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Migr'Action

Promoting the socio-professional integration of refugees through agriculture in French rural areas

For many years, France has been experiencing an increase in migration on its territory. Migrants are mainly concentrated around the country's major urban centres. Thus, many large cities are under pressure and are experiencing great difficulties in managing both the accommodation of migrants and their socio-professional integration. Especially since 2015, the desire to relieve congestion in cities has come into contact with another French priority, the revitalisation of rural areas.

The influence of French rural areas has been in decline for many years. The structural problems of the agricultural sector are concomitant to this phenomenon. For example, although France is the leading agricultural power in the EU, the number of farms is declining due to a lack of qualified farmers and employees to take them over and competition from large farms.

These two major challenges gave rise to the idea of the Migr'Action project. The objectives and expected effects of the project, which is gradually being built up, are numerous. Migr'Action aims to enable migrants to discover the rural world and the agricultural sector in a concrete way through introductory visits to farmers for a few days. Workshops are also held with migrants to deconstruct prejudices about rural areas and with farmers to train them in interculturality. In the long term, the project aims to build lasting professional relationships between migrants and farmers and to develop training courses for agricultural jobs adapted to refugees. In addition, it aims to enable the inhabitants of rural areas to have a positive vision of migration and to revitalise these areas.

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KARAMA

Supporting the resilience and reintegration of women who have suffered violence in North Africa

Worldwide, one woman in three suffers violence in her lifetime. Sometimes invisible and often taboo, the after-effects of violence are numerous (physical, economic, psychosocial, procreative and sexual), plunging victims into extreme vulnerability. Combined with other discriminations (class, origin, race [...]) and a lack of adequate public services, women struggle to find the resources to escape this vicious circle.

These constraints common to humanity do not spare southern Mediterranean countries despite social movements and changes in legislation. Initiated in 2018, the Karama project supports several multidisciplinary schemes to accompany women at every stage of their journey (accommodation, listening, psychological, legal, administrative support and access to healthcare). They also have access to vocational training and support for their (re)integration, necessary for real individual emancipation.

As their trajectories take place in an environment that trivializes violence, our partners also raise public awareness. At the same time, they carry out preventive actions aimed at governmental and/or associative players involved, directly or indirectly, in their care.

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COOPAEM

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MOBIL’Hanoi

Ethnic minorities and craft (2008-2013)

INSER.ECO.Net (2011-2013)

Anima (2002-2007)

Program of women empowerment in Mediterranean region (2006-2016)

Creator managers - Morocco/Tunisia/Algeria (2004-2006)

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COOPAEM

Pooling resource to make its own business successful in Mediterranean area

All around the world, economic inequalities between women and men are still very strong. Yet, many studies explain the importance of women’s status and the role they have to play for developing an equal and inclusive society.

Working for more than 10 years with our Mediterranean partners (Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt), we helped them implement several projects aiming at improving the status of women through their social and economic integration. Many women already benefit from trainings and/or create their own income-generating activity.

With our partners, we are now focusing on the formalization of those micro-companies thanks to the implementation of collective enterprises. The entrepreneurs are then able to share resources and skills, ensure the sustainability of their activities and benefit from social advantages such as social security. As the entrepreneurs share skills and pool resource, they can better ensure the sustainability of their business and benefit from social care. Meanwhile, an action-research approach will contribute to promoting the efficiency and relevance of the micro-companies’ supporting process to public authorities.

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MOBIL’Hanoi

Promoting his/her savoir-faire thanks to international mobility

Nowadays, finding a job is real challenge, and even more so in some fields. Job hunting is even more complicated for young people without diplomas or with any significant work experience.

In partnership with the Ile-de-France Regional Council, we launched in 2002 the MOBIL’Hanoï program. It gives job applicants from the Ile-de-France region the opportunity to complete a 6 month placement within a Vietnamese company. An intercultural environment allows job applicants to develop professional and personal abilities, very much appreciated by recruiters.

Before the trainees’ departure, we provided them with a one month language and intercultural training. Then, we ensured personal follow-up all along their stay thanks to our local branch in Hanoi.

The MOBIL’Hanoi program ended in April 2016, since the return of the eleventh session of trainees. We hope to re-launch again this kind of mobility program soon, and continue offering other unemployed people a true professional opportunity !

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