The main aim of this project was to see a dramatic improvement in the quality of enjoyment of human rights by refugees and is based on the idea of supporting the active inclusion of marginalised, vulnerable or excluded communities. With this, the project seeks to strengthen refugee inclusion by supporting the empowerment of those refugees who want to play an active role in their communities and at the EU level. Through the project, community needs, strengths and trends were identified, and included in the production of an educational package that would tackle these challenges and provide improved skills to overcome them.
Part of our project was a training programme which was geared at supporting the mobilisation of refugees into organised and effective communities that would be active in various spheres such as peer-to-peer support, provision of information or other community-based services, advocacy with national governmental stakeholders in order to bring the voice of excluded groups to the attention of policy-makers, engagement in public awareness-raising, talking directly from the heart of their represented communities.
All of the above are included in the Training Kit, our ultimate deliverable which addresses the challenges faced by refugees in integrating effectively in their host countries.
A training kit for refugee-led organisations
The Training Kit contains content addressing RCOs who wish to be active at a national level, together with training content addressing RCOs who wish to be active at a European level and will then be available to the public and thoroughly disseminated throughout the Partners’ networks.
Thanks to the project’s combination of community-based consultation, desk-research and synergising transnational expertise, it is based on an in-depth understanding of the needs and strengths of RCOs and refugee communities, seeking to fill those skill and knowledge gaps that hinder RCOs from being effective partners in advocacy at national and European levels.
You can download our toolkit by visiting the following link.
