Salome Mbugua, an EPIM Grantee representative with Mary White, former Irish Minister for Integration
EPIM policy work consists of supporting the grantees in their advocacy work through grant giving, capacity building and networking facilitation. EPIM aims at sustaining a group of NGOs active in the migration and integration field. Joint advocacy can be more powerful for inclusive migration and integration policies. Therefore, EPIM’s added value lies in enhancing the advocacy efforts of the grantees which stem from their evidence based approach.
EPIM’s strengths of being a consortium of foundations:
- The independent financial means and long term commitment to causes
- The recognised experience in supporting innovative advocacy techniques
- The diversity of the national backgrounds represented
- The capacity to create connections at the European level (convening role)
- The respectability of the foundations
EPIM can:
- Echo the voice of European NGOs and established networks at the EU level on salient migration and integration issues
- Reinforce the messages coming from the civil society
- Build its policy legitimacy on lessons learnt through the grantees’ practice
- Take advantage of the specialisation and of the networks of the grantees in their fields
- Facilitate the creation of synergies to strengthen grantees’ advocacy strategies at the national or European level
