An EAPN Malta brief reaction to Malta's National Report on Strategics for Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008 - 2010, financed by the European Anti-Poverty Network (Europe) and SOS Malta

Abstract

Civil society plays an important role in ensuring government's accountability towards its citizens, and that it meets its legal obligations and commitments to protect and realize the human rights of the whole population in a nondiscriminatory way. Indeed, civil society in Malta can influence policy making, deliver services where the state will not, tackle prejudice and change behaviour. Key civil society groups have an important role to play in helping excluded groups exercise their rights and obtain redress where this is not happening.

To this end, this report is a concise reaction that maps out key concerns and recommendations on Malta's National Strategies Report 2008 - 2010 in the hope that the document is revisited and revised before final submission to the European Commission.