Goede praktijken: projectfiches sociale activering van nieuwkomers

Goede praktijken: projectfiches sociale activering van nieuwkomers / POD Maatschappelijke Integratie, Armoedebestrijding, Sociale Economie en Grootstedenbeleid, 2020.

Active labour market policies in Flanders: evaluation of the ESF “Work Experience for Young Persons”

Active labour market policies in Flanders: evaluation of the ESF “Work Experience for Young Persons” programme - Study / Meroni, Elena Claudia; Santangelo, Giulia; Foubert, Josephine; Canzian, Giulia. Joint Research Centre (European Commission), 2020.

"The aim of this report is to evaluate the “Work Experience for Young Persons" (WIJ) programme, implemented in Flanders from 2015 until 2018. The WIJ programme is targeted at unqualified young unemployed with the aim of facilitating their entry to the labour market, through an intensive guiding trajectory which includes labour market orientation and coaching, and possibly competence strengthening
activities. The analysis is based on administrative data sources from the Flemish Public Employment Service. Using detailed information on the past labour market histories of youth, we apply matching approaches to evaluate the impact of WIJ in terms of probability of being employed or re-entering education for young unemployed. Our results suggest that those who have participated in the WIJ programme have lower employment and education probabilities. However, if we only consider those whose WIJ intervention lasted less than 14 months (which includes all participants within the standard trajectory), there are no significant differences between the treated and the control group in terms of employment probability. Furthermore, the negative effect on the probability of being enrolled in education is smaller in this group than in the whole sample. Those who followed the standard trajectory thus clearly outperformed those in extended trajectories. Because relatively little is known about the selection process of the treated individuals, these results should be interpreted with caution."

Relocating unaccompanied children: applying good practices to future schemes

Relocating unaccompanied children: applying good practices to future schemes / European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2020.

"In recent years, thousands of girls and boys have reached Europe without their parents, and sought international protection. Many of them experienced violence, abuse and neglect in their home countries, and while in transit. They have the right to be protected in line with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention on Human Rights, and European Union
law. As arrivals increased at the European borders, some of the EU Member States receiving them could not adequately provide for their rights. As a measure of solidarity, since 2015, almost 1,400 unaccompanied children have been transferred from the Member State of arrival to another EU Member State under different relocation arrangements. This report explores the challenges and good practices gathered in the implementation of such relocation programmes. Based on information FRA collected in 10 EU Member States, it aims to help national authorities to support the relocation of unaccompanied children by taking measures that are fully rights compliant and practically feasible."

Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU: final report

Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU: final report / Laurie Day, Cecile McGrath, Barry Percy-Smith and Sladjana Petkovic. European Commission, 2020.

"In June 2019, the European Commission (EC) appointed Ecorys to carry out a Study on the landscape of youth representation in the EU. The work was carried out between June and October 2019, in the context of the EAC-47-2014 Multiple Framework Service Contract to carry out studies supporting European Cooperation in Education and Youth.

The study has the following four key objectives: Firstly, to provide a general mapping of European Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and EU wide networks in the field of youth with a view to identify gaps in youth representation at EU level with special attention to outreach and appropriate representation of diverse interests from regional and local levels. Secondly, it aims to assess the contribution of EU funding to youth organisations and networks, in particular under the Erasmus+ programme in relation to youth participation and youth representation. Thirdly, it strives to identify the new trends in youth participation and formulate recommendations on how their potential could be better tapped under the EU Youth Strategy; and lastly it aspires to formulate recommendations with regard to EU funding to European NGOs and EU-wide networks in the youth field.

ERYICA participated in the survey and was one of the few INGOs selected as “relevant stakeholder” for an in-depth interview. The interview aimed to understand the opportunities and challenges for young people to participate in democratic life at EU, regional and local levels. As part of the study, the Commission was also interested in understanding how EU grant funding was used to engage young people, and the impact of the funding.

The study presents a valuable snapshot of youth NGO activity across Europe in summer 2019, with representation from all of the main types of NGOs, and covering all European Member States at that date. The qualitative research was carried out with young people from diverse backgrounds from across Europe, with balanced geographical coverage and a cross-section of countries with different levels of representation. This allows for a good level of confidence in the research findings. As with any study, certain data limitations and caveats apply. The true number of NGOs operating in Europe is not known, and the survey findings are not therefore fully generalizable to the wider population."

Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance

Gender Equality Index 2019. Work-life balance / EIGE, 2020.

"EIGE’s Gender Equality Index shows that advances in gender equality are still moving at a snail’s pace, but we are heading in the right direction. There are big improvements in the domain of power, as more women are taking on decision-making positions, especially in company boardrooms across Europe.
Each year we score EU Member States and the EU as a whole to see how far they are from reaching gender equality. The Index uses a scale of 1 to 100, where 1 is for total inequality and 100 is for total equality.
The scores are based on the gaps between women and men and levels of achievement in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. Two additional domains are integrated into the Index but do not have an impact on the final score. The domain of intersecting inequalities highlights how gender inequalities manifest in combination with age, dis/ability, country of birth, education and family type. The domain of violence against women measures and analyses women’s experiences of violence.
In addition to providing a snapshot into the Index scores, the Gender Equality Index 2019 includes a thematic focus on work-life balance."

Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (2020). Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body: Early Childhood Development and Lifelong Health Are Deeply Intertwined Working Paper No. 15. Retrieved from www.developingchild.harvard.edu.
"We know that responsive relationships and language-rich experiences for young children help build a strong foundation for later success in school. The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health are also built early, with increasing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period and first few years after birth."

Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving: een pleidooi voor zingeving en creativiteit

Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving: een pleidooi voor zingeving en creativiteit / Crétien van Campen. Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 2020.

"Tijdens de coronacrisis hebben tal van nieuwe creatieve bijeenkomsten met ouderen het daglicht gezien. Door de gezondheidsbeschermende maatregelen dreigt hun wereld klein te worden. Nu de anderhalvemetersamenleving langer gaat duren, zullen creatieve oplossingen gevraagd worden om ouderen betrokken te houden. Naast de zorg voor de gezondheid vraagt het leven ook om plezier, betekenisvolle contacten en zinvol meedoen aan de samenleving.
Het essay ‘Gelukkig ouder worden in een veranderende samenleving’ nodigt uit na te denken welke creatieve oplossingen en initiatieven mogelijk en nodig zijn, zodat mensen gezond èn zinvol ouder kunnen worden."

Center on Poverty & Social Policy 2020 Conference: Research Spotlight: Income Support in Crisis and Beyond.

When life revolves around the home: work and sociability during the lockdown

When life revolves around the home: work and sociability during the lockdown / Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, Nicolas Sauger & Jen Schradie. Policy paper n° 3 - Project ''Coping with Covid-19. Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France''

"How disruptive is Covid-19 to everyday life? How is the French population experiencing the lockdown? Is it magnifying inequalities and affecting social cohesion? The CoCo project sheds lights on these pressing questions by comparing living conditions in France before, during, and after the lockdown. This is the third of a series of research briefs. We explore how French society has coped with the first 6 weeks of the lockdown, particularly as regards the transformation of working conditions and social life. We also continue to monitor self-reported health and well-being.
About a third of workers kept working at their workplace, another third shifted to remote work while the others stopped working altogether, becoming unemployed or taking leave. Women with at least a young child were more likely to stop working. Remote-work is concentrated in the middle-upper segment of the income distribution, while working outside the home remains the norm for the bottom-half of earners. Remote workers’ working conditions are better in comparison to workplace-workers. They are also the most interested in continuing to work remotely after the lockdown. The division of domestic work tends to be more egalitarian in households where the woman is working remotely. The men find it difficult to spend time educating their children. Unprecedented levels of online social contact have compensated for a steep drop in sociability. Continued relations with relatives are the most prevalent while people who developed new relationships during confinement did so mostly with their neighbours.Contracting the virus has now more to do with employment conditions. People who kept going to the workplace were more likely to contract the virus. While happiness levels dropped at the beginning of the lockdown, they have regained and even surpassed pre-lockdown levels for most people."

Tussen verveling en vereenzaming

Tussen verveling en vereenzaming: een kwalitatief onderzoek naar hoe ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond eenzaamheid en ouder worden in Nederland beleven /Hanan Nhass & Joline Verloove Kennisplatform Integratie & Samenleving, 2020.

"Hoe beleven ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond eenzaamheid en ouder worden in Nederland? Die vraag staat centraal in dit nieuwe KIS-onderzoek.
In dit verkennende onderzoek spraken de onderzoekers met twaalf zelfstandig wonende (55+)ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond. Het gespreksthema was hun leefwereld rond ouder worden en eenzaamheid. De onderzoekers spraken ook met sociaal professionals, experts en informele hulpverleners, waaronder gespecialiseerde welzijnsprofessionals, moskeevoorzitters en sleutelfiguren uit de Marokkaanse gemeenschap.
Het rapport biedt inzicht in de leefwereld van de ouderen met een Marokkaanse achtergrond, en aanbevelingen voor de aanpak van eenzaamheid voor sociaal professionals."