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King Baudouin Foundation - Open Society Foundation - Robert Bosch Stiftung

Update March 2019

NEF

State of Play

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Contents

Civitates - A Philanthropic Initiative for Democracy and Solidarity in Europe .............................. 3

The Evaluation Fund: Reducing Violence Against Children .......................................................... 4

European Foundations’ Initiative on Dementia ........................................................................... 6

European Fund for the Balkans ................................................................................................... 6

European Practice Exchange on Deradicalisation (EPEx) ........................................................... 10

European Programme for Integration and Migration ................................................................ 10

Fikra – Tunisia Joint Fund .......................................................................................................... 14

FutureLab Europe ...................................................................................................................... 15

European Philanthropy Learning Initiative ................................................................................. 15

Joint Action for Farmers’ Organisations in West Africa .............................................................. 17

Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium ......................................................... 17

Transnational Forum on Integrated Community Care (TransForm) ........................................... 18

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Civitates - A Philanthropic Initiative for Democracy and Solidarity in Europe

Foundations involved: Adessium Foundation, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Erste Stiftung, European Cultural Foundation, Fondation de France, Fritt Ord Foundation, King Baudouin Foundation, Körber Stiftung, Oak Foundation, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Mercator Stiftung, Nicolas Puech Foundation, Stefan Batory Foundation

Budget 2018-2020: approximately 4 million EUR

Timeframe: 2018-2020

Background:

Civitates was established within NEF in 2017 by a consortium of 16 foundations committed to upholding democratic values in Europe. It believes in European democracies, where all citizens have the opportunity to access information, make their voices heard, organise, mobilise and engage fully in the democratic processes.

To achieve this vision, Civitates strengthens the capacity of civil society to play its indispensable role in shaping vibrant and open European democracies that work for all. Civitates works on two sub funds, focussing on EU member states and EFTA countries:

The first aims at strengthening civil society by empowering its actors to respond to challenges related to the shrinking space for civil society, collectively and more effectively.

The second aims at empowering civil society to address digital disinformation and the characteristics of the digital information ecosystem that enable the manipulation of public discourse, including the lack of gatekeepers, transparency and accountability.

Latest developments:

Governance

Civitates is chaired by the King Baudouin Foundation. The different governance structures established (steering committee, executive committee and sub-fund working groups) are working well and in synergy with each other. Representatives of the partner foundations have been regularly involved in the selection of grantees for the two sub-funds by being part of the selection committee, conducting interviews with potential grantees and interacting with grantees through site visits or during convenings.

In March 2019 Civitates released its first annual report (available here) which reflects on the strategy implementation, the first grants issued and the progress towards the objectives. Based on an anonymous survey answered by the partner foundations, we can say that the first year was marked with high levels of commitment and satisfaction by foundations representatives.

The next steering committee is scheduled for April 2019 in Oslo, where members will discuss the progress made in the first year, a monitoring and evaluation framework for the fund and the future of Civitates, post 2020. The group will also reflect on the preliminary findings of a research project analysing a series of civil society partnerships and trusts that were established from 1991-2006 in the CEE region (work partially funded by NEF).

Following the last steering committee, the secretariat, with the help of the communications department of some partner foundations, developed some communication materials for Civitates as a matter of transparency and creating a digital footprint for the fund. The materials produced include a one page explainer (available here), updates of the visual identity and a press release that was sent to a list of media contacts and also disseminated by the partner foundations. The King Baudouin foundation also published two articles covering the work of 2 Civitates grantees in Poland and Italy. Those articles were disseminated through the Civitates network.

Sub-Fund on Shrinking Space for Civil Society (sub-fund 1)

In this sub-fund, Civitates is following a 2 phase approach. The first phase which is 14 weeks long, was focussed on coalition building, where the different partners came together and elaborated a strategy for their coalition to address the shrinking space. 16 coalitions from 11 different European countries were selected for the first phase and all of them submitted a proposal for the second phase. In December 2018, a selection committee, comprised of foundation representatives was held. 13 coalitions from 9 different countries were chosen and granted between

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€70 000 and €100 000 to implement their projects over 18 months. A short description of the work of the coalitions can be found here.

A kick-off meeting was held near Brussels in February 2019, where each coalition delegated 2 representatives. The grantees were able to learn about each other’s work and their respective national contexts, find synergises, reflect on the shrinking space in Europe and reflect on how they fit, within Civitates’ objectives. This convening also allowed the secretariat and the foundations’ representatives present to identify the needs of the grantees, which Civitates will try to address through the Funding + component.

Over the coming period, the monitoring and evaluation component of this sub-fund will be developed for the programme and also bringing some additional capacity to the grantees.

Sub-Fund on the digital information ecosystem (sub-fund 2)

Over the summer, the strategy of this sub-fund has been finalised by the working group. In this second strand, Civitates aims to empower and enable civil society to address the way in which democracy is impacted by the fundamental changes in the way information of societal importance is produced, distributed and consumed. It also wishes to have a better understanding of the commonalities across Europe and build a stronger field.

The first call for proposals, focussed on improving the digital information ecosystem was launched in early October 2018 and attracted 120 concept notes. A selection committee was held in January 2019, where experts who assessed the proposals and foundations representatives discussed the pre-selected concept notes. 16 applicants were invited to submit full proposals and a final selection committee will be held in March 2019. The budget for this request for proposals was originally set to €700 000 but the working group decided that this amount might be increased depending on the quality of the proposals received. The projects selected will all have a component that can help identify and advocate for targeted responses to specific problems of the current and future digital environment.

Timeline

April 2019 Start Projects, Sub-Fund 2

Summer 2019 Mid Term Reviews

Summer – Autumn 2020 End of projects

Autumn – Winter 2020 Evaluations; Development of Strategy 2020-2023

The Evaluation Fund- Reducing Violence Against Children

Foundations involved: Oak Foundation (Chair), UBS Optimus Foundation and anonymous donor

Budget: around 4 million EUR for 2011-2020

Timeframe: 2011-2020

NEF has been involved in the development of the Children and Violence Evaluation Challenge Fund, now the Evaluation Fund: Reducing Violence Against Children, since its inception.

