We welcome old and new interested members and stakeholders to join us on October 6 for the second meeting of the mobilisation platform, which will focus on how to strengthen refugee participation in advocacy on sponsorship and other complementary pathways at the local, regional, national and EU level and diaspora and refugee engagement in community-led welcoming initiatives. 

To expand legal pathways and build community engagement, the SHARE network facilitates the convening of the Refugee Sponsorship Mobilisation Platform. The platform offers an inclusive space to gather a wide variety of stakeholders, including civil society organisations, faith communities, volunteer groups, cities and regions, diaspora and refugee-led organisations, universities, private business, foundations,  and refugees. The platform serves as a space to exchange practices, build strategies and joint advocacy initiatives to expand and grow community sponsorships under resettlement and complementary pathways in Europe.  

Mobilisation platform members are invited to participate and contribute to sponsorship activities and conferences throughout the duration of the project. The first meeting of the mobilisation platform took place on September 30 2021 and discussed how to use a multi-stakeholder, bottom-up approach to advocate for refugee sponsorship, ways to make sponsorship more sustainable, and challenges faced when implementing programmes (see video report here).

 If you are interested in participating, please register here. A detailed agenda will be made available by the end of September

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