Upprättad för livet eller inrättad i ledet ? : en studie av sju utvecklingspartnerskap inom Equalprogrammet

Sammanfattning: In this dissertation a study and analysis of seven Development Partnerships, (DP) within the Community Initiative, Equal, is presented. The EQUAL programme ran in every member states of the EU during 2000-2007 and was financed by the European Social Fund. The purpose of the programme was to fight against discrimination and exclusion for a better working life through the work of so called Development Partnerships, (DP). DP's work in collaboration with different organizations from different fields of society all with the purpose to develop innovative methods and models. The seven Swedish DP's in this study all had in their field of work supported youth with problems in school and in their transition to working life. In this study the DP's application documents (realization plans) have been studied in order to analyze their view of the problems with transition from school to working place for Swedish youth and their proposals for solutions of this type of problems. The result of the study is illustrated in an ideal typical four-field model that focuses on two important dimensions of the activities of the DP's. One of these aspects is about whether the DP's is operating within the public or the private sector. The other aspect is about whether the DP's has a focus on individuals or upon systems. As an outcome of these two dimensions four ideal typical DP's are created, in this model called he Pedagogue, the Bureaucrat, the Idealist, the Consultant. The model shows that each one of these ideal typical DP's has to take into consideration some special factors in their programmes, especially the survival of the project or the ideas in the long run. These factors are described in the model as movements and dependences to adjacent DP's. For example it is important for the DP's from the private sector to achieve legitimacy for their programme. The DP's from the public sector has to import alternative ideas into the regular activities. The DP's with individuals in focus are stressing the importance of developing models for new systems, while DP's with systems in focus has the need to have activities that has individual based activity in order to gain credibility. The model illustrates important conditions and requirements that DP's has to take into consideration when developing supporting activities for youths.