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The Role of the Third Sector in Providing Social Services at the Local Level in Transitional Serbia

In: Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe

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  • Marija Kolin

    (Institute for Social Sciences in Belgrade)

Abstract

The last 12 years of economic transition and social sector reforms in Serbia1 have been focusing on modernization of the social welfare system and restructuring of the inherited ‘paternalistic’ concept of social welfare, where the welfare mix within which public, non-profit, nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and private partners’ operation is strongly encouraged. The main aims of reform in this area are in building an efficient social protection system and the further creation of new legislation in accordance with European Union (EU) standards. The new approach to policy planning is fostered by the Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP), accepted by the Serbian government in 2003 as part of a joint effort of the national government, the UNDP, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other international players active in Serbia (GoS, 2007). The PRSP started to promote a new concept for the alleviation of poverty and unemployment, but also underlined directions for systematic changes covering the spectrum of social policy reforms in which government, market and third sector have to act in an effective partnership.

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  • Marija Kolin, 2013. "The Role of the Third Sector in Providing Social Services at the Local Level in Transitional Serbia," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Will Bartlett & Sanja Maleković & Vassilis Monastiriotis (ed.), Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe, chapter 10, pages 164-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-1-137-29565-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137295651_10
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