The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, traveled today to the City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela to participate in the closing ceremony of the Symposium “The social inclusion of the disabled: improvement of public policies to eradicate poverty and exclusion”, organized by the Galician Network against Poverty (EAPN) in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment Promotion and Equality of the Xunta de Galicia.
In her speech, María Rivas wanted to highlight the good results obtained from the program ‘Decent Employment Network’, an initiative launched by 14 member entities of EAPN Galicia in 2022 and 2023 that has funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain and that seeks to “work in a network and join efforts to achieve greater socio-labor integration of people in situations or at risk of exclusion”.
Thus, the subdelegate recalled that last year the program obtained employment insertion rates which reached 36% which this year are around 50%, and the permanence or stability in the job reached 71%.
In this regard, María Rivas said that the results obtained by the program are the result of collaboration between the entities and the administrations “with the Government of the State, with the regional administration and with the municipalities” and that to facilitate the socio-labor integration of people in situations of social exclusion “the administrations must guarantee the right to access to social and labor inclusion programs; to make these programs available to people who require it, so that they feel supported”.
The subdelegate highlighted the important work of the non-profit social entities that are part of the Third Sector, due to their proximity to people at risk of exclusion or in situations of vulnerability, the wide knowledge of their problems and needs and the professionalism of the staff. “You are the first door together with that of the municipalities that people in vulnerable situations call, and therefore, among all the administrations, we must make the necessary efforts so that you can carry out your mission” said Rivas.
María Rivas wanted to highlight the effort made by the Government to promote the socio-labor integration of people in situations of exclusion or vulnerability, making available to the inclusion policies in Galicia that promote social support, education and activation for employment, a total of 10,602,625.83 euros of the Recovery Plan in the last two years.
In this case, the subdelegate stressed that programs such as ‘Decent Employment Network’ represent “the great objective of the Government Recovery Plan: put people at the center of public policies” and that the good results of it are “an incentive so that they can be prolonged in time”.
In 2022, 23.6% of the Galician population was at risk of poverty or exclusion; women and minors were more vulnerable. “In that challenge, the Government of Spain will be working together to achieve a common goal: to eradicate poverty, to end social and employment exclusion, to reverse situations of vulnerability; in short, to improve the quality of life of those who need it most,” said the deputy delegate.
At the event, the subdelegate was accompanied by the president of EAPN Galicia, Ana Pardo, the director of EAPN Galicia, Xosé Cuns, and by the president of the Economic and Social Council of Galicia, Manuel Pérez Álvarez.