Create and Develop a Community to Support Unemployed People

Social Learning for Social Impact

GROOCX - 2015

The Team • Swarna Srinivas - US

• Vuka Mijuskovic - Serbia

• Marcella Vallarino – Italy

• Teresa Scorza - Italy

• Ignacio Gracia – Spain

Facilitators

Deborah Hinton – Luce Engerant

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/World_map_of_countries_by_rate_of_unemployment.svg

Unemployment rate – by country

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.

What our team was working on…

Brainstorming about unemployed needs

Brainstorming - Reasons – Situations - Solutions

Prototypes

www.unemploymentplatform.wordpress.com www.facebook.com/groups/unemploymentmeetingpoint/

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 -

This is not about jobs

This is about people

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