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Mainstream Learning Seminar 14 th -15 th April 2005

Mainstream Learning Seminar 14 th -15 th April 2005. Mainstream Engagement. Outline of Presentation. Introduce Mainstream Engagement Concept; Describe process leading to event; Describe the event; Refer to products and follow-up. Mainstream Engagement. Mainstream Policy Group

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Mainstream Learning Seminar 14 th -15 th April 2005

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  1. Mainstream Learning Seminar14th-15th April 2005 Mainstream Engagement

  2. Outline of Presentation • Introduce Mainstream Engagement Concept; • Describe process leading to event; • Describe the event; • Refer to products and follow-up.

  3. Mainstream Engagement • Mainstream Policy Group • Engagement Event • Interaction; • Contact; • Dialogue; • Demystification; • Concepts and solutions.

  4. Process (1) • National Thematic Networks • Helping unemployed and inactive find a job, preventing ltu; • Encouraging the creation of more and better jobs by fostering entrepreneurship; • Promoting the adaptability of workers and firms to change; • Providing more and better investment in human capital / LLL; • Combating discrimination against disadvantaged groups (cross-cutting)

  5. Process (2) Preparatory event to focus and clarify messages. Promoters asked to: • Identify the issues that projects address that are relevant within the given policy context; • Identify successes achieved in relation to these issues; • Identify the key / unique contextual contributors to those success – i.e. what was it within EQUAL project that facilitated change / success; • Identify the indicators of those successes – i.e. how you know you have been successful – what did you measure and how; • Identify / discuss what it is in relation to identified successes, that should or could be mainstreamed; • What organisation(s) is best placed to mainstream.

  6. Process (3) • Each group asked to nominate three/four representatives to present at Event on the group’s behalf; • Following the preparatory event, the nominated representatives to co-develop a paper reflecting the views and achievements of the projects represented in their respective groups. • This paper to be circulated to all other group members for comment - agreed paper to form basis for the presentation at the Engagement Event.

  7. Process (4) • All projects required to complete a Mainstreaming Capture Form - designed to allow projects to succinctly describe what they saw as the mainstreaming value of your project; • NSS put together a document and pack to facilitate communication of ideas, approaches, concepts etc. and to allow promoters to easily present their project to policy makers and other key people who attended; • Developed the Mainstream Engagement Document. 

  8. The Event • Contextualisation; • Presentation; • Questions and Answers; • Dialogue; • Reflection.

  9. Issues Mainstream Organisation Projects FAS S&E IBEC D/ETE AHEAD CCI Job Rotation X X X Equal at Work; Equal Ireland Competency based recruitment X X Equal at Work; Access Ability WLB X X X WLBN; National Flexiwork Partnership Inter-agency protocols X Blanchardstown; WIN; Westmeath 3RD level access / linking 3rd level & employers X X X Equal Ireland; TRED; DAWN Package of customised supports X Equal North-East; Kildare/Wicklow; Laois; RosEqual; Trasna; Rural Options. Practical equality supports to employers / employer awareness X X TRED; DAWN; Interact; Blanchardstown; RosEqual; Access Ability; Westmeath; Equal At Work; WLBN; National Flexiwork P/Ship.

  10. Products and Follow-up • Products: • Mainstream Engagement Document; • Input to EQUAL conference and EQUAL Times. • Follow-Up • Matrix; • MPG; • Mainstream Proposals.

  11. Conclusion • Clarity of message; • Quality of evidence; • Ambition and effort of promoters; • Halo effect; • Succinct, well-presented; • ‘Translated’ into policy language and framework – embedded.

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