Background:

The Evaluation Fund: Reducing Violence Against Children is a pooled funding initiative aimed at reducing violence against children by supporting rigorous evaluations of childhood violence prevention interventions in low- and middle- income countries. These evaluations are expected to expand the evidence base in the sector and improve policies and programmes, thus ultimately contributing to eradicate violence from the lives of children.

Since 2011, The Evaluation Fund has supported 17 research studies in 16 countries, and it is in its second phase of programming that will continue through 2020.

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Latest developments:

East Africa Call for Proposals

The idea behind this Call is to provide scarce evaluation funding and support for INSPIRE1 type interventions in two path-finding countries, Uganda and Tanzania. The Call should contribute to the policy momentum at the country-level while at the same time reinforce the growing momentum generated by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the new Pan-African Forum on Violence Prevention, hosted under the African Child Policy Forum.

In January 2019, two consultants were selected to help coordinate the efforts of the Regional Advisory Committee and the Academic Advisory Committee for both Tanzania and Uganda. These committees will help to frame the Call for Proposals and drive the selection process of applicants, thus grounding the Call and the selected projects in local ownership by actors active in the field of childhood violence prevention in the region.

The Secretariat has also begun exploring and identifying consultants for capacity development in research methods and program intervention that would support selected grantees under this call.

Next steps: By April, the Academic and Advisory Committees will be established, paving the way for the launch of the Call for Proposals, which will be rolled out in the second half of 2019.

Major Communications Developments

With support from an external communications agency, a communications expert, and a full-time Program Officer, the collaborative has undergone a series of communications overhauls. Fitting into the Communications Strategy developed in 2018, these changes help to modernize and simplify our work, our mission, and our contributions to the field.

New name: Formally known as the Children and Violence Evaluation Fund, the collaborative is now called The Evaluation Fund: Reducing Violence Against Children.

New visual identity: To follow suit, the Secretariat has also worked with a communications agency, Together Creative, to develop a new logo and visual identity. This has allowed us to standardize our name, logo and typography across a variety of products we are developing, including a PowerPoint on the Fund, a brochure, and social media assets.

New website: As a much-needed update, we have now launched a new website that incorporates our visual identity, includes an interactive map to explore our projects around the world, and contains blog posts that cover updates from the Fund, our grantees, and the field at large.

Launch of Burkina Faso Evidence Brief

Along with the launch of the website, we released our first evidence brief, which showcases the key lessons and outcomes of a project in Burkina Faso that helped to reduce violence against children by nearly 60%. In March, the Evaluation Fund will launch its second brief showcasing the key learnings from a project in rural Colombia.

To produce these briefs, we first have the final evaluation reports assessed by a quality review process; next, the key learnings, challenges, and outcomes are gathered by a team at the CPC Learning Initiative; and finally that content is refined by the Secretariat and handed over to a communications agency (Together Creative) that then designs the brief accordingly.

Next steps From April onward, the quality review, content extraction, and brief design process will be done in a way to allow for a release of a brief approximately once a month.

Strategic Planning Exercise

Following the completion of the retrospective review, we are now beginning a strategic planning exercise that will allow the Evaluation Fund to define its future as the collaborative approaches the end of its funding cycle. The outcomes of this planning exercise, which are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2019, will provide guidance on whether the Evaluation Fund should continue, and if so, under what structure. This will allow the Secretariat enough time to redefine their roles and restructure the collaborative accordingly by 2020, when the funding phase will come to a close.

1 7 strategies to end violence against children: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/inspire/en/

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This project is pursued jointly with IGNITE Philanthropy, who operates in the same sector and works with many of the same actors as the Evaluation Fund, despite its own unique mission and scope of work.

Next steps: The Secretariat, together with IGNITE, are currently interviewing consultants and plan to begin this project in the coming months.

European Foundations’ Initiative on Dementia

Foundations involved: King Baudouin Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Fondation Médéric Alzheimer and Porticus

Budget 2019: 100.000 EUR

Timeframe: 2019

NEF has developed and managed this programme since its inception.

Background:

EFID’s mission is to improve the lives of people with dementia by creating a dementia-friendly and inclusive environment in communities across Europe. The community's commitment and mobilisation of societal resources is critical in structuring the social environment. Real improvements to the situation of people with dementia can only be achieved when forms of common ownership are developed and lived in cities and communities.

EFID’s 4th phase (2017-2018) focused on the meaningful participation of people with dementia. A call for projects to be awarded for “valuing the expertise of people living with dementia” was launched in 2017. The award aimed to empower people with dementia as individuals living with the condition, respect their dignity, autonomy and right of self-determination, support people living with moderate and/or severe dementia to express their own interests and wishes regarding treatment and care, support the emergence of a stronger voice and participation of people with dementia at all levels and support the creation of peer-support groups. 12 projects were selected and honoured during the conference and awards ceremony in Sofia, on 22-23 January 2018, under the auspices of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union.

Latest developments:

Porticus Foundations joined the partnership and contributed to the strategic development of the 5th phase of EFID (2019-2020). Luisa Marino, the EFID PM returned from her maternity leave in November and resumed management of the programme.

In the coming years, EFID will continue working their thematic approach of valuing the expertise of people living with dementia and on the promotion of dementia-friendly communities. In particular, a quality framework will be co-created with the awardees to measure the impact of their work and to identify key indicators common to the EFID network of practitioners. After a call for tender, two consultants were selected to carry out the co-creation process with tools to be released in January 2020.

A series of webinars will be organised on different topics across the EFID 5th phase. Furthermore, a quarterly newsletter and videos of awardees will be produced to enhance the communication of EFID and disseminate the awardees’ work.

European Fund for the Balkans

Foundations involved: ERSTE Stiftung; King Baudouin Foundation; Robert Bosch Stiftung

Budget 2019: around 1.5 million euros

Timeframe: 2007-2025

EFB is managed through a NEF Branch in Belgrade.

