EMBRACE - Empowering Migrants to Be Representative Actors in Community Engagement
Summary
EMBRACE will increase migrants' participation in decision-making and policy implementation processes in host societies through the
testing and modelling of a carefully designed pathway.
A two-pronged training path will be developed, aimed at building the capacity of migrants to engage socially and politically, and at developing in local governments the competencies needed to include them in policy development. Listening sessions and co-projecting workshops between migrant communities and policy-makers will bring these groups together in moments of cooperation and negotiation of proposals, in order to practically implement new policies. The framework will be completed by the establishment of local groups of migrants, who will undertake experiences of public leadership to embody representative positions towards the local structures in place.
testing and modelling of a carefully designed pathway.
A two-pronged training path will be developed, aimed at building the capacity of migrants to engage socially and politically, and at developing in local governments the competencies needed to include them in policy development. Listening sessions and co-projecting workshops between migrant communities and policy-makers will bring these groups together in moments of cooperation and negotiation of proposals, in order to practically implement new policies. The framework will be completed by the establishment of local groups of migrants, who will undertake experiences of public leadership to embody representative positions towards the local structures in place.
Goals
Specifically, EMBRACE aims to:
- Expand knowledge on the forms of migrant participation in the partner countries and in the countries of origin.
- Enhance the capacity of designed local trainers to train decision-makers and migrants.
- Increase the capacity of decision-makers to engage with local migrant communities, to open to dialogue, listen and negotiate migrants' proposals.
- Enhance the capacity of migrants to engage socially and politically.
- Strength the social relations between migrants, organisations and policy-makers.
- Enhance the capacity of small groups of migrants to embody a representative stance towards local structures in place.
- Strengthen the cooperation between public bodies from different countries.
- Develop an ad hoc evaluation system to analyse EMBRACE participatory mechanism’s effectiveness and efficiency.
- Disseminate the project results to change the narrative around migrants.
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