Project co-funded under the European Integration Fund

REALISE GUIDELINES FOR: Creating Panels of Local Key Stakeholders (PLS)

&Undertaking Local Diagnoses of Severity and Cause (LD)

Project co-funded under the European Integration Fund

3 Expected Results

• Institutional development and Improved governance

• Capacity building• Increased knowledge

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• PLS and Local diagnoses of severity and cause are the cornerstone

• PLS members are key information providers

3 Essential Steps

1. Create a Panel of Local key Stakeholders

2. Carry out a local diagnosis of severity and cause of over-qualification

3. Determine and actions

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STEP 1: CREATING PANELS OF LOCAL

KEY STAKEHOLDERS (PLS)

STEP 1: CREATING PANELS OF LOCAL KEY STAKEHOLDERS (PLS)

1. What is the purpose of the PLS?2. Who is in the PLS?3. How to identify who needs to be involved (key

stakeholders)?4. How to get the desired participants to

cooperate?5. How to run a PLS?6. What’s the available budget and how to use it?

1 Purpose of the PLS

• Better conceive policy and actions

• Obtain the support (‘buy in’)

• PLS members obtain more support outside of the Panel

Members Participate in:

• Local diagnosis

• Developing pilot

• Developing long-term strategies

• Final EU parliament event

2 Who is in the PLS?

• Business• Public • Third sectors (NGOs, associations)• Representatives of the target groups

• Make-up of the local PLS is where the local coordinators have a key role (this means YOU)

3 How to identify who needs to be involved (key stakeholders)?

a) Understand how they fit in with the problem

b) Prioritise them

•Technique? See matrices

Note: fluid process

4 How to get the desired participants to cooperate:

• Generic short-term and long-term arguments as to the benefits of participating in a European project such as REALISE – see examples re benefits to organisation and to individual

• Personalised arguments, you would know

5 How to run a PLS• Members: – Participate effectively – Do not lose their interest

• See purpose• Ownership• Inner core• Reach out• Bureaucracy no thanks

Consult further with Thematic Coordinator

6 Budget and how to use it?

• 5000 for activities and sundry (transport, travel, lobbying…)

• 4925 for overhead (photocopies, phone calls…)

STEP 2: UNDERTAKING

LOCAL DIAGNOSES OF SEVERITY AND

CAUSE (LD)

STEP 2: UNDERTAKING LOCAL DIAGNOSES OF SEVERITY AND CAUSE (LD)

1. What is the purpose of the LD?

2. Which data do you need to collect?

3. How to collect this data?

4. Where to collect this data?

1 Purpose of the LD?

• Not academic research – pragmatic

• Answer 2 key questions:

–Severity –Cause

2 Which data do you need to collect?

a) General labour market situation:

• Pertinent economic information

• Key characteristics of local labour market

• General underemployment figures and qualitative observations

2 Which data do you need to collect?

b) Specific to immigrants:

• Profile of your immigrants

• Underemployment situation

• Explanation: Why does this happen?

2 Which data do you need to collect?

c) Focus in project:•Which immigrant group(s) will you focus on in REALISE and Why? •At this point, what are your goals in doing this?

–•Women and youths of particular interest, but work on what makes most sense where you are . •Some may already have a clear definition of which groups they wish to focus on. Data collection and questionnaires should be suitably adapted.

3 How to collect this data?

• Desk-based – quantitative and qualitative data

• Field research – individual interviews and

focus groups (group interviews)

4 Where to collect this data?

• Desk: official stats, chambers of commerce, employment offices, municipal ec dept, institutional reports, surveys, academic research, reports by migrants’ organisations and NGOs, your own reports, etc

4 Where to collect this data?

• Field: • Individual interviews – qualified migrants

(minimum 10 interviews), PLS members and key stakeholders not in PLS. Face-to-face or telephone. Not exceed 1h30mn.

• Focus groups – PLS altogether or sub-groups. Minimum one focus group with PLS. Not exceed 3 hours.

STEP 3: DISCUSSING FINDINGS WITH PLS

AND PLANNING FURTHER

STEP 3: DISCUSSING FINDINGS WITH PLS AND PLANNING FURTHER

• Present to and discuss PLS the local diagnosis findings:

a) determine with them which immigrant groups you will focus on in REALISE and

b)design/negotiate actions to be carried out to address the over-qualification issue.

• 1st Transnational Workshop – members of the PLS participate – will develop this step.

• Local coordinators have support of Thematic coordinator

For full document see:

• http://realise2020.wordpress.com/tools-resources/