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ANDES Steering Committee meeting in
Brussels
March 4, 2009 – Between March 3-4, a steering committee meeting
for 'The Advocacy Network for Destitute persons (ANDES) project
took place in Brussels. Representatives from six JRS Europe
country offices (Portugal, UK, Romania, Italy, Ukraine, and
Malta) were present, as well as a representative from CeiMigra
in Spain.
The main objective of the meeting was to to plan the
implementation of the ANDES project and discuss in detail the
national events on destitution each organisation will organise
in the coming months. These national events will each have a
media, networking, and policy output focus.
Each partner presented their ideas of how they plan to implement
the project. The main concern was as to how they would involve
other organisations working in destitution, as well as policy
makers, in their networks and the project. Other issues
concerned the planning of strategies to involve the national
partners with European representatives, this in a view to
organising a two-day European conference in March 2011.
The objective of the ANDES project is to create a coalition of
key actors on a national level in order to open up a broader
debate at European level on the destitute migrants issue.
A website for the project is currently in production and will be
available for
www.jrseurope.org in the
coming days.
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