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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

organisations, supporting them until they have achieved autonomy. The
development of a counsellor kit is an important step in enabling professionals to
develop their work effectively.

8.2.4. Mainstreaming innovative practices
Mainstreaming and sustainability of effective innovative guidance practices are
crucial. Many guidance practices for immigrant integration in the labour market
are developed by non-governmental organisations within project-based
frameworks or as side/support activities in other policy fields, such as education
and employment. NGO activities of should be supported, as they act as testing
ground for methodologies. To ensure successful strategic alliances between the
public sector and NGOs, it is important to provide strong evidence of the effects
of guidance.
The clear public commitment and engagement of all relevant stakeholders
within a logic of cost and resource-sharing are important to make guidance for
integration sustainable. Another option is to programme project exit strategies
limited in time from the outset. This means defining a clear set of actions for the
termination and follow-up of the projects from the beginning. This can be
implemented as a formal requirement of projects jointly financed by European or
national public funds, with detail of the projects recorded and the experience and
knowledge of participants shared and transferred to other projects.
Immigrant communities can contribute to the sustainability of practices if
they develop internal guidance capacity for their new members. Capacity-building
projects, supporting the establishment of permanent mentoring programmes in
schools and training organisations, or generating networks of immigrant
entrepreneurs, can play an important role in sharing the responsibility and
benefits of integration among stakeholders.

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