Time

Main Session – RAVEL ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

9:30 – 10:30

Opening Session:

Chair:   Dr. Monika Lamperth,Minister of Social Affairs and Labor of   the Republic of Hungary

Opening addresses:

·         Dr. Monika Lamperth, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor of   the Republic of Hungary

·            Labor Markets in Transition,   Dr. Pradeep Mitra, Chief Economist, Europe and Cenral Asia, The World Bank

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 1: New Frontiers in Social Assistance – Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs)

Chair: Ms. Olena Hariacha, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy

·         Conditional Cash Transfers: Lessons from Latin American experiences:    Mr. Norbert Schady, Development Research Group, The World Bank

·            CCT – The Jamaican Experience: Ms. Faith Innerarity,Chief Technical Director , Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Sport, Jamaica

·          Discussant: Ms. Gordana Matkovic, Advisor to the President, Serbia - CCT: Dilemmas and Options for the Western Balkan Region

·          Q&A

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 2: Employment -- Activation policies as a tool for social inclusion

Chair: Mr. Bosko Tomić, Minister of Labor and Veteran Affaires, Bosnia and Herzegovina

·            What are activation policies and how can they promote employability? The international experience  –  Mr. Gordon Betcherman, The World Bank

·      Are activation policies relevant for other transition countries? The Slovak experience – Mr. Miroslav Beblavy, Executive Director, Slovak Governance Institute

·        Discussant – Mr. Gabor Kezdi, Central European University, Hungary  

·          Q&A

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session 3: Social Care and Deinstitutionalization Options for the Excluded

Chair: Ms. Mabera Kamberi, Head of the Sector on Coordination and Technical Assistance of Minister, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Macedonia 

·       De-Institutionalization and social inclusion,  Mr. Gordon Alexander, Senior Policy Advisor, UNICEF

·       The Steady Path of Deinstitutionalization? Lessons from Serbia,     Mr. Danilo Vukovic, Director of the Fund for Social Innovation, Republic of Serbia

·          Discussant – Ms. Aleksandra Posarac, The World Bank - Social Care Services

·          Q&A

17:30 – 18:30

Summary and Conclusion of Day 1

18.30

RECEPTION – Hotel Flamenco

Time

Main Session – RAVEL ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

9:00 – 10:30

Session 4: Fostering Mobility – Policies to move excluded groups closer to areas of growth and opportunity

Chair:        Mr. Endre Sik, Director, The Social Research Center (TARKI)

·         The need for mobility policies for socially excluded groups in Europe - Dr. János Ladányi, Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest

·           Moving people to jobs – the experience of “Northern Restructuring” in Russia– Mr. Andrei Markov, The World Bank

·           Policy suggestion for fostering labor market mobility– complex approach – Dr. Andor Urmos, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, Hungary

·          Q&A

10:30 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 5: The Role of Community in Implementation of National Social Inclusion Programs and Delivery of Service to Excluded Groups

Chair: Mr. Shukurdzon Zukhurov,    Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population, Tajikistan

·             From Social Fund to Local Governance and Social Inclusion Programs – A Prospective review from the ECA Region–   

            Ms. Anush Bezhanyan, World Bank.

·             Role of the Community in Inclusive Education: The case of Roma communities supported by the Roma Education Fund    --

           Mr. Alexandre Marc, Executive Director of Roma Education  

        Fund

·       Romania social inclusion program– Ms. Carmen Manu, Director in the Ministry of Labor.

·           Case Study on Effective Use of the EU Structural for Social Inclusion– Ms. Belén Sánchez, Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG), Spain

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30  – 15:00

Parallel break out groups to discuss two questions:

1. How can mainstream national social policy programs be made fully accessible to socially excluded groups and help their inclusion process?
2. How can policy measures best be monitored and rigorously evaluated to understand their impact and correct any shortcomings before they are scaled up?

Three Groups:

(i)                    Employment and mobility

(ii)                  Social assistance, social care and de-institutionalization

(iii)                 Community participation use of EU fund

Break out groups will be facilitated by relevant session chairs

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:30

Reporting back from group discussion

16:30 – 17:00

Summary and Conclusions

·            Including Inclusion in Europe and Central Asia’s Social Policy: Closing Themes,  Mr. Arup Banerji

·            Dr. Andor Urmos

18.30

Transfer to Restaurant Borkatakomba (Wine Cellar)

19.00

    DINNER