Ample research highlights the crucial role played by refugee-led community organisations (RCOs). They provide bridge support to newly-arrived refugees, facilitate swifter integration by offering basic information on procedures and daily life, provide language and cultural orientation training, support refugees wishing to contribute to host societies and, generally, assist in the normalisation process of making a host community become home. In situations of hesitation, or fear of loss of cultural identity, RCOs play a role of persuading community members on the benefits of integration, whilst emphasising the opportunities of maintaining one's cultural identity. In addition to promoting engagement with the wider community, RCOs also see their role as uniting and strengthening the community, promoting the culture, faith and the language of the community, building confidence and creating an active, healthy community.Many refugees are keen to establish different forms of organisations, with different missions. Yet their national contexts, specifically in relation to the challenges they face as refugees, as well at the EU context, often impede the active realisation of strong and effective organisations. Through the identification of community needs, strengths and trends, the project will seek to produce an educational package that will tackle these challenges and provide improved skills to overcome them.In the partner countries, and at the EU level, the civil society environment relating to advocacy for the inclusion of refugees tends to be one that is led or characterised by organisations that are led by persons who are not refugees or of a refugee background. Whilst it is true to say that refugees are duly consulted and actively included in projects and advocacy initiatives, throughout most of the European Union, their visible presence is often not equal to that of the leading organisations. This inevitably leads to an imbalance of power and visibility wherein refugees run the risk of being perceived as passive beneficiaries of support, instead of active voices and stakeholders to be engaged with. Our project seeks to combat this unfair playing field, as it fuels a culture of exclusion and discrimination which disempowers refugees from being masters of their own futures. The main aim of this project is therefore to see a dramatic improvement in the quality of enjoyment of human rights by refugees. This project is built on the premise, supported in literature and the Partner's experiences, that this aim can be achieved more effectively if refugees are not merely consultation partners, token speakers or human stories but if they are elevated to the status of equal advocating partners through organised (formal or informal) community organisations. The emergence of the appreciation of the role of RCOs as key interlocutors between refugees and host communities is a welcome movement that needs to be supported if Europe is to move towards more inclusive, rights-respecting and dignified laws and policies - internally but also externally.The project is based on the idea of supporting the active inclusion of marginalised, vulnerable or excluded communities. In fact, the project seeks to strengthen refugee inclusion by supporting the empowerment of those refugees who want to play an active role in their communities and at the EU level. Our ultimate deliverable - the Training Kit - will address the challenges faced by refugees in integrating effectively in their host countries. It will be a training programme geared at supporting the mobilisation of refugees into organised and effective communities that will be active in various spheres: peer-to-peer support such as provision of information or other community-based services; advocacy with national governmental stakeholders in order to bring the voice of excluded groups to the attention of policy-makers; engagement in public awareness-raising, talking directly from the heart of their represented communities. In doing so, the Training Kit will therefore have multiple impacts on the affected refugee communities. The expertise of the project Partners - a combination of RCOs and other NGOs experts in their national contexts - will ensure the highest quality of implementation and deliverables.The Training Kit will be composed of content addressing RCOs wishing to active at the national level and training content addressed RCOs wishing to be active at the European level. Thanks to the project's combination of community-based consultation, desk-research and synergising transnational expertise, it will be based on an in-depth understanding of the needs and strengths of RCOs and refugee communities, seeking to fill those skill and knowledge gaps that hinder RCOs from being effective partners in advocacy at nationally, and at the European level. The Training Kit will be made publicly available and thoroughly disseminated throughout the Partners' networks

Trafficking in human beings is a complex and transnational phenomenon, which affects the life of men, women and children. It evolves according to geopolitical changes related for example to migration or the fight against organized crime. Victims of trafficking transit between European countries, sometimes under the coercion of the criminal networks, sometimes to escape from these networks. These movements can impact the assistance and support measures for which they are intended (for example in terms of access or not to their right to residency). The #ATtrACT+ project has improved the knowledge and skills of social workers, working with trafficked persons in the areas of their identification and protection. In more detail, 33 professionals in charge of the identification and global support of trafficked persons (social workers, lawyers, association coordinators) participated in 9 transnational trainings organized in the different partner countries (details in annexes). The training sessions, each lasting 4 days, were organized according to a practical and participative pedagogical approach, based on times of exchange of practices between professionals (host organization and trainees), on the participative observation of the host organization's activities and meetings with local institutions and NGOs working in the field of human trafficking.On the basis of the knowledge acquired and capitalized by the participants in the transnational training sessions, the members of the steering committee have developed three training and information tools for professionals and one information and awareness raising tool for trafficked persons. These tools are: 1. A travelogue in 4 languages, synthesis of the reports of the trainees who participated in the transnational trainings.2. A mobile application, presenting in an interactive way the phenomenon, the national legislations and the protection programs set up in the 4 countries of the project.3. Six video clips, based on the forum theater approach, describing different problematic situations of identification, referral and protection of victims of trafficking. The video clips are used during training sessions for professionals and aim to encourage debate and participation of the trainees. Their content was developed in cooperation with former victims of trafficking. 4. A comic “Finally free” describing the trafficking and migration routes of two victims and highlighting the risks they may encounter, the rights they may be entitled to and the stakeholders they can trust in the 4 partner countries.The four tools have been disseminated at local, national and European level, to spread the knowledge and skills acquired beyond the project group. Through the actions carried out, the partner associations have strengthened not only their skills but also their inter-association cooperation links and this has had a direct and positive impact on their daily work of identification, support and protection of trafficked persons. Furthermore, by involving former victims of trafficking in the conception and elaboration of intellectual productions, the project has encouraged the constitution of a group of former victims who have since engaged in other empowerment and support initiatives.The skills acquired and the tools produced enrich the content and methodology of the training courses that the partners and the project coordinator carry out at local and national level, even beyond the end of the project.