scholarly journals The distance between local action on employment and the principles of activation. Two examples of active employment policies at local level

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Andreu Lope Peña
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Employment Policies

scholarly journals The importance and role of job creation at local level under the economic crisis conditions. Study and implementation of a Local Action Plan for Employment (LAPE) in the Municipality of Volos

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Nikos Ntasios
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Design Requirement ◽  
Employment Policies ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Integrated Strategy ◽  
Crisis Conditions

The purpose of this study is to explore the possibilities of decentralization and departure from social policies, with an emphasis on employment policies, in the framework of an integrated strategy to tackle rising unemployment. In this context, this paper attempts to promote an integrated strategy for the "localization" of employment policies linked to productive reconstruction at micro-region level (i.e. Municipality of Volos) through the design and implementation of a Local Action Plan for Employment The study exemplifies the basic design requirement of an LAPE by exploring through a “sectoral research” the potential for job supply.

Local Policies and the European Social Fund

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Employment Policies ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Local Case ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
Policy Fields

In the context of an ‘activation turn’ in many European welfare states, the local level gained increasing relevance in the last decades and brought local social policies and national employment policies more closely together. At the same time, at the European level the European Social Fund (ESF) made a career from an unconditional simple financing instrument towards a complex governance tool; meant to back up European social and employment policies in close combination with tools such as reporting or benchmarking. Greater coordination of domestic policies in social and employment policies, where the EU had no regulative competences, was sought to be achieved via ‘bypass strategies’ which directly focused on the subnational implementation systems of the member states. Against the backdrop of these scenarios, the book is interested in the actual role of the ESF in local activation policies. It wants to know how local social and employment policy fields react to the ESF, what shapes their reactions, and what the effects of these reactions are in terms of change in local policy fields. By drawing on both sociologists’ and political scientists’ literature, the book develops a unique perspective on the role of supranational money at the local level. By comparing comprehensive qualitative data from 18 local case studies in six European countries (Sweden, France, Poland, UK, Italy, and Germany) and deploying an innovative mixed-method approach, the book provides rich insights into a field where so far comparative qualitative research is missing.

scholarly journals Local action plan to promote access to the health system by indigenous Venezuelans from the Warao ethnic group in Manaus, Brazil: Analysis of the plan´s development, experiences, and impact through a mixed-methods study (2020)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0259189
Author(s):  
Sonia Vivian de Jezus ◽  
Adriana Ilha da Silva ◽  
Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio ◽  
Nahari de Faria Marcos Terena ◽  
Jair dos Santos Pinheiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health System ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Provision Of Care

Background The provision of care and monitoring of health are essential for indigenous Venezuelans from the Warao ethnic group, who are at risk of decimation. Objective Analyze a Local Action Plan (LAP) to promote access to the health system of indigenous Venezuelans from the Warao ethnic group (IVWEG) in Manaus, Brazil. Method A mixed-methods study was performed. Quantitative data were collected to assess the provision of care and monitoring of health conditions in IVWEG through a survey that was self-completed by healthcare providers. Qualitative narrative data were collected to gain insight into IVWEG that seek care. We applied descriptive statistics, grouping analysis (GA) by hierarchical levels, and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). Content analysis was applied to qualitative data. Results 106 healthcare providers participated in the study, with the following characteristics: 94 (88.7%) females, 67 (63.2%) pardo race/color, 40 (37.7%) working in primary healthcare, and 49 (46.2%) nurses. In addition, 43 (40.6%) of the healthcare providers reported providing care to IVWEG. Among the providers, 89 (84%) had received training for assisting IVWEG. Additionally, 30 IVWEG were enrolled for interviews in the qualitative phase. The barriers to seeking care were language, distance to health units, and lack of money for transportation. The LAP proved to facilitate access to the health system by indigenous Venezuelans from the Warao ethnic group in Manaus. The study contributed to knowledge on a LAP addressed to IVWEG and helped improved their access to the health system, providing appropriate training for healthcare providers and other relevant actors by implementing a coherent and consistent public health policy at the local level.

scholarly journals The Bottom-Up Development Model as a GovernanceInstrument for the Rural Areas. The Cases of Four Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom and in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9123
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Gargano
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Union Leader ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Local Partnerships ◽  
Action Groups

The present research which originates from the author’s PhD dissertation awarded at the School of Politics of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2019, explores the comparative evolution of rural development policies and Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the United Kingdom (Argyll and the Islands LAG—Scotland and Coast, Wolds, Wetlands and Waterways LAG—England) and in Italy (Delta 2000 LAG—Emilia-Romagna Region and Capo Santa Maria di Leuca LAG—Puglia Region) in a multi-level governance framework. LAGs and in particular their public–private local partnerships have become common practice in the governance of rural areas. This governance operates within the European Union LEADER approach as a tool designed to generate the development of rural areas at local level. In order to establish the implications of the LAG practices, the following main objectives for this research have been established: (1) to explore the utility of EU strategies for rural development; (2) to explain how LAGs structure, institutional arrangements and working are positioned in the layers of MLG framework; (3) to carry out a comparative evaluation of the LAGs working in the different nations and their subnational contexts. Some significant findings from the case studies are summarized in relation to these themes: the key characteristics and the outcomes associated with the LAG working mechanisms and what do we draw about the emergence, operation and performance of local partnerships. The core argument of the research is that the partnership approach has given the rural development actors a governance platform to help increase beneficial interactions and economic activity in each of these LAGs, but it is the bottom-up leadership of key local actors, seizing opportunities provided by the EU funding, which have been the most important factors for the LAG successes.

Social and employment policies in Europe from a multilevel perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Katharina Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Employment Policies ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Current Activation ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Unique Manner ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 2 discusses the characteristics of and the relationship between European and local social and employment policies. It starts with an overview on EU cohesion policy and characterises the ESF as a specific governance tool which nowadays combines financial, programmatic and procedural aspects in a unique manner. In a second step, the chapter discusses the crucial role of the local level in current activation policies. Chapter 2 argues that the local level deserves specific attention and should not be subsumed under national welfare systems. Furthermore, the streamlined EU cohesion policy and particularly the ESF establish a stronger direct link between the European and the local level and confront local actors with new opportunities and challenges.

scholarly journals Community action and the regulation of alcohol availability: Modelling the connections

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Peter D'abbs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Alcohol Availability ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Laws And Regulations

In Australia, as in other countries, recent initiatives aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm have focused on the local community as the site of interventions, and in many cases have included local controls on alcohol availability as a key component. In this process, liquor licensing authorities – as the statutory agency primarily responsible for regulating alcohol availability – have been called upon to act as instruments of public health. Historically, however, their primary function has not been to promote public health, but rather to maintain orderly markets. Moreover, their power to intervene in market processes has in many instances been curtailed under deregulatory policies accompanying globalisation. Taken together, these trends generate a need for a theoretically-informed understanding of the role of liquor licensing bodies and other regulatory agencies in a context of locally-based initiatives aimed at reducing alcohol-related problems. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for meeting this need. Liquor regulatory systems are seen as agencies of social control mandated by the state. Three key components of these systems are identified: 1) laws and regulations governing the activities of liquor licensing authorities; 2) the structure and resourcing of agencies established to uphold the laws and regulations, and 3) practices through which decisions are reached by the licensing authorities. Each of these has influence independently of, but also in interaction with, each other. The initiation of local action focusing on alcohol problems generates a complex social field within which economic and political agencies, some operating at a purely local level, others at a national or even global level, compete to promote and defend their interests, and in which culturally ascribed beliefs and practices associated with drinking alcohol at the micro-social level are endorsed, challenged and/or defended. Within this field, liquor licensing authorities become agencies upon which competing claims are made. The processes involved can be analysed in terms of four phases: 1) agenda setting and problem definition; 2) specification of alternatives; 3) decision-making; 4) implementation. The components and processes outlined in the paper are illustrated with reference to instances of local action in northern Australia. The model proposed will serve, it is argued here, as a framework for more systematic comparative analysis of such local actions.

scholarly journals Urban and Rural Local Action Groups in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Barbara Panciszko
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Action Groups

AbstractThis article will analyse which areas rural and urban Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the Kuy-avian-Pomeranian Voivodeship function in. The thesis of this research is : LAGs are a bottom-up tool for local management. The first part presents the main assumptions of public management approaches and shows the LEADER approach and Community-Led Local Development as a form of bottom up approach in the process of public management on the local level. Then comparison analysis between rural and urban LAGs will take places. Similarities and differences were identified in the legal framework of their existence, the actors who create them, the possibility of receiving EU financial support and within the e fields of their activities. These were all analysed, along with financial activities implemented in the rural and urban LAGs in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship through 2014–2020.

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