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The INS estimates an additional available workforce to be inactive population aged 15-74 years old to 238K people, with a low level of training. Only 1 in 8 people (12.3%) is registered at the public employment service. The participation rate in the labor market, which includes the Roma community, is only 46%. The employment policy stipulated in the Law 76/2002 fails to address the disadvantaged workers, instead the focus is on company grants and not on the needs of unemployed persons. Work placement through Economic Activity is one of the answers to this challenge, AFF having implemented it for 13 years.
AFF beneficiaries of insertion and social services have 7.4 difficulties on average, being selected on the basis of their motivations to make changes in their lives.
The project aims at AFF beneficiaries, including those of RISE network (Romanian partner), in order to create a consultative model empowering vulnerable groups. Advocacy will act on creating public policy changes in 3 key areas: admitting the socio-professional insertion service as a social service, employment subsidy for disadvantaged workers and support measures for social enterprises.
There will be two innovative models: the social enterprise of insertion with services in the urban area and the social farm in the rural area. Both models are to be improved in collaboration with our Norwegian partner, Fretex – a similar organization working with unemployed groups. AFF will contribute to improving social policies, fighting social inequity, promoting responsible social approaches for public administration, bring closer the public and non-governmental sectors, and in the private sector by promoting diversity among employers.