2015-2016 ACTION PLAN TO IMPLEMENT THE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR REDUCING POVERTY AND PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION 2020
Activity/ies / Deadline / Performance indicators / Sources of financing / Leading institution/s / Partner/s /Priority No. 1 Providing employment opportunities and increasing labour income through active involvement in the labour market
Measure: Improving the employability of unemployed persons by providing training courses leading to qualifications
Organising and providing vocational training leading to qualifications, at employer’s request, under Article 63 of IRHA (Implementing Regulations of the Health Act) / 2015-2016 / Training of 1 020 unemployed persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Employers, training organisations
Organisation by EA of adult training through referral to CHRDRI (Centre for Human Resource Development and Regional Initiatives) / 2015-2016 / Training of 230 persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / CHRDRI / EA
PRO CHANCE Project (Bulgarian-German Vocational Training Centre - DBBZ) – training / 2015 / Training of 2 004 persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / DBBZ SE / EA
Information Policy and Training Project / 2015 / Organising and conducting advertising and information campaigns. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Municipal and regional administrations, social partners
European Integration Fund
Integrated grant scheme for Actions designed to put the “Common Basic Principles for immigrant integration policy in the European Union” into practice and support the implementation of consistent and permanent policy to guarantee the rights of immigrants and to ensure their successful integration in the Bulgarian society / 2015 / Training of 213 persons – third-country nationals within the 5 projects implemented in 2015 under the 2013 Annual Programme – Component 3 “Courses on Bulgarian language, civic orientation, history, traditions, customs, work and living conditions in Bulgaria”. / EIF / EA
OP HRD scheme “Safe work” – Phase 2 / 2015 / Training to improve the working conditions of employed persons. / ESF/OP HRD / EA
OP HRD 2014-2020 scheme “Improving the quality and efficiency of the public services for vulnerable groups in the labour market and for the employers” / 2015 / Training to improve the quality of employment. / ESF/OP HRD / EA
Vocational guidance, training and retraining for up to 1 year for third-country nationals and persons who have been granted international protection / 2016 / Number of persons involved in the measures / National budget / SAR at CoM, MoI / NGO
Measure: Provision of employment to vulnerable groups in the labour market
Law amending and supplementing the Employment Promotion Act / 2015 / Extending the scope and effectiveness of the active employment policy, increasing the subsidisation period, improving the quality of the intermediation services provided / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP
Implementation of activities included in NAPIEYG / 2016 / Designating job mediators in every Labour Office Directorate, specialised to work with young people (focal points);
All unemployed young people who are newly registered in the labour offices will be offered within 4 months after their registration the mediation service which is the most appropriate for their current needs. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / ASA
Organising and conducting labour exchanges for young people / 2015-2016 / Holding 35 labour exchanges for young people each in 2015 and 2016. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / EA / RIE, nationally represented employee and employer organisations, supporting organisations
Organising and conducting labour exchanges in the regional units of SAR at CoM for the persons who have been granted international protection and for persons seeking protection who have the right to work / 2016 / Number of labour exchanges organised;
Number of persons employed / Within the budget of the responsible institution / EA,
SAR at CoM / BRC, UNHCR, Caritas – Bulgaria
Encouraging employers to hire long-term unemployed persons (Programme for training and employment of long-term unemployed persons, Art. 55c of EPA) / 2015 / 950 long-term unemployed persons included in employment;
850 long-term unemployed persons included in training. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Employers
Encouraging employers to create jobs for hiring unemployed persons – single parents (adopters) and/or mothers with children (Art. 53 and Art. 53а of EPA) / 2015 / Employment of 200 unemployed persons, including 200 newly recruited persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / EA / Employers
Encouraging employers to hire persons in pre-retirement age – 50+ (National Programme “Support for Retirement”, Art. 55а of EPA) / 2015 / Employment of 311 persons, including 300 newly included persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Employers
