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MedTOWN: Co-producing social policies with SSE actors to fight poverty, inequality, and social exclusion

MedTOWN project.

Context

Public services face an unprecedented set of challenges: increasing demand, rising expectations, seemingly intractable social problems, and, in many cases, reduced budgets. In Europe, previous approaches have produced important improvements in some areas but failed to tackle the structural inequalities that are fuelling the demand for services. In the Arab world, heterogeneous and fractured social structures, along with occupational shifts from agricultural to industrial and service activities, are overstretching already weak social services schemes that fail to address the real drivers of poverty, inequality, and exclusion. MedTOWN is an initiative focused on the combined potential of agents of the social and solidarity economy (SSE), citizens, and local authorities to co-produce the social policies that can fight poverty, inequality, social exclusion, and environmental unsustainability, providing them with tools and connections to build local resilience and foster the transition towards more fair, resilient and sustainable societies in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Objectives

MedTOWN will provide with tailored capacity building for SSE agents, innovative and low-cost tools for practitioners, and networking opportunities. This will be implemented through an open policy dialogue aimed at strengthening the Mediterranean region's role in the development and implementation of policy actions towards the development of quality, more user-friendly, and empowering social services.

More information

MedTOWN is an initiative focused on the combined potential of agents of the social and solidarity economy (SSE), citizenship and local authorities to co-produce the social policies that can fight poverty, inequality, social exclusion and environmental unsustainability in the riparian countries of the Mediterranean basin, providing them with tools and connections to help them build local resilience and foster their transition towards becoming more fair, resilient and sustainable societies in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The initiative is based on Action Research to support the design of effective public policies on the provision of social services. To that effect a series of experimental actions deploying a co-production model will be undertaken and will serve both as effective modalities to increase the effectiveness of social services delivery during the project and as test-monitoring of results for policy design. The research and analysis will be carried out in-country and regionalized through a Regional Community of Practices and a Regional Research Group who will elaborate studies, papers, seminars, workshops and policy recommendations. A tailored communication strategy will be co-designed with the actors involved both in-country, EU and at regional level, for awareness raising and dissemination.

Social experimentation based on the use of complementary currencies for the delivery of financial aid to vulnerable communities will be carried out.

Partners

Lead beneficiary - Assembly of Cooperation for Peace - Spain

• Partner 1 - Tier 1 Technology SL - Spain.
• Partner 2 - SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT - Greece.
• Partner 3 - Agricultural Development Association - Palestine.
• Partner 4 - The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development - Jordan.
• Partner 5 - Equality Portfolio - Department of Social Services - Portugal.
• Partner 6 - Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water and Environmental Resources Development - Palestine.
• Partner 7 - General Directorate of Cooperation. Regional Ministry of Social Services and Cooperation - Spain.
• Partner 8 - Tunisian Center For Social Entrepreneurship - Tunisia.

Useful links to know more about MedTOWN

• MedTOWN Project description
• MedTOWN YouTube channel