Actions taken:
The Australian Red Cross and Australian Government have been working together in fulfilment of this pledge, including through many of the following activities:
- Australian successfully completed a two-year project Here to Contribute delivered in partnership with the Federal Government’s Department of Social Services (DSS) which has promoted social cohesion and understanding between communities across Australia. It included local projects supporting women’s participation and inclusion, a large scale project focused on employment, called In Work, which has served as a model for increasing our focus on supporting employers and refugees to access employment. It also supported an expansion of community education programs on refugees and diversity, delivering sessions to 28,646 participants in schools, civil society organisations and workplaces.
- Australian Red Cross has also implemented a number of Fostering Integration Grants from Department of Home Affairs, across Australia, all focusing on ways of supporting female migrants and their connection to, and participation in, the broader community, from mentor programs (WA), community connections (QLD) to microfinance and training (NT), to volunteering and linking in to local community groups based on a strengths-based approach (TAS).
- As a provider of the Humanitarian Settlement Program in Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and southern New South Wales, Australian Red Cross is working in close collaboration with all levels of Government and Home Affairs in particular, to foster welcoming communities to support the successful settlement of humanitarian entrants and refugees in their new communities, including in regional areas.
- Australian Red Cross uses organisation-wide collaboration to progress social cohesion with involvement of government and corporate partners to build civil and workplace participation, including through piloting the Connect, Match and Support program to support migrants and employers, or through a range of working groups and collectives, including the (now ceased) Attorney General’s Department Resilience Collective that aimed to is to influence the conditions to build social cohesion by mobilising cross sector collaboration to create acceptance, belonging, worth, participation and social justice across Australia.
- Across Australia, Australian Red Cross is engaging with the broader community to ensure they understand, welcome and can support new arrivals through a number of flagship programs, including In Search of Safety, Community Conversations and Pathways to Protection. In 2018 alone we talked to over 20,000 people in schools, communities and workplaces.
- In addition, Australian Red Cross is also a contributing member of the IFRC global working group on social inclusion.
Implementation completion:
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