EAPN letters
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Quality Work for Quality Life! EAPN’s 10 Principles
{jathumbnail}Not any job is a sure route out of poverty. Many people experiencing poverty or social exclusion do, in fact, hold a job, and yet this is insufficient to prevent them from enduring hardship and isolation. In order for employment to fulfil its role, of effectively shielding people from a life in poverty, it needs to fulfil a set of quality criteria. EAPN has produced these 10 principles on what constitutes a quality job.
EAPN publishes Full Assessment of NRPs and NSRs: An EU worth defending – beyond austerity to social investment and inclusive growth
{jathumbnail}As the internal EU debates about new priorities for Europe 2020 in the Annual Growth Survey 2013 commence, EAPN has published its Analysis of the 2012 National Reform Programmes (NRPs) and National Social Reports (NSRs): An EU worth defending: beyond austerity to social investment and inclusive growth.
MAG 1/2012 – The Crisis of Democracy – Anti-poverty organisations respond
{jathumbnail}This issue of the EAPN Magazine looks at how anti-poverty NGOs are responding to the challenge posed by a political context dominated by ‘austerity measures’ that impact heavily on people ‘living in or at risk of poverty’ and undermine agreed strategies to fight poverty.
EAPN Proposals for Country-Specific Recommendations on the NRPs 2012 – Progress on Poverty Reduction and meaningful stakeholder engagement needed
The following list of proposed Country-Specific Recommendations has been prepared by EAPN National Networks and European Organisation members.
EAPN’s Response: Stakeholders’ contribution to the 2012 report on the follow-up of the 2008 Recommendation on Active inclusion
{jathumbnail}This document reproduces the full EAPN response to the questionnaire prepared by the European Commission, according to the “Guidelines to the stakeholders’ contribution to the 2012 Report on the follow-up on the 2008 Recommendation on Active Inclusion” (1 March 2012).
EAPN’s response to the Commission’s draft legislative package on Cohesion Policy (2014-2020)
EAPN responds to the European Commission’s legislative proposals regarding the future of Structural Funds, to make sure that Cohesion Policy will fully deliver on the poverty reduction target.
EAPN’s new position paper on the crisis Re-engaging Hope and Expectations – Getting out the Crisis Together – Alternative approaches for an inclusive recovery
{jathumbnail}With this paper, EAPN provides an in-depth analysis of the causes and impacts of the crisis, and solid proposals on how to get out of this crisis, ‘together’.
EAPN Response to the AGS and the Draft Employment Report
{jathumbnail}Last week, EAPN sent its response to the Annual Growth Survey and Draft Employment Report to the Employment Committee and Social Protection Committee (EMCO and SPC), prior to their discussions on their opinion on the AGS, urging for a more coherent approach to implementing the poverty target, in the light of the dominant focus on austerity measures and fiscal consolidation and concrete proposals to deliver on the new social priority 4 in the AGS.
Breaking Barriers – Driving Change – EAPN’s latest book on participation
{jathumbnail}Breaking Barriers – Driving Change – Case studies of building participation of people experiencing poverty is the second publication by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) highlighting members’ initiatives to strengthen the direct participation of people experiencing poverty in organisations and in policy-making.