Within the same programme, 21 collaborating companies in central Catalonia have developed an internal Diversity Plan with the support of PIMEC and AMPANS
The Next Diversity and Business Programme has assisted 40 people from very diverse groups and with a high risk of social exclusion, through the AMPANS foundation, which has led the programme in central Catalonia. Of these people, 88% have satisfactorily completed the itinerary drawn up by the service’s professionals, and the remaining 12% have managed to find employment in the labour market.
In addition, through this programme, a total of 21 companies in Anoia and Bages have developed a Diversity Plan with the support of AMPANS and PIMEC. This work has enabled the companies to become more aware of the most vulnerable groups and to incorporate a more inclusive vision in all personnel management policies. This was one of the objectives of the programme, to promote diversity among companies in Catalonia through two main mechanisms: on the one hand, the Diversity Plans and, on the other hand, the individualised itineraries of orientation and labour market insertion. The Diversity Plans are guide documents that include measures and recommendations to provide business organisations with tools to manage diversity in their teams.
The programme has been aimed at very diverse groups, who shared a high risk of social exclusion and therefore, difficulties to enter the labour market. Each of the 40 people assisted by AMPANS in this programme has followed an individualised itinerary of guidance, training and labour insertion, reinforcing the interests and motivations, in order to establish a roadmap that has allowed the participants to acquire new technical-professional knowledge in a realistic way and adapted to the reality of each person.
Within this itinerary, the group has had the opportunity to visit outstanding companies in Anoia and Bages, to receive visits from selection techniques, to carry out individual orientation sessions and group sessions. The latter have allowed them to cooperate as a team despite their different circumstances, while sharing their own experiences which, in the words of one of the participants in the programme, “have been hours of professional but also personal learning where I have felt very accompanied”.
The Next Diversity and Enterprise programme, promoted by the Department of Enterprise and Employment of the Government of Catalonia and financed by the European Union through the Next Generation fund, has been coordinated jointly by ECAS and PIMEC. On Monday, the institutional closing ceremony of the programme was held in the city of Barcelona. A total of 31 social entities associated with ECAS, including AMPANS, have deployed the project throughout Catalonia.