Performance assessment - excellentThe Eurodiaconia board approved a new policy position paper last week entitled “Social Enterprises for Social Inclusion”. It outlines diaconal organisations’ perspectives on the definition of social enterprise, the main challenges for social enterprises and then makes recommendations to meet those challenges.

The paper draws from the 2011 member survey on the social economy, discussions in the social economy workshop in 2012, a workshop at the 2013 AGM and the 2013 member survey on social enterprise. It also includes input from existing policy papers and was put out to consultation of member organisations. Eurodiaconia will work in more detail in 2014 on certain topics mentioned in the paper – namely the implementation of the forthcoming public procurement directive, financing of social services, social innovation and social impact measurement.

The policy paper can be downloaded here.