Training on ageing & long-term care to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine
In December 2021, our colleagues provided a training on ageing and long-term care, as part of the Bridge Building Peer Reviews and Trainings project.
The socio-economic situation in Ukraine and measures to combat the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
During 2020 there was a steady increase in people’s incomes. The nominal incomes of the population increased by 6.1% compared to the preceding year and in the first quarter of 2021 there was an additional rise by 16.1%.
47th General Assembly Meeting 2021: Successful focus on intergovernmental cooperation
The 47th General Assembly Meeting (GAM) of the European Centre closed with a great success with over 50 participants. It was the first GAM 2021 which was open to the public and took place fully virtual for the second time on 19 & 20 October 2021.
Great success at the 2nd virtual BB Summer School
The European Centre hosted with great success the second virtual 2021 BB Summer School on Evaluation in Social Policies, on 22-24 September 2021. 11 participants from the ‘Bridge building’ region, specifically Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, as well as Ukraine, and European Centre staff exchanged and enhanced knowledge in commissioning…
Meta-evaluation and evaluation standards in social policy
Meta-evaluation is an “evaluation of evaluations” to improve future evaluation work. As a highly relevant topic for professionals working in social policy, the third module of the virtual Bridge-Building Summer School of Evaluation in Social Policies (August 25-27, 2021) was about meta-evaluation and evaluation standards in social policy.
2021 BB Summer Schools: First of two virtual Summer Schools
The European Centre hosted with great success the first virtual 2021 Summer School on Evaluation in Social Policies in August 2023.
Ukraine (CFS update): Digitisation of the social sphere
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine aims to unite all departments into a single convenient and effective online system and make communication convenient and transparent.
Humanitarian aid Ukraine: lonely people 70+ in Donbass – challenges, lessons learned and recommendations
The situation in Donbass is quite challenging due to the conflict and its consequences in the resident population. The TLU team used the new WJR grant of 10 000 GBP received in winter 2020-21 to make the necessary procurements and arrange the delivery of humanitarian aid to 384 residents aged 70+ in 14 villages located in the contact line.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the deinstitutionalization of child care reform in Ukraine
“The first wave” of the childcare deinstitutionalization reform in Ukraine started in 2008. As a result, since 2017, more than 90% of orphans and children deprived of parental care are raised in families or in family-type forms of care (under guardianship/custody, by relatives, in foster families, family-type child homes) according to the data of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine.