Sector strategy development Coordinating Board for Foreign Assistance in Labour and Social Protection 7 October 2010 Ministerul Muncii, Protecţiei Sociale şi Familiei al Republicii Moldova

2 Introduction Sector Coordinating Board meeting in June considered draft Sector Programme Document and approved the format Document needs to present and integrate 6 different items of information: –strategic policy objectives –MTEF programmes –principal activities –associated donor projects/programmes –key output/outcome indicators –planned expenditure This short presentation reports on progress in developing the document

3 Sector programme document (cont) Integration needed to: – show what resources are being devoted to each strategic objective –identify under-resourced critical activities or areas of over- concentration of foreign assistance –plan future interventions in support of Ministry priorities First challenge is to agree a coherent and meaningful set of strategic objectives Draft drew on NDS, NDS Action Plan, MTEF, Institutional Development Plan and other statements of priorities to produce a set of 17 objectives (too many, and not all very strategic in focus)

4 Progress on objectives Workshop with senior Ministry officials yesterday to consider a structure of Aims, revised Strategic Objectives and related Indicators for the Ministry Not time yet for these to be considered and formally agreed by the Minister But can provisionally be summarised as follows:

5 Aims 1.Creating an efficiently targeted social assistance system 2.Providing social guarantees to insured people 3.Strengthening the family institute and ensuring the observance of child rights 4.Promoting the rights of people in difficulty 5.Promoting the observance of gender equality

6 General objectives 1.Building the capacities of MLSPF in decision-making, analysis and control of social policy implementation; (no. of trained civil servants; no. of draft legislative and regulatory acts that undergo an ex-ante analysis; no. of legislative and regulatory acts analysed in terms of impact on beneficiaries) 2. Adjusting the national legislative framework to international regulatory standards; (no. of analysed, adjusted and developed legislative and regulatory acts) 3. Developing a social inclusion system; (studies; no. of awareness raising campaigns; no. of socially integrated people from various groups) 4. Building the professional capacities of staff employed in the social protection system; (no. of trained people; duration/frequency of trainings, training materials, awareness raising)

7 Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 1: Creating an efficiently targeted social assistance system Objectives and indicators: 1.Developing an integrated social service system; (no. of primary, specialised and very high need services; no. of beneficiaries in each type of service; no. of accredited social services; no. of inspected social services) 2. Targeting funds to the most disadvantaged people, families and social groups; (no. of families in receipt of social support; average amount of social support; no. of families with children in receipt of family support benefit)

8 Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 2: Providing social guarantees to insured people Objectives and indicators: 1.Correlating social insurance benefits with the contributions made; (no. of beneficiaries of privileged pensions; use of a formula for calculating the pension on the basis of contributions; use of data from the personified data record system for pension calculation) 2. Ensuring a framework of social security guarantees for migrant workers from Moldova; (no. of bilateral agreements signed and ratified; no. of exported/imported pensions)

9 Aims, objectives and indicators Aim3: Strengthening the family institute and ensuring the observance of child rights Objectives and indicators: 1. Reforming the residential child care system and (re)integrating the child in the family or in family-type services; (no. of children deinstitutionalised and reintegrated in the biologic/extended family; no. of cases of prevention of child institutionalisation; no. of children in residential institutions, etc.) 2. Promoting the rights of the child; (no. of cases of prevention/fight against child neglect by parents; no. of children victims of violence, labour exploitation who have been assisted; no. of people in the child protection system sanctioned for violation of child rights; no. of parents trained in terms of parental skills building) 3. Balancing family life with professional activity; (no. of adapted rooms in public/private institutions for feeding children by the employees; no. of fathers beneficiaries of child care leaves; no. of preschool services for young children)

10 Aims, objectives and indicators Objectives and indicators: 1.Preventing human trafficking and domestic violence and applying measures for the protection of victims and potential victims of the above phenomena; (no. of prevented cases of human trafficking; no. of assisted victims of human trafficking; no. of services developed for victims of violence and aggressors; no. of issued protection ordinances) 2. Reforming the mechanism for determining the disability in children and the work capacity in adults for their social inclusion; (no. of staff units responsible for recruiting people with disabilities created within the Employment Agency; no. of children with disabilities included in the mainstream education system; no. of people examined in order to establish their work capacity and disability in children) Aim 4: Promoting the rights of people in difficulty

11 Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 5: Promoting the observance of gender equality Objectives and indicators: 1.Gender-sensitive national policies (no. of civil servants trained in the development of gender-sensitive policies; no. of information centres opened at local level)

12 Conclusion This structure will be presented more formally for agreement within the Ministry Then incorporated into revised Sector Programme Document, with updated overview of externally-funded projects, for consideration by donors also If approved, could form core of new sector strategy for Ministry; some work already done in this direction by TA to Budget Support project (but without internal consensus on objectives structure)