Labour policies and social inclusion: a critical analysis of Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan’s Mission 5
The extraordinary resources provided by the #NexGenerationEU programme, implemented in Italy through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), offer an opportunity to rethink policies for inclusion and cohesion. On the one hand, these resources allow to contrast social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular reference to levels of unemployment, poverty and material deprivation, […]
Gender Budgeting and participatory methods: ARCO’s contribution to Regione Emilia-Romagna guidelines
Regione Emilia Romagna recently published its “Guidelines for Gender Budgeting” to invite local municipalities to focus on a deeper analysis of their policies in terms of differentiated impact on women and men. These Guidelines have been inspired by the Well-Being BGbe approach and Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen’s Human Development Paradigm. The presented process for [...]
Outcome Harvesting: assessing your social impact
The Outcome harvesting is an evaluation methodology that allows to explore the intended and unintended, positive and negative outcomes triggered by an intervention of its beneficiaries and main stakeholders. Rather than comparing the planned outcomes with the achieved ones, the Outcome Harvesting collects evidence of outcomes defined as the changes in behaviour, practices, relationships and [...]
Social inclusion and COVID-19 : the effects of the pandemic in the Sahelian regions of Mali and Burkina Faso
The COVID-19 pandemic has had and still has important consequences on political stability, economic growth and social cohesion worldwide and the Sahel region doesn’t make any exception. The Department of Economics and Management (DISEI) of the University of Florence involved ARCO’s Inclusive Development Unit in a in depth study that aims to provide a comprehensive […]
Il Bilancio Sociale: come migliorare l’accountability nel Terzo Settore
Il Bilancio Sociale è uno strumento di accountability: consiste nella rendicontazione delle responsabilità, dei comportamenti e dei risultati sociali, ambientali ed economici delle attività svolte da un ente. Permette, inoltre, a tutte le persone interessate di trovare in un unico documento tutte le informazioni riguardo alle attività dell’ente che non sono desumibili dal semplice bilancio [...]
5 consigli per scrivere un Bilancio Sociale efficace
Il Bilancio Sociale è uno strumento di accountability che consiste nella rendicontazione delle responsabilità, dei comportamenti e dei risultati sociali, ambientali ed economici delle attività svolte da un ente. Tutti i soggetti interessati possono trovare nel Bilancio Sociale di un ente un’informativa strutturata e puntuale, non ottenibile a mezzo delle sole informazioni economiche contenute nel [...]
Promoting the economic empowerment of women, an in-depth study
The empowerment process enables women to deal with violence, in all its forms: physical, sexual, psychological, economic. The analysis of the case study provided by the project Do.N.N.E (Do Not Neglect Equality) - which intervenes in communities in Central Italy affected by the violent earthquakes of 2016 and 2018 and whose evaluation was carried out [...]
ESRI European Social Rights Indicator a composite indicator to monitor social rights across Europe
The European Social Rights Indictor, ESRI, has been developed by ARCO researchers in the framework of the the Horizon 2020 project EUROSHIP - Closing gaps in social citizenship. The elaboration of the ESRI is part of a wider stream of work on social indicators based on the cooperation between TARKI Social Research Institute and the [...]