The path to resilience and community based reintegration of vulnerable families
Short description of project:
The programme is designed to cover many aspects for creating an environment/community that will express increased level of acceptance for returnees from foreign conflicts and their families, also that will be active to raise awareness for P/CVE, including Far-Right Extremism and Ethno-Nationalism.
This programme aims to provide support to vulnerable families, mainly in communities with returned fighters by offering several services for improving wellbeing such as psycho-social support and supported access to labour market, as well as enabling environment for further indirect support in the future managed by authorities with the assistance of local referral groups (group of local informal leaders, i.e. people with authority and trust in local communities, very often these people are: religious workers, teachers, NGO workers and similar).
Output activities:
Output 1: Vulnerable groups feel a sense of integration and gain a sense of purpose
Output 2: Supported actions for improving wellbeing of vulnerable families
Output 3: Local stakeholders/community leaders jointly participate in R&R process and assist vulnerable families
Output 4: Referral mechanism
Output 5: Receiving communities members show reduced level of stigmatization/increased level of acceptance for RFTFs
Output 6: Field Surveys
Output 7: Community engagement events
Output 8: The mainstream national and local media understand and create positive atmosphere
Output 9: Journalist training
Output 10: Media content
Output 11: Strengthened institutional framework and coordination mechanisms for R&R actors
Output 12: Legal Framework
Output 13: NC Capacity Building
Output 14: NC Study Visits
Output 15: Informal Regional Platform
Output 16: Front-line workers (FLW) achieve shared understanding related to P/CVE and R&R
Output 17: R&R models for practitioners
Output 18: FLW Capacity Building
Output 19: FLW Joint Activates
Period of implementation: July 2021 – June 2024
Consortium: Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation (MCIC), Initiative for European Perspective (IEP), Nexus Civil Concept and Pleaides
Donor: Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund – GCERF
