This year, the process related to the OMC on Social Protection and Social Inclusion will be operating as a “light year”, before the new cycle starts from 2008. Whilst this means that at EU level the process will be focusing on key priorities, particularly child poverty and active inclusion, member states are supposed to be actively implementing and monitoring the progress and impact of all their key priorities identified in the National Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-8.
This tool kit is therefore 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 Tool Kit should be read together with the 2006 Tool Kit on influencing the NAPs Inclusion and the National Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-8