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Private initiatives, governance and service delivery at local levels – new developments within the childcare services in Zagreb (CROSBI ID 613910)

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Matančević, Jelena Private initiatives, governance and service delivery at local levels – new developments within the childcare services in Zagreb. 2014

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Matančević, Jelena

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Private initiatives, governance and service delivery at local levels – new developments within the childcare services in Zagreb

Private initiatives in social services coming from the third sector organizations have gained increased attention, both in academic writings, as well as in public policies. In former socialist countries, including Croatia, the nonprofit service providers, as well as the re- discovered civil society were seen as potential contributors to the transformation of welfare systems and strengthening democratic processes during the period of transition. Such conception of these new actors permeated the academic, policy and wider public discourse. The growth of the nonprofit service providers was particularly noticeable in the areas of childcare services, elderly care and community- based health care services. Relating to the theoretical presumptions of the welfare mix model and to the notion of hybridization, it is expected that the nonprofit providers occupy an intermediary position in the local welfare system, cooperate with different sectors and constituencies, and better use the space for innovative practices, by combining different logics and resources. This work is an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the recent changes in childcare policy in Zagreb, in particular the changing role of the nonprofits in policy making and provision of services, as well as the emerging active role of parents as new policy actors, in this sense challenging the “old” conception of citizenship. The work is based on the research findings from the WILCO-Welfare Innovations at Local Levels in Favour of Cohesion project, accompanied by the complementary findings from the author’s PhD research. The field research was undertaken through semi-structured expert interviews and the document analysis. As regards the childcare policy in Croatia, it constitutes a part of the social system which was decentralized at early stage of modern Croatian history. However, it resulted in substantial regional disparities and inequalities in terms of prices and affordability, as well as accessibility of services. Such radical decentralization has led to fragmentation and differences in rights and the quality of preschool care, but as well as to the pluralisation of service providers. Childcare has traditionally been organized within professional, public services. However, when examining past decade, the growth of private nonprofit childcare organizations is notable. For example, private childcare organizations in Zagreb have grown in number considerably: while in 2000 private kindergartens constituted only 1 per cent of the total supply, in 2010 over 15 per cent of the total number of kindergartens were private ones. Alongside the growth of private initiative, there has also been a visible growth in the subsidies to private organizations from the city government. New mix in providers has emerged, which has posed new challenges for local welfare systems in terms of re-framing financial and regulatory frameworks of childcare policy, but also accentuating the need for the new culture of governance and for opening towards citizens and nonprofits in policy making. Alongside, recent years have been marked by the strengthening of the civic initiatives in childcare policy field in Zagreb through parents’ associations, advocating for improvements regarding capacities, quality of services and against the rise in parents’ fees. The latter has been a central issue regarding the childcare in Zagreb in recent years. Local public and city assembly debates reflect a firm value rationale behind changes in childcare policy, and a new platform for debate and inclusion of “new” actors, namely parents and parents’ organizations has been created. In sum, the childcare policy in Zagreb in recent years has been a field of relatively high political interest, frequent changes regarding financial aspects and of value-loaded discussions. It is also a policy filed which has mobilized different stakeholders, and is one of rather exceptional examples of mobilization of service users (parents) in advocacy regarding local welfare policies. Nonprofit service providers have gained firmer position within the system, notably as an answer to the unsatisfied demand, thus acting supplementary to the public services. However, their capacities and orientation towards innovative practices, as well as their role in local governance seem to remain rather limited.

childcare services; nonprofit organizations; finance; regulation; governance; Zagreb

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2014.

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11th International ISTR Conference: 'Civil Society and the Citizen'

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22.07.2014-25.07.2014

Münster, Njemačka

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