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Local Intersectoral Policies for Immigrants

Civic participation Completed
mazowieckie
Warszawa
Homo Faber Association, Lublin, Poland
Warsaw City Hall, Warszawa, Poland
2014-08-15 - 2016-03-15
388 185,17 PLN
349 145,17 PLN
refugees and migrants, local policies
Project description
Foreigners are a group that is ignored both on general legislative level and during development of local strategies and solutions for inhabitants. In the MIPEX ranking, measuring openness of migration policies, Poland has 32nd place among 38 countries. The project was aimed at including migrants and migration issues into the main public debate, initiating the process of development of coherent local policies concerning foreigners, e.g. through creating communication and cooperation tools for expert groups and enhancing engagement and knowledge of the migrants themselves. As a result of the project, two Intersectoral Working Forums on Local Migration Policies were organised that gathered over 200 persons from ten cities: representatives of 52 non-governmental organisations and 25 institutions (20-30% of participants were migrants) under 13 different thematic working groups. After the forum, the summary report was published, and the works of two groups are continued (coalition against violence towards women and trainings for public officers). Under the initiative Open Cities, the report describing examples of good practices on integration of foreigners and antidiscrimination activities led in over 10 cities of Poland was prepared, and 11 good practices from four cities were singled out in a competition. Based on 402 questionnaires from six countries, the report on the quality of consultation services was prepared. Two services were developed that will continue their operations: Info-migrator.pl – information platform for migrants operating in eight cities in five languages, together with a service for communication and cooperation between various entities and groups dealing with migrants, and the first Internet radio for migrants (imiradio.pl) with a team of 25 persons and 22 broadcasts prepared in ten languages. The project benefited foreigners living in Poland, non-governmental organisations active for foreigners, representatives of local and central government administration. The partners of the project presented their experiences during the Forum (Icelandic Human Rights Centre), gave their expert support (the Association Homo Faber), consulted the programme of the Forum also from the perspective of local government (the City Hall in Warsaw).
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