding
  • Exchanges on policies
  • Transnational Exchange Programme
  • Peer review process
  • Independent Experts
  • Awareness raising on the social inclusion OMC
  • Capability building of non-governmental actors

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Hungarian National Action Plan on social inclusion
  • EU decided to include the candidate countries
    into the social inclusion OMC (early 2002)
  • National seminar was organized (July 2002)
  • Drafting of the Joint Memorandum on Social
    Inclusion (or JIM)
  • Hungarian NAP/ incl (July 2004)

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Key priorities identified by the Hungarian JIM
  • Facilitating participation in employment for
    inactive and socially disadvantaged people
  • Human resource development by training
    opportunities and inclusive education for
    socially disadvantaged children
  • Modernising the social protection systems
  • Accessible social and health care services,
    education, etc. for all
  • Adequate and affordable housing
  • Decreasing territorial differences
  • Special attention to the most vulnerable groups
    (e.g. Roma people, people with disabilities
    children in poverty, psychiatric patients and
    addicts, homeless people)
  • Co-ordinating the various policy domains
  • Strengthening and involving the civil society
  • Producing internationally comprehensive data on
    poverty.

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The 5 chapters of the NAP
  • Situation analysis based on the Laeken indicators
    but also on national indicators
  • Strategic objectives on social inclusion
  • Policy measures for 2004-2006
  • Institutional arrangements
  • Good practices
  • Statistical annex

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Strategic objectives of the NAP
  • Promoting employment
  • Accessible public services for all
  • Decreasing poverty, especially long-term and deep
    poverty
  • Investment in the future the well-being of
    children
  • Mainstreaming the fight against social exclusion

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1. Promoting employment
  • Employment-friendly economic environment
  • Active labour market measures
  • Training and lifelong learning
  • Facilitating female employment and reconciliation
    of work and family life
  • Community-based social services that promotes the
    re-integration of unemployed people

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2. Accessible public services
  • Accessible public services
  • - Modernising the social provision system
  • - Affirmative education
  • - Overcoming health disparities
  • - Integrative culture and sports
  • - Information society fight against digital
  • divide
  • - Accessible justice
  • Reducing regional inequalities
  • Physical accessibility of public services
  • Fight against discriminatory practices

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3. Reducing long-term and deep poverty
  • Incentive and targeted social assistance
  • - Revision of social law
  • - Improving the eligibility criteria
  • - Increasing the level of some benefits
    for the most in need
  • Secure housing
  • - Reducing over-indebtedness
  • - Eliminating slums
  • Reducing homelessness

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4. Investment in the future the well-being of
children
  • Better targeting of benefits in-cash and in-kind
  • Improving child care services
  • Fostering of childrens rights
  • Targeted programmes for disadvantaged children
    and youth

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5. Mainstreaming the fight against poverty and
social exclusion
  • Coordinated and mainstreamed approach
  • For the Roma
  • For people living with disabilities
  • Equality between men and women
  • Activation and dignity for the elderly

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Key targets in the Hungarian NAP/incl
  • Employment rate Overall 59 in 2006 and 63 in
    2010 (EU 70)
  • Male 64.5 in 2006 and 69 in 2010
  • Female 53 in 2006 and 57 in 2010 (EU 60)
  • 55 33 in 2006 and 37 in 2010 (EU 50).
  • Lifelong learning 10 in 2010 (12.5).
  • 22-year-olds with upper-secondary education
    level 88 in 2006.
  • Integrated education for Roma children in 270
    schools by 2006.
  • Number of places in day-care for children under
    3 by 10 by 2007.
  • Capacity of home care support by 10 by 2006
  • Reducing premature mortality in the most
    disadvantaged regions by 10 by 2006
  • Increasing PC use 50 in 2006. Internet use
    40 in 2006.
  • Significantly reducing over-indebtedness by 2006.
  • Increasing rental housing to 15 of all homes
    within 15 years.
  • Reducing the number of homeless people living on
    the street.
  • Decreasing child poverty by 2006 by expanding
    benefits
  • Significantly reducing the social exclusion of
    the Roma.
  • Continuing physical and communicational
    accessibility.

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Challenges for Hungary
  • Evaluation of the NAPs by the European
  • Commission (autumn 2004)
  • The fight against poverty should get higher
    national priority with more resources, better
    co-operation among the relevant bodies and better
    involvement of the civil society
  • Improvement should be reached in target setting
    and monitoring of policies
  • A higher priority should be given to the issue of
    inactivity within social inclusion policies

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Current developments
  • EU has recently introduced the OMC in two other
    fields as well
  • Adequate and sustainable pensions
  • Health care and long-term care for the elderly
  • National Pension Strategic Report was elaborated
    in each country
  • Social inclusion, pensions, health and long-term
    care will be merged and handled unified
  • Member states have to prepare common strategic
    report by September 2006 on these areas
  • This is going to be the National Strategy Report
    on Social Protection and Social Inclusion

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Highlights of the experiences of the social
inclusion OMC
  • Gives opportunity to international exchange of
    experience
  • Growing commitment in reducing poverty
  • Priorities of social policy are shifted from
    passive assistance to activisation
  • Dialogue about the whole social benefit system
  • More attention is paid to methodological
    questions
  • Social policy is more and more considered as a
    productive sector
  • Coordinated, complex and intersectoral programmes
    and approaches are spreading
  • Social aspects have influence on the global
    development plans

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Thank You for Your attention!
Contact information
sziklai.istvan_at_icsszem.hu
  • vajda.gyorgyi_at_icsszem.hu

www.icsszem.hu
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