Encouraging employers to hire people with permanent disabilities (National Programme for Employment and Training of People with Permanent Disabilities, Art. 52, par. 1 and par. 2 of EPA, Programme “Interest-free Loans for People with Disabilities”) / 2015 / Employment to 1 923 persons, including new employment to 320 persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Employers
National Programme “Assistants of People with Disabilities” / 2015-2016 / Employment to 2 700 persons, including 2 700 newly recruited persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / ASA
Encouraging employers to hire unemployed persons registered in the labour offices (National Programme “From Social Assistance to Employment”, National Programme “Security”, National Programme „Activation of Inactive Persons”, National Programme “Recovery and Protection of Bulgarian Forest”, National Programme for Training and Employment of Refugees, National Programme “Clio”, Programme “Melpomene”, regional programmes for training and employment, Art. 46, Art. 50, Art. 51,
Art. 55d, Art. 55e of EPA, schemes under OP HRD 2007-2013 – “Support for Employment”) / 2015-2016 / Employment to 23 511 persons, including 4 314 newly recruited persons;
Training of 417 persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution;
OP HRD 2007-2013 / MLSP, EA / Employers, training institutions
Implementation of projects for training and employment of the social partners included in NAPE (National Action Plan for Employment):
Project “Directions” (CL “Podkrepa”)
Project “Chance for Work” – 2015 “ (CITUB)
Project “From Vocational Training to Effective Employment”
Project “I Study and Succeed in Bulgaria” / 2015
2015
2015
2015 / 2400 unemployed persons, included in training;
2400 unemployed persons included in vocational guidance; 240 unemployed persons included in subsidised employment; 30 % - included in non-subsidised employment.
2233 unemployed persons, included in training;
947 unemployed persons, included in vocational guidance;
893 persons, included in traineeship.
Training of 792 unemployed persons leading to qualifications in one of the professions “shop persons – consultant”, “office assistant”, “assistant educator” or “landscaping worker”; Provision of subsidised employment to 317 unemployed persons, who completed the training.
1920 unemployed persons, included in training;
1920 unemployed persons, included in vocational guidance;
Provision of subsidised employment to 384 persons;
Provision of non-subsidised employment to 20 % the persons who have successfully completed the training. / Within the budget of the responsible institution
Within the budget of the responsible institution
and co-financing from CITUB and partners
Within the budget of the responsible institution
Within the budget of the responsible institution / CL „Podkrepa”
CITUB
BIA
BICA / EA, training institutions, employers
EA, Association “College for Worker Training”, employers
EA, employers
EA, training institutions, employers
Holding informal meetings with employers regarding the profile of persons seeking and granted international protection – educational attainment, professions / 2016 / Number of meetings held with employers. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / SAR at CoM / Employers
Creating and maintaining a specialised database of the qualifications of persons seeking and granted international protection and database of employers for the purposes of mediation for inclusion in the primary labour market, guidance and inclusion in programmes for employment and training, including under OP HRD projects, pursuant to NAPE 2015 / 2016 / Number of mediations realised;
Number of persons included in employment programmes. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / SAR at CoM / MLSP, EA, LOD, employers, NGO
Measure: Reintegration of early school leavers
Exchange of information between MES and MLSP on young people who are early formal school leavers, under an agreement between the two institutions / 2016 / Annually for the period 2014 – 2020 received 2 reports on young people who were in education but did not continue or dropped out and on those who completed certain level of education but did not continue in the next level. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, MES / EA
Implementation of project“New Chance for Success, scheme BG051PO001-4.3.01 0001 “Adult Literacy” / 2015 / 15 000 adults included in literacy programmes and in a course for completing grades of lower-secondary education. / OP HRD 2007-2013 / MES / EA
Reintegration in the education system of young people up to 18 years of age who are school drop-outs / 2016 / Number of students and young people involved in the measures / OP SESG / MES
Building and implementing a system for career guidance and consultations in the different age groups to motivate them to continue their education leading to qualifications / 2015 / Number of students included in career guidance programmes. / Scheme under OP HRD BG051PO001-4.3.02 “System for career guidance in school education” - 6 MBGN, 2014 and 2015 / MES / RIE, regional career guidance centres, directors, students, teachers, parents and other stakeholders
