Advocacy

DUO for a JOB makes its expertise available to all in order to contribute to the development of effective policies and practices for professional integration and social cohesion.

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Our goals

Mentoring allows us to provide individualized solutions to public policy issues. However, since these challenges are recurring and collective, political action is required to address them in a more structural way.

The primary goal of our advocacy is to highlight both the challenges faced and the positive impact of mentoring at the individual level, while also advocating for the structural changes needed to remove the barriers and difficulties encountered by young people and/or mentors.

Our areas of action

👉 Equal opportunities

By fighting against discrimination based on age or origins.

👉 Inclusion & diversity

By promoting encounters between individuals from all walks of life.

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👉 Active aging

By valuing the professional experience of our seniors.

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👉 Social cohesion

By sharing strong values that prevent withdrawal.

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Our priorities

Our expertise is grounded in real-field experience, and we aim to use it to advocate and amplify the voices of those we support at a local, national, and international level

Raise awareness among the public about the benefits of diversity through media and social networks

Promote partnerships and collaborative efforts with associations and trade union organizations

Informing political representatives and advocating for the implementation of recommendations.

Sharing our findings and courses of action with public bodies

Supporting employers towards a positive management of diversity

Collaborating with the academic sector and research organizations

Our publications

Memorandum 2024

With this memorandum, DUO for a JOB pleads with the public authorities for the implementation of a legislative framework and structural funding in order to deploy mentoring for employment in the 3 regions.

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Rapport d'expérience 2023

After 10 years of experience in the field, and in the electoral context of 2024, DUO for a JOB wants to demonstrate the role, impact and potential of mentoring in Belgium. To do this, we gave a voice to participants, mentors and mentees. How did they experience the mentoring process? What did they get out of it? Did mentoring bring added value to their professional and/or social lives?

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Rapport d'expérience 2021

With a fifth of the Belgian population of foreign origin, and an unavoidable multiculturalism, will we be able to manage this diversity and reap the benefits it could generate? This report offers an overview, recommendations and concrete courses of action.

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News and Campaigns

You check all the boxes

Is your biggest professional experience very small? When you say your name, are you afraid of hearing a 'no'? Is your professional network not out of the neighborhood? For once, you check all the boxes. Based on the numerous testimonies of young people supported by the association, this campaign highlights the difficulties they encounter, in order to be able to better propose a solution.

Let's give Ukrainians time (but don't waste it)

42,000 Ukrainians sought asylum in Belgium in the space of three months and all received temporary protection. 42,000 people who, in a short time, needed to be welcomed with dignity, accommodation, medical care, medical care, a school for their children, a social integration income... What a challenge! And yet, if everything is not perfect, it seems that Belgium was able to welcome them quickly here, because there was a political will to do so, and because we (finally) heard a univocal discourse of welcome and solidarity with people fleeing war.

Opening up and fighting prejudices

Inactive, slowed down, closed, resistant to change, turned to the past and always ready to complain... Prejudices about people over 50 are in sharp contrast to the state of mind in which they find themselves. Seniors want to participate in social life, want to share their experience and regret the recognition they have received during their professional career. Another group, young people with a migrant background, is eager to participate in professional life, but is hampered in its momentum. Would prejudices prevent us from taking advantage of each other's talents collectively?

Mentoring Belgium, la 1ère coalition belge du mentorat vers l'emploi

Apides, CIMB Wapi, DUO for a JOB, FMDO, MentorYou, Randstad RiseSmart et Team4Job unissent leurs forces pour structurer, promouvoir et renforcer le mentorat vers l’emploi comme un outil central d’inclusion sociale et professionnelle.

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Do you need instructions to find... a job?

DUO for a JOB met 5 young people who tell about their hopes, their doubts, the difficulties they have encountered and their desire to get by in a series of podcasts entitled “How to use”.