LeCiM – Learning Cities for Migrants Inclusion

Stories, results and lessons of the project in Budapest

  Budapest Chance Nonprofit Ltd.Since 1996

• The headquarter and three branch offices, visited by 3.000–4.000 disadvantaged job-seekers per a year, for job opportunities and advice

• Target groups: permanently unemployed people, homeless people, mothers returning from childcare, Roma people, people with low level of education and career-starters

• Equal Opportunity Office of Budapest (FEMI, since 2002): innovation center and coordinator of the equal opportunity policy of Budapest

• Operates several employment and equal opportunity target projects in Budapest, with reliance on European Union and domestic funds

Migrants in BudapestDemographical:• Foreigners with residence permit: ~74.000 (4,3%); foreign born citizens

who obtained citizenship: ~50.000 (2,9%); refugees: a few hundred• Nationalities: ethnic Hungarians from neighbouring countries (39 000),

Chinese (8 500), EU-15 nationals (8 000), other European (6 700), Asian (6 000), African (fewer)

• Age and gender structure: ~ 85% 15-65 years, more men (different pattern than non-migrant society)

Historical background: immigration in last 20 years, most of ethnic Hungarians and economic migration;

Labour market situation in Budapest: better labour market opportunities than in country; activity rate of migrants is higher than that of the total population;

Education: not lower, may be higher than local population – the labour market can’t react on it

Urgent needs of migrants

Information (on social and healthcare services, housing...) Adequate/client-tailored public services Hungarian language knowledge/access to Hungarian

language courses Legal aid Adequate housing Educational needs Employment-related needs Pychological needs (and special needs of women) Cultural needs, need for tolerance, for social networks

Situation and needs of NGOs Funding (as anytime, anywhere)

Logistical needs: easily accessible, well-located client service offices and training rooms

Cooperation with authorities:• Protocols on transfering cases (e.g. between Reception Centres

and NGOs)• Coordinated team work in complex cases (e.g. refugee families

facing with multiple difficulties)

Training• Languge learning (Russian, Asian languages, Arabic, Persian etc.)• Communication skills, conflict management

Urgent needs of public authorities Need for training• Sensitivisation / Consciousness raising• Language learning (Asian languages, Arabic, Persian etc.)• Communication skills, conflict management

Supervision (especially for those who are dealing with clients)

• Promoting the development of professional competences• Preventing burn-out

Need for cooperation with other authorities and NGOs• Protocols for interagency cooperation, regular channels for information

excange• Clear division of the tasks, case conferences

Berlin Modell to Budapest

Pro: This supporting-form is easily available, could work in

supporting young roma people. (Could adapt some parts of it later)

Con: Not similar situation: migrants in Budapest are higher

educated, elder and have better labour market-situation than Berlin.

It seemed too expensive

Dunkerque Modell to Budapest

Pro: NGOs needs help in logistical things, trainings,

developing the organization

Con: Not similar situation: there’s not really NGOs of migrants

in Budapest, migrants aren’t visible in cultural and political themes in Budapest, and we don’t know their exact needs on it yet.

Why we wanted the Bologna Modell to Budapest (PROs) Both NGOs and public authorities need communication and

cooperation to each other There is some issues on it already: Local action plan on equal

opportunities, NGO Office and Migrant Office in Municipality of Budapest

New local authority wants (as we thougt before election) some centralized and cooperative method in: social system, public employing system and the system which supporting minorities

We could use it on working with other target groups (especially Roma people)

This cooperative modell could make a cheaper and more efficient system (in long term period) on supporting minorities

The modell involve and sensitize the citizens(see: Antena)

Bologna Modell to BudapestCONs

Can’t see real cons before, only two important questions:

If the local authority want and could make really work a this kind of cooperation?

How we could involve them really into a this kind of project – because of carrying about migrants is not the activity of the LG only responsibility of the State Government

First local workshop 2010. OctoberInvolved: about 10 stakeholders

Theme: Summary on the project and the modell

Expected outcome: stakeholders’ agreement on cooperation,

common decision: what to adapt exactly

Problems: LG just changed 3 days before the workshop Nobody saw the goals and the system of the new LG Nobody represented the LG on the workshop

so we didn’t get our expected outcome

Next step: meeting before the 2nd ws

Meeting between workshops 2011. February

With: 3 stakeholders

Theme: Involving the LG: tell them why it should be good for them?

Expected outcome: Collection of reasons and probable profits for involving the LG

Outcome: Done

Main reasons in it: 90% of migrants live here and

use the health, education and social system of the capital

Professionals and insitutes (suppliers) haven’t prepared for working with migrants (not as a client, nor as a collegue)

Next step: 2nd ws

Second local workshop 2011. MarchWith: about 10 stakeholders

Theme: Summary on the project and the modell, working on the detailes of cooperation

Expected outcome: agreement on cooperation

Outcomes: Probable detailes of the

cooperation Especially the system of Antenna

and a consulting board for migrants

Probably next steps:

agreement between NGOs and a suggestion (based on

the outcomes of the 2nd ws) to the LG

Training of migrants and after 3rd ws involve them in

the consulting board and develop the Antenna system

with them

Between 2nd and 3rd workshopThe suggestion

Main activity: Create a suggestion to the LG

Points: Set up a consultation board involve: NGO, LG, State Migrant Office,

suppliers of social, helathcare and education system Working on financial modells, common project, cooperation protocols

and chanels of information exchanging Involve migrant persons in this board and into the civil workshops of

the Municipality (see above) Sensitising suppliers of the capital and give them information on

migrant issue to the (for helping them to work with migrants) Insert migrants as a tagret group to the local actionplan of the capital

for equal opportunities

Undersigned by: 8 NGO and Budapest Chance NLtd.

Between 2nd and 3rd workshopOther activities Trying to involve migrants in our trainig on equal opportunity Trying ask migrants about discrimination: stories and information-

needs Invited10 persons in last two activities, but it wasn’t succesfull (none

of them came)

Problem: NGOs didn’t trust enough in LG and They afraid that BPE try to get their business and their budget Migrants wasn’t motivated enough to join, we think they couldn’t

really see, what could be their prompt and future profit on it.

Next step: 3rd ws

Third local workshop2011. September

With: about 10 stakeholders

Theme: LG’s reaction on the suggestion of NGOs

detailes of cooperation

Expected outcome: Agreement on cooperation

between NGOs LG promised to set the board

up in next January

Probably problems: Afraid that LG’s political

viewpoints overwrite NGOs professional viewpoints (threat)

We can’t finish in the term of this project, afraid the efforts could disappear after it (threat)

NGOs trust could be a weakness

Probable outcomes till the end of the project and afterAgreement/next steps: Before January NGOs work out a plan of a common project on

housing, employing and sensitising issues Searching for calls and later: apply with the first common project Keep this issue on the table of the LG Ask the LG join in this project, and ensure the retention what need

Other links: Medical Graduate and Postgraduate Institute’s SIMIGRA project (help

migrants who have medical degree to get a job) Office of Ombudsman interested in the project Representative of the LG joined to National Contact Point of the

European Migration Network

Thank you for your attention!

Tea Erdélyi (Garadnay)

garadnay@pestesely.hu

+36 70 3363884