Peer-led active citizenship for refugee women in Amsterdam

Why WISE

Refugee women's contact with Dutch society often stays shallow and rarely turns into real relationships.

Source: SCP, 2021

Municipal guidance often starts with the man, so women can drop out of view.

Source: KIS, 2018

The plan

Five refugee women will be employed as paid peer leaders.

They will bring 60 to 80 women together in weekly groups.

The groups will connect them to organisations and institutions in Amsterdam.

Co-designed: the programme will be shaped together with refugee women, using design thinking.

Participants will be matched with peer leaders using FSAI, a peer-matching tool developed as a separate CBB project.

Planned timeline

PHASE 1 · MONTHS 1 TO 4

Co-design and training

PHASE 2 · MONTHS 5 TO 10

Community activation

PHASE 3 · MONTHS 11 TO 12

Consolidation

A shared knowledge base will be published, and the network will continue on a voluntary basis.

Month 1 begins once funding is confirmed.

The peer leaders

Five peer leaders will be recruited from refugee communities.

They will work in teams of 2 to 3 per session.

PLANNED LANGUAGE MIX

Arabic

Ukrainian

Tigrinya

Turkish

What WISE aims to build

Bonds

Stronger ties among the women themselves.

Bridges

New connections with the wider Amsterdam community.

Links

Easier access to institutions and services.

Based on Ager and Strang’s integration framework.

Our goals

TARGETS
women taking part
60 - 0
paid peer leaders
0
women in a volunteer network that continues after the project
0 +

Our Partners

Support Project WISE

We are looking to collaborate with funders, academic institutions, community organisations, and public bodies interested in early-stage social innovation.

Contact us at info@codersbeyondborders.org or visit our contact page.

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