The Project aims to enhance the capacity of Bosnia and Herzegovina to increase the effectiveness and relevance of the social protection and inclusion system (SPIS) for children and families in BiH as a way of meeting its treaty body obligations, the requirements of the SAA process and the Paris Declaration commitments.
The main target groups are policy makers and professionals accountable for the reform of the social protection system, as well as vulnerable groups of children and their families.
The main activities include: advocacy for an integrated SPIS; analysis of the SPIS according to international and national standards; conducting vertical and horizontal functional reviews of the SPIS; capacity development for improved service delivery; review of social protection legislation; analysis of the allocation of resources for the SPIS at local levels; and, strengthening the monitoring of the socio-economic status of children and evaluation of the impact of the changes in the SPIS system on excluded children.
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the national goal as defined in the BiH Medium-Term Development Strategy (MTDS), which is the development of a fiscally sustainable and effective social safety net and to the establishment of a harmonized, well-targeted, efficient and sustainable social protection system.
The specific objective of the project is to support key government partners in establishing a country-led process for the development and implementation of a sustainable strategy for integrated social protection and inclusion of children and families in BiH
More specifically, the project will build national capacities to establish a referral amongst relevant social and financial sectors. An integrated and inter-sectoral approach to evidence-based policy development, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation will serve to define and strengthen functions, roles and strategic goals in education, health, social welfare and other related sectors as they address specific forms of exclusion of children and families.