Policy toolkits

In this section, you will find different tool kits EAPN drafted in order to provide EU social NGOs useful information and ideas in different fields related to the fight against poverty and social exclusion.

Social inclusion

• Engaging with the NAP Inclusion 2008-11: This tool kit aims to provide useful information and ideas to support national EAPN networks in engaging with the National Reports on strategies for social protection and social inclusion (SPSI) and particularly the NAPs Inclusion at national level.
• Engaging with the NAP Inclusion and the National Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-8: Light Year (2007): This tool kit is designed to help EAPN national networks engage with this “light year process”, specifically targeting action around the NAP inclusion, both at national and EU level and to provide supporting information that will enable networks to contribute to the questionnaire which will form the basis of the EAPN EU Report on Social Inclusion and Poverty 2007.

The Lisbon Strategy

• Engaging in the Lisbon National Reform Programmes - 2008-10: This tool kit is to help EAPN National Networks engage with the process this year, and to press for a stronger focus on social inclusion at all level. The tool kit gives all the quotes from key documents as well as some proposed EAPN demands, and good examples from different networks. It also gives you links to key documents and contacts.
• Engaging in the Lisbon National Reform Programmes 2007: This tool kit is designed to help national networks engage with the National Reform Programme (2006-8) of the revised Lisbon Strategy and provides specific information on the 2007 Implementation Report. It primarily focuses on the Employment guidelines but makes reference to the macro and micro elements.

Strucutral Funds

• EAPN guide on social inclusion indicators for structural funds: This guide aims to give more information on the type of social inclusion indicators that can be applied to structural funds. It will be of particular interest to NGOs sitting on the monitoring committees of the European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund.

Poverty (General)

• EAPN Explainer on poverty and inequality in the EU: This explainer aims to make poverty more visible, understood, and acted on, as part of EAPN’s build-up campaign to 2010: the EU year against poverty.