ROLES AND MANDATES
- To keep a strategic watch on immigration.
- To have a concerted action plan inspired by immigration policies (federal, provincial and municipal).
- To help continually improve immigration policies.
- To encourage, popularize and share research and literature in order to put them into practice (universities, CEGEPs, community organizations, etc.).
- To inform one another on the realities experienced by immigrants.
- To help inform institutions on immigration issues in order to shape their actions and decisions.
- To support the implementation of innovative projects and evaluation methods.
- To encourage the co-responsibility of all immigration stakeholders (including those belonging to the roundtable) together with the host communities.
- To strengthen ties with all local stakeholders concerned with immigration.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- To facilitate constructive dialogue between stakeholders who work with immigrants in any way.
- To capitalize on the synergy of all immigration stakeholders.
- To make sure that all roundtable members know one another and recognize their respective missions.
- To work together by sector and on an intersectoral basis.
- To cooperate according to each stakeholder’s expertise, in a spirit of complementarity.
- To ensure ongoing training for roundtable members.
- To strive to innovate in cooperative approaches by promoting the representativeness of immigration stakeholders within the roundtable.
- To promote citizen participation from an inclusive perspective.
- To develop ways to measure the roundtable’s social impact.
HOW WE OPERATE
- We hold a yearly forum to determine the roundtable’s directions and to plan
operations with the working committees.
- We call upon external facilitation resources during this forum.
- We aim for three to five meetings per year with working committees.
- We establish a strategic communication plan to raise awareness of the roundtable in Sherbrooke.