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social and demographic context, which is taken into account when designing development
policies with regard to social protection and social inclusion. The analysis of Member States
should draw on the commonly agreed overarching indicators and statistics, supplemented with
national indicators.
53. Member States should adopt a focused approach by identifying few priority objectives,
while addressing streamlined objectives. With regard to social inclusion, they should take an
integrated, multidimensional approach to tackling poverty and social inclusion. The existing list
of indicators has been streamlined by strand; each strand constitutes a commonly agreed
condensed and comprehensive monitoring tool of a country’s social situation with regard to the
common objectives in each strand.
54. The three overarching objectives of the social protection and social inclusion process are to
promote:
• Social cohesion, equality between men and women and equal opportunities for all
through adequate, accessible, financially sustainable, adaptable and efficient social
protection systems and social inclusion policies
• Effective and mutual interaction between the Lisbon objectives of greater economic
growth, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and with the Sustainable
Development Strategy of the European Union
• Good governance, transparency and the involvement of stakeholders in the design,
implementation and monitoring of policy
55. European Union and national indicators cover the key common objectives, such as the
European Union risk poverty rate (share of persons with a disposable income below 60 per cent
of the national median income); European Union income inequality indicator (ratio of total
income received by the 20 per cent of the country’s population with the highest income (top
quintile) to that received by the 20 per cent of the population with the lowest income (lowest
quintile)); national indicators, such as healthy life expectancy (number of years a person is
expected to live in a healthy condition); early school-leavers (share of people aged between 18
and 24 years who have only lower secondary education); people living in jobless households
without access to labour markets (proportion of people living in jobless households, expressed as
a share of all people in the same age group and main household types); and indicators for social
exclusion.
D. Funding the Open Method of Coordination: Community Programme for
Employment and Social Solidarity
56. The Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity is aimed at financially
supporting the implementation of the objectives of the Open Method of Coordination. The
programme conducts studies to improve the understanding of social exclusion and poverty;
monitors and evaluates implementation of the Open Method of Coordination and its impact at
the national and community levels; analyses the interaction between the Open Method of
Coordination and other policy areas; organizes exchanges on policies and promotes mutual
learning through peer review, transnational projects and development of indicators; raises
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