Pomorskie Forum na rzecz Wychodzenia z Bezdomności (PFWB) to międzysektorowe Partnerstwo podmiotów zajmujących się problematyką bezdomności. Ustanowione w celu ich integracji, wymiany myśli, idei i doświadczeń oraz kreowania i wspierania systemu polityki społecznej, aby skutecznie rozwiązywać problem bezdomności oraz łagodzić jego skutki.
PULS Project – the strategy for the development of social partnership in the sphere of homelessness
Project completion period: 1 June 2009 – 30 April 2011
Operational Programme Human Capital
Priority 5 Good management
Activity 5.4 Boosting the potential of the third sector
Sub-Activity 5.4.2 Developing civil dialogue
The aim of the project is to strengthen and develop the potential and efficiency of PFWB activity
Increase PFWB effectiveness in creating, improving, monitoring, evaluating and promoting models of social policy in the sphere of homelessness
Increase the effectiveness and involvement of Forum members and improve the system of involving new members from rural areas
Raise the efficiency of promoting the idea, experience and achievements of PFWB as well as strengthen its professionalism and stability
Target groups
Activities taken up in the project
One of the project aims is to prepare the concept, create, programme, maintain and manage an IT platform. This platform is an answer to the members’ needs. Thanks to the access code system it will be possible to place schedules and agendas of PFWB meetings and events as well as all resolutions and reports of Forum activity.
Forum Newsletter will be created in order to improve the quality of communication and it will work as a supplement to the platform.
The project envisages publishing two issues. Its budget will be used for editing, working out a new graphic design of the publication, typesetting, proofreading, printing and translating the issues.
Forum members will work on the organization development in 5 groups:
Each group will have its leader, elected from among PFWB members, and a coordinator from the Forum Office. Each group will have a quarterly meeting (seven meetings) which will result in projects, models, standards, strategies, legal and system recommendations.
Main tools used in the theme realization: a conference and a report on the annual topic.
Two conference meetings in the project
An annual report will be based on the activity of the working groups and detailed analysis of the topic.
A group for Education, whose activities will not only be maintained but also intensified, was set up when working out the strategy of the project.
The project envisages conducting 4 three-day training courses.
Time of each course: 8 hours
The number of participants: 25 people
The Project envisages conducting 7 quarterly seminars connected with educational visits (40-50 participants).
Seminars, conducted in the whole province and particularly in rural areas, are designed to exchange knowledge and experiences among the participants and to promote their integration.
As Forum members see the need to share their knowledge and experience, the project incorporates activities designed to share knowledge on standards of cooperation, creating branch territorial networks combining public sector institutions and NGOs
The project envisages conducting 2 two-day study visits for 20 people from outside the Pomeranian Province.
The group for Institutional Development, created when working out the strategy, developed the concept of increasing the transparency of PFWB structures and enhancing the activity of its representatives. It also prepared the plan to boost the potential of PFWB office and improve the system of involving new members in the Forum structures.
The project envisages:
12 meetins of the Board
8 meetings of the Executive Committee
2 General Assemblies of PFWB (involving new organizations and institutions)
This strategy shapes Forum and requires reorganizing its activity on many different levels. This is the main reason for monitoring and evaluation which will not only focus on the current activity but it will give us an idea whether members like these changes and whether the improvements were steps in the right direction.
The Forum development strategy will be amended based on the results of the evaluation.
Hard results of the PULS Project
Soft results of the PULS Project
