6th Inclusion Symposium

Joseba Zalakain Hernández

Co-Director of SIIS Documentation and Study Centre at the Eguía Careaga Foundation

Mr Zalakain holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of the Basque Country (1991) and a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Social Work from the Public University of Navarre (2004).

He has worked at the Fundación Eguía Careaga SIIS since 1996 and is currently co-director of this centre. He has participated in various research projects on social services, poverty, social exclusion, dependency, ageing, disability and drug dependency, and in the design of various social services observatories. In the field of planning, he has contributed to drafting the Basque Government's strategies for social services, family and care for the homeless, as well as to the Technical Commission for the reform of the Income Guarantee Plan and the drafting and evaluation of the Basque Country's various social inclusion plans.

He has also worked together with different authorities to start up systems to assess the quality of attention in the social services field, and to assess different intervention programmes.