EBNA and FSBA. An analysis to support the social report

The project is aimed at analysing the benefits of the Italian Bilateral Solidarity Fund for Handicrafts (Fondo di Solidarietà Bilaterale per l'Artigianato, FSBA) and the National Bilateral Handicrafts Organisation (Ente Bilaterale Nazionale Artigianato, EBNA).

FSBA is responsible for providing income support to workers in craft enterprises, ensuring protection in the event of a reduction or suspension of work. Therefore, the study will quantify the contributions awarded in 2023 and will also profile their beneficiaries.

EBNA is a national body coordinating 21 bilateral organisations (one per Italian region, except for Trentino-Alto Adige, which has two separate organisations for the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano). Each organisation provides numerous and diverse benefits – i.e., contributions for public transport, for contrasting energy costs and for children's school expenses –, with considerable differences between the various regions.

The benefits offered in 2023 by the regional organisations will be mapped and classified in order to make them comparable. Then, as in the case of FSBA, the resources provided and the targets reached will be examined.

Afterwards, the purposes of each intervention – as previously classified – will be reconstructed, linking them to one or more of the 12 domains of the Equitable and Sustainable Well-being indicator (Benessere equo e sostenibile, BES) – i.e., the multidimensional indicator developed by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica, Istat) and the National Economic and Labor Council (Consiglio nazionale dell'economia e del lavoro, Cnel) to measure people's well-being.

Finally, in order to fully understand the socio-economic impacts of the aforementioned benefits, an analysis will be carried out of the quantity of resources actually disbursed for each BES domain.

The results obtained will feed into a report – as well as into interactive dashboards –, and will be available to be used by the client to support the drafting of the social report, as well as to account for its work during a dissemination event that will take place in October 2024.

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB ETS) is involved in all phases and activities of the project, being charge of carrying out the desk research to contextualise the study, as well as of mapping of the services provided by FSBA and EBNA, analysing data, drafting the report and creating the dashboards for data dissemination.