El Ministerio de Inclusión presenta el proyecto de acompañamiento de familias vulnerables con menores en Madrid

The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has presented the pilot project that will be deployed in the city of Madrid called ‘Social accompaniment for the promotion of the autonomy of the recipients of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) and the minimum income of insertion with minors in charge’ and that will be developed by the City of the capital. The presentation was made by the General Secretary of Objectives and Policies of Inclusion and Social Security, Milagros Paniagua, in an event organized by the City of Madrid and in which the deputy mayor Begoña Villacís, the delegate of the Area of Families, Equality and Social Welfare, José Aniorte, and the economic councilor of the Representation of the EC in Spain, María Canal Fontcuberta, also participated.

This inclusion itinerary is part of the 34 projects that will be spread throughout the national territory endowed with 297 million euros from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and that will be implemented in collaboration with the autonomous communities, municipalities and entities of the third social sector. All of them respond in order to implement a new inclusion model, based on the IMV, that reduces income inequality and extreme and moderate poverty rates.

On this occasion, the project will have a budget of 10.5 million euros and will act on a vulnerable population made up of 4,450 people (direct and living units). The itinerary aims to improve the employability of the most vulnerable population to regain their autonomy through training and the increase of professional skills, and in turn to support these families by favoring conciliation and promoting the development of emotional, educational and parental skills.

As highlighted by Milagros Paniagua, these innovative projects are developed with the randomized control trials (RCT-randomized control trials) methodology, “an innovative methodology that will allow the evaluation of the results of each of them in reducing the vulnerability of beneficiaries to scale those that obtain better results.” The general secretary has valued the participation of the academic field as something “disruptive of this project” and has taken the opportunity to thank the collaboration of two entities of international prestige such as Cemfi (Bank of Spain) and J-PAL when measuring the evidence of a public policy.