Sustainable Model of Integrated Employment & Social Care Services in the Municipality of Mallakastra
Municipality of Mallakastra
02.05.2022 - 01.05.2024
Overall Objective
This Action targets unemployed women & youth, two of the most vulnerable at-risk groups in the Municipality who live in poverty with little or no income are susceptible to social exclusion. The Action enhances social care provision through building the local infrastructure for at-risk groups with a multi-functional community centre building staffing capacity to reach vulnerable populations in remote areas.
Summary of the Project
The Action strengthens municipal capacities to establish deliver inclusive services by addressing social protection inclusion, employment vocational education. Its specific priorities will be:
a) establishing social care services at municipal level by opening a multifunctional community centre offering a package of social
services in the centre through mobile teams in rural areas
b)supporting social inclusion in employment through capacitating unemployed individuals establishing a social enterprise supporting small businesses run by formerly unemployed individuals.
Unemployment rates, particularly high among women youth, which has worsened due to COVID, has a significant impact on their ability
to lead financially independent lives. Through targeted employment support programmes, the Action will address the inclusion of women
youth in the labor market. The Action is in alignment have synergy with national local social inclusion strategies in Albania.
Activities
– Renovate municipal premises for MFCC (Multi functional community center);
– MFCC management structure programme of services Cooperation agreement with Regional Employment Office;
– Revise local social inclusion plan to include employment;
– Enable community to engage in development of integrated service model;
– Community participation framework including feedback mechanism;
– Community advisory group;
– Enable municipal local staff to sustainably manage services;
– Capacity building for municipal local staff;
– Technical assistance individualised coaching;
– Exchange visits on multi-functional service inclusive employment provision.
Results
The Action will improve the technical management capacities of the target groups final beneficiaries:
– Municipal social services MFCC staff will have enhanced technical management capacities to manage a multi-functional community centre for the most at-risk individuals in the local
population;
– Municipal social services MFCC staff will have enhanced technical management capacities to provide multi-functional services for local at-risk populations;
– MFCC staff will have enhanced capacities to employ case management approaches to at-risk groups and to operate a local system of referrals;
– MFCC staff will have capacities to provide mobile multi-functional services in the community;
– Members of the community would be empowered to actively participate in the development of social care services in the MFCC their communities;
– Unemployed individuals will be capacitated for employment through access to a range of employment support programmes, including active job search support & vocational on-the-job
training;
– Unemployed individuals will be capacitated for self-employment through entrepreneurship skills training, start-up income generating grants business support mentoring & coaching;
– Unemployed women will be capacitated to run a social business through entrepreneurship skills training business support mentoring coaching;
– At-risk individuals families will be capacitated on accessing local social care services which will positively impact on their socio-economic situation and inclusion in Albanian society.
