Sector strategy development

1. Ministerul Muncii, Protecţiei Sociale şi Familiei al Republicii Moldova Sector strategy development Coordinating Board for Foreign Assistance in Labour and Social Protection 7 October 2010

2. Introduction • Sector Coordinating Board meeting in June considered draft Sector Programme Document and approved the format • Document needs to present and integrate 6 different items of information: • strategic policy objectives • MTEF programmes • principal activities • associated donor projects/programmes • key output/outcome indicators • planned expenditure • This short presentation reports on progress in developing the document

3. Sector programme document (cont) • Integration needed to: • show what resources are being devoted to each strategic objective • identify under-resourced critical activities or areas of over-concentration of foreign assistance • plan future interventions in support of Ministry priorities • First challenge is to agree a coherent and meaningful set of strategic objectives • Draft drew on NDS, NDS Action Plan, MTEF, Institutional Development Plan and other statements of priorities to produce a set of 17 objectives (too many, and not all very strategic in focus)

4. Progress on objectives • Workshop with senior Ministry officials yesterday to consider a structure of Aims, revised Strategic Objectives and related Indicators for the Ministry • Not time yet for these to be considered and formally agreed by the Minister • But can provisionally be summarised as follows:

5. Aims • Creating an efficiently targeted social assistance system • Providing social guarantees to insured people • Strengthening the family institute and ensuring the observance of child rights • Promoting the rights of people in difficulty • Promoting the observance of gender equality

6. General objectives • Building the capacities of MLSPF in decision-making, analysis and control of social policy implementation; (no. of trained civil servants; no. of draft legislative and regulatory acts that undergo an ex-ante analysis; no. of legislative and regulatory acts analysed in terms of impact on beneficiaries) 2. Adjusting the national legislative framework to international regulatory standards; (no. of analysed, adjusted and developed legislative and regulatory acts) 3. Developing a social inclusion system; (studies; no. of awareness raising campaigns; no. of socially integrated people from various groups) 4. Building the professional capacities of staff employed in the social protection system; (no. of trained people; duration/frequency of trainings, training materials, awareness raising)

7. Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 1: Creating an efficiently targeted social assistance system Objectives and indicators: • Developing an integrated social service system; (no. of primary, specialised and very high need services; no. of beneficiaries in each type of service; no. of accredited social services; no. of inspected social services) 2. Targeting funds to the most disadvantaged people, families and social groups; (no. of families in receipt of social support; average amount of social support; no. of families with children in receipt of family support benefit)

8. Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 2: Providing social guarantees to insured people Objectives and indicators: • Correlating social insurance benefits with the contributions made; (no. of beneficiaries of privileged pensions; use of a formula for calculating the pension on the basis of contributions; use of data from the personified data record system for pension calculation) 2. Ensuring a framework of social security guarantees for migrant workers from Moldova; (no. of bilateral agreements signed and ratified; no. of exported/imported pensions)

9. Aims, objectives and indicators Aim3: Strengthening the family institute and ensuring the observance of child rights Objectives and indicators: 1. Reforming the residential child care system and (re)integrating the child in the family or in family-type services; (no. of children deinstitutionalised and reintegrated in the biologic/extended family; no. of cases of prevention of child institutionalisation; no. of children in residential institutions, etc.) 2.Promoting the rights of the child; (no. of cases of prevention/fight against child neglect by parents; no. of children victims of violence, labour exploitation who have been assisted; no. of people in the child protection system sanctioned for violation of child rights; no. of parents trained in terms of parental skills building) 3.Balancing family life with professional activity; (no. of adapted rooms in public/private institutions for feeding children by the employees; no. of fathers beneficiaries of child care leaves; no. of preschool services for young children)

10. Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 4: Promoting the rights of people in difficulty Objectives and indicators: • Preventing human trafficking and domestic violence and applying measures for the protection of victims and potential victims of the above phenomena; (no. of prevented cases of human trafficking; no. of assisted victims of human trafficking; no. of services developed for victims of violence and aggressors; no. of issued protection ordinances) 2.Reforming the mechanism for determining the disability in children and the work capacity in adults for their social inclusion; (no. of staff units responsible for recruiting people with disabilities created within the Employment Agency; no. of children with disabilities included in the mainstream education system; no. of people examined in order to establish their work capacity and disability in children)

11. Aims, objectives and indicators Aim 5: Promoting the observance of gender equality Objectives and indicators: 1. Gender-sensitive national policies (no. of civil servants trained in the development of gender-sensitive policies; no. of information centres opened at local level)

12. Conclusion • This structure will be presented more formally for agreement within the Ministry • Then incorporated into revised Sector Programme Document, with updated overview of externally-funded projects, for consideration by donors also • If approved, could form core of new sector strategy for Ministry; some work already done in this direction by TA to Budget Support project (but without internal consensus on objectives structure)