BRIGHT - Building RIGHTs-based and Innovative Governance for EU mobile women

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The BRIGHT - Building RIGHTs-based and Innovative Governance for EU mobile women project promotes innovative governance partnerships for social inclusion and exercise of the EU rights for underrepresented mobile citizens. It supports the access to gender responsive public services, (e.g.social housing, public transport to the workplace, community solutions for childcare), for Romanian and Bulgarian women employed in low standard labour sectors in Southern Italy. The core methodology is the adoption of the Public-Public Partnership Agreements as the result of a collaborative process among local institutions, EU citizens, employers, trade unions and CSOs to identify common needs and co-design services. The pilot foresees the adoption of Public-Public Partnership Agreements in 4 hosting communities addressing mobile women employed in agriculture. This will increase their awareness and participation in local civic activities throughout the co-design of communities-based services. The BRIGHT model fosters the adoption of participatory governance systems in other 5 EU local authorities to enable the participation of EU mobile citizens in decision-making processes. A peer to peer actions and an online/offline campaign, in Romania and Bulgaria, create the link between sending and hosting countries and inform women about EU citizenship rights. During the BRIGHT project, 800 Romanian and Bulgarian female EUMC employed with low standard and temporary contracts benefit of the activation of 4 gender responsive public services; 8 women are trained as community leaders; 400 women in the sending countries receive information about the EU rights and labour standards and 60 women become Local Labour Mediators. 20 representatives of Italian local authorities co-design new instruments to foster inclusion and social cohesion with trade unions, employers and citizens. 5 EU local authorities join the training programme to adapt the Public-Public Partnership Agreement to their context.