30.12.2010
Under the Social Assistance Reform Project, the experts of CASE Ukraine prepared the concept of granting social assistance to unemployed able-to-work individuals based on their participation in public (socially significant) works.
The report presented below contains the concept itself, a comparative analysis of different options of implementing the mechanism of public works and estimates of their potential impact on the performance of the social assistance system. The report also provides a legal conclusion on the feasibility of introducing mechanism of public works for unemployed able-to-work applicants in Ukraine and a brief overview of Central and Eastern European countries’ experience in implementing public works mechanisms in their social assistance systems.