PITCH – A model for gender-sensitive integration strategies based on personalised, participatory, local, and multi stakeholder approaches

Objectives

• Enhanced socio-economic integration of migrant women and increased interaction between them and the host society.
• A newly developed model for integration strategies adaptable to the specificities of different local contexts.
• Sustainable collaborations and increased readiness of organisations, institutions and relevant stakeholders to tackle integration issues in the future.

Activities

• Context analysis to identify local needs, mapping stakeholders & analysing existing integration strategies;
• Co-design of the PITCH model for integration strategies during international working groups;
• “Translation” of the model into 7 local integration strategies for migrant women, with the support of local advisory committees;
• Development of clusters of activities and their flexible combination into personalised roadmaps, to respond to the individual needs of migrant women identified through a prior profiling process;
• Finalisation of the local strategies and the PITCH model based on pilot-testing results;
• Capacity buildings (CBP), local panel discussions, webinars, local events and an international conference to promote the strategies and the PITCH model, and to encourage interaction with the local community.

Resources

• Database for integration including at least 40 stakeholders/implementation country
• SWOT analysis Compendium on existing local integration strategies
• Neighbourhood map/implementation country
• PITCH model for local integration strategies
• Local integration strategy for migrant women/implementation country
• Profiling toolbox (guidelines on methods, topic list, profiling questionnaire, template for personalised roadmaps)
• 4 Consolidated learning packages with material for upskilling cluster (language, digital skills, employability, entrepreneurship paths)
• 3 consolidated outlines for awareness raising/guidance cluster (rights and duties, active citizenship, career/training guidance)
• 2 Programmes for social cluster (neighbourhood walks & social cafés) / implementation country
• strategic document containing the final version of the local integration strategy for migrant women 1/implementation country
• 1 White paper on the PITCH Model
• 1 Outline for the Capacity Building Programme: designing sustainable needs- oriented integration initiatives

Impact

• 210 migrant women involved.
• Staff of 5 municipalities.
• Staff of 7 organizations/research centers.
• 1 network of municipalities.
• Creation of a common EU model promoting a new, bottom-up approach to integration, resulting from a codesign process based on sharing local practices and peer-learning.
• Transferability of project’s outputs, designed in a way to respond to the needs and challenges identified in different European countries.
• Creation of a new channel for multi-stakeholder cooperation at transnational and local level.
• Enhancement of institutional dialogue on integration strategies at EU level.
• Stronger sense of belonging of migrant women to European societies, by strengthening their skills and by making them better aware of their rights, duties and opportunities.

Partners

• CESIE (Italy, coordinator)
• COMUNE DI PALERMO (Italy)
• SYMPLEXIS (Greece)
• Dimos Neapolis Sykeon (Greece)
• ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER (Slovenia)
• MESTNA OBCINA KOPER (Slovenia)
• IINCOMA (Spain)
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEVILLA (Spain)
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
• Demos Ipsona (Cyprus)
• DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Lithuania)
• SWIDEAS (Sweden)
• Union of the Baltic Cities (Poland)