Tim za socijalno uključivanje i smanjenje siromaštva

Mapping Social Welfare Services, initiated by the Government of Serbia Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit and UNICEF Serbia in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy, was implemented between September 2012 and February 2013. The survey was carried out by the Centre for Liberal Democratic Studies (CLDS).

The objective of this survey (mapping exercise) was primarily to collect data on the existing non-institutional social welfare services within the mandate of local governments.

The social welfare services mapping exercise was designed with a view to:

– providing a better overview of social welfare services within the mandate of local governments with respect to availability, efficiency and quality of services provided;
– enabling a better insight into service sophistication, prevalence and sustainability;
– collecting data to serve as inputs in future analyses and proposals for enhancing service provision;
– providing a basis for the establishment of a system for ongoing collection and monitoring of data on social welfare services within the mandate of local governments;
– identifying potential challenges of further improving local social welfare services.

In addition to the Report, which refined the results of the investigation, the structural section of the mapping has resulted in the creation of a database of social welfare services within the mandate of local governments.

Moreover, users also now have a Questionnaire available, which was formed according to the needs of the research and which participants filled out in the mapping.

The Infographics has been made in order to present the results of the mapping in an interesting and more vivid nature, as to further draw interest into it use in enabling the extension of services within the mandate of local government, but to do so in a more efficient and uniform manner.

The Report can be downloaded here: