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Charleroi, Centre Public d'Action Sociale (CPAS)

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Member : full
Political Representative : Bernard Dallons, President CPAS Charleroi
Population : 200.000
Website: http://www.cpascharleroi.be

Main area of activities :
The CPAS (social services) is an important actor in the city of Charleroi. It manages the budget for social integration and social assistance grants as well as a number of establishments such as 10 care homes offering 862 beds and is responsible for social assistance to families and the elderly. With a staff of over 400, it co-ordinates within the framework of 'Passage 45' a plan of action to integrate social assistant beneficiaries into social/professional life. Amongst other activities, the CPAS has also initiated 3 projects on local development in three areas of the total city.

On-going projects:
At the heart of the three districts (Dampremy, La Docherie, Porte Ouest) where we are based, we organise two district restaurants, a one-stop shop (access center for citizens) named Proxi-Service as well as three 'citizens centers'. These are places which include all aspects of social life of the serviced districts.

The 'citizens centers' form a base for resources, for living together, for projects, for social/professional integration and are dedicated to the new information and communication technologies.

Thus these centers provide a link between the citizens and the local actors to achieve a maximum of social capital for all these zones and to engage in projects for the benefit of the affected local communities.

QeC-ERAN contact person:
DOSIMONT Eric
13, boulevard Joseph II - 6000 CHARLEROI - BELGIUM
Tel : +32 71 23 30 28
Fax: +32 71 23 33 39
E-mail: dosimonteric@cpascharleroi.be

Member: Full
Representative:
Blanka Elfmarkova
Director General
Tel: +420 2 224920886
Fax: +4420 2 224921883
E-mail: Blanka.elfmarkova@mpsv.cz

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLS) was established in 1990. It is responsible for social policy (e.g. people with disabilities, social services, social benefits, family policy), social security (e.g. pensions, sickness insurance), employment (e.g. labour market, employment support, employment of foreigners), labour legislation, occupational safety and health, equal opportunities of women and men, migration and integration of foreigners, European Social Fund and other social or labour related issues.

MoLSA provides methodological guidance for Labour Offices, Czech Social Security Administration, Czech Occupational Safety Office, Occupational Safety Inspectorates and for the Office for International Legal Protection of Children.

MoLSA runs 5 Social Care Homes for children and adults with physical or mental disabilities.

MoLSA supervises three Government-funded organizations: the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, the Institute for Occupational Safety Education and the Research Institute for Occupational Safety.

The Ministry currently employs approximately 18,000 members of staff.

On-going projects:
MoLSA is currently implementing two projects (for another two projects it provides financial support):

1) "Laps & Raps" project - the overall aim of this proposal is to develop a framework and methodology for the creation of Local Action Plans (Laps) or Regional Action Plans (Raps) for Social Inclusion which will enable the more effective integration of area-based approaches with wider conurbation or regional and national-level strategies.

In order to achieve this overall aim this proposal has the following objectives:

To develop and undertake four transnational peer review and development workshops.
To develop an online good practice exchange and development forum, which would bring together access to resources, case studies connections with practitioners and policy officers for developing local, regional and National plans.
To assist local partners to develop/ improve local or regional plans for social inclusion. Read more>>

2) Project "Gender budgeting in practice"

The main goals of the project are to analyse a contemporary situation of gender budgeting at central, regional and local level in each partner's state and to support the implementation of gender budgeting as a standard tool in the budgetary process at regional and local level.

Activities:

Comparative analyses surveying the gender equality issues in the legal order with a view to gender budgeting and its application in practice.
International conference
Regional seminars
Information campaign

Following projects are financially supported by MoLSA:

3) Project "STOP social exclusion"- Centre of Non-profit Organizations

Activities:

Provision of information, which is the condition for the following:
Participation of all relevant actors in all stages of development of the strategy, from policy definition to implementation, monitoring and evaluating.

The first part of this awareness-raising project will aim at explaining basic terms, policy aspects of European social inclusion strategy and all related policies, documents and instruments (for example European Social Fund, Social Exclusion Program, etc.). Information have already started to be provided on such elements of the respective strategy as Social Exclusion Program, first proposed chapters of NAPs/inclusion, JIM. Project partners will motivate other actors (NGOs, public administration) to take part in implementing the strategy, monitoring its progress and evaluate it.

4) Project " Europe includes everyone" - Centre of Political Analyses

The project focuses on inclusion concerns, specifically engaging stakeholders in local and nation-wide programmes targeted at social inclusion (i.e. implementation of the National Action Plan on Social Inclusion and developing awareness of the Lisbon Strategy Programme activities) and building general awareness among these groups, via use of standard PR/communications tools, on efforts the EU is endorsing (NAPSI, Reform strategy documents, etc.) to help improve the socio-economic situation or marginalised groups in the Czech Republic.

Activities:

Direct inclusion of target audience in project discussions
Use of personal testimonies in producing product information materials
Incorporation of media partners into project activity proposals
Dissemination of information to decision-makers across the Czech Republic

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Other areas of interest:
MoLSA is among others responsible for coordination of Social Inclusion Strategy in the Czech Republic. It coordinates the process of development of the Joint Inclusion Memorandum and the National Action Plan on Social Inclusion and it is also responsible for the implementation and the delivery of the Plan.

MoLSA also provides financial support for the community planning process. Community planning is focused ont the promotion of partnership, development of regional social policies and planning of social services at the regional or municipal level, NGOs and users of social services. It is based on mutual cooperation among responsible institutions (municipalities and regions), users and providers of social services. The objective is to develop a continuous planning process and to establish full cooperation within all levels.

QeC-ERAN contact:
Jitka Zukalova
Na Poricnim pravu 1
128 01 Prague 2
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 2 224920886
Fax: +4420 2 224921883
E-mail: Jitka.Zukalova@mpsv.cz