HÉTFA joined the closing event of Terre des hommes Hungary’s RIF4UA project in Budapest on 12 June, contributing to an exchange on refugee integration and lessons emerging from practice. RIF4UA supports the social and labour-market integration of refugees from Ukraine through integrated services and stronger cooperation among local actors. The event brought first-hand perspectives from people displaced from Ukraine into dialogue with lessons and good practices from projects addressing different dimensions of refugee integration.
Evelin Verhas presented HÉTFA’s analysis of the methodological and contextual conditions that determine the transferability of good practices. Drawing on work carried out within SIMPLE (Social Innovation Models to Promote Learning and Employability), in which HÉTFA is a partner, she highlighted findings from the review of earlier social innovation initiatives. The analysis revealed a consistent imbalance in the available evidence: while project objectives and activities are typically documented in detail, implementation trajectories — including departures from initial plans, subsequent adaptations and participant experiences — are recorded far less systematically. Evidence on outcomes and impacts is often equally limited. This weakens the basis for assessing transferability, as it obscures which elements are integral to an intervention’s effectiveness and which are contingent on particular organisational, institutional or local conditions. The presentation therefore also considered how process and impact evaluation, coupled with systematic implementation documentation, can strengthen adaptive project management and organisational learning while providing a more robust basis for adapting good practices to new settings.
SIMPLE is co-funded by the European Union under the ESF+ Social Innovation+ Initiative and brings together partners from Italy, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Croatia and Hungary to transfer and scale social innovation models that promote the employability and social inclusion of refugees from Ukraine, with a particular focus on women.
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