Lessons learnt from the

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Lessons learnt from the People-centred Analyses
process (draft title) Afërdita Haxhijaha
Imeri Social Inclusion Practice Coordinator UNDP
Macedonia
United Nations Development Programme
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Key lessons

• Responding to the new development challenges
• Concept and the innovative approach
• Strengthen national capacity and
  institutionalizing the process

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Responding to the new development challenges

• FYR Macedonia with new development context EU
  candidate status
• Socio-economic concerns instead of security and
  political stability concerns
• The growing social issues and the question of a
  new social welfare model ?
• Unemployment, disparities, vulnerability,
  deprivation and exclusion.
• Lessons from more than 5 years of Early Warning
  Reports
• The relevance of the old concept, its
  methodology, the national capacity, and the
  sustainability in the new context ?

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Concept and the innovative approach
People-centred putting people at the centre of
all concerns Human Development, Human
Right-based, Social Inclusion
Socio-economic profiles
Inter-ethnic relations (social cohesion)
Quality of Governance
Poverty dimensions
Decentralization
Objective Subjective assessment
Vulnerability dimensions
Institutions
Inequality
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Concept and the innovative approach

• Methodology
• Quantitative data (on poverty) perception data
• Survey data official data
• Monitoring trends and indicators
• Policy-oriented research
• Innovation
• Measurement of vulnerability
• Income, employment, material deprivation, access
  to services, social network
• (evolving other dimensions to be further
  considered)
• SILC indicators calculated for Mak the first time

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Strengthen national capacity and
institutionalizing the process
Institutionalization Partnership with national
institutions. A selected think-tank institution
to lead the initiative. Transfer of
knowledge Concept methods Capacity building
on quantitative qualitative methods Data
collection and further research Knowledge on
social inclusion and EU integration issues
Transparent processes and result-based mgn.
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Thank you!