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Improving the Relevance and Effectiveness of Refugee Programmes in Warsaw

Civic participation Completed
mazowieckie
Warszawa
Vox Humana Association, Warszawa, Poland
Evaluation Centre, Warszawa, Poland
2014-04-01 - 2016-04-10
340 757,32 PLN
306 644,32 PLN
refugees and migrants, local policies
Project description
Warsaw lacks any coherent and continuously implemented policy towards foreigners. No effective methods to evaluate activities for their integration have been used, social consultations and activities to include in them the interested persons have had very limited scope. Most of activities have been limited to consultations with local government and NGOs. The aim of the project was to diagnose the quality of activities led by Warsaw local government for foreigners and to develop principles for the city program for foreigners. The project was supposed to improve the effectiveness of using resources for foreigners, enhance the effectiveness of implemented projects, raise competencies of workers of NGOs and city officers in the field of monitoring and evaluating of their activities. As a result of the project, the city authorities started works on the program for foreigners together with representatives of foreigners and non-governmental organisations. Under the project, 16 meetings were organised where problems of foreigners were identified (11 group interviews and 5 deepened interviews), and evaluations of 16 projects directed to foreigners were conducted, as well as a survey of 9 NGOs acting for foreigners, consultation process (seven meetings) with participation of 5 foreign leaders, interviews with 20 city officers to learn what activities for foreigners are led by different offices. In the surveys 4 foreigners took part. The report "Foreigners in Warsaw, or how to face the inevitable" was prepared, containing recommendations for Warsaw city offices, a publication was prepared on participation and evaluation activities, and the results of the project were presented at a conference (70 participants). The project benefited representatives of non-governmental organisations active for foreigners, city officers, foreigners, leaders of foreign communities, city institutions. The partners of the project were: the Association Vox Humana (helping to reach foreigners, defining their needs, and helping in consultations), the Centre for Evaluations (coordinating part of the surveys, helping in preparing the publication and the report) and the Centre for Social Communication (helping in reaching city officers and documents and in organising consultations and the conference).
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