A more detailed overview of current and past projects carried out by human european consultancy than you find below can be downloaded here.

Ongoing projects
 

MAPPING STUDY ON EXISTING NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE MEASURES (2005 - 2006)

The purpose of the contract is to provide the European Commission with independent and authoritative information on national measures to combat discrimination in fields where Community legislation has not been introduced such as: social protection (including social security), social services and advantages, education, and access to and supply of goods and services. It will also look at the application and impact of existing anti-discrimination legislation.
The study will cover the 25 EU member states, Romania, Bulgaria, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

STUDIES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LABOUR LAW DIRECTIVES (2005 - 2007)
 

Production of reports on the implementation of the following Directive in the EU Member States::
 

• Directive 91/383/EEC supplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed-term relationship or a temporary employment relationship.
• Directive 97/81/EC concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC, including Directive 98/23/EC which applied to the United Kingdom only
• Directive 99/70/EC concerning the Framework Agreement on fixed-term work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and ETUC
• Directive 96/71/EC concerning posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.
• Directive 2001/23/EC on the approximation of Laws of the Member States relating to the safeguard of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or part of businesses.
• Directive 80/987/EEC amended by Directive 2002/74/EC on the approximation of Laws of the Member States relating to the safeguard of employees’ rights in the event of insolvency of their employer.

EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LEGAL EXPERTS IN THE NON-DISCRIMINATION FIELD (2004 - 2006)

In partnership with the Migration Policy Group a network of independent legal experts has been established to provide the European Commission with information and advice on the implementation and application of the article 13 anti-discrimination Directives.                     The network will cover discrimination on grounds of race and ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation and religion and belief in all 25 EU countries.                 Tasks and experts of the network have been described in a leaflet, which can be downloaded.

STRIKING DEALS (2003 - 2006)

The project supports trade unions in Hungary and Romania in developing a strategy in the area of vocational education and training (VET). The support should lead to collective agreements with employers organisations with VET provisions and a common funding structure for VET. The areas covered are the agricultural sector and the metal-working sector. The project is funded by the Dutch Government and implemented in partnership with the Dutch trade union FNV Bondgenoten. See leaflet for more information.

EVALUATION OF PROJECTS - EUROPEAN INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (2003 - 2006)

Leading a consortium with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) and the Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM). The contract provides the European Commission with a flexible tool to evaluate European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) projects and programmes, focusing on the direct impact on participants in/ beneficiaries of the project activities, and the wider impact on the situation from which the problems addressed by the project originated.
Evaluations so far:

• Impact analyses of the EIDHR regulations
• Provision of support to the Moscow School of Political Studies
• Torture rehabilitation centres (Nepal and Peru)
• Human rights masters programmes (Malta and South Africa
• Torture rehabilitation centres Europe
• Fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination
• Training on Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management
• Programa Andino de derechos humanes y democratia

Past projects
 

• Evaluation of Russia European Commission / Council of Europe joint programmes North Caucasus, Russia V and VI (2005)
• Capacity building civil society dealing with ant-discrimination. Mapping of civil society and training seminars in the new member states, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey (2004 - 2005)
• Improvement of capacity planning and cost effectiveness of capital investments in health care, Czech Republic (2003 - 2004)
• Support to NGO sector Slovenia (2001 - 2004)
• Global Review of the OHCHR Technical Cooperation Programme (2003)
• Report on measures to combat discrimination in the 13 candidate countries (2002 - 2003)
• Drafting terms of reference TACIS 'Social Protection Reform' Russia (2002)
• Framework for human rights impact assessment, Georgia (2002)
• Improvement of Roma situation, Romania (2000 - 2002)
• Evaluation of family planning clinics in Quena, Egypt (2000)
• Health management, Slovakia (1999 - 2000)
• Financing and primary health care, Slovakia (1999 - 2000)
• Fact-finding mission early intervention, Oman (1998)
• Study visits to the Netherlands by Slovak participants from the social sector (1998 - 1999)
• Evaluation of public administration programmes in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia (1998 - 1999)
• Emergency social assistance programme Bulgaria (1997)
• Programme Management Agency multi-country social protection programme Consensus (1995 - 1998)
• Analyses and recommendations for the health care system Moldova (1996)
• Assisting programme management unit social security, Slovakia (1996)
• Policy and legislative framework for child protection, Romania (1994 - 1997)
• Development of primary health care system, Hungary (1994 - 1997)
• Tender evaluation primary health care and health financing project Lithuania (1994)
• Developing regional training infrastructure for public administration, Hungary (1993)
• Preparation 'Social Policy Development' programme, Hungary (1992)