Co-design | Welcome

What is Co-designing

Since 2017, the UNHCR, together with its partner Fondazione Adecco ETS -- has been promoting the inclusion of refugees in the Italian labour market. As part of the “Welcome. Working for refugee integration” programme, it has established a network of over 100 organisations experienced in supporting the inclusion of refugees which can help companies implement a personalised pathway through the development of proximity profiles.

Participating companies

Our approach

We adopt a multi-stakeholder and multi-level system approach to ensure effectiveness and efficiency, sustainability and innovation in the development of labour inclusion pathways.

To this end, we build networks between the public administration, the third sector, companies, and civil society organisations to make the world of work fairer, more accessible and inclusive. Millions of people worldwide have jobs that do not fulfil their potential, a ‘Skill Mismatch’ that has social and economic costs.

All too often, highly skilled people work in low-skilled jobs and companies looking for talent cannot find personnel.

Facilitating access to the labour market for refugees ensures the creation of social and economic value and has a nationwide impact for refugees, their families, hosting communities, businesses, and local economies.

The protagonists’ voices

Sandra - Addetta Area Food - IKEA

Rome

I love this job so much. All my colleagues are like a family. They help you, if there’s something I don’t understand they explain it to me, everyone gives a hand, so the work becomes easy and they do it from the heart, there’s no discrimination, nothing negative. I like it a lot.

Valentina Revello - Social and integration worker - Arci Solidarietà

Genoa

Joining this network immediately revealed the potential of collaboration between people and stakeholders: for us staff, it means having the opportunity to get to know and interact with excellent and highly-competent businesses; for the beneficiaries of these projects, it means accessing the labour market with dignity and respect for their rights, but above all in line with their own desires for professional and personal growth, strengthening the awareness of their own skills and abilities.

Mattia Minieri - International Division Manager - Tefin

Naples

We undertook a social and business challenge to give the company ‘new lifeblood’, helping people to ‘start afresh’ and ‘reinvent’ themselves.

But we also considered the unquestionable value of ‘diversity’, which is necessary to remain competitive globally.

Angela Balducci - Sustainability Manager - Lavoropiù

Bologna

Thanks to the program, more and more companies are recognizing the importance of an inclusive approach to work, in a socio-economic context characterized by persistent challenges such as xenophobia and racism. Promoting integration fuels innovation, enriches relationships, with a positive impact on tax revenue and the economy as a whole

Alessandro Borgialli - Director - Adecco Inclusion

Milan

As Adecco Inclusion, we strongly believe in the value of work as a tool for social inclusion. Day after day, we work to support the most vulnerable people by integrating or reintegrating them into the labour market, which is why we have chosen to join "Welcome-in-one-click". To make the world of work more and more inclusive.