Regional social protection mechanisms

This paper focuses on the importance and essence of social protection mechanisms, describes their legal, economical and organizational components. Social protection mechanisms are important elements of the social protection system. Social protection mechanisms are understood as a complex of economical, organizational and legal measures aiming at smoothing social inequality of population.The legal foundations of the social protection mechanism consist in the fact that the protective activity supposes legislative establishment of social obligations of the state and other subjects of social protection, and their strict legislative regulation.The role of an economical component of the mechanisms can hardly be overestimated as any protective activity demands material, financial costs, economical support. In principle, the state, business and population can be the sources of social protection financing. Their role and shares depend on a lot of factors. Social protection system will not function if it is not effectively organized. The organizational component of the mechanisms is a complex of activities for carrying out social protection measures. This component includes management, personnel, organizational, informational and other support of protective measures, their direct realization. The theoretical propositions are supported with the examples of social protection practice in Kuzbass. These examples chiefly demonstrate programmatically targeted approach to carrying out protective events in the region and sufficiently effective mechanisms of social protection of the population.