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Resettlement as a Durable Solution   Disseminatio
n Conference Project Durable Solutions in
Practice   workshop IIIntroduction and
integration
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• Aims of the WS
• Summary of the presentations
• Summary of the discussions
• Conclusions

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• Aims of the Workshop 2
• Integration and reception systems
• Sharing experience on reception and integration
  between experienced resettlement countries and
  emerging resettlement countries
• Pooling of best and bad practices among
  participating countries
• Set of recommendations for the future

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• Summary presentations THE NETHERLANDS
• Start of resettlement operations 1987
• Since 2004, 1500/3 years (80 on the mission, 20
  dossier)
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• Overview of COA activities
• social intake during the selection mission
• CO Training as a preparation for departure and
  arrival
• centralised reception for resettled refugees
  (starting from 2006, 280 bads)

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• Centralised reception reasons
• - practical reason (close to airport and
  hospitals)
• Equal information and same standards for
  everybody
• Prevention tensions between resettled and
  recognized refugees

• Activities in the reception centre
• - schooling
• medical check and medical treatment
• papers
• - orientation programms
• - language courses
• - individual coaching

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Role of municipalities  - after 4-6 month in the
reception centre - obligation for municipalities
to receive refugees - group resettlement (20-30
persons) into 1 municipality - close cooperation
Dutch Refugee Council (broad nettwork) -
volunteers providing social guidance
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• Current challenges
• managing individual expectation
• managing the capacity of AZC
• getting the houses in time
• systematic quality control

Integration programs - obligatory exam in 3,5
years - program financed by government - free
market for the integration programm
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• Measures for evaluation (Annual integration
  barometr)
•  - difficult labor market position
• weak income position
• strong social integration (Dutch friends,
  involvement in neighbourhood, feeling at home in
  NL)
• positive approach of society without systematic
  media coverage on the resettlement program

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Presentaion on situation and perspectives in
ROMANIA Framework - Law on integration on
aliance (2004) - Annual report on the
results Principles - refugees as a special
category broader integration services in
terms of accommodation, 1 year integration
program, financial assistance, equal rights)
- welcoming and multicultural
society is key factor - scientific
approach and independent assessment
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• Challenges
• lack of housing (using ERF)
• - vulnerable groups (integration program can be
  prolonged for more than 1 year)
• - cooperation with NGOs
• Future steps
• - changing integration strategy
• -  research on public opinion
• preparation of media campaign
• - matching integration and resettlement
• - preparation of centralised reception centre
  for invited refugees (different from ATC)

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Experience with integration in the CZECH
REPUBLIC State integration program (starting
1994) -  language (400 hours) - social and
cultural integration (80 hours) -  employment
-  housing - complicated
system of ownership - based on cooperation
of ministry and municipalities
- municipalities are not obliged to offer
appartments - financial support to
municipalities OR paying part of
rent

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Positive momens -   financial investment from
state budget and ERF -   distribution of refugees
to the whole territory of the CZ Negative
moments -    lack of flats (therefore supporting
rent) -    unsufficiant Czech language knowledge
- both way of integration process not working
(passive approach from the part of refugees
themselves)
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• Points of discussion - Selection
• Roles of NGOs during various phase of
  resettlement
• especially during integration
• less during reception, but still strong
• selection is governmental task
• Integration potencial as a criteria for selection
• a difference between Dutch and Romanian
  approach
• - for RO 2d criteria after protection needs (need
  for positive outcome of the first resettlement
  program)

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• Points of discussion Pre-arrival activities
• role of social intake and CO training in
  pre-arrival phase are the refugees receptive?
• Points of discussion Reception
• advantages and disadvantages of centralised
  system X direct transfer to the municipalities
• optimal lengh of stay in the reception centre
  (as short as possible but not too short)
• differences in the procedure and standarts for
  resettled and recognised refugees (POST MOST
  project preparation of new strategy for CO
  programs)

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• Points of discussion Integration
• housing is a main challenge
• knowledge of language is key element for any
  further integration and should be emphases
• labor market is accesible in middlesize towns
• Different stakeholders
• cooperation of both governmental part,
  municipalities, NGOs and refugees themselves is
  crucial for any succes
• stranghtening role of NGOs is a challenge
• more volunteers!
• Media strategy
• - positive media attention is important and
  helpful

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