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Background:

The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) is a joint initiative of European foundations that envisions, runs and supports initiatives aimed at strengthening democracy, fostering European integration and affirming the role of the Western Balkans in addressing Europe’s emerging challenges. The up-to-date programme strategy is based on three overarching areas – Capacity Development, Policy Development and Regional Cooperation -- and channelled via flagship programmes and selected projects, complemented with a set of actions arising from EFB's regional identity as a relevant player in its fields of focus. Their synergetic effects are focussed on continuous “Europeanisation” of the policies and practices of the Western Balkan countries on their way to EU accession, through the merging of the region’s social capacity building with policy platform development, and a culture of regional cooperation. In February 2016, The EFB received the Champion of Regional Cooperation award for best achievements in cooperation in South East Europe in 2015, a recognition presented by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC). The Champion of Regional Cooperation is an individual or an institution that the RCC Secretariat and its Secretary General consider has contributed the most to the development of regional cooperation in South East Europe over the course of the past year.

NEF is registered in Belgrade and the EFB-NEF has an office in Belgrade. The Steering Committee is composed of representatives of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Chair), the Erste Stiftung and the King Baudouin Foundation.

Latest developments: A public announcement calling for a new Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans was published in the course of October 2018, after the long-time Executive Director of the Fund, Ms. Hedvig Morvai, resigned. Since then, the members of the Steering Committee of the Founding Partners – Robert Bosch Stiftung, Erste Stiftung and King Baudouin Foundation – were actively involved in the thorough three-phase process of selecting the best successor to this post. The final decision was made in February, and Ms. Aleksandra Tomanic was made Executive Director - Elect. Ms. Tomanic will continue to lead the Fund in the future operative period, starting from May 2019.

Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)

Latest developments:

- The European Fund for the Balkans and the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) were once again part of the agenda of the Belgrade Security Forum: Finding the Western Balkans in 2019. The discussions were held using Chatham House rules, and the conclusions from the closed sessions were published on the media partner European Western Balkans https://bit.ly/2Fcf6OP and were distributed to the target groups in the region and the EU. What will post-election and post-Brexit EU look like? What could be predicted considering bilateral issues and regional cooperation in the Western Balkans? What trends could the region expect regarding the state of democracy, rule of law and media freedom? These were some of the topics that were discussed at expert round tables and presented at the afternoon public event.

After the event, the European Fund for the Balkans and the Centre for Contemporary Politics released the analysis “EU and Western Balkans in 2019”, authored by Igor Bandović and Nikola Burazer. The analysis is available at: https://bit.ly/2u88M4E -The European Policy Centre, in cooperation with the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group, organized the policy event “Assessing the EU’s rule book for the rule of law” on January 15 in Brussels in order to present the BiEPAG’s policy study “Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans: Call for a Revolution against Particularism” authored by the BiEPAG Members, Tena Prelec, Jovana Marovic and Marko Kmezic. - Celebrating its 20th anniversary, French newspaper Le Courrier des Balkans organized a conference in Paris titled “EU-Western Balkans: 20 years of staring at each other”. The conference was organized in partnership with Heinrich Böll Foundation in Paris, the European Fund for the Balkans and the Maison de l’Europe in Paris. Over the course of two days, there were four round table discussions in which the speakers tried to assess the record of the past two decades of the EU integration of the Western Balkans. A list of BiEPAG Members were speakers at this event. All the BiEPAG activities, policy publications, BiEPAG policy blogs are available at: www.biepag.eu

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Upcoming activities: - Solving Bilateral Disputes in the Western Balkans Follow-Up Meeting after the London Summit, Skopje, March 28, 2019 - BiEPAG Annual Meeting in Montenegro, April 8-9, 2019 - A BiEPAG Policy Event in cooperation with Clingendael Institute, May, 2019

Civil Society Forum of the Western Balkans Summit Series (CSF)

Latest developments:

- Since 2017, the European Fund for the Balkans is responsible for design and coordination of the Civil Society Forum (CSF) activities. The CSF was launched in 2015, in line with the Vienna Western Balkans Summit, as an initiative enabling dialogue between Balkan citizens and regional and European decision-makers, within the so-called Berlin Process. The goal was to ensure participation of the Western Balkans civil society organisations (CSO) in deliberation and creation of regionally relevant policies. Today, the CSF is the largest regional platform and consists of 250 think-tanks and policy-oriented CSOs. It has outgrown the Berlin Process by bringing the attention of decision-makers to the issues which were not focused upon in the yearly Summits, and by generating the social capital and technical expertise to the extent that it has been able to influence all relevant regional processes. The Berlin Process Information and Resource Centre

- In December 2017, the CSF launched the Berlin Process Information and Resource Centre - an information hub

that continuously publishes news, opinions, documents and publications regarding the Berlin Process. All information about the Berlin Process are available at: https://berlinprocess.info/ CSF 2019 – Preparations for Poznan Summit

-In November 2018, CSF launched a new website. CSF Policy Briefs, experts’ views, a growing library of think tanks' publications, and much more to come. It is available at: http://wb-csf.eu/

-A roundtable discussion “Looking forward to Poznan Summit” on the forthcoming Summit in Poznań, Poland (July 4, 2019), in the context of the Berlin Process was held in Belgrade on January 24, 2019. The discussion was organised by the European Fund for the Balkans, coordinator of the Civil Society Forum of the Western Balkans, together with the portal European Western Balkans. It was an opportunity for the civil society and representatives of the counties included in the process to discuss the so far achieved results and the ways in which they can be improved. The participants were addressed by several speakers, including H. E. Wieslaw Tarka, coordinator of the Poznan Summit, from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ana Marjanović Rudan, Programme Advisor for the European Fund for the Balkans, Simonida Kacarska, European Policy Institute, Skopje, Shpend Emini, Democracy for Development and Jovana Marović, Politikon Network.

