MILE Third Presentation Workshop

Intercultural Dialogue and Access of migrants and ethnic minorities to Education, Health and Housing services

Venice, 27 April 2009

Action Plan presentation by Seville City Council

Dialogue and Mediation

A Road to Integration

Seville City CouncilSeville City CouncilSevilla EmprendedoraSevilla Emprendedora- Business Promotion and Training Service HeadquartersBusiness Promotion and Training Service Headquarters- Business Advisory TeamBusiness Advisory Team- Central ServicesCentral Services REDES ProjectREDES Project- Planning, Training and Employment Section HeadquartersPlanning, Training and Employment Section Headquarters- Planning and Programming ServicePlanning and Programming Service- Northern Area Intervention CoordinationNorthern Area Intervention Coordination

Junta of Andalusia. Regional Employment Department.Junta of Andalusia. Regional Employment Department. Employment Employment Service of AndalusiaService of Andalusia

Sevilla Acoge FoundationSevilla Acoge FoundationMediation, Planning and CommunicationMediation, Planning and Communication

Local Support Group Members

Social Work PrincipleSocial Work Principle: “All men and women have the same value, whatever their race, religion, political opinion, attitude… Social action must respect all the differences that exist in individuals, groups, communities”.But our Welfare State, designed for a specific user model, is not responding to the new realities, to the new users.

The services The services must be adapted, must be adapted, therefore, to the new therefore, to the new users. users.

Problem Analysis

– There are two, especially important, subject matters relating to the adaptation to change:

• The acculturation processes activated in the immigrant.

• The adaptations to be carried out by the different services that receive the immigrants; in other words, the acculturation of the receiving society, itself

– The main job search source is the web of informal networks. The services perceive precariousness and lack of acknowledgement of diversity.

Problem Analysis

The Third Action Plan in Seville aims for the information, communication and participation information, communication and participation channels channels to open up under the umbrella of this Project, to overcome its transient nature and to to overcome its transient nature and to become an intervention strategy that is become an intervention strategy that is sustainable in time. sustainable in time. Namely, to prepare forward-looking proposals to prepare forward-looking proposals along the line of what was experienced during along the line of what was experienced during the MILEthe MILE

Overall aim

AdaptAdapt the employment services to the characteristics, needs and potentialities of the new users.

GuaranteeGuarantee the participationparticipation of the migrant group in the continuous decision-making and execution process.

Specific objectives

The main target groups of the project (although

not exclusive) are the entrepreneurs of

immigrant origin who live in the city of Seville

Main target group(s)

•Design, adaptation and publication of promotional material

• Intercultural Mediation Actions with entrepreneurs

• Meetings with entrepreneurs• “Entrepreneurship among Cultures” Day

Activities to be undertaken

•Design, adaptation and publication of Design, adaptation and publication of promotional materialpromotional material

January 2009• “ “Entrepreneurship among Cultures” DayEntrepreneurship among Cultures” Day

March 2009

Timetable for implementation

Contact with realityContact with reality

– Mediation team coordination

– Identification and contacts by mediation team

– Methodology determination

– Scheduling and Visits

Timetable for implementation

October 2008-February

2009

February -March 2009

Financial and Non-financial Resources Required

Adaptación servicios

Adaptación, diseño e impresión material divulgativo 2.500

Curso Formación en Interculturalidad en asesoramiento empresarial a 18 personas 1.890

Tutorías continuas asesoramiento empresarial e inmigración 4.000

Encuentro local/ final MILE

Ponentes 1.005

Catering 5.000

Alquiler espacios y equipos audiovisuales 1.264

Exposición fotográfica 2.500

Animación-Teatro 1.000

Carpetas 200

Equipo de Organización y Atención

Asistencia Técnica 600

Encuentros con inmigrantes

Equipo de mediación

Equipo técnico servicios públicos

Espacio físico

Asistencia técnica 600

Design, adaptation and publication of advisory material

Preparation of new promotional material for Self-employment counselling services.Sevilla Emprendedora Seville City Council

Intercultural Mediation Actions with Entrepreneurs

The MILE project was implemented in the Macarena area, paying visits to the immigrant entrepreneurial fabric and preparing meetings for the month of February 2009

The visits were carried out by the team of mediators from the Sevilla Acoge Foundation from November 2008 to February 2009. 110 visits were made.

The mediation team verified the good acceptance of the project; it also positively valued the strategy used (based on their needs, previous contact of mediators, bearing in mind their working hours, proximity of meeting place to their workplaces, neutral place for meetings…)

Intercultural Mediation Actions

“Entrepreneurship among Cultures” Day

This was held on 24 March 2009

Methodology

Meetings with entrepreneursMeetings with entrepreneursThe basic idea of these meetings is that the aim is not to offers services but to find out what people think and adapt our answers to their expectations.

The aim was to create a level of equality.

The space enabled participants to express their achievements, needs and demands.

It was the moment to listen and compile proposals: what their job demands are, what ideas they have for enterprising actions, their needs to qualify and improve businesses; in short, take the first steps to establish communication channels and interactions both in decision-making and in execution.

Methodology

“ “Entrepreneurship among Cultures” DayEntrepreneurship among Cultures” Day

–Keynote conference “Enterprising actions and immigration”,“Enterprising actions and immigration”, by an expert in social economy and third sector

–The “Conversation among entrepreneurs”“Conversation among entrepreneurs” panel aimed to be a forum for dialogue about the current situation, experiences, participants’ professional and personal commitments, the new fields of application and future tendencies in the extensive field of labour insertion of immigrants, within the new context that is taking shape with the challenges of socio-cultural diversification.

Added Value

ImportanceImportance of mediationmediation as a tool to provide a serviceIncorporation of the receiversIncorporation of the receivers of the services

into the design of the answers of the public administration: from being objects of intervention to subjects of the projectsComplementarityComplementarity with territory interventions

Added Value

Structural intervention Structural intervention that goes beyond the

time horizon of this Project

Opening of information and communication Opening of information and communication

channelschannels

Synergies and cooperationSynergies and cooperation in attention

Source of joint and participativejoint and participative actions

Complementarity

MILE Project Actions in SevilleMILE Project Actions in Seville

facilitating elements that are complemented with the interventions that are being carried out in the territory in socio-labour insertion related matters.

Complementarity

MILE Project Actions in SevilleMILE Project Actions in SevilleComplementing Complementing

- REDES Project- Andalucía Orienta Network- Experimental Actions

Programme- Programme of Professional

Experiences for Employment- School-Workshops- Employment workshops- Education and Employment

Programme- Insertion Accompaniment

Programme - Clara Project- “AulaBús”

- “Anímate a Emprender”- “Sevilla Emprendedora”- “Conoce Tu Distrito”- Emprevención Programme- Business Single Window- Microcredits and Financing

Lines Programme- Programme of Aid to New

Business Initiatives PANIE)- Advanced Business Resources

Centre (CREA)- Educational programme for the

creation and consolidation of companies

- Artisan Sector Promotion Plan