The Welfare Development Plan 2016-2023 is a national cross-sectoral plan of Estonia. Its main objectives are high employment rate and a high-quality working life; and reducing social inequalities and poverty, gender equality, and a greater social inclusion. Further, for reducing rural poverty, the document targets to support an activating, adequate, and sustainable social protection has increased the economic coping of people; ensure the social protection of people through social security benefits, state benefits, other assistance, and guaranteeing the adequacy of the minimum benefits; efficient legal protection and high-quality personal assistance have improved people’s opportunities to cope independently, live in a community, and participate in society; and ensure high-quality social services that support independent coping and care facilities that meet people’s needs. The Plan also provides for gender equality aiming for supporting the equal economic independence of men and women and increasing the gender balance on all levels of decision-making and management; reducing gender stereotypes and their negative effects on the everyday life and decisions of men and women and on economic and social development; and ensuring institutional capacity for reducing gender inequality and for promoting gender equality, including for the more efficient implementation of legal protection and gender mainstreaming.
Эстония · 2016-01-01