France
Get in touch with the IECD team in France
Address:
Business school
rue Joseph Biaggi
13003 Marseille
France
Contact: Thomas Behaghel
E-mail: thomas.behaghel@iecd.org
‘Working with IECD has enabled ACCES JOB to professionalise its approach. Their support has made it easier to analyse our challenges and implement appropriate solutions, while clarifying our mission to help people with disabilities find employment. Thanks to their support, we have been able to structure our monitoring of beneficiaries and assess our impact. Today, the association supports more than 40 people and our team has grown from 3 to 5 employment advisers,’ Stéphanie Roland Gosselin, Director of ACCES JOB.
Since September 2021, IECD has been operating in France, reinforcing the structures that support young people who are far from employment in their remobilisation, orientation, training and professional integration.
The decision to expand in France was based on two observations:
- The French associative ecosystem is home to many organisations with great potential, but they very often face obstacles that limit their impact and sustainability.
- Despite socio-economic and cultural differences, those involved in training, integration and education, both in France and internationally, face common challenges.
Drawing on its international experience, IECD in France strengthens its associative partners and works with them to achieve a threefold impact:
- Improving the quality of their work.
- increasing the number of people supported.
- consolidating and perpetuating the organisation.
The IECD provides its partners with methodological and technical support in a number of areas: assisting managers with their strategic thinking and organisational structuring, educational and training engineering, formalising methodological approaches and capitalising on experience, development support, etc.
The IECD currently supports five organisations between Marseille and Paris:
- ACCES JOB, which helps people with intellectual disabilities find their way into the mainstream workplace.
- Appel d’Aire, a training centre that helps young people who have dropped out of school and/or been placed under house arrest to get back into the world of work through carpentry and metalwork workshops.
- Massajobs, which takes in and supports people in vulnerable situations, enabling them to become active players in their own lives and in society through work.
- L’Outil en Main, which introduces young people from the age of 9 to manual trades, crafts and heritage by volunteers who are retired professionals.
- Wake up Café, which helps people in or leaving prison to return to work.
The IECD encourages the exchange of practices and capacity building.
The IECD’s objectives are to “take care of those who take care ’ and to encourage networking and the emergence of synergies, to the benefit of the people it supports. Some forty social inclusion organisations from the Marseilles ecosystem are invited to take part in the discussions through :
- themed breakfasts to encourage support professionals to think together about cross-cutting issues.
- Monthly meetings between the directors of the organisations supported by the IECD to support them in their missions and develop a spirit of cooperation.
- Professional practice analysis sessions, bringing together integration professionals from around ten different organisations.
The results in 2024:
