SOCIAL ENTERPREMNEURSHIP AS A MEANS OF
SUPPORT TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
OF AP VOJVODINA
– USING INNOVATIONS TO REACH NEW
EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
Republic of Serbia – Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality
„Social Inclusion on Labour Market
through Social Enterprises“
Autonomous Province
of Vojvodina
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Northern Province of the Republic of Serbia
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Area: 21.506 km²
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Around two million citizens
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member of the Assembly of European Regions
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Co-founder of the Regional Council of DKMT
Euro region
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Republic of Serbia – Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment
and Gender Equality
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Governmental body which performs
delegated tasks in AP Vojvodina within
the scope of:
 Economy
 Gender Equality
 Employment
• low employment rate
• high rate of inactivity
35%
40.5%
AP VOJVODINA
• high unemployment rate 25.7 %
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Characteristics of labour market
which support social
entrepreneurship in RS
High unemployment – 22,4%
 High concealed unemployment
 Low participation of employment in private sector
 Insufficient mobility of manpower
 No occupation – 31,7%
 Those who wait 1 or 2 years to get a job – 18,6%
 Those who wait 3 to 5 years – 10,2%
 Those who wait longer than a decade – 7,8%,
 Minimum wage in Serbia is about 200 €
 GNP in 2011 in Serbia is 4.288 € per capita
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Vulnerable people
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Longterm unemployed:
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Persons without occupation
Older than 50
Disfunctional families
Users of safe houses and shelters
People with disabilities
People with mental disturbances
Treated addicts
Rehabilitated inmates
Underage delinquents
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Current measures for boosting
employment in Serbia
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Subsidies for new jobs
• Devastated areas
• Interns
Subsidy amount
• Elderly
• PWD
Additional training and education programmes
• For the longterm unemployed (3-6 months)
Self-employment
Public works
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Law on professional rehabilitation
and employment - PWD
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Employment obligation - PWD
 27% of the employers pay
 70% of the employers hire PWD
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3% use services of the enterprises for
professional rehabilitation and
employment of PWD
In AP Vojvodina, there are 6,200 (4,000) of
the unemployed PWD
12 enterprises in APV – 200 jobs for PWD
 Monthly subsidy for PWD around 200 €
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Unemployment PWD 2002-2012.
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Why social enterpreneurship?
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Implementation of principles of social
responsibility, social sustainability and
principles of inculsion of vulnerable
groups
Social inclusion by labour participation
Potential which can mitigate
consequences of transition and offer
employment possibilities
„the Third sector“
Important part of our future in business
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Current framework of social
enterpreneurship in Serbia
Unclear way of doing business in the
organisational for of social enterprise
 Financial incentives (without profile) for
creating activities and business
sustainability
 Different forms that exist: citizen
associations, unions, religious
organisations, enterprises for
employment - OSI,
 Draft of the Law on Social
Enterpreneurship of 2013.
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What brings the Law on social
enterpreneurship?
Organised social activity of public importance
 Employment of persons with difficulty to find
and keep a job
 Social inclusion by active participation
 Provided benefits for social enterprises
 Reinvestment of profits
 Important role of municipalities
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Proposition of measures which
correspond to social
enterpreneurship in APV
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Forming the Regional Centre for social employment
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Training and social employment programme development
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Development of training programme for management in social
enterpreneurship
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Promotion of public
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Designing innovative programmes
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Mobilisation of financial instruments from EU and other funds,
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Promotion of mutual and individual responsibility in the fight
against social exclusion
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Promoting and evaluating social responsibility clause in public
and private sector
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Establishing criteria for the selection of the most socially
responsible employer in public and private sector
social
private partnership
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Promotion of Social Economy
as a Universal Value Society
Strategy „Europe 2020“
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Republic of Serbia
Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment
and Gender Equality
Jasmina Stanić
Advicer on employment of people with disabilities
jasmina.stanic@vojvodina.gov.rs