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Social Impact Assessment

Social Impact Assessment. EU Twinning Project, Ankara Päivi Salo Ministerial Cousellor , Legal Affairs. Impact Assessment in Finland. HELO instructions (Ministry of Justice 2004)

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Social Impact Assessment

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  1. Social Impact Assessment EU Twinning Project, Ankara Päivi Salo Ministerial Cousellor, Legal Affairs

  2. ImpactAssessment in Finland • HELO instructions (Ministry of Justice 2004) • Bill Drafting Instructions (Ministry of Justice 2006), which are supplemented by Impact Assessment in Legislative Drafting: Guidelines (Ministry of Justice 2008)

  3. The Guidelines for ImpactAssessmentpublishedby the Ministry of Justice • The IA Guidelines published by the Ministry of Justice cover the assessment of • economic impacts • impacts on the public administration • environmental impacts • social impacts

  4. The Guidelines for Impact Assessment by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health • The IA Guidelines for the gender impacts • In preparation: The IA Guidelines to cover the social impacts

  5. Social Impact Assessment • Health impacts • Mental Health impacts • Socioeconomic impacts • Social impacts • Impacts on children

  6. The National Strategies and Policies • The National Development Programme for Social Welfare and Health Care (Kaste 2008-2011) • The Health Promotion Policy • Mind 2009 Programme • The Welfare Policy on Children, Youth and Families • Project to Reduce Depression-Related Work Disability • Service Innovation Programme

  7. Why should we asses Social Impacts?

  8. Groups of the population recognized in the government proposals • customers • population, people • children, youth • men / women • different socioeconomic groups • senior citizen • immigrants • disabled persons • staff, employees • entrepreneurs

  9. Recognizing the need of social IA • Has the decision impacts on a certain group of people according to age, gender, cultural background, state of health etc? • Has this group of people a certain socioeconomic subgroup (according to education, wealth, position etc) on which especially carries the burden of the impact? • Which factors seem to affect the (sub)group of people and how?

  10. If there are contradiction, disagreement or unclarity one should take the impact into account If everyone involved describes the impact minor or momentary, one can merely mention the impact

  11. Tools for the Impact Assessment • Hearing the people involved • Hearing experts • Checklist to help the IA • Indicators • Analyzing the significance of the impact • Tabulation of the options

  12. Checklist Has the proposal impacts on: • health or living circumstances of the people • human relations or the decision-making of the human relations • peoples physical or mental health, wellbeing or the spread of wellbeing • children / youth

  13. How to do the Impact assessment? • collecting the relevant information • comparing different alternatives • involvement of the Interest groups • involvement of the experts • describing the impacts by focusing on a certain group of people • describing the qualitative and quantitative impacts • describing the costs of the impact

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