Fostering enabling ecosystems for the birth and dissemination of social business
Social enterprises promote and contribute to human development and sustainable development at the local level. In particular they identify and offer solutions to social and environemental problems: social entrepreneurs develop new ideas and give life to innovative products, services or models by creating collaborations and partnerships with local actors. Thus, they are able to answer [...]
Monitoring and evaluation: with our partners in fighting educational poverty
Three proposals, one common goal: fighting educational poverty. 80 projects targeting children aged 0-6 and their families have been funded by the social enterprise "Con I Bambini", that is in charge of allocating the resourcse of a governmental fund established to contrast educational poverty. We are in charge of the monitoring and evaluation process of [...]
ICF language, towards a structured system of job placement for disadvantaged persons
Between October and November 2020, Regione Toscana together with ANCI Toscana promoted the project "Trainings for Accessible Communities". The project aims to create and implement free training courses to deepen and spread greater attention to accessibility in working environments. The training was directed in particular at managers and officials of Tuscan municipalities in the social, [...]
Impact evaluation of the projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors
In 2018, ARCO's Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Evaluation has been chosen as external evaluator in 5 projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors, managed by the social business Con i Bambini. Involved in 6 regional and national projects, Reserachers have developed and implemented, for esach, specific impact evaluation plans. An experience [...]
Social Board Model: from users to facilitators through Emancipatory Research
In October 2020, a small group of beneficiaries of REI, Inclusion's Income, has been involved by the Inclusive Development Unit in an Emancipatory Research process. The research group is made of women, who use Prato's Social Services. The objective of this process is threefold: first, it will allow users to share their experience about the [...]
Community Health Insurance, fostering access to health care in low and middle income countries
Community health insurance (CHI) aims to provide financial protection and facilitate health care access among poor rural populations. However, the full development of this scheme is hampered by multiple operational challenges. There is a need to undertake systematic feasibility studies, which are present in the literature, but they usually do not provide a comprehensive analysis [...]
SDGs localization: opportunities and challenges in the post Covid19 scenario in Italy
For the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly, the third U20 in Riyadh and on the eve of the Decade for Action, the ten years that separate us from the goal of the 2030 Agenda, we are facing numerous challenges, but also numerous opportunities. The Covid 19 emergency had serious consequences from an [...]
R&I policy for sustainable development, a road map for policymakers
Research and Innovation policy plays a pivotal role for the pursuit of and the transition towards sustainable development in economic, social and environmental terms.Within the global debate on sustainable development, a new framing on R&I for transformative change has been gaining momentum. To understand to what extent and how R&I policy in the post- COVID [...]