St Stephens Green Trust: Connecting Communities 2020-2022 Strand 2: Standing Up Speaking Out
Overview
Strand 2 of the Connecting Communities grant programme will take a broader approach to supporting positive change for people living in DP. The focus will be on community organising, supporting participation of asylum seekers in their community and inclusion of their voices in issues which affect them. The Programme for Government 2020 includes a commitment to ending direct provision which is an opportunity for asylum seekers to be part of local and national decision making processes to help shape a more humane asylum process which assists integration rather than isolating children, women and men from the communities in which they live.
This strand is about advocacy, activism and collaboration rather than service delivery. SSGT also welcomes projects which support the voice of asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Strand 2 will take a programmatic approach which will include biannual Learning Network meetings for reflection on learning and to increase networking and collaboration between funded groups.
Stand Up Speak Out: 2020-2022
In 2020 SSGT had an open call for applications for a grant programme taking a broader approach to supporting positive change for people living in direct provision. The focus is on community organising, supporting participation of asylum seekers in their community and inclusion of their voices in issues which affect them. Grants have now been made under this programme to five organisations. The project descriptions are here.
Stand Up Speak Out 2020-2022 Grantees:
Action Aid Ireland, Dublin
Afri, Dublin
LGBT Ireland, Dublin
Places of Sanctuary Ireland, Wexford
PPR (Participation & Practice of Rights), Belfast
Wexford Local Development, Wexford