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ANED Activity reports:

2011 ANED activity report EN DE FR

2010 ANED activity report EN DE FR

2009 ANED activity report EN DE FR

2008 ANED activity report EN DE FR

Reports published by the ANED network are available on the following themes:

EU law and Policy

Data and indicators

Monitoring rights

Employment

Social inclusion

Independent living

Education and training

Benefits / Entitlements

A new report is now available summarizing ANED’s work on the development of Indicators for Disability Equality in Europe (IDEE), written by Prof Stefanos Grammenos. Based on the earlier proposals, developed by Mark Priestley and Anna Lawson, 11 headline indicators were selected for 2011. The focus items relate to key targets on employment, education and poverty in the Europe 2020 Strategy, and to the theme of accessibility in the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020. Secondary data analysis was conducted using the EU-SILC survey for 2008 and 2009, with additional statistics drawn from Eurostat’s internet database. This includes data for all EU27 Member States for people aged 16 and over living in private households. The items selected included: employment rates, unemployment rates, economic activity rates; early leavers from education and training, completion of tertiary or equivalent education, risk of poverty and social inclusion (including households with low work intensity, and risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material deprivation). These indicators were further analysed by gender, age group and change over time since 2008, where possible. New items were piloted on the accessibility of public transport, and accessibility of postal or banking services.

The 2011 Activity Report covers the fourth and final year in ANED’s first work programme for the Commission, funded under the PROGRESS initiative. The report is published in English, French and German and provides an overview of the work activities and the outcomes of the network during the year, as well as its management structure, web development strategy and annual meeting. In this year’s report the Scientific Director, Prof Mark Priestley, explains progress on the core research tasks associated with mapping EU law and policy; updating statistical indicators; providing input to the open methods of co-ordination; and, the challenge of developing a new pan-European policy monitoring framework tool to support the European Disability Strategy.

Professor Mark Priestley (ANED Scientific Director) discussed the lessons learned from ANED’s monitoring of the EU Open Methods of Co-ordination (OMCs).

It is widely accepted that the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 requires a more co-ordinated policy implementation model than earlier EU Disability Action Plans. An effective model for disability policy co-ordination would need to be consistent with mechanisms for monitoring and implementing the Europe 2020 strategy and UN Convention reporting processes (it should support them but not duplicate them). Any new arrangements also would need to be politically and technically feasible within the existing EU structures and institutions.

On 11 November 2011 ANED held its Fourth Annual General Meeting (the last for the 2008-2011 work programme) in Brussels, bringing together its academic members from the EU/EEA Member States with representatives from the Commission staff and key invited guests. The annual meeting provides an important opportunity for members to share expertise, to exchange ideas and to consider the future work programme of the Network.