During our work in FOCUS, we realised many key stakeholders noted the importance of utilising co-creative approaches to design effective integration practices. However, no examples were provided of how this can be done in practice.
Ensuring targeted communities (including both receiving and arriving community members) are part of program design, implementation and evaluation of programs is crucial to instil community ownership. Further, asking community members to contribute to program design ensures that the implemented practice is culturally and contextually relevant and that it adequately addresses core needs of the community.
In this session we discuss with representatives of three NGOs of how this ambition to make integration as participatory and inclusive as possible can be achieved in practice.