The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) was designed as an innovative (reform) mechanism for transitional funding in the social welfare sector. Its implementation started in 2003 and continued until 2010. In that period, SIF financed around 300 local initiatives in establishing and/or developing community based services. The total SIF expenditures were 7 million EUR over 7 years. External donor funding amounted up to 4.3 million EUR, while allocation from the national budget was 2.7 million EUR.
SIF had a multi-folded role in:
a) decentralization, by linking local level to central level reform initiatives,
b) deinstitutionalization, by encouraging and developing alternatives types of care at local level (community based services) as opposed to institutional care,
c) transmission of good practices, by embedding the good local practices into the reform processes, and
d) pluralism of service providers, by creating conditions for competitiveness between public and civil sector, quality social care and sustainability at local level.
After the envisaged lifespan of 5 years as a project, SIF was expected to either reach “institutional autonomy or cease to exist. The SIF as a project came to an end after 7 years.
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