This report presents the final results of the study Comprehensive analysis of emerging competences and economic activities in the European Union in the health and social services sector. The report is part of a series of sixteen future-oriented sector studies on innovation, skills and jobs under...

This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the social work sector (NACE 88). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of work across 34...

This conference at Sheffield Halham University addressed some critical issues relating to how the supply of care workers u0096 both those involved in childcare and those who provide domiciliary care for older people living in their own homes u0096 can be stimulated to match the growing demand...

The EURO-SOLAR Programme (Financing Agreement 2006/17-223) was designed in 2006 and implemented in eight Latin American countries as from 2007, focusing its activities in the poorest countries of the subcontinent (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay)....

The evaluation of the European Commission (Commission)’s co-operation with Egypt over the period 1998-2008 has two main objectives: - to provide the relevant external Co-operation Services of the Commission and the wider public with an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past...

The overall objective of the evaluation was to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the EC and the wider public with an independent assessment of the Commission’s past and current co-operation with the Maldives, and to identify key lessons in order to improve the current and...

This evaluation assesses the European Commission’s (EC) cooperation with El Salvador over the period 1998-2008. It aims at providing an overall independent assessment of the entire EC cooperation strategy and support in the country and to provide key lessons to improve current and future EC...

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...