SECRETARIAT GENERAL DIRECTORATE GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER PECS(2017)3revbis 16 November 2017 EUROPEAN SOCIAL COHESION PLATFORM (PECS) 2nd meeting Strasbourg, 19 -20 September 2017 DRAFT COMPILATION OF GOOD PRACTICES AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES BY THEME 1 2 Table of Contents EUROPEAN SOCIAL COHESION PLATFORM ..........................................................................1 1. The impact of the economic crisis on health and social protection, in particular combating poverty and social exclusion, and the fact that these may foster violent radicalisation...........................................5 1.1. ALBANIA........................................................................................................................................5 1.2. ARMENIA: .....................................................................................................................................8 1.3. BELGIUM/FLANDERS...................................................................................................................13 1.4. BELGIUM/WALLONIA..................................................................................................................14 1.5. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.......................................................................................................16 1.6. BULGARIA ...................................................................................................................................18 1.7. CYPRUS .......................................................................................................................................22 1.8. DENMARK ...................................................................................................................................24 1.9. FRANCE .......................................................................................................................................25 1.10. GEORGIA .................................................................................................................................31 1.11. GERMANY ...............................................................................................................................33 1.12. IRELANDE ................................................................................................................................34 1.13. MALTA ....................................................................................................................................37 1.14. ROMANIA................................................................................................................................38 1.15. RUSSIAN FEDERATION ............................................................................................................40 1.16. SERBIA.....................................................................................................................................42 1.17. CONFERENCE OF INGOs..........................................................................................................44 2. Youth and children .............................................................................................................................50 2.1. ARMENIA ....................................................................................................................................50 2.2. BELGIUM/FLANDERS...................................................................................................................52 2.3. BELGIUM/WALLONIA..................................................................................................................53 2.4. BULGARIA ...................................................................................................................................55 2.5. CROATIA......................................................................................................................................58 2.6. CYPRUS .......................................................................................................................................61 2.7. CZECH REPUBLIC.........................................................................................................................64 2.8. DENMARK ...................................................................................................................................68 2.9. FRANCE .......................................................................................................................................72 3 2.10. GEORGIA .................................................................................................................................74 2.11. GERMANY ...............................................................................................................................76 2.12. HUNGARY................................................................................................................................78 2.13. IRELANDE ................................................................................................................................80 2.14. ITALY .......................................................................................................................................82 2.15. LATVIA.....................................................................................................................................86 2.16. LITHUANIA ..............................................................................................................................90 2.17. LUXEMBOURG ........................................................................................................................94 2.18. MALTA ....................................................................................................................................96 2.19. MONACO ................................................................................................................................97 2.20. NORWAY.................................................................................................................................99 2.21. PORTUGAL ............................................................................................................................101 2.22. RUSSIAN FEDERATION ..........................................................................................................105 2.23. SERBIA...................................................................................................................................107 2.24. SLOVAK REPUBLIC.................................................................................................................109 2.25. SWITZERLAND.......................................................................................................................112 2.26. CONFERENCE OF INGOs........................................................................................................113 3. Protection of migrants and refugees................................................................................................118 3.1. AUSTRIA....................................................................................................................................118 3.2. BELGIUM/FLANDERS.................................................................................................................120 3.3. CZECH REPUBLIC.......................................................................................................................124 3.4. GERMANY .................................................................................................................................125 3.5. IRELAND....................................................................................................................................129 3.6. PORTUGAL ................................................................................................................................131 3.7. SLOVAK REPUBLIC.....................................................................................................................136 3.8. CONFERENCE OF INGOs............................................................................................................140 4. PROMOTING SOCIAL COHESION AT LOCAL LEVEL AND ACCESS FOR ALL, INCLUDING FUTURE GENERATIONS, TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING .......................................................................143 4.1. BELGIUM/WALLONIA................................................................................................................143 5. PLATFORM IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL COHESION...............................................................................146 5.1. REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA...........................................................................................................146 4 1. The impact of the economic crisis on health and social protection, in particular combating poverty and social exclusion, and the fact that these may foster violent radicalisation 1.1. ALBANIA Name of the Practice/Innovative approach Reforming the system of economic aid for people with low income or without any income Context in which this practice takes place This reform proved necessary when the previous system could not target all people with little or no income at all because it was partially subjective and sometimes it fell to the social administrator to decide whether to grant the cash benefit to the family or not. Several applicants owned cars, or were employed and were still receiving economic