Upcoming activities:

- Preparation of 4 CSF Policy Briefs with recommendations on the 4 Poznan Summit topics – research phase + web-based consultation process and dissemination;

-Meeting of CSF Working Groups’ representatives with Ministers of FA of the WB6 in Belgrade, organized by GiZ, May 10, 2019;

The CSF Publications can be found here: https://wb-csf.eu/csf-publications

Fellowship Programme for Government Officials from the Western Balkans

Latest developments:

- The 11th edition of the Fellowship Programme for Government Officials 2019/2020 was launched with a public call for applications posted on January 18, 2019. It is targeted at government officials from the Western Balkans (Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) who are eager to spend a two and a half month fellowship traineeship in the government institutions of the European Union Member States: Austria,

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Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden; - The Programme is specifically designed for government officials working in the fields of justice, security, economy, energy, transport and digital policy, social policy, education, research and innovation, and public administration; - After the closure of the call, a technical and qualitative selection was concluded by the EFB Secretariat. The regional interview sessions were held at the beginning of March in Belgrade and Skopje. The final list of selected candidates is confirmed. Upcoming activities:

The placement phase of the Fellows in the respective EU host ministries is under way.

Think and Link Regional Policy Programme

Latest developments:

- At the end of 2018, a call for participation in the ninth edition of the Think and Link Regional Policy Programme was announced. It was aimed at the already existing base of think tanks, policy institutes and policy oriented CSOs from the EFB Network. The Think and Link Regional Policy Programme Edition 2019/2020 was launched with the support of 5 regional networks, whose project are now in the research phase.

Upcoming activities:

The programme cycle will proceed with the mid-term reports, and scheduling the public events and publications of the policy results of the separate regional projects.

Supported Initiatives:

European Fund for the Balkans Fellowships at the Austrian Parliament 2019/2020 On the initiative of the Austrian Parliament and with the generous support of ERSTE Foundation, the European Fund for the Balkans launched the new initiative the "European Fund for the Balkans Fellowships 2019-2020 at the Austrian Parliament” EFB announced a public call for applications for this new practice-oriented educational programme designed for public servants working in the administrations of the WB6 National Parliaments - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia, who are proficient in German language (B1 Level). The call for applications is available at: https://bit.ly/2VUgTNO. The deadline for the call is April 10, 2019. Impact Conference 2019 After Impact 2018, the European Fund for the Balkans supported the organization of the second 2019 edition of this conference (February 19 – 20, 2019 in Belgrade) as a newly established initiative that coincides with the Fund’s focus on the social capacity building in the Western Balkans. A number of EFB Community members and participants of EFB’s last-year hackathons, Balkan Connect 2018, took part in this unique conference in South-East Europe, which is focused on accelerating the effects of social impact. In 2019, the organizers invited leaders in the industry of impact investing, management, promotion and measurement to Belgrade, hosting more than 250 participants. Two days of TED-like talks, engaging and focused panel discussions, and pitch sessions covering a variety of themes– creating and scaling impact, and doing it fast. International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies 2018

- The European Fund for the Balkans will support the jubilee 10th International Summer School in Comparative

Conflict Studies organized by the , that will be held from June 23-30, 2019. The European Fund for the Balkans

supported the summer school by awarding 10 EFB scholarships to a selected group of participants from the WB

region.

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European Practice Exchange on Deradicalisation (EPEx)

Foundations involved: Robert Bosch Foundation, King Baudouin Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Fritt Ord Foundation.

Partners involved: Violence Prevention Network (Germany)

Budget 2019: 22.000 EUR

Timeframe: 2016-2019 Background: The increasingly urgent phenomenon of violent Islamic radicalisation has motivated a group of foundations to take action through the European Practice Exchange on Deradicalisation (EPEx), aiming to establish a network of first-line practitioners to share knowledge, experience and lessons learned. As community-based and grassroots organisations are considered to be more impartial and credible than government structures when it comes to the work with radicalised people, EPEx practitioners will enable civil society organisations to play a major role in addressing this challenge. The project is led by the German NGO Violence Prevention Network (VPN), in partnership with the RecoRa Institute UK. EPEx’s approach goes beyond the usual theoretical lectures and embraces activity-based learning as a more suitable and tangible form of peer-education. Based on the expertise of practitioners engaged in the project, EPEx will work on three main overlapping streams: 1) counselling relatives worried about young family members who may be at risk of being recruited as foreign fighters, or who already left to conflict zones; 2) working with young people that have been identified as vulnerable to radicalisation; 3) conducting interventions to deradicalise and rehabilitate returning foreign fighters in prison. Latest development: EPEX final publication was released in March 2019. The publication provides a summary of shared learnings created during the EPEX project. Practitioners worked together to co-create the publication. They created thematic writing groups on different key areas to produce the chapters, illustrated by concrete examples. An editorial group and a methods & channeling learnings group guided the co-creation of the publication and harmonized the work of the writing groups. The publication is currently being disseminated.

EPEx project came to an end on February 2019.

European Programme for Integration and Migration

Foundations involved (Partner): Adessium Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Charles

Stewart Mott Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo, Calouste Gulbenkian

Foundation, Fondation de France, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, King

Baudouin Foundation, Oak Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Open Society

Foundations, Fondation Abbé Pierre, Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation,

Porticus Foundation

Foundations involved (Associate): Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione CON IL SUD, Enel Cuore, Fondazione Cassa di

Risparmio di Torino, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, Fondazione

Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di

Siena, Fondazione Peppino Vismara, John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation,

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Budget: January 2019-December 2023, with a starting budget of 6.3 million EUR Timeframe: EPIM exists since 2005 and just renewed its strategy for 2019-2023. EPIM is a programme developed and supported by NEF.

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Background: The European Programme for Integration and Migration is a pooled fund, currently supported by 25 private foundations with the goal to strengthen the role of civil society in building inclusive communities and in developing humane and sustainable responses to migration, based on Europe’s commitment to universal human rights and social justice.

