Participation

EMVI proposes, pilots and assesses 3 relevant tools for participation and consultation of migrants on policy topics relevant for their communities and citizen rights.

• On the one hand the methodology of issue-raising workshops will be adapted for this context. The concept for the facilitation of issue raising meetings will be developed based on legislative theatre, open space methodology, Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the issue raising concept used by trade unions in South-East Asia. The main idea is to raise issues of concern of migrants and their organisations in a participative open space and develop them to possible policy demands and solutions.
• Secondly, a digital platform for migrants’ participation based on the open source tool DECIDIM will be set up and adapted to the local context to open new spaces for issue raising and making policy proposals, adapted for migrant
  communities which are often excluded from participation in elections and citizenship-related rights.
• Thirdly, based on the experiences of the Migrant Advisory Council in Berlin and Graz and the lessons learnt in past experiences like in Empoli and other European cities, the model of migrant advisory councils as a consultation mechanism
  will be presented and revised, on the basis of the results of Good Practise Reports.

The implementation phase will be accompanied by an accompanying external evaluation. The tools will be presented to the European institutions and platform organisations in Brussels at the end of the project and disseminated on European level.

Watch this space for updates and links to upcoming participation possibilities