Designing curriculums for initial vocational training leading to qualifications in part of a profession / 2015 / Number of curriculums for initial vocational training leading to qualifications in part of a profession developed. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MES / MLSP, RIE, MC, MAF, MYS, employer organisations and social partners
Launching a pilot project for implementing early warning systems in kindergartens and schools – “Individual educational number”
- Identifying students who dropped out one or several years ago / 2015 / 1 pilot project. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MES / Schools on Northwest and Southeast Bulgaria selected for participation
Maximum coverage of children at risk of drop-out by activities of interest / 2015/2016 school year / Number of engaged children at risk covered by activities of interest. / Within the National Programme “The school – a territory of the students” - 2014, module “International student Olympiads and competitions” – 2014 – 1249745 BGN;
Within the National Programme “With Cater for Every Student”- module 1 – 1200000 BGN;
Scheme under OP HRD BG051PO001-4.2.05“Let’s make the school attractive for young people” - 14,5 MBGN for 2014 and 2015;
MYS Budget:
200000 BGN from programme “Sports for children with disabilities and children at risk”;
with ESF funds in the new programming period. / MES / MC, MYS, MAF, municipalities, schools, heads of activities and other stakeholders
Creating conditions in vocational schools leading to qualifications in professions of school drop-outs or early school leavers / 2015/2016 school year / Number of persons who acquired qualifications in a profession. / From the school’s delegated budget / MES / MLSP, MC, MAF, MYS, business organisations and other stakeholders
Guaranteeing to prisoners the opportunities for inclusion in education and training / 2015/2016 school year. / Number of prisoners included in education and training. / From the delegated budget;
With ESF funds in the new programming period / MES / MJ, schools at prisons, MLSP and other stakeholders
Measure: Effective financing of access to education and training
Implementing result-oriented models for financing of the system of higher education which are focused on the training results and the realisation of the undergraduate and graduate students / Ongoing / 33 state higher education schools. / Within the SHEI transfers planned under SBRBA for 2015 / MES
Provision of additional flexible opportunities for financial support of trained undergraduate, graduate students by applying the lending model, and provision of bursaries to encourage training in priority economic areas and special achievements in science, innovations, art, culture and sports / Ongoing / 3 400 new loans granted to undergraduate and graduate students under UGSLA (in 2015). / State guarantees up to 50 MBGN for 2015
Within the budget of the responsible institution / MES
Measure: Provision of services necessary for the social inclusion of the groups who are furthest from the labour market, with focus on social skills and on improvement of the individual social work with those individuals
Launching and implementing the “Active Inclusion” Operation / 2015-2016 / Participants with disabilities aged 18+ receiving services;
Inactive and unemployed participants who are job seekers or have a job, including in self-employment, after having been provided child care. / OP HRD 2014-2020 / Municipalities, NGO / Municipalities, NGO
Provision of Bulgarian language courses in the places for permanent residence of persons granted international protection and third-country nationals residing legally in the country – 600 hours for 6 months for the purposes of completing level А-2 or В-1 of the European Language Framework depending on the educational attainment / 2016 / Number of Bulgarian language courses organised;
Number of persons included in the training;
Number of persons, who completed level А-2 or В-1 of the European Language Framework depending on the educational attainment. / National budget/ Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund / SAR at CoM, MoI / NGO
Measure: Promoting entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship
Building an internet environment for a social enterprises network / 2016 / Specific functionality of the web page / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP / NGO
OP HRD Scheme “Promoting the launch of projects for developing one’s own business” component 2 / 2015 / 1 134 concluded contracts, including 209 newly concluded contracts. / OP HRD 2007-2013 / EA
Promoting entrepreneurship among unemployed persons (Art. 42а; Art. 47, par.. 1 and par. 4; Art. 49, par. 1 and par. 4, Art. 49b of EPA) / 2015 / Employment to 246 persons, including 210 newly recruited persons. / Within the budget of the responsible institution / MLSP, EA / Employers