Social Inclusion in Poland : Key Challenges and Opportunities for Support
The objective of this policy note is to develop a set of actionable recommendations for tackling poverty and social exclusion in Poland based on evidence. In recent years, the World Bank has deepened its engagement in Poland around issues of social...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26499936/republic-poland-social-inclusion-poland-key-challenges-opportunities-support http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24728 |
| Summary: | The objective of this policy note is to
develop a set of actionable recommendations for tackling
poverty and social exclusion in Poland based on evidence. In
recent years, the World Bank has deepened its engagement in
Poland around issues of social inclusion, through work on
effective labor market and activation policies, social
assistance benefits, and investment financing for local
social inclusion initiatives. This note purports to
integrate the outputs of these activities and complement
them with insights from the new analytical work to develop
recommendations for the government of Poland for program
choices to enhance the impact of inclusion programs and
employment services. This policy note is structured as
follows: (i) introduction; (ii) section two provides a
definition of social inclusion and describes the country
context by key trends and key groups at risk of social
exclusion; (iii) section three provides an overview of the
institutional set-up to deliver policies for social
inclusion at the national and local level and presents an
assessment of the achievements and challenges of key policy
instruments (employment services, social benefits, social
services, and the work of civil society); (iv) section four
focuses on two recent operational experiences of relevance
to a future operation: an assessment of the execution of the
European Social Fund in Poland against the social and labor
agendas and a presentation of the learning generated through
the social inclusion component of the World Bank Post
Accession Rural Support Project; and (v) section five
illustrates areas for potential intervention at the policy
and operational level in Poland. Recognizing that social
inclusion outcomes are the result of a complex set of
factors on the demand and supply side,recommendations
include macro-level institutional reforms and changes to
local service delivery for inclusion of vulnerable groups,
mobilization and capacity support, strategies for local
employment generation, and monitoring and accountability support. |
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