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The ESF Learning Networks (LNs)Some Issues for Consideration
A REMINDER OF THE THEMES
Themes that started in the first half of 2009:• Inclusive Entrepreneurship (COPIE); • Migrants and Ethnic Minorities (IMPART);• Ex-offenders (ExOCoP); • Partnership (CoP Partnership).
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The ESF Learning Networks (LNs)Some Issues for Consideration
Themes that started in the second half of 2009:
• Social Economy (BFSE);• Empowerment and Inclusion;• Youth Employment;• Transnational Cooperation;• Public Administration Reforms (ACB);• Results-based Management (RBM).
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The ESF Learning Networks (LNs)Some Issues for Consideration
Themes that started in the first half of 2010:
• Gender Mainstreaming;• Age Management;• Asylum Seekers.
As the three latest LNs are just getting up and running, this presentation only covers the 10 LNs that began their work in 2009.
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TEETHING TROUBLES
Some of the LNs encountered a number of financial or legal difficulties in relation to:
• Contracting experts or external services;• Making bilateral agreements between members; and• Some members withdrew, as in the current economic climate
they no longer had the financial resources to participate .
Whilst this may have slowed the pace of progress, in the vast majority of cases, these difficulties have now been resolved by re-adjusting the budget or by some members taking on additional responsibilities.
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THE SCALE OF OPERATIONS
The LNs have introduced a variety of different – and sometimes innovative - arrangements to achieve their objectives in terms of content:• 12 Working Groups or Task Forces;• 12 Study Visits;• 15 Peer Reviews;• 26 Workshops;• 11 Seminars or Basecamps.
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THE SCALE OF OPERATIONS
With so many partners in different countries and events and activities taking place in a variety of locations, each network needs to have effective planning procedures in place and to ensure regular, on-going communication with all its partners and stakeholders.
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EXPLORING SYNERGIES
• Inclusive Entrepreneurship and the Social Economy;
• Inclusive Entrepreneurship and the Youth Employment;
• Youth Employment and Age Management;• Empowerment and Inclusion with Migrants and
Ethnic Minorities and also Ex-offenders; • Partnership and Public Administration Reforms ;• Gender Mainstreaming and most LNs.
Only suggestions and will be discussed later
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• Only one LN has agreed the terms of reference; • Three others have made provision for external
evaluation; • One LN talks about internal evaluation; • No information from the remaining four.
The issue of ensuring suitable arrangements for the monitoring and evaluation of the work of the LNs will be an issue for further consideration.
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DISSEMINATION AND MAINSTREAMING
Some like Transnationality and Partnerships target individuals or organisations responsible for the implementation of the ESF
Others have a wider target audience and some are actively involving potential stakeholders from the very beginning of their activities
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DISSEMINATION AND MAINSTREAMING
At an EU policy level, the interests of some LNs also go beyond ESF concerns for example:
• Empowerment and Inclusion LN - other units in DG Employment;
• Migrants and Ethnic Minorities - DG EAC• (Ex)–offenders - is working directly with DG EAC
and DG JLS • Inclusive Entrepreneurship - DG Enterprise and
Industry DG• Social Economy - the Internal Market and
Competition DGs.
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Working on the Issues Together
DG EMPL Unit B4 recognises that there are three major areas with which it can assist the LNs by:
• Providing LNs with access to other DG EMPL units and to other European Commission services;
• Structuring opportunities for LNs to discuss potential synergies in their work and to exchange their good practices;
• Ensuring that the work commissioned from the AEIDL team provides appropriate support to the LNs.
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Working on the Issues Together
In the last respect, he Commission has already asked AEIDL to draft a series of Common Methodologies on the following topics:• Reviewing good practice in the area of improving
the quality of networking and learning through professional planning, monitoring and evaluation;
• Supporting the development of Learning Networks and helping them to consolidate;
• Mainstreaming network results into ESF OPs;
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Working on the Issues Together
• Measuring the impact and effectiveness of learning networks;
• Providing better quality of evidence for policy development and change through sound identification, testing and validation of good practice and winning stories;
• Reviewing good practice in the area of communication between participants in learning networks between face to face meetings;
• Organising peer reviews as an element in peer learning.
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Working on the Issues Together
• The Common Methodologies will be presented in the form of a manual, the first draft of which will be discussed at a meeting of all LNs that will be held in June 2010.
• In addition, if it is considered it to be useful, the
AEIDL team could be asked to provide a regular, quarterly ‘newsletter’ for LNs and ESF MAs highlighting the recent developments in, and achievements of, all the LNs.