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H 1 Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment A Revised Edition of the Toolkit. IMPART toolkit.

MARANGOZOV Rachel

2019

26p.

Starting from the view that most elements of good practice in this field are now well known, IMPART’s method went beyond the traditional aim of simply assessing projects to apply a more diagnostic approach:
• IMPART asks why good practice in some cases disappears with the projects which develop it, but in other cases can be sustained long after the project has ended.
• The IMPART benchmark is designed not to evaluate whether a project uses good practice, but (assuming that it does) to assess its chances of getting this model mainstreamed so that its work will have impact in the long term.
• Because its aim is to understand which conditions allow for long-term impact, the IMPART peer review process does not look at the project’s own performance in isolation. It also explores aspects of the project’s environment that affect its long-term chances of influencing policy. These may be factors over which the project itself has no control – such as the political or economic climate, or changes in migration patterns or funding streams.
This toolkit offers a means to make better use of EU resources in initiatives which help migrants and ethnic minorities to improve their access to the labour market. So the toolkit is useful for:
• projects and programmes that work to promote the employment of migrants and ethnic minorities – enabling these initiatives to improve their practice and achieve greater long-term impact;
• ESF Managing Authorities;
• other national or regional authorities responsible for implementing EU funds;
• funding bodies and policymakers dealing with equality and diversity issues; and
• European Commission units with responsibility for the effective use of EU resources in the field of migrant and ethnic minority employment.
The revised IMPART toolkit incorporates the Network’s collective knowledge and learning on gender into an existing product that already had the potential to serve ESF projects and Managing Authorities alike.

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