Presentation - Create and Develop a Community to Support Unemployed
1. Create and Develop a Community to
Support Unemployed People
Social Learning for Social Impact
GROOCX - 2015
2. The Team
• Swarna Srinivas - US
• Vuka Mijuskovic - Serbia
• Marcella Vallarino – Italy
• Teresa Scorza - Italy
• Ignacio Gracia – Spain
Facilitators
Deborah Hinton – Luce Engerant
3. How big is the problem?
• By 2019, more than 212 million people will be out of work,
up from 201 million now, according to the ILO’s* report,
World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015.
• Work is the only way to integrate people in the economic-
social system. It is a must If you are not having any other
source of incomes
*International Labour Organization
6. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 23
• (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and
favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
• (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for
equal work.
• (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration
ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human
dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
• (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of
his interests.
12. Our journey of learning
• S1 – Engaging – Creation of the group
• S2 – Co-creating – We got to know each other, infrastructure, roles, coord.
• S3 – Designing – Brainstorming, understanding the issue, defining
prototype
• S4 – Scaling – We were still working on the prototype and started think
scaling
• S5 – Resourcing – Thinking about how to resource it
• S6 – Assessing – Clarifying logic model
• S7 – Impact -
15. Working on solutions to support unemployeds
www.unemploymentplatform.wordpress.com www.facebook.com/groups/unemploymentmeetingpoint/
Groocx Team :Create and Develop a Community to Support Unemployed People
Social Learning for Social Impact - Mcgill – edx.org
