The Center for Social Policy has started the implementation of the project "Support to Families with Children in Crisis Situations".

The Action aims to address the lack of adequate support to children and their families during COVID-19 crisis, both in terms of support through financial assistance, as well as community based social services. This problem was extremely emphasized in the condition of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, it happened in a number of LSGs that the community based social services have not been available to the citizens at all, while at the same time the financing of those services did not stopped. This has left vulnerable children and their families to deal with the challenges during COVID-19 crisis on their own.

Civil society organizations (CSO) and local self-governments (LSG) need empowerment and support, especially in dealing with crisis situation, in order to be able to solve problems more effectively and improve the quality of available services. The Action will create evidence around this issue, build capacity among CSOs and LSGs and promote the solutions and good practices which could be used in similar emergency situations.

Through the proposed activities, the Action will lead to protection of social, economic and cultural rights of the families with children (children living in poverty, children with disabilities and Roma children) affected by economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project is funded by Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

More information about the project can be found here.