EPIM gives grants to projects led by civil society organisations across Europe and strengthens grantees and the wider field through capacity development, knowledge support and the connection of actors from the local, national, regional and EU level. Funds are allocated through targeted Thematic Funds on Migration and Detention; Reform of the European Asylum System; Long-term Prospects and Protection of Children and Youth on the Move in Europe; Access to Rights for Mobile EU Citizens; Strategically Communicating on Migration in a Changing Environment; and Building Inclusive Societies. Latest developments:

Appointment of new EPIM Chair and Executive Committee member Sahar Yadegari from the Adessium Foundation has been appointed as the new EPIM Chair at EPIM´s last Steering Committee meeting in October 2018. Also, Hugo de Seabra from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has joined the EPIM Executive Committee. Launch of the EPIM Forward strategy for 2019-2023 EPIM has started the implementation of its new five-year strategy for 2019-2023. Instead of a three-year strategy bound to funding cycles, the new strategy aligns with the long-term ambition in the field. Starting with a portfolio of six Thematic Funds with defined strategies, EPIM aims to refine, create cross-cutting links and identify gaps in the focus areas of its work over the coming years. The bigger mission to build the field by bringing Thematic Funds closer together is streamlined throughout EPIM’s work. Piloting Opportunity Funds Under a new funding mechanism that allows for identification and contributions to emerging opportunities in the field, EPIM is currently exploring support that would contribute to migrant advocates and migrant-led initiatives accessing, maneuvering, and influencing the policy-making spaces at EU level on topics that directly concern them. In the first half of 2019, EPIM is engaging an external consultant to conduct a mapping of migrant advocates and migrant-led initiatives who are active in advocacy work at local, national and EU level across Europe, and to collect focused feedback from the target group on current obstacles and potential ways to address them. On this basis, EPIM aims to obtain a better understanding of challenges and opportunities in the field and receive

recommendations for potential support that EPIM may offer in the future. Developments in Thematic funds

Thematic fund on Migration and Detention

Aim: Ensure that migrants who are subject to European migration systems to have access to fair, transparent and efficient procedures to resolve their migration case, so that detention is reduced to a tool of last resort applied only when it is legitimate, proportionate and necessary. Grantee organisations in 2019: Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), Migreurop, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), International Detention Coalition (IDC), Cyprus Refuge Council (CyRC), Association for Legal Intervention (SIP), Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria.

Main developments: EPIM has started implementing a new Thematic Fund strategy for 2019-2021. The strategy continues the

emphasis on promoting ATD and on challenging the harmful implications of detention and other migration control measures, whilst putting a stronger focus on challenging the underlying migration policy drivers.

A new call for proposals, `Unlocking Alternatives. Piloting new pathways to migrant case resolution´, has been launched in February 2019 to support CSOs in implementing engagement-based case management and solutions-based advocacy on ATD in existing and new national contexts.

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A new EPIM partner foundation, Porticus, has joined the Thematic Fund Committee.

Thematic fund on the long-term prospects and protection of children on the move in Europe

Aim: in policy and in practice, ensure the protection and support the longer term path of each individual child and youth on the move in Europe to be able to identify her/his long-term perspectives and establish an autonomous life in the society she/he can live in. Grantee organisations in 2019: Mentor-Escale, Minor-Ndako, Save the Children Italy, CESVI Fondazione Onlus, Centro Italiano Aiuti all’Infanzia Onlus, C.I.D.I.S. Onlus, Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, Istituto Don Calabria, Dedalus Cooperativa Sociale, Fondazione Museke Onlus, Missing Children Europe (with partners PICUM, Terre des Hommes, Child Circle, EPCAT, Eurochild and ECRE), Safe Passage International, Centro Ambrosiano di Solidarietà Onlus – CEAS, Cospe – Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti, LA RADA CONSORZIO DI COOPERATIVE SOCIALI S.C.S, Oxfam Italia Intercultura Società Cooperativa Sociale di Tipo A Onlus, P.G. Frassati scs Onlus, Programma integra s.c.s., SEND, and Società Cooperativa sociale Progetto Tenda.

Main developments:

Foundation members of the Thematic Fund Committee met at the beginning of March 2019 with the aim to start discussing the strategic way forward for the Fund until and beyond 2020. In particular, the Committee refined the Thematic Fund objectives to better respond to a fluid policy context and a variety of actors for children on the move in Europe. Some interest to continue the Thematic Fund beyond 2020 was expressed.

New grants have been made in 2019: o Under the Belgian country programme, the grants to Mentor-Escale and Minor-Ndako have been

prolonged until 2020, with 75,000€ each. The new grants aim to strengthen and increase the capacities of the organisations to support children and youth towards more autonomy, to strengthen the sustainability and replicability of such models as well as to strengthen youth participation in the organisations.

o In Italy, a second call for proposals “Towards Life Autonomy for Foreign Minors and Young Adults Who Have Arrived in Italy Alone” was launched in 2018 and 59 applications were received. 8 projects were selected in December. The aim is to promote multidimensional projects which support the autonomy and inclusion within the labour market of youth on the move between 15 and 21 years old. The selected projects consist of partnerships with 65 civil society organisations and public bodies and are located in 6 Italian regions.

On 8 March, EPIM organised an expert convening in Athens which brought together key actors (civil society organisations, foundations, youth advocates, government agencies, etc.) to explore the continued needs and opportunities for children and youth on the move to establish a future in Greece; to share recommendations and good practice; and discuss EPIM’s new funding priorities in the country. As a follow-up, EPIM will launch an open call for proposals at the end of March to select new projects in Greece, with a focus on the following areas: strengthen and scale quality alternative care models; enhance the safeguarding and mental health support infrastructure; and support youth in the transition to autonomy and adulthood with a focus on access to education, vocational training and the labour market.

Thematic fund on communicating on migration in a changing environment

Aim: Increase the weight of their messages and recommendations and contribute to more nuanced political and public discourses as well as policy-making on migration in and across EU Member States as well as at Brussels level. Grantee organisations in 2019: Migration Policy Group (MPG); Refugees Welcome Italia/Refugees Welcome International; Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM); European Network on Statelessness (ENS).

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Main developments: A mapping and analysis under the title “Strategic Communications on Migration – what resonates and

unites?“ is being conducted over the first half of the year, hoping to inform future work in EPIM’s Thematic Fund as well as the work in the field.

A survey among grantees and other relevant civil society organisations has been conducted to map the needs for strategic communications capacity development that EPIM aims to address in the coming year(s), together with the Social Change Initiative (SCI).

Learnings from this Thematic Fund are collected to be shared and discussed in the upcoming Steering Committee meeting with the aim to extent joint learning in this area beyond the Thematic Fund Committee.

