1. State of play of negotiations
Promoting the social economy and
social enterprises
Resa Koleva
DG EMPL E1, ESF Policy and Legislation
OECD capacity building seminar,
28 June 2013
2. • Process
• Overview of schedule
• Negotiation on regulations
• Informal dialogue
• Content – main provisions
• ESF regulation
3. Schedule
• Partnership agreements: end of 2013
• Operational programmes: middle of 2014
• This presupposes
• CPR adoption by Council in Autumn
• EP approval in July
4. Negotiation on regulations
• Trilogue on CPR: all main blocks discussed
• Trilogue on funds regulations, including ESF, on-
going
• Political trilogues on main outstanding issues
• Recent: agreement on ESF minimum share between
Council and EP
5. Informal dialogue
• Commission position papers (Oct-Nov 2012)
• Social entrepreneurship and social economy
• An IP in 5 CPPs (EL, ES, HU, IT, PT)
• A specific objective in 6 CPPs (AT, DE, LT, MT, PL, SK)
• 1-2 informal dialogue meetings so far with each
MS
• Informal draft PAs
• "Maturity" check
6. Regulatory framework - main
provisions
I. Available funding
II. Programming
• Investment priorities
• Delivery mechanisms
• Social entrepreneurship-friendly framework provisions
7. Amount of funding
• ESF minimum share
• COM proposal: 25% (EUR 84 billion)
• Agreement by co-legislators: 23.1% (EUR 72 billion)
• Social inclusion minimum share
• 20% in each MS
8. Investment priorities
• Specific support for through the dedicated IP
• Promoting the social economy and social enterprises;
• Important role not only in the specific IP but in
the delivery of social policies co-funded by ESF
through other relevant IPs! E.g.:
• Access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people;
• Reducing early school-leaving and promoting equal access to
good quality early-childhood education
• Active inclusion
9. Delivery mechanism 1
• Promoting employment thematic objective
• Rehabilitation services purchased by PES and
provided by NGOs, private providers. Other labour
market services, labour market reintegration
services.
• Policy: active labour market policies.
• Investment priority: Access to employment for job-
seekers and inactive people
10. Delivery mechanism 2
• Investing in education, skills and LLL thematic
objective
• NGOs providing early childhood education and care,
purchased by municipalities.
• Policy: equal access to education, reduction of early
school leaving.
• Investment priority: Reducing early school-leaving
and promoting equal access to good quality early-
childhood, primary and secondary education
11. Delivery mechanism 3
• Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
thematic objective
• NGOs providing community care to disabled or
running a network of foster parents
• Policy: transition from institutional to communty-
based care
• Investment priority: Enhancing access to affordable,
sustainable and high-quality services, including
health care and social services
Most of social entrepreneurship will take place in those employment, education and social policies where social entrepreneurship is not the objective but a tool.
Less administrative burden, simplified cost options Financial instruments: can make access easier technically and more funds available. But always adjust the form of financing to the specific objective and intervention area, never the other way around. And take into account the timeframe of the programmes (impacts?). Capacity building by ESF TA. Capacity building seminars with national and regional stakeholders, especially those involved in the implementation of the funds, policy briefs, recommendations, how to programme social entrepreneurship through SF, ESF in particular. Better programmes are expected in MS which need this kind of support.
