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Gender assessment of local level social policies and budgets: the case of Kumanovo, Strumica and Shtip

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Gender assessment of local level social policies and budgets: the case of Kumanovo, Strumica and Shtip



Publisher: Health and Education Research Association – HERA, Macedonia

Date: 2013

Volume: 65 pages, pdf

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Since the independence in 1991, the system of social protection in the Republic of Macedonia has been faced with many challenges: increased number of social risks to be covered, increased demand for social welfare, reduced financial resources, as well as a lack of timely collected, unified and comparative social statistics as basis for the creation of targeted social policy. Some of these challenges are still pertinent and have been accompanied by new problems like increased impoverishment of the population, which is particularly visible among women. The reforms of the system for social protection initiated with the process of decentralization in 2004 implied transfer of some competences in the field of social protection to local governments. The process was challenged by the lack of financial, administrative and human capacities and hence requires new types of policy interventions.