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Phase: Ideas Opportunity Areas: Beyond Survival to Potential

Nobis Platform: Practices of Economic & Social Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees in Brazil.

Nobis promotes economic and social integration of migrants and refugees in Brazil by the support, insertion, dignit and income generation.

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In this video we work with the idea that people, even without jobs, can work: because they have different skills. The Nobis platform is committed to inclusion and diversity. Highlight the idea of implicit diversity in the characters' faces and the nature of the services. In Brazil, 14 million unemployed people add the number of migrants who are in economic and social vulnerability. What we do? We work to promote people from their best. Work is one of the main paths to dignity.
Infographic with six pictures, two of works with haitians and two with venezuelan migrants with description of the activities, also have two images used for social media ads. The activities images are the braid minicourse and the group of migrants. The photos with venezuelan are from different moments, the first was an activity with donations and the second a class about how to use de Nobis app. Infographic with six pictures, two of works with haitians and two with venezuelan migrants with description of the activities, also have two images used for social media ads. The activities images are the braid minicourse and the group of migrants. The photos with venezuelan are from different moments, the first was an activity with donations and the second a class about how to use de Nobis app.

What problem does the idea help to solve and how does your solution work? (2,000 characters maximum)

The Nobis platform is being recognized by society as an inclusive, collaborative platform that provides opportunities for working in services to vulnerable people.
The Nobis platform is being recognized by society as an inclusive, collaborative platform that provides opportunities for working in services to vulnerable people. The Nobis platform is being recognized by society as an inclusive, collaborative platform that provides opportunities for working in services to vulnerable people.
Problem to be solved: Migrants and refugees find it difficult to work in Brazil and generate income, which affects human dignity and the achievement of autonomy; Limited access to work and employment; Limited access to technology services; Local poverty; Xenophobia. Brazil has 1.4 million migrants and refugees. Sirians, Haitians and Venezuelans