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Projects
Current projects
Unicef
Unicef asked the School to train their staff members of the coming years. This year approximately 300 staff working in 128 countries across the world will be involved in the training. The program really is an introductory course in many aspects of the developing work and should be followed up by specific and more in depth courses for several of the participants. Unicef wants to become better involved in the practice of policy design and policy discussions in developing countries. They now feel too much focused on smaller projects with too little long term impact. They expect their staff to be more involved in policy development work within the framework of the mission of Unicef, particularly children and gender equality.
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The World Bank – Social Policy Research
The School is carrying out a review on Social Policy together with three research institutes in Central and Eastern Europe upon specific wish by the World Bank to give an overview of social policy and social policy changes in the new EU member states. Country studies in three countries, Estonia, Hungary and Poland, will be conducted as an example for the developments in the greater EU region. The country studies are conducted by the research institutes in these countries, while the School's researchers will create a final report to summarize the findings and present an overview. The final report is scheduled to be finalized at the end of June.
Together with Maastricht City Council and Stichting Trajekt we are offering short track training for policy makers not originally from The Netherlands. We train them to enable them to work and be a member of the boards of different non-profit organisations like housing co operations, care institutions and school boards.
The European Union has requested MGSoG to develop a research and trainings in cooperation with Arcadis.
The main goal of the project is set to assist in further implementation of the ongoing pension reform in the Russian Federation. The main activities of the project are targeted to assist in developing of the pension reform legislation, strengthening the institutional capacity of agencies involved in the pension system, ensuring the system’s sustainability, providing information of the running processes and ensuring other necessary actions. The assessment of labour market impact of the pension reform is one of the five major project activities and seeks to assess 2 specific effects of the pension reform:
1. Effect on the labour market in general;
2. Effect on the income of various socio-demographic groups of the population and on pension benefits paid to them by using the poverty level indicators.
The World Bank
The training aims to provide the Staff with an insight in Social Assistance schemes, implementation and examples in OECD countries. This will be done through a combination of a theoretical course, field visits in three selected European countries and a feedback session. The training aims to provide the ECSHD Staff with an insight in Social Assistance schemes, implementation and examples in OECD countries. This will be done through a combination of a theoretical course, field visits in three selected European countries and a feedback session.
The course is divided in three different phases: In phase one the staff members follow the course Social Assistance OECD Countries to gain a theoretical background about Social Assistance schemes; in phase two the staff members participate in a study tour to three European countries (UK, Belgium and the Netherlands) to learn about implementation and practical experiences; In phase three a feedback session is organized to report to all staff member what has been learned in the first two phases during the theoretical course but especially study tour. Hence, not only selected staff members but the whole unit will learn and gain from the full training program. |
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