REPAIR TOOLKIT OVERVIEW
Hosted on the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement-wide Community Engagement Hub, the REPAIR Online Toolkit brings together and makes publicly available, practical resources, materials and tools relevant to family reunification. Many of these have been produced by partners during the project, but others are either longer standing or externally produced materials which proved useful in supporting families during reunification and which partners wanted to ensure were promoted and made widely available to others.
Intended for anyone engaging with and supporting people seeking family reunification – both inside and outside the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement - the toolkit provides practical resources, insights, reports and guidance, relevant to the reunification process. With many materials and resources co-produced alongside people and communities with lived experience of family reunification, the toolkit also provides examples of the fruits of this approach which can be replicated and revised to fit different contexts.
The intention of the REPAIR Toolkit is not only to present materials that can be used off-the-peg, e.g. to help explain and prepare families for the reunification process, but also to provide models and templates for resources that can be either minimally adapted to fit similar contexts, or completely reinvented using co-production and participatory methodologies to create bespoke resources that are relevant and useful to families going through reunification.
Key Components:
This toolkit includes various resources designed to be accessible and adaptable, including:
- Videos: From outlining the principles behind family reunification, and the role National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies can play in supporting people to access the process, to explaining practical steps to access basic services, the video library covers a host of family reunification-related topics.
- Case Studies: Capturing the journeys and experiences of families who have been through reunification, as well as the challenges and successes National Society staff experience working with families during the process, the case study library features stories from all four REPAIR National Society Partner countries – Austria, France, Slovenia, and the UK.
- Participatory Needs Assessment Report: the executive summary of the participatory needs assessments carried out by REPAIR partners, sets out the barriers, challenges and successes as identified by families with lived experience of the reunification process.
- Diaspora Organisation Mapping: Recognising the vital role, capacity and expertise of diaspora community organisations, this tool provides an interactive directory of diaspora organisations in REPAIR countries
- Recommendations and Highlights: Combining contributions from diaspora communities, insights from families with lived experience of separation and reunification, and inputs from REPAIR project partners and other organisations engaged in family reunification, these documents set key recommendations for addressing challenges in the family reunification process, as well as highlighting the achievements of REPAIR partners within the project.