The Bureau for Integration and Social Innovations hosted the first meeting of the local Migrant Employment Support Club, which is created within the AMIF-funded CONSOLIDATE project.
The club is a key element of BISI’s action plan, implemented within CONSOLIDATE, aimed to create local support networks for inclusive migrant employment. Through the club, we aim to build capacity and shared resources, tools, and methods for addressing employment issues for migrants, creating a collective repository of knowledge and skills. A special focus of the action plan and the club’s activities will be placed on the socioeconomic and cultural inclusion of women migrants who face a plethora of intersectional barriers in accessing jobs and integration pathways.
Participants in the meeting included representatives of Sofia Municipality, businesses, trade unions, migrants and local integration organizations. Discussions focused on existing barriers to employment and how to ensure meaningful migrant participation in the creation of local employment and integration opportunities; experience-based insights on inclusive employment solutions and results-oriented involvement of migrants in the process.
This is the first of a series of meetings of the club planned to take part by the end of the year. BISI will be collaborating with businesses and migrant organizations to co-design new training & cultural orientation programs and awareness-raising activities for both migrants and local employers.