Thematic fund on the European asylum system

Aim: Contribute to shape European and national asylum systems that are humane, fair, effective and capable of offering protection to those in need.

Grantee organisations in 2019: European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

Main developments: EPIM has extended its support to the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) for an additional year until

December 2019. In 2019, EPIM will undertake a strategic review of its grant-making strategy on asylum in Europe. Thematic fund on protecting access to rights for mobile EU citizens

Aim: Ensure that mobile EU citizens and their family members are able to effectively exercise and enforce their free movement rights in law and in practice.

Grantee organisations in 2019: European Citizen Action Service (ECAS); European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA); Médecins du Monde (MdM).

Main developments: EPIM organised a narrative-building workshop for grantees in November 2018. In collaboration with the

International Centre for Policy Advocacy (ICPA), the workshop focused on exploring current challenges in promoting freedom of movement and on ways to develop more effective narratives for promoting EU mobile citizens´ access to rights.

EPIM has started implementing a new Thematic Fund strategy for 2019 – 2021, which envisages continued support for current grantees and a continuing focus on current thematic areas, whilst placing a stronger emphasis on joint grantee cooperation and engagement with local authorities. A request for proposals has been launched in early 2019.

Thematic fund on building inclusive European societies

Aim: Contribute to structurally enhance community cohesion in diverse European societies so that it leads to collective and individual improvements of quality of life and social relationships of all members of the community, including migrants.

Grantee organisations in 2019: European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE); Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)

Main developments: Out of the 121 applications received under its call for interests on “Rethinking Inclusion”, EPIM selected 18

whole-of-society initiatives in the field of migrant inclusion implemented in 13 countries driven by NGOs, social cooperatives, migrant-led organisations and social enterprises. All have shown an interest in adapting their solution and/or transferring their knowledge to stakeholders based in at least one of the following countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Portugal or Sweden. Selected organisations will be offered

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a case study aimed to support them in strengthening and scaling their impact as well as consolidate their narrative about the latter.

EPIM awarded a research grant to MPI Europe to conduct a study aimed to establish a comparative overview and mapping of European Social Fund (ESF) funding and programming and analyse the mechanisms explaining why and how financing has been deployed and disbursed to yield insights that allow for more profound steering of the next ESF +.

Fikra – Tunisia Joint Fund

Foundations involved: Fondation de France (Chair); King Baudouin Foundation

Budget 2012-2018: 1.2 million euros

Timeframe: 2012-2019

Fikra is a programme developed and managed by NEF.

Background:

The Tunisia Joint Fund – known as Fikra – was launched officially in April 2013 in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’. Since then, around 60 projects have been funded. Fikra, meaning ‘thought’ or ‘idea’ in Arabic, is what makes this initiative different: poor, remote communities in the Northwest of the country are taking the lead on their development by creating innovative opportunities to promote social and economic justice. Fikra was conceptualised to support the transition in Tunis. This path is multi-pronged, consisting of empowerment, innovation and network-building. The core of Fikra’s work lies in helping Tunisian citizens to access opportunities in order to achieve social and economic justice. In general, many Fikra projects support social entrepreneurs, while others involve animal husbandry, agriculture, education, environment, health, and cultural initiatives in schools. Fikra encourages people to cooperate with each other and to mobilise local resources so that they own the agenda rather than relying on international funding.

Latest developments:

The partner foundations decided to wrap up the programme with a closing event that will take place in Tunis on April 5th. The idea is to promote the project bearers and the ‘Fikra approach’ towards institutions (donors, policy makers, actors from the social economy field…) of Tunis and the North West region so that the Fikra legacy is established. Delegations of project bearers will be invited to participate in the event through a photography exhibition, a dedicated place to present some of their products… An evaluation report of Fikra has been released and presents the results of the programme in the framework of its theory of change. The evaluation will also be presented at the event by Claire Kramme and Souhaeil Ben Messaoud who jointly conducted the review of more than 45 projects of the first three calls for ideas. All the on-going projects of the 4th call should be completed by the end of March. NEF is aiming to close the project at the end of April 2019. On the question of the left over, the Fikra SC plans to provide awards to a few projects that would need some boosting to increase their sustainability. These projects still need to be identified and a committee from Fondation de France will agree on criteria for awarding this ‘extra funding’.

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FutureLab Europe

Foundations involved in the program period 1 October 2017- 30 September 2018: King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium), Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany) - Chair, Allianz Kulturstiftung (Germany), Stiftelsen Fritt Ord (Norway), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal), Evens Foundation (France) and Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Ronda (Spain).

EPC is the operational partner to roll out the programme and NEF coordinates the Foundations. Partners involved: European Policy Centre (operational partner) Budget 2017-2018: 141.200 euros Timeframe: 2017-2018 Background: FutureLab Europe (FLE) is a programme that enables bright young Europeans aged 20-30 from across the continent (EU and non EU countries) to shape the future of Europe through their civic engagement. The programme aims to build up a network of young Europeans who are engaged in civic activities and offers them support for the concrete implementation of their projects, as well as the unique opportunity to interact with decision-makers and other young people. The objective of FutureLab Europe is to allow its members to enhance their credentials as European citizens and to take action in support of the European idea. In particular, FutureLab Europe focuses its action on three focal topics: democratic values in Europe, equal opportunities for young people, and European identity. In order to foster a Europe-wide debate on these three issues, the members of the network implement impact multiplier activities on the local level that are structured around several group projects. Latest developments: The project was officially closed in October 2018. A small leftover can be utilised to cover some activities for the establishment of the alumni network. This is under discussion with Jacob Dueringer, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Chair of FutureLab.

European Philanthropy Learning Initiative

Foundations U.S. Embassy in France, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques

Budget 2019: 6000 USD to date.

