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Work programme

 
ENAR prepares its work programme each year. The work programme outlines key activities the network will undertake in the coming year in order to implement the policy priorities and strategic objectives defined in ENAR's triennal Strategic Plan.
 
Some highlights of ENAR's 2010 work programme:
 
1. Combat discrimination, promote equality and redress disadvantage
  • Monitor the implementation of the Equality directives at the national level.
  • Actively engage in the debates related to the European Commission’s proposal for a directive implementing the principle of equal treatment outside employment.
  • Engage in the EU Platform for Roma Inclusion. 
  • Continue to engage the network in a series of 9 national round tables aimed at promoting positive action.
  • Complete research started in 2009 on the social and employment dimensions of the Lisbon strategy from a race equality perspective. 
  • Disseminate the recommendations of its ad-hoc expert group on promoting equality in employment through a public launch event and continue the dialogue with social partners and business in this framework.
  • Engage with the debates on the social aspects of migration expected in 2010 and advocate for ambitious and measureable targets.
  • Engage in the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
  • Organise a training session on ethnic profiling data collection mechanisms and publish 3 pilot national reports on ethnic profiling as supplements to the ENAR Shadow Reports
2. Promoting the development of progressive migration and integration policies
  • Start defining the network’s strategic priorities on migration and integration and identify lobbying and campaigning activities to be pursued in the middle and long term on the basis of the 15 principles framing a positive approach to migration.
  • Advocate for a departure from the current EU and national approaches to integration as a subset of migration policies towards an approach to integration as a cross-cutting field that can be applied in the framework of specific policy areas: migration, social inclusion, citizenship, intercultural dialogue, education, etc.
  • Engage with the adopted EU Stockholm Programme for Justice and Home Affairs.
  • Elaborate a reflection document on an approach to migration based on shared values, rights and interests.
  • Continue the “Migrants, Rights and Integration: From Practice to Policy (MRIP)” project which aims to bring a migrant voice perspective in the EU debate on integration.
3. Increasing the recognition of anti-racism in equality and fundamental rights
  • ENAR shadow reports 2009-10 and a methodology seminar including a special session on researching ethnic profiling practices in cooperation with OSJI.
  • Analyse the adopted Stockholm programme in line with the particular concerns of the network and devise strategies in order to guard the focus on racism in European fundamental rights policy.
  • Encourage the mainstreaming of diversity, equality and anti-discrimination, in particular in education policies.
  • Ensure that a structured and productive relationship between the Fundamental Rights Agency and civil society is cultivated and that the anti-racist dimension is adequately serviced and resourced, including through partnership with other stakeholders.
4. Enhancing the capacity of the network to deliver its mission
  • Integrate Croatia and Turkey within the network and extend the network reach out through an induction meeting in Iceland. 
  • Start implementing the “ENAR NC development project”, a capacity building and empowerment project for anti-racist NGOs in the European Union in the fields of good governance, leadership, project development, fundraising, organisational and strategic development.
  • Hold the northern regional seminar.
  • Enhancing engagement and ownership of Board, Working groups, Bureau, GA, Secretariat, NCs.
  • Fostering communication and visibility.
  • Implementing the human resources plan and network’s evaluation processes.
  • Implementing the fundraising strategy for 2007-2010 and devising a forward looking approach for 2010-2013
 
 
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