Public–Civil Society partnerships
in mentoring programmes
Mentoring Meet & Match
Brussels 11/04/17
The Administration reacts when a social need is
detected
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Nightingale (Rossinyol)
Social innovation to improve immigrant stds
expectations through a mentoring project
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Nightingale (Rossinyol)
From lack of integration
to social cohesion
Education failure
improving school performance
No social network
becoming part of a community
No family participation
Engaging in neighbourhood
social life
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The Catalan Refuge Programme
(CRP)
An alliance between the Catalan Government, the
Municipalities and the civil society, to contribute
jointly to the reception of refugees in Catalonia and
to achieve the best results in their integration
process.
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CRP: Public call and social mentoring
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CRP: The role of the Government
 The Government selects and trains mentors - with its own
resources or through entities - to assign to each family group or
beneficiary.
 Monitoring of refugees and mentors progress will be carried out
according to standardized protocols by the social services in
each municipality.
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CRP: The role of civil society
 Promoting Mentoring
 Making specific knowledge available to refugees
 Emerging job positions for the professional development and the
economic autonomy of refugees.
 Spread the need for housing resources at s social price/affordable
 Better reception, by inviting refugees to participate in activities organized
NGOs
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CRP: The role of the municipalities
 Setting up specific reception plans and integration
activities
 Monitoring Individualized Activity Plans agreed with
refugees
 Gathering information from local companies on labour
market opportunities
 Promoting the uptake of social housing
 Assessing the whole process and providing with proposals
made by the beneficiaries
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CRP: some figures
No. of mentors’ applications (from 29/03): 2617
No of interviews: 700
No. of refugees (mentees)
450 *
No. training courses for mentors: 75 (22hrs x 2h a
week) + Online course-repository
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