Promising Practices in Community Based Social Services in CEE/CIS/Baltics: A Framework for Analysis
Description: This report, prepared for the Social Transition Office of the USAID Bureau of Europe and Eurasia, is the result of a desk top study—a secondary analysis of regional and country-specific reports on the evolution of family-focused, community-based social services for vulnerable groups in the region. Paralleling the region’s transition from a command economy to a market-oriented society is a shift in the social contract from a state to a shared state-community responsibility for care of vulnerable groups. This study provides a framework for analyzing common elements in the transition of the social service delivery system that cut across different vulnerable groups. The report identifies internationally recognized standards of practice and describes examples of promising practices in community-based social services emerging in the region.
Author: Rebecca T. DavisKeywords: social sector reform community care deinstitutionalization,
Date submitted: 2007-06-14 07:32:17
Date written: 2005-10-01
Type: Report
Area: Resources
Region: Eastern Europe
