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Working Together to Tackle Poverty:
Open Method of
Co-ordination
With more than 72 million people living
in poverty across the European Union (EU) there is an urgent
need to find better ways of tackling and preventing the
problem. Action to tackle poverty and social exclusion is
the responsibility of EU member states. However, Members
States have agreed that there should be greater co-operation
approach across the EU to work toward the shared goal of
'making a decisive impact on poverty' by 2010. To help achieve
this goal an 'open method of co-ordination in the field
of social exclusion was developed which consists of:
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Common Objectives on
poverty and social exclusion. These were agreed at the
Nice summit in December 2000 and revised in December 2002.
New Common Objectives for the social protection and social
inclusion process were agreed by the European Council
in Spring 2006
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Commonly agreed indicators
of poverty and social exclusion to provide a means of
monitoring progress and comparing best practice;
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Publishing National
Reports on Strategies for Social Protection and Social
Inclusion, published every two to three years with annual
updates on progress. (These are often referred to as National
Action Plans - the NAP)
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Joint Reports on social
Inclusion which include monitoring, evaluation and peer
review, prepared by the Commission in consultation with
the Member States and based on the National Action Plans;
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Community Action Programme
- supporting improved data collection, transnational studies
and a process of policy cooperation and peer review of
learning and good practice across the Union.
Bridging the Policy Gap is raising awareness
of the Social Inclusion and Social Inclusion process and
how it is applied in the UK. In doing so it hopes to contribute
towards a better understanding of what works in tackling
poverty and why.
Further information on the European Social
Inclusion and Social Protection process can be found at
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/index_en.htm
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| Bridging the Policy Gap, C/O
The Poverty Alliance, 162 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 2LL,
Tel: 0141 353 0440, email: admin@povertyalliance.org |
This Project received funding from the European
Community under the community Action Programme to Combat Social
Exclusion 2002 - 2006
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