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Call for proposals: ENAR European Shadow Report 2008

Against this background, since 2001, ENAR has piloted, extended and continuously improved the ENAR Shadow Reports. The reports developed to become a major tool for monitoring the situation of racism and xenophobia in the EU member states. They also proved to be an invaluable documented starting point for strategic and coordinated action for the anti-racist civil society towards national governments, the European institutions, bodies and the media.

Since the first European Shadow Report in 2004 and following subsequent improvements, many stakeholders, including other NGOs and institutional stakeholders, have remarked the progress and usefulness of ENAR’s analysis. The Shadow Reports have proved to be a major tool for advocacy and communication towards national governments and European institutions and bodies and have been used by other stakeholders as an evidence base. The reports are unique in that they bring together facts & developments to help build a counter-perspective on racism that reflects the views of NGOs and victims and local, national and EU levels and have had a demonstrable impact on policy change, representing a key source of analysis.

With the objective of maintaining highest quality, ENAR is seeking an author to draft the comparative European Shadow Report 2008.

The comparative EU wide Shadow report is based on the ENAR National Reports 2008, covering comparatively the same topics as outlined in the Handbook of Instructions for the ENAR National Shadow Reports 2008.

The European Shadow Report 2008 shall reflect the NGO perspective and the situation of racism comparatively in the European Union and shall include the following:

• Executive summary and introduction

• Description of victim groups (e.g. immigrants, ethnic or religious minorities, refugees, visible minorities etc.)

• Specific areas in which racism and religious discrimination is visible/hidden in the national context, such as the labour market, housing, education, personal experiences etc.

• Summary of the political and legal context, and policy developments in the areas of anti-discrimination, migration and integration, criminal justice, social inclusion

• Data collection: a description of the process of collecting data on discrimination or any difficulties experienced in collecting information on this topic

• Good/best practice of NGO work against racism

• Set of recommendations for further actions to be undertaken at EU level

• Conclusion

The European Shadow Report 2008 shall be produced in English on the basis of 24 National Reports written in English and 3 National Reports written in French.

Financial compensation for completion of the study, which should not be longer than 30-35 pages, is €6000 (tax and VAT included).

Deadline for submitting proposals for writing the European Shadow Report 2008 is Monday, 13 July 2009.

The author of the study will be selected by Thursday, 16 July 2009 and shall start drafting the report on Monday, 20 July 2009.

Deadline for submission of draft study is Tuesday, 1^st September 2009.

Deadline for incorporate changes sent by ENAR Secretariat and submit final draft is Friday, 25 September 2009.

Proposals should include:

• Letter of application, including a statement of expertise on human rights and race equality issues in the European context; and language skills
• One relevant writing sample
• A brief elaboration on the methodological approach used to work and timeline including key deadlines and tasks
• Budget breakdown on the costs involved in completing the task

Proposals should be marked “European Shadow Report 2007” and forwarded to ENAR Secretariat, 43 Rue de la Charité, B-1210 Bruxelles, Belgium, Email: celina@enar-eu.org