First Multi-Sectoral Workshop on Fighting Discrimination-Based Violence

Against Undocumented Children

Brussels, 27-29 June 2007

 

The PICUM project “Fighting Discrimination-Based Violence Against Undocumented Children”, co-financed by the DAPHNE Programme of the European Commission, DG Justice Freedom and Security, aims at fighting discrimination-based violence against undocumented children in Europe, by developing the capacity of concerned partners to protect undocumented children from discrimination in gaining access to housing, education and health care.

The project will be carried out from February 2007 to February 2009 and the partners include: Save the Children (Denmark), Defence for Children International (the Netherlands), Association Jeunes Errants (France) and Andalucia Acoge (Spain). The project will focus on discrimination-based violence against undocumented children in the area of health care, housing, and education in 9 EU member states: Belgium,  France, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.

Within the framework of the project, two multi-sectoral workshops with all the relevant partners are foreseen. The first workshop will be held from the 27 to 29 June 2007 in Brussels. During the same time period (28-29 June 2007) Picum will organize an international conference on access to health care for undocumented migrants, presenting the results of another EU project PICUM has done during the last two years. We thought this could be a valuable opportunity to share the results of this previous project with our project, particularly considering that one of the areas we will investigate is access to health care for undocumented children. This will give us the opportunity of sharing with other organizations, information on the situation of access to health care for undocumented children within the general context of access for undocumented migrants.

An initial meeting will be held on Wednesday, 27 June, with only the partners of the Daphne project. On Thursday, 28 June, partners will attend the whole day conference, Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants, which will continue on the Friday morning.  Finally, in the afternoon of the 29th a joint meeting of the partners of both the Daphne and the Health Care projects will take place.

Participants:

Participants of the multi-sectoral workshop will be the four partners of the Daphne project “Fighting Discrimination-Based Violence Against Undocumented Children”. Six experts from the countries involved in the project, but not covered by the partnerships (Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland and the UK) will be invited to participate on 28 - 29 June in order to share information and experiences, and to enlarge and strengthen the network of actors involved in the protection of undocumented children rights.

AGENDA

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

 

13:00 – 17:00    Daphne project partners meeting

 

13:00 – 13:10    Welcome and Introduction

- Michele Levoy, Director of PICUM

13:10 – 13:30    Presentation of the project “Fighting Discrimination-Based Violence Against Undocumented Children”

- Tommaso Bicocchi, Program Officer PICUM

13:30 – 14:30    Presentation of the partners and of some relevant experiences

                        - Morten Hjorth Jahnsen, Red Barnet

                        - Carla van Os, Defence for Children International

                        - Noémie Rigaud, Association Jeunes Errants (A.J.E.)

                        - Jose Miguel, Andalucia Acoge

14:30 – 15:00    Discussion on data collection and report instrument

The data collection and report instrument used by the partners. Explore possible instruments to be developed by the project

15:00 – 15:30    Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30    Identification of common problems and needs of undocumented children focusing on housing and education

16:30 – 16:50    Using of the questionnaires to identify and highlight the needs of undocumented children in the countries involved

16:50 – 17:00    Presentation of the Conference on Access to Health Care and information on the joint meeting of Friday

 

Thursday, June 28, 2007

09:00 – 17:00    International Conference ‘Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants’

                        (See enclosed program)

 

Friday, June 29, 2006

09:00 – 13:00    International Conference ‘Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants’

                        (See enclosed program)

 

14:30 – 17:00   Joint meeting of the partners of the Access to Health Care and Daphne projects

 

14:30 – 14:50    Welcome

                        -  Joost den Otter, PHD MD Public Health Specialist

                        -   Michele LeVoy, PICUM Director        

                        Introduction of the participants    

14:50 – 15:40    Evaluation of the health care project: Lessons learned and possible future priorities and development

                        -  Joost den Otter and Sara Collantes, Program Officer PICUM    

15:40 – 15:55    Presentation of the Daphne project. Identification of opportunities for future collaboration between the partners of the Daphne and Health Care projects

                        -  Tommaso Bicocchi, Program Officer PICUM    

15:55 – 16:10    Coffee Break

16:10 – 16:55    Plenary discussion on different aspects of access to health care for undocumented children

-          Specific health care needs for undocumented children: Vaccination, Post natal care, Mental health, etc.

-          Barriers to access: Examples of practical barriers, differences between separated children and children living with their parents, etc.

-          How to reach undocumented children and how to raise awareness on access to health care for undocumented children: examples of good practices

16:55 – 17:00    Conclusion