Background:

In an era of unprecedented wealth, technological advancement, and global interdependence, we find ourselves simultaneously confronted with ominous trends of social and political dysfunction. What has been missing from efforts to address these negative trends is a fundamental understanding of a key dimension of the problem—a radically diminished sense of the common good that characterizes modern society worldwide. This problem may be most simply described as a convergence of forces that act to fragment societies—market individualism, narrow nationalism, racial divisions, exaggerated self-interest, parochialism, among others--in sum, forces that work against efforts to create a sense of social solidarity and community. Given the exploratory nature of the initiative, we shall be testing this hypothesis with our preliminary study and external consultative convenings with experts from different sectors. The initiative emerged from a series of conversations involving academics, practitioners and representatives of more than a dozen institutions in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States over a two-year period. At the center of the project has been the goal of expanding understanding of the common good and exploring how that understanding can practically empower efforts to strengthen its pursuit through economic incentives, policy-making, shifts in cultural norms, public communication efforts, and other means. The Initiative is currently coordinated by a Steering Group from its founding institutions and knowledge partners, which include representatives from the Aspen Institute, Heron Foundation, Rockefeller Archive Center, the

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German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Columbia Business School, the Foundation Center, Hertie School of Governance, Marshall Institute at LSE, the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po, and Stanford University. The initiative is currently incubated by two of the knowledge partners. Confirmation of institutional leadership and organisational structure will take place by the end of phase one.

Latest developments:

I. Continued Consultative Convenings (CC), Refinement and Studies CC: December 2018 – New York. The PCG Steering Group: Clara Miller (Emerita, Heron Foundation), Bradford K. Smith (Foundation Center – Candid), Dr. James Allen Smith, (Rockefeller Archive Center), Dr. Bruce R. Sievers (Stanford PACS) and Judith Symonds, (Sciences Po), met in New York on December 12th, 2018 for a day-log reflection and planning exercise at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, chaired by Jim Smith. Also joining the meeting on specific topics were Melissa Berman and Dr. Diana Leat. The output from the meeting was a refined focus and concept note and the scope and format for the second phase of “Building the Evidence” base, an empirical study to complement the commissioned papers. Commissioned paper topics and the cases for the initial scanning are attached as Annex 3. The empirical study began with a scanning of the Rockefeller Archive Center for examples from its extensive foundation and civil society archives to identify examples of cross-sector collaboration around systemic transformation. The initial phase of the scanning took place in February 2018 and is being analysed to determine, the need for further scanning and examples (from selected and more diverse resources). When the latter report is completed, it will be reviewed during a consultative convening (early June 2019) for common themes concerning the role (or not) of the common good in these examples and how this empirical evidence might be applied to contemporary resolution of societal challenges and what would be the learning infrastructure to make this happen. The full empirical study is scheduled to be completed by September 2019. As mentioned in the previous report, this study will complement six other papers, currently in the process of completion, authored by post-docs and other experts on how the themes of the pursuit of the common good play out in specific arenas of modern social life: democratic governance, digital technology, income inequality, civic media, civil society institutions, race and xenophobia, and climate change. Cumulatively, these field-by-field analyses, together with the case studies, will provide an intellectual basis for the next phases of the project, beginning with an invitational conference for sectoral leaders to be convened in London in 2019. The studies will be carried out by the Initiative’s founding cohort and knowledge partners with strategic inputs to be solicited from outside specialists and review convenings. CC: March 13, 2019 – Paris. A small group of multi-sector experts, including two commissioned paper authors and two steering group members held a morning consultation at The German Marshall Fund in Paris, to discuss interpretations of the pursuit of the common good and emerging implications from the initial scanning for the full report, particularly the importance that the PCG would seem to have onbuilding consensus and community around issues such as addressing Climate Change, reinforcing the Rules of the Game, Media and Digital Transition from both a normative and policy point of view. The report from this convening will be circulated at the end of March.

II. Fundraising and Constituent Building At the same time, the Steering Group is undertaking a focused and essential fundraising programme in Europe and the U.S. to allow the PCG to establish an actionable collaborative organisational network to carry out the work. Phase Two: Advancing Pursuit of the Common Good in the Contemporary World: 2020 - Phase Two will mark the official launch of the initiative with an invitational conference for sector leaders in London in the second half of 2019. The specific components of this phase will be determined by recommendations from the study and cross-sector review convenings during phase one, which will be reviewed, debated confirmed at the launch conference. The initial priorities will focus on establishing the basic elements of the learning infrastructure and building a constituency and communities to restore a sense of the common good as the coalescing force for ensuring a sustainable and equitable future. It is envisioned that these priorities will include the following, while recognizing it will be an evolving agenda.

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Joint Action for Farmers’ Organisations in West Africa (JAFOWA)

Foundations involved: Compagnia di San Paolo; Fondazione Cariplo; Fondation de France (Chair), OSIWA and Fondation for a Just Society (USA).

Budget 2019: around 1 million euros

Timeframe: 2016–2020

JAFOWA has been developed and is implemented through NEF.

Background:

JAFOWA supports farmers’ organisations (FOs) through grant making and capacity development with an initial focus on Burkina Faso and Senegal. Ghana was part of the scope of the first funding period but will not be part of the second one.

JAFOWA has decided to focus on the support to the FOs in the transition to agroecology and will work in the second phase through a restricted call for proposals.

JAFOWA seeks to reinforce FOs who work with smallholder farmers, pastoralists and fishermen, to manage quality local food systems that benefit their families and communities in ecologically sustainable ways. It aims at supporting a strong and equitable farmers’ movement in West Africa. This movement proposes local and regional policies, promotes ecological solutions and enables the leadership of women and youth.

Latest developments:

Two steering committee meetings took place since October 2018. They enabled the partners to review the positioning of JAFOWA and its specific focus on the support to FOs on the transition towards agroecology. Pathways for this support were discussed and a new methodology has been agreed upon. This methodology seeks to strengthen the capacities of FOs in the proposal design, writing and implementation. Two workshops are now part of the call for proposal process to help grantees reflect about their theory of change in their territory and make sure the partnership approach is robust and well integrated from the inception. Collaboration between partners is indeed a key element of the transition towards agroecology.

The 2nd call for proposals has been re worked with the support of an Italian agronomist, and is almost finalised. The launch of the second call is now scheduled for the beginning of April, with a workshop in Senegal and Burkina at mid-June 2019. It is expected that by the end of July 2019 the decision on the final selection of projects will be made.

