STAND PROJECT
ABOUT STAND
The STAND (Support Training Advocacy Network Development) pilot project brings INAR’s principles of centering lived experience, representation and voice, intersectional analysis, its innovative data systems and community development ethos to harness the opportunities in the leadership potential of minorities.
The project will empower activists from minoritised ethnic backgrounds to lead partnerships that drive social change through our institutions. It will build on INAR’s know-how and tools for empowering and supporting minorities, build better alliances with civil society groups, and together devise ways to address institutional racism.
The project employs a social enterprise model, where activists from minoritised backgrounds are trained to provide anti-racism training which the trainees get remuneration for. Thus, not only do the participants in the training address institutional racism by offering trainings but also gain skills that improve their material conditions.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BEING A STAND ADVOCATE?
If you want to be a STAND Advocate and work towards creating an Ireland that is safe and inclusive for everyone, feel free to contact us and we can work together. Individuals from minoritised backgrounds are specifically encouraged.
EQUAL ACCESS PROJECT(EAP)
Connected to the objectives of the STAND Project is the Equal Access Project (EAP). The EAP is a joint project by INAR and Free Legal Advice Centre project funded by the European Union to improve access to justice for people who are subjected to discrimination on the basis of race or membership of the Traveller community, whether it is in employment or in accessing goods and services.
People across Ireland face this kind of indignity and violation every day and the EAP seeks to respond to this injustice in two critical ways. To start with, developing an accredited training programme in Anti-Racism Advocacy to equip non-legal advocates with the skills and knowledge to represent claimants on the race ground at the Workplace Relations Commission. The participants of this training will go on to implement what they have learned as a nationwide network of advocates supporting people in seeking justice.
Secondly, commissioning a piece of empirical and analytical research into the transposition of the EU Race Directive into Irish law, and the effectiveness of the current infrastructure available to victims of racial discrimination to make complaints and to seek remedies. The research report will include policy recommendations that highlight areas for reform.
EAP ANTI-RACISM ADVOCACY TRAINING
This training sought to equip minority ethnic leaders with the skills needed to take up a case at the WRC. It started on 10th March and ended on 21st April.
EAP RESEARCH
This research is being conducted by Dr Lucy Michael.
STAND ACTIVITIES
LAUNCH OF EQUAL ACCESS PROJECT
SUMMARY OF 2021 REPORTS OF RACISM
ANTI-RACISM ADVOCACY TRAINING
