WELDI baseline report

Network outputs - in progress
During the activation stage, WELDI partners discussed a variety of potential
network outputs. At present, they represent a collection of ideas that still
need to be refined in the first phase of the action planning stage.
Toolkit on a new human rights-informed local reception model
A toolkit conveying the challenges, good practice and lessons learned in the
project with a view to presenting a next generation model of mobility and
human-rights-based local reception that is prepared for a constant flow of
newcomer arrivals, their dignified reception and a constructive interaction
between new and established residents. This new model has to acknowledge
the reality that integration into the national society –although the goal of
many national integration policies– is not in fact the goal for many newcomers,
who plan to move on elsewhere. As such, cities should take a “future
free” perspective, adopting the role of enablers, “launchpads” or “springboards”
for newcomers to fulfill their potential.
Board game on applying human rights in local reception policies
In a more playful variant, the toolkit would become a board game, in which
players have to react to different human rights challenges that the city faces
and set up a resilient reception structure.
Community research on migrant voices
The work of community researchers can feed into the project and its outputs
in different ways, which are yet to be determined. One idea that was
discussed in the first phase of the project was to record experiences of
arrival, local belonging, future perspectives and interaction with different
support services from the perspective of the migrant protagonists; and to
dramatise the experiences in a play. The community research and its outputs
will be driven by the researchers themselves and the project’s role is to provide
guidance and support.
Videos on WELDI’s local results
Videos of partners and stakeholders reflecting on concrete outcomes of the
project and changed perspectives, narratives, vocabularies, imaginaries; as
well as migrants bringing in their perspectives on reception in the WELDI localities
could be an outputs that can be suitably used for the project’s social
network activities.
Report on lessons learned from local reception with Ukrainian
refugees
A report would collect the experiences of WELDI cities with the reception
of Ukrainian refugees from city council and NGO partners and community
members, and draw lessons from it on how to inform a new local reception
model. The report would be a space for reflection of this experience which
is seen as foundational in many cities in that it has led to an unseen mobilisation
of civil society and city council actors, but also in that the framework
of temporary protection provided more opportunities to the refugees (e.g.
direct access to the labour market, different accommodation models).
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