The main objective of the project is to promote inclusion and equal opportunities by developing a model of cooperation between the public and private sectors and the social economy. This will be achieved through the sharing of experiences and practices aimed at introducing, implementing, and improving inclusion policies through social procurement, social outcomes contracting, and other innovative approaches. In the public sector, the introduction of social criteria in procurement procedures has proven effective, thanks to multiple pilot projects, diverse practical applications, and legal and regulatory frameworks at various levels of government in many European countries.
Province of Flemish Brabant (BE), KMOP – POLICY CENTER ASBL (BE), Perifereia Stereas Elladas (EL), BSC, Business support centre L.t.d., Kranj (SLO), 5. City of Lund (SE), Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality (PT), City of Torino (IT), TOFIS – Associazione Torino per la Finanza e l’Innovazione Sociale (IT), Alaturi de Voi Romania Foundation (RO), Ministry of Labour, Health, Social, Family Affairs and Integration of Hamburg (DE), Amsterdam Municipality (NL).
The scope of action ranges from the inclusion of social clauses in public procurement procedures to promote the employment of disadvantaged individuals, to more ambitious yet successful models aimed at incorporating other elements of positive impact on the community and the environment. However, broader adoption and diversification of such policies are desirable, both in terms of scale and the variety of sectors involved.
These instruments offer new opportunities to attract, combine, and direct public and private resources toward positive social impact, guaranteed by the active role of the social economy. They also enable greater investment in proactive and preventive actions, based on the centrality of data analysis and sharing.
The City of Turin approved in 1998 the Regulation 307, a farsighted instrument that defined that at least 3% of the total contracts for the supply of goods or services of the municipality had to be stipulated with companies that employ disadvantaged and/or disabled people. The Regulation should be revised and included in the framework of a metropolitan action plan for the social economy elaborated within the Torino Social Impact platform (260 public private profit non-profit partners) under the umbrella the Social Entrepreneurship Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, which is a public body.
The specific objectives of the project are as follows:
– to consolidate and strengthen social public procurement policies by promoting their dissemination and innovation, expanding their scope, and increasing activities related to impact measurement;
– to foster partnerships between the private and public sectors to promote social procurement and other relevant forms of cooperation between these sectors and the Social Economy.
The project is structured in two phases:
– the main phase, focused on the exchange of experiences among project partners and the integration of lessons learned from cooperation activities into the regional development policy tools addressed by the project;
– the follow-up phase, dedicated to the application of a shared monitoring framework and a measurement methodology in order to identify and share the effects of policy improvements, exchange practices (lessons learned), and ongoing exchanges.
Project was funded by the Interreg Europe program.
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