Belarus
Обзор характеристик «умных» устойчивых городов: Гродно, Беларусь
Jul 2023
Book
The Smart Sustainable Cities Profile for Grodno Belarus presents the outcomes of the city evaluation against the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) and proposes actions for the city to make progress towards achieving the SDGs. It provides guidance for Grodno city and regional governments for the development review and implementation of urban policies programmes and projects and for building partnerships with a vie Read More
Smart Sustainable Cities Profile: Grodno, Belarus
Apr 2023
Book
The Smart Sustainable Cities Profile for Grodno Belarus presents the outcomes of the city evaluation against the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) and proposes actions for the city to make progress towards achieving the SDGs. It provides guidance for Grodno city and regional governments for the development review and implementation of urban policies programmes and projects and for building partnerships with a vie Read More
Инновации для устойчивого развития: обзор по республике беларусь
Jul 2021
Book
This publication presents a general review of the Belarusian national legal and institutional framework for innovation. It also highlights the status and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country including an assessment of national development strategies within the context of ongoing international initiatives and a review of recent eco-innovation projects in such development strategies and government programmes.
Innovation for Sustainable Development - Review of Belarus
Jul 2021
Book
This publication presents a general review of the Belarusian national legal and institutional framework for innovation. It also highlights the status and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country including an assessment of national development strategies within the context of ongoing international initiatives and a review of recent eco-innovation projects in such development strategies and government programmes.
Lifelong learning
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and the Education Code establish the right of every citizen to education. By law there is no age restriction to access any level of education. This applies also to qualification upgrade staff training and retraining. At the same time as of today older persons both of pre-retirement and retirement age do not participate actively in the system of formal education.
Families and Intergenerational solidarity
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
Key actors in providing care to those who are in need of it are the State family and the community. While the State normally ensures social security health and social services (formal care) the family and community take on themselves the provision of informal care. The importance of informal care is growing with the demographic change. According to estimates in European countries 80 per cent of the long-term care is provided by informal carers and Read More
Method
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The development of a Road Map generally includes four steps: (1) a desk study (2) a field study (3) the drafting of the Road Map and consultations on its recommendations and (4) eventual elaboration of a plan of action by a country. In developing the present Road Map for Belarus the first two steps were carried out simultaneously in coordination with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the local office of the United Nations Population Fu Read More
Responsive labour markets
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
About 71 per cent of the total 15-74 years old population in Belarus are counted as economically active. According to the official statistics based on Household Employment Survey (HES) some 4.8 per cent of them were unemployed in 2018. The employment rate fluctuated between 67.2-67.5 per cent in 2017-2018. About 40 per cent of employed persons were engaged in state-owned sector. Only 4 per cent of population are working on their own account.
Belarus: The context
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east Ukraine to the south Poland to the west and Latvia and Lithuania to the north-west. Its total land area is 207600 km2.
Research and data collection
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
At the core of this Road Map report is understanding that population ageing affects virtually all domains of society and brings challenges and opportunities which require evidence-based policy responses. The need for relevant statistics is therefore equally wide-ranging. The UNECE Recommendations on ageing-related statistics point out that such statistics are cross-cutting and concern all areas of social and demographic statistics as well as government fi Read More
Gender equality in an ageing society
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
Although the Belarus Constitution stipulates that all are equal before the law and have the right to equal protection of rights and interests without any discrimination (Art.22) there is at present no comprehensive law which ensures de facto equality and protection from discrimination as there is no independent national human rights institution with a mandate to protect the full range of human rights.
Acknowledgements
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing in Belarus was prepared by the Population Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in partnership with the Government of Belarus represented by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and with assistance from the UNFPA Country Office. The financial support received from the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia is gratefully acknowledged.
Perception and images of older persons and media reporting
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The media both mirror and influence societal perceptions of ageing and older people. They can be agents of change and can positively influence perceptions. In order to understand the messages conveyed by major opinion leaders in the Belarusian media landscape the coverage of ageing-related issues in Belarusian printed media television and radio programmes was monitored and analysed.
Mainstreaming ageing
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The national strategy on ageing to be developed by the Government of Belarus is expected to be a comprehensive policy framework on ageing that provides the opportunity for mainstreaming ageing.
Monitoring and evaluation
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
When developing the national strategy on ageing it is important to identify concrete measures budgets and responsibilities as part of an action plan for its implementation and prepare a monitoring and evaluation framework with indicators that will allow to assess progress and outcomes achieved. Strategy on ageing and action plan for its implementation as well as monitoring framework need to be developed in a consultative manner involving a broad r Read More
The institutional framework
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The main responsibility for ageing-related policies in Belarus lies with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus. Other Ministries responsible for implementing aspects of state policies on ageing include the Ministries of Health Education Culture Information Economy Finance and their sub-ordinate structures and the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus. In addition there are the National Committee on Populati Read More
Introduction
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The UNECE Road Maps for Mainstreaming Ageing support countries in the national implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) and its Regional Implementation Strategy (RIS) and in the development of national strategies and action plans on ageing.
The policy framework
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
There is currently no integrated comprehensive government policy on ageing in the Republic of Belarus and until recently the wide-ranging socio-economic impact of population ageing does not seem to have been fully addressed in the State programmes and strategic documents. Nevertheless there is a number of key legislative acts in addition to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus that form the current policy framework regulating social protection Read More
Integration and participation of older persons in society
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Belarus
Oct 2020
Chapter
The full integration of older people in a “society for all ages” implies that they can enjoy the same access to the opportunities rights and services available to younger age groups. Barriers to the integration and participation of older persons in social economic cultural and political life include poverty lack of information on or access to services and entitlements low priority accorded to older persons in the access to services persistent negative images Read More
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