We have started training on developing and updating social passports in communities: in March, we held 11 trainings in 5 oblasts.
A social passport is an important reputational document that contains up-to-date information about the resources and social characteristics of a community. We want every community to possess this tool: to assess its potential and promote itself, to focus on its needs and develop the necessary social services.
This year, as part of the project to support the social protection system, we are helping target communities in 14 oblasts to assess their social service needs and update their social passports. Communities in these regions are already creating dedicated working groups.
In March, we conducted 11 trainings on creating social passports in communities in the Volynska, Kirovohradska, Kyivska, Rivnenska and Khmelnytska oblasts. Our regional teams familiarized the working groups with the basic concepts of social protection, provided a presentation of the draft social passport and analyzed its sections in detail. The participants of the trainings in some communities also worked on developing skills that will be useful while working on the document.
Nataliya Salimova, regional coordinator of the project in the Kirovohradska Oblast, says: “We conducted trainings using facilitation techniques. The training lasted five hours, and all the theory was supported by hands-on exercises. The working groups mapped the social services available in their communities. Then, in the format of a world café (with the participants changing seats), they discussed the services they would like to have in the community, voting for each proposal. Then, using the Walt Disney method, they worked out strategies for the development of social services in the community, looking at them from a creative, realistic, and critical perspective. At the beginning of the training, almost everyone claimed that their communities had enough of everything. However, after hours of joint work, they changed their minds: it turned out that there are no limits to what can be improved! The training allowed us to look at the life of the community in a different way, to recognize its needs. At the end of the event, the working groups had three or four projects developed to implement the necessary social services. I hope they will be able to fulfill all their plans.”
The working groups have approved a work schedule and identified individuals responsible for each area of social passport development, such as collecting the necessary information. Our regional teams will stay in touch with the communities, providing methodological and advisory support as needed.
We are implementing this initiative within the framework of the project “Supporting the Capacity of the Social Protection System to Register Internally Displaced Persons” funded by the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine.
For more information on the features of a social passport, please visit our website: https://bit.ly/3KkHm3l.
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