The Oasi Project

The OASI (observation analysis support to social inclusion) Project represents an operative tool for carrying out the Open Method of Coordination at every level, from the local to the transnational one, within the Community Action Plan.

This project includes a two-year (2005-2007) action plan which will be accomplished through transnational exchanges among local observatories. These exchanges, concerning the work practises, the gathered information's, the applied methodologies and the territorial indicators used in the observation and analysis of poverty and social exclusion, will be promoted by several actors - such as local authorities, NGO, Foundations, Trade Unions and so on.

Objectives

The project aims at achieving the following purposes:

1. To promote the exchange of practises with regard to the role of the observatories on poverty and social exclusion, in particular as far as the contribution to the European Strategy for social inclusion and the NAP are concerned;

2. To identify and develop common operative tools;

3. To build up a network of local experiences of observation, analysis and support aimed at a mutual learning about methodology, to share the de? nition of the territorial indicators;

Actions

The project includes exchanges on the work carried out by local observers relating to: organization, methodology, partners involved and indicators used.
Common strategies will be identi?ed as well.
The involvement of people in situations of poverty is comprised too.
The project includes the accomplishment of a series of actions, like:

1. The creation of an Internet site;

2. The creation of a database in order to make the exchange of information's easier;

3. The creation of a newsletter to be spread among the partners;

4. The organization of seminars within a dynamics of exchanges and cooperation's among observatories, people in charge and actors. These seminars are aimed at promoting the exchange and the reciprocal learning in order to effectively contribute to the working out of the NAP in the various countries and to help the local and regional authorities to set up a local strategy based on the knowledge of the situation.