Implementation of to9 operations

• Author: Cambridge Econometrics, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (European Commission), Eurocentre, ICF
• Pages: 47-53

Study supporting the evaluation of promoting social inclusion, combating poverty and any

discrimination by the European Social Fund (Thematic Objective 09)

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disproportionately affected by this condition included persons earning below 60% of

median equivalised income, tenants, households with dependent chil dren, people in

rural areas and Roma.

With regards to access to services, the proportion of people in the EU-28 self-

reporting unmet needs for medical examinati on declined from 6.7% to 3.6%

between 2014 and 2018. However, strong i nequalities persist across certain groups

of the population, with people in lower income groups, the unemployed, people with

low education and people living in rural areas more likely to report unmet needs for

medical examination. The first reason for these unmet needs is the high cost,

followed by long waiting lists. Although in 2016, 45% of EU children aged 3 and up

to the minimum compulsory school age received formal childcare services, this

varied widely between count ries. Such country variations ranged from 95.9% in

Denmark to less than 15% in other Member States (e.g. IT, HU, EE, ES).

Regional disparities in unemployment and the prevalence of in-work

poverty persisted. Although unemployment rates declined between 2014 and

2018, strong regional disparities persisted (e.g. FR, BE, BG, IT). On average, in

2018, 43.2% of unemployed people in Europe have been long -term unemployed

(this has decreased by 6.1 percentage points since 2014).

Although employment is generally seen as a route out of poverty, i n 2018 the EU

average of in-work poverty rate was 9.5%, unchanged from 2014. Groups more at

risk of in-work poverty are people in households with low work intensity, single

parents with d ependent children, p eople with l ow education, migrants, people wi th

a disability and young people.

4. IMPLEMENTATION OF TO9 OPERATIONS

This section presents an overview of the financial and operational implementation of

TO9 operations in the EU. Section 4.1 provides an overview of TO9 operati ons in terms

of identi fied OPs, type of operation and target groups. S ection 4.2 elaborates on th e

financial implementation of TO9 operations and their geographical scope. The findings

mainly draw from the analysis of data extracted from the ESF monitoring system (t he

SFC2014) that was integrated with the mapping of TO9 operations into six different

types (see Section 2.1).

4.1. Overview of TO9 operations

Of the 187 OPs that recei ved ESF support during the 2014 -2020 programming period,

145 OPs planned for TO9 operations 24. More than hal f of these OPs were implement ed

in four Member States (ES, IT, DE and PL)25. 70 OPs were financed by the ESF and other

EU funds such as the ERDF (these are referred to as multi-funds OPs) while in the

remaining 74 OPs TO9 operations were exclusively financed by the ESF. More

information about the 145 OPs that planned f or TO9 operations can be found in Annex

4.

24 Please see Annex 4 for the full list of OPs that planned for TO9 operations, as

identified by the evaluation team.

25 21 OPs were identified in Spain, 24 OPs were identified in Italy, 17 OPs were

identified in Germany and 17 OPs were identified in Poland.