Members of the advisory board of JAFOWA have also reviewed the text of the call and some have confirmed their participation into the selection process of the 2nd call.

A French agronomist engineer, Laurent Grolleau, with more than 30 years’ experience in international development and rural development, will take the leadership on the programme. He will start in the third week of March and will be instrumental in the JAFOWA development.

Historic partners of the consortium have confirmed their engagement for 2019-2020 and it is hoped that new partners will now engage thanks to the impulse of new leadership of the programme. Some outreach towards potential foundations partners is planned in the framework of the EFC AGA of May. NEF will support the development of a dedicated website for JAFOWA since there is a need to portray better the programme and the different capitalisation materials that were produced by PAFAO (programme of Promotion of the Family Farming in West Africa – led by Fondation de France and CFSI) in collaboration with JAFOWA grantees and the ROPPA.

Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium

Foundations involved: OSF, Wellspring

Budget 2019-2020: 300.000$

Timeframe: January 2019- Dec 2020

PEHRC is implemented through NEF.

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Background:

Since 2014, a group of over 100 organisations from all parts of the world have been working together within an informal arrangement, the Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC). The Consortium emerged out of the need, in the current context of growing privatisation in education, to strengthen joint and international collaboration in order to respond to challenges that may arise from the rapid growth of private actors in education and to raise the profile of the issue as a human rights concern.

The aim of PEHRC is to increase the collective impact of the work of our organisations through strategic coordination of advocacy activities, to better enable civil society organisations to effectively monitor and, where necessary, address the impact of the growing privatisation in education around the world, and to reorient attention to the support and improvement of quality, accountable, public education systems to deliver on the right to education.

The Consortium provides practical support to joint work and strengthen collaboration over the short and mid-term.

Specific objectives:

1. Build a stronger movement (citizen led /rooted) critical of privatisation in education.

2. Implement the Human Rights Guiding Principles on States obligations and the role of private actors in

education (Working Group on Guiding Principles).

3. Define solutions: develop a strong alternative (counter) narrative and propose a viable alternative (Working

Group on Positive Evidence-Alternatives).

4. Take action to address key issues at the national and international levels.

The Consortium held its Global Meeting in Abidjan from 15th to 18th of February 2019. The Facilitation Group composition remains the same and members have ratified the relevance of the objectives mentioned above. In this sense, members also ratified the agreed criteria for the use of pooled funds and refreshed the priorities framework into three topics. Priorities for 2019-2020 are organised under 1- Abidjan Principles Implementation (former Guiding Principles); 2- Alternative and Counter Narrative (a. Critics of models of privatisation, b. Positive building of PPPs / accountable public education and c. Financing) and 3- Strengthen the movement (a. strengthen ourselves, b. strengthen links with other education movements/actors and c. Strengthen links with movements working on other public services).

The two existing working groups remain (Abidjan Principles and Alternatives & Counter Narratives), and a third working group will lead activities related to strengthen the movement.

Transnational Forum on Integrated Community Care (TransForm)

Foundations involved: King Baudouin Foundation (Chair); Compagnia di San Paolo; Fondation de France; Graham Boeckh Foundation; Robert Bosch Stiftung; Fund Danielle De Coninck (managed by King Baudouin Foundation)

Budget 2019: 290.000 €

Timeframe: 2017-2020

Operational Partner: The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)

NEF has developed and managed this programme since its inception.

Background:

Integrated care at the community level seeks to better co-ordinate services by working around peoples’ holistic needs. It implies a shift from problem-based, disease-oriented care to a goal-based, person-centred care aiming at improving the quality of life of patients (and those close to the patient). It also engages individuals and communities in managing their care. The focus of the Transnational Forum on Integrated Community Care (TransForm) goes beyond the most common interpretations placed on integrated care (i.e. integration of health and social care provision). Rather, TransForm seeks to examine how co-productive partnerships that empower

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people in local communities can be developed through cross-sectoral collaborations. The overarching aim of the Forum is to trigger the interest of and to inspire action by policy-makers, key stakeholders and practitioners to foster integrated community care (ICC). It seeks to achieve this through finding and analysing promising practices in integrated community care and learning from their experiences and impact.

Latest developments:

In January 2019, la Caixa Foundation withdrew from the partnership. Since the beginning, Transform was linked and followed by the ‘elderly’ department in the organisation and this articulation was not fruitful.

At the start of the project, the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) undertook a mapping exercise of promising practices in the area of integrated community care (ICC) that served as basis for developing the site visits and cases of the Transform conferences. Experts in the field of integrated community care have been appointed as members of the TransForm Advisory Group. The Advisory Group provides guidance towards the identification of case studies and inputs for and at the conferences.

Articulating the concept of integrated community care and finding a common understanding is difficult: all partners are learning in the framework of the project and it is key that participants are aware of this.

The input paper and synthesis report of the first transnational conference on integrated community care “Making the case for ICC” are available on the TransForm website www.transform-integratedcommunitycare.com . The second conference, “Towards People-driven Care: Engaging and Empowering Individuals, Carers and Families through Integrated Community Care”, took place in Turin on 26-27 February 2019. The conference examined the importance of connecting individuals within the communities they live in. It looked in particular at how individuals, carers and families can be supported in becoming equal partners in decisions that are made about their care, and also how choice and access to a variety of care support options can be enabled. The evaluation of the conference is currently ongoing. The input paper and PowerPoint presentations are available on the TransForm website.

The third conference, “Engaging local communities through integrated community care”, will take place in Vancouver, Canada, on 3-4 October 2019. The conference will examine how to enable the participation and engagement of communities in decision-making, including an examination of how to respond to different cultural contexts and the building of social capital. The conference main objectives are to:

Understand the essential elements and approaches for successful community engagement in relation to implementing ICC;

Illustrate how ICC better enables the active participation of communities;

Demonstrate through evidence and practical experiences the positive impact that engaging and empowering communities has on improving a community’s health and wellbeing;

Illustrate how approaches to engagement and empowerment have been adopted in practice through established case examples as well as newly developed promising practices, including facilitated site visits to local innovations; and

Explore how to mobilise policy-makers and community leaders