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European Commission
2003 Phare Small Projects Programme
Budget line
B7-030
Applicant:
SMES-EUROPA
Dossier
No 082-870-202
During
: 2004-2005
I. THE ACTION
1.1 Title:
D&H-5P/II: Dignity and Health – Right and Access: using
the EU objectives in exchange program for increase participation in
citizenship and access to health and social services for the most
disadvantaged and excluded people”
1.2. Location(s) of the
activity(ies)
FROM:
1. Bucharest (RO), 2. Prague (CZ), 3. Sophia (BG), 4.
Warsaw (PL), 5. Riga (LV).
TO : a) Brussels (B), b) Paris
(F) c) Rome (I) d) Madrid
(E) e) Copenhagen (DK)
NB.: this provisional
order will be discussed with the partners and take final decision in
the 1st preparatory meeting: Brussels September
1.3
Amount requested from the European Commission
Total
eligible cost of the action
58.658 EUR
Amount requested from the European Commission 46.926
EUR = 80% of total eligible cost of the action.
1.4
Summary
1.
Aim:
To promote the RIGHT–DIGNITY and increase access to Health / Mental Health
and Social Services for homeless and socially excluded people in 2
Candidate Countries : Romania and Bulgaria and in 3 Acceding Countries :
Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia.
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Target groups:
professionals, voluntary and volunteers working directly with homeless and
socially excluded people. This would, for example, include social workers,
psychologist, G.P. doctors, nurses, and NGO staff. Indirectly :
marginalised and exclude people.
3.
Main activities :
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Realising an exchanging/visits program, consisting in 5 countries of
EU: B-DK–S-F-Italy.
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1 European Seminar that gather all countries and representatives from
all EU.
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Publication and dissemination of discussions and recommendations
1.5 Objectives
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To realise, after the project “Dignity and Health
-5Projects”, a second phase with a real “bilateral” & “symmetric”
inter-exchange, in order to satisfy many requests presented by actual
partners of project
D&H-5P, between the 5 partners: two of candidate (BG-RO) and three
from acceding (CZ-PL-LV)
countries and five countries of actual EU.
The project D&H– 5-P, supported by Commission, consists in realising
visits/exchanging and conclusive transnational workshop – at rotation – and
it is realised in each of 5 Partner’s Countries (Phare). D&H-5P
will conclude in June with the Seminar in
Prague,
where we could starting at same time the second phase.
2. To
realise the second phase of D&H-5P that will consist for our Five Partners
of in visits / exchanging – in these inviting cities :
Brussels, Paris, Rome. Madrid, Copenhagen,
In the
annex list there are divers Associations and Institutions working
for promoting concretely access to rights : health , resources,
housing, job, educational training and discuss with the local staff
the daily practices and local dispositions that either interferes
with or encourages access to social and healthcare services for
homeless and vulnerable people.
3.
To present – each delegate of 5 Partners (Phare) with local workers
– the health and mental health
system and resources and local social protection, each of own country,
if and how exists any especially attention for disadvantaged and excluded
people.
4.
To
increase with this exchange of information and knowledge between the 5
external invited people and
local workers, the knowledge of EU objectives included in NAP,
as it can be applied to problems arising
in their daily work
5.
To increase – with all these initiatives - awareness of EU action and
program with national and regional policy makers.
6.
To produce local reports and materials which can both assist local
practice and inform local policy and planning
7.
To produce a final project report to enable wider dissemination of the
local findings and to encourage international benchmarking.
1.6 Justification
a)
Relevance of the action to the objectives of the programme
This
project will increase local knowledge of EU human rights
legislation, an integral part of membership
of the European Community. It is consistent with the “open
coordination method” for ensuring the development of common European
social policies. It will strengthen the effectiveness of
organisations working for the protection of socially disadvantaged
minorities.
b)
Relevance of the action to the priorities of the programme
The introduction of the free market into Eastern European countries
has had the effect of removing large numbers of uneconomic jobs. These jobs,
although economically ineffective, were significant support mechanisms for
many people at the lower end of the socio-economic scale, with limited
skills and resources. Without this support, it has become apparent that
there have been increasing numbers of homeless and socially marginalised
people in these societies. To address their needs will go some way towards
reducing the negative impact of the free market in these countries.
By focussing on the potential impact of EU law, this project will
heighten awareness that legal mechanisms are not merely for societal control
but that they can also be used to establish the rights and entitlements of
individuals.
c)
Identification of perceived needs and constraints in the target
countries
Contacts were made with Eastern European organisations during previous
pan-European SMES seminars. They requested assistance for increased
contact between themselves and EU organisations working with the
homeless, particularly those with serious mental illness.
d)
list of target groups (if possible include letters of intent to
demonstrate the interest of the identified target groups) and estimated
number of direct and indirect beneficiaries
N.B.:
this target group is composes more of representatives of
Associations who participated in
Prague Seminar.
e)
Reasons for the selection of the target groups and activities.
Homeless and disadvantage people often do not use normal or official
avenues to gain entitlements
or
assistance for themselves. Thus mainstream health and social services will
often not have any
significant or consistent
contact
with them.The participants involved will belong to organisations that
have a
track record of engaging with and successfully providing services to
homeless and socially disadvantaged people. They will therefore have regular
contact with these groups and will already possess the necessary background
knowledge and experience of working with them. They will be in a position to
immediately use knowledge gained in the workshops in their daily work with
homeless and disadvantaged people.
f)
Relevance of the action to the target groups
Participants will be people who work with inadequate resources to
provide care and support for a very deprived group of people. The
project will help them to develop knowledge and skills that can be
used in their daily work with individual clients and will not
generate any direct extra costs for their organisations.
1.7 Detailed description of
activities
A.
ROLES & INITIATIVES
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Role & fonction of
SMES-EUROPA :
Elaboration & Presentation of the
2nd
phase of
D&H-5P project
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a)
In Preliminary phase : elaboration – preparation – information ;
b)
After agreement of project by Commission,
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To improve a special team for D&H-5P in order to co-working and
sharing responsibilities,
roles & functions
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To Inform members of SMES-EUROPA, in order to showing interest in
participation
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To prepare and sending to all partners and participants the general
information about the basic aim, objectives and method
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Stay in
contact
with partners, in order to support the best preparation –
elaboration – realisation
of divers 5P and participate to each of D&H-P.
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To insure by local co-ordinator, redaction of local report and
dissemination of information
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To manage a monitoring D&H-5P meeting in the half of initiative
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Co-organising with Local Partner the Final seminar of October.
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To manage an evaluation meeting in
Berlin
with all partners and preparing the final report with
recommendations and disseminate all.
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2.
Role of each “receiving partner” : B-D-DK-F-E-I
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Create a team for co-working and sharing responsibilities, roles &
functions.
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Inform colleagues and asking to show interesting and involvement
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Preparing workers committee
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Selected centres to visit and awareness about the aim : in what way
the the daily practices
support – make lobby & advocacy the Political Responsible &
Administrators in order to
“eradicate exclusion and poverty” and promote RIGHT – PARTICIPATION –
SOLIDARITY.
Using als the Join Report of NAP.
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Preparing venue – program - agenda and all logistic for final Saturday
workshop
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Send preliminary program to “welcome partners”, asking about
desiderata
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Preparing final agenda of visits and workshop
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Preparing frame and draft of “D&H-P” and sending to all partners for
up-date
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Redacting final report and disseminate information.
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Role of each “welcome partner” : CZ-RO-BG-PL-LV
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Create a team for co-working and sharing responsibilities, roles &
functions.
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Inform colleagues and asking to show interesting and involvement
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Preparing workers committee
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Select 5 delegate of Associations - who at rotation – could
participate at program
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Preparing the basic information of own countries about the 5 factors
of exclusion = topics of previous project : health – resources –
house – job – education, but – using the JIM – in what
way the Political Responsible would “eradicate exclusion and poverty”
and promote RIGHT – PARTICIPATION – SOLIDARITY .
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Sending desiderata about especially interest in visiting one or other
centre.
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Agree the final agenda of visits and workshop
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Preparing participant who will bring with him all interesting
documentations.
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Redacting final report with receiving partner and disseminate
information with report but also
with target meetings
B. LOCAL PROGRAMME:
visits/exchanging in
Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Rome
a)
European co-ordinator : before beginning the programme, he will send
to all five partners the
clear and complete information about method of second phase; the
general profile of the
institutions and Organisation which the partners will visiting for
exchanging.
b)
Local partner & co-ordinator : before beginning the programme, must
take
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Contact regularly with European co-ordinator in order to have the last
information about methods and partners
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Contact with the local Associations in order to inform about the
project, call for showing interest in participating explaining the
aim and to overcome any questions, asking for collaboration in order
to preparing visit with team and users.
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Contact with the 5 “invited” Partners (Phare), sending a clear and
complete information
about the date, method and profile of the institutions and
Organisation that the partners
will visiting for exchanging, asking about eventual desiderata.
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2.
Realising visits/exchanging
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This
is a suggestion for "frame" of agenda for all
the
5 programs.
We suggests to all participants beginning the Wednesday morning for
this each delegate must arrive or Tuesday evening or early of
Wednesday.
Each local coordinator
must adapt the agenda to local contexte and he
is the responsible of timing
and
flexibility, according with European coordinatotion.
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09,00 - 11,30 |
Briefing |
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Presentaitions &
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a)
Wednesday
morning
: “briefing” meeting in the centre of local organiser with all
partners or delegates, in order to discuss and agree agenda and
appointments.
b)
Thursday & Friday : realisation of program
visits/exchange, at minimum 5 centres. Will be possible perhaps join
others visits, id useful, but only as shortly visit.
Because
the aim of visit/exchange is in meeting with the team, and if is
possible joint with any users, to analysis in what way the project
to contribute to Dignity – Health – inclusion, both for
users and for civil society .
Evaluate – longitudinally -the evolutif process of health and
reinsertion, also with case study of a user, who should reinforce
the Project, as being a ‘good practice’.
The “case” will be possible to use as an emblematic case (problems,
solutions…), the Saturday
in workshop.
c.
Saturday : small seminar where will be invited to exchange with
invited 5 delegates of (Phare) Partners all local visited
Associations and other interesting local people, reproducing the
good method and practice of our small seminars of D&H-5P that we are
realising in the Prague, Bucharest, Sofia, cf.: please Warsawa our
last now :
http://www.smes-europa.org/D&H-4P_Warszawa.htm
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In the morning: “theoretical session” where will be presented any
shortly speeches about choised topics, with round table and debate.
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In the afternoon “practical session” workshops, where
would be analysed an “emblematic case”
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In the evening: evaluation meeting & definition of basic point for
local report.
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Elaborate the local report :
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a)
The local coordinator, sharing the job with each of D&H-5Partners
(Phare), would preparing together (each one will take a specific
task) – “strictly” in the month after the “visits/exchanging”
the report of program including :
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All usefull documents,
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Profile with any analyse and comments of visited centres,
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Global résumé of Seminar, including each speech
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Any shortly recommendations.
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Disseminate the conclusions – recommendations - reports .
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Preparing the participation in Final European Seminar, where all will
be present in workshops.
Cf.: the list of all “good practices” that
SMES-EUROPA identified in 2002 with the European project “To live in
Health and Dignity”.
And of all this Associations we have the analysed profile.
1.8 Methodology
(a)
methods of implementation
Why are
we choosing to have a information-gathering - and workshop phase in
each locality?
Different nations have different histories and laws and inevitably
have different social mores and ways of organising services.
Uniformity cannot be assumed across a region.
Other
ways of gathering information such as postal questionnaires are
unreliable and tend to generate
poor response rates. And also to strengten international co-work and
inspiration.
Why are
we choosing to have 5 workshops preceding a European conference?
Because, while all countries have their individual differences, many
of the findings are likely to be shared
by countries who have not been included in the project and who might
benefit from the findings.
It is
also an opportunity to raise the profile of the issue with the media
and policy makers
(b)
reasons for the proposed methodology
Why are
we choosing to engage more with front-line workers ?
Front
line workers are most likely to be aware of difficulties in
accessing services for their clients. They
are the most important/powerful group in terms of developing access to
services for their “users/clients”.
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For the most part they do not have any legal training yet find
themselves in the position of interpreting
the law to their clients. They have a direct knowledge of problems and
barriers and difficulties and “a really time” for “inclusion
process”: they could suggest many and very important concrete
proposals in order to transform legislation and offer support for
National Action Plan .
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For these reasons we recommend that in all of 5 local small
seminar to find all opportunity to invite and have in co-working
also the local authorities responsible of Health and Social Services
and the “users/clients” who are also the direct
interested people and indirectly target of D&H-5P.
It’s
absolutely important this “concertation” and collaboration in order
to realise an useful synergy.
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Why are we choosing to have participative meetings rather than, for
instance, produce training manuals?
In
terms of changing individual's behaviour, face to face training is
more likely to be effective than manuals, which may produce a change
in knowledge without a change in behaviour.
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Why are we choosing to work locally?
The
best people to initiate changes in an area are usually those who are
already involved and have
specialist local knowledge and local credibility
(c) how
the action is intended to build on a previous action (where
applicable)
It is
building on contacts that been established over 10 years by SMES
between European countries.
More
concretely in 2 studies (1996-98 and 1999-2001); 7 seminars from
1991 to 2002.
These
contacts of SMES are between people and organisations working
directly with homeless and
socially excluded people. They have been created through the SMES
international meetings and the
SMES website.
TEAM
proposed for implementation of the action
1.
From SMES-EUROPA
Main coordinator:
Luigi
Leonori
(I)
Co-worker team :
Serge Zombek
(B);
Preben
Brandt (DK);
Paolo
Realacci (IT);
Philip
Timms
(UK)
2.
The five local coordinators in “visiting program” of D&H5-P
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Marieta Radu
(RO)
·
Rita
Erele
(LV)
·
Andrzej Czarnocki
(PL)
· Mariela
TODOROVA
(BG)
·
Ilja Hradecky
(CZ)
3.
The five coordinators in “receiving program” of D&H5-P
·
Serge Zombek
(B)
·
MariFe Bravo
(E)
·
Paolo Realacci
(I)
·
André Lacroix
(F)
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Preben Brandt
(DK)
·
Patrizia Di Tolla
(D)
2.
Expected results
2.1 Expected impact on target
groups
We
expect that this project will:
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Enable local providers of services to
homeless/marginalised people to use EU law to gain access
to services and benefits for their clients.
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Increase access to benefits and services
for homeless/socially marginalised people
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Establish a core of local expertise which
can be used to spread this knowledge locally, regionally
and nationally
2.2 Publications and other outputs
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Local reports following seminar days
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Local production of training materials for
local service providers
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Publication of all reports on the SMES
website in both local languages and English
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A publication in (at least) the
international English language academic press
2.3 Multiplier effects
The
local lead agency will be able to establish a training programme,
using the results of the local research and seminar, to ensure wider
dissemination in that country.
The
international conference toward the end of the project will create
an opportunity to:
1.
Disseminate the results internationally
2.
Raise awareness internationally of the new opportunities created by
EU law
3.
Raise awareness internationally of the difficulties generated by
existing legal
systems
2.4 Short- and long-term impact
a)
Individual level (how will participants
maintain
contact
and how will information exchange be ensured after the event?)
Follow-up workshops will be established by the lead local agency to:
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Maintain
contact
with participants
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Allow participants to further develop their
skills and knowledge in this area by fostering
reflective practice
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Support participants through the
difficulties they will encounter in using their new knowledge
in practice
b) Policy
level (What structural impact will the action have - e.g. will it
lead to improved
legislation, codes of conduct, methods, etc?)
This aspect of the project depends on the motivation of the local
agencies. The reports
created from the research and workshop phases of the project will
provide a tool with which
to argue for local professional codes of contact and policy change.
Reference to national action plans to arrive at a common European
level – minimum
common denominator at judicial level
Not a uniformity of practice but adapting practices to regional needs,
starting from a
minimum common denominator at the judicial level.
1.9 Duration and action plan:
12 MONTHS from 15 November 2004 to 14 November 2005
NB.:
each local coordinator must
preparing the timing before the end of the November.
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