Government-funded sustainable development and professionalisation of NGOs (ŠTUDIJA)

The paper examines Slovenia’s first financial initiative to professionalise and develop NGOs in support of third sector sustainability. Initiated under the 2018 Non-Governmental Organisations Act and the Development strategy of non-governmental organisations and volunteering until 2023 strategy, the measure aimed to address Slovenia’s low NGO employment rate of 0.82%, compared to the EU28 average of 4.18%. In May 2018, the Ministry of Public Administration funded 100 NGO jobs to support development and voluntary service. By March 2020, 69% of these jobs were retained, indicating partial success. However, since 84.6% of retained workers were already employed in NGOs, the overall employment rate saw little improvement.

Članek obravnava prvo slovensko finančno pobudo za profesionalizacijo in razvoj nevladnih organizacij v podporo trajnosti tretjega sektorja. Namen ukrepa, ki se je začel izvajati na podlagi Zakona o nevladnih organizacijah iz leta 2018 in Strategije razvoja nevladnih organizacij in prostovoljstva do leta 2023, je bil odpraviti nizko stopnjo zaposlenosti v nevladnih organizacijah v Sloveniji, ki znaša 0,82 %, medtem ko je povprečje EU-28 4,18 %. Maja 2018 je Ministrstvo za javno upravo financiralo 100 delovnih mest v nevladnih organizacijah za podporo razvoju in prostovoljstvu. Do marca 2020 je bilo ohranjenih 69 % teh delovnih mest, kar kaže na delni uspeh. Ker pa je bilo 84,6 % ohranjenih delavcev že zaposlenih v nevladnih organizacijah, se je skupna stopnja zaposlenosti le malo izboljšala.