{"id":6149,"date":"2019-08-02T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:32:12","slug":"issues-of-advocacy-for-beneficiary-families-and-beneficiaries-awareness-analytical-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/6149.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIssues of Advocacy for Beneficiary Families and Beneficiaries\u2019 Awareness\u201d Analytical Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cLocal Democracy Development and Research Centre\u201d NGO is implementing the \u201cProtected Beneficiary Family and Informed Citizen\u201d in the scope of the EU funded Commitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project implemented by a consortium of CSOs led by the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO. The key component of the project is the research entitled \u201cIssues of Advocacy for Beneficiary Families and Beneficiaries\u2019 Awareness\u201d conducted by the expert team of the organization in March-April 2019.\u00a0The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the benefits system in the context of benefits-related family members and employment opportunities.<\/p>\n

In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used throughout the study.\u00a0In-depth interviews were conducted with social service representatives, sector experts and employers, and focus group discussions with beneficiary family members were conducted as well.<\/p>\n

Comprehensive\u00a0analytical reference<\/a>\u00a0on the results of the study where the main issues, conclusions and recommendations based on them have been thoroughly presented.\u00a0Highlighting the latter in the analytical report, we consider it worth emphasizing the following general conclusion, which may become the fundamental basis of the benefits system:\u00a0“The current system of benefits, the main goals of which are reduction of poverty and raising the living standard of families, do not, in this sense, provide a tangible improvement in the quality of life of the beneficiaries.\u00a0Moreover, the current system simply relies on beneficiaries.\u00a0It is not flexible enough and efficient and in many cases just keeps people from getting the following dilemma: getting a steady benefit or working?\u00a0Unfortunately, this dilemma is often resolved in favor of the first option.\u00a0The recommendations made in this study are practical steps,<\/p>\n

However, the proposals presented may be a necessary but not sufficient condition for a complete reform of the benefits system.\u00a0The key here is to change the philosophy and approaches.\u00a0The reality is that the beneficiary family only seeks to maintain that support and in many cases does not think about working or registering their employment.\u00a0Unfortunately, the option to work in many cases loses to the option of getting a steady benefit.\u00a0Such situation completely disintegrates a person who loses the desire to take initiative, to take himself and his family out of poverty.\u00a0A radical reform of the family and social benefits system will be a major step in addressing this problem.\u00a0In general, the benefit should be given to a specific person, not the family.\u00a0In this case, the citizen will work and never think that\u00a0as a result the family may be deprived of benefits or excluded from various social assistance programs.\u00a0This very key thesis should be the basis of sector reforms.\u00a0Citizens should always view the labour market.\u00a0Only in this way is it possible to overcome poverty and substantially improve the quality of life of the people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cLocal Democracy Development and Research Centre\u201d NGO is implementing the \u201cProtected Beneficiary Family and Informed Citizen\u201d in the scope of the EU funded Commitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project implemented by a consortium of CSOs led by the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d NGO. The key component of the project is the research entitled \u201cIssues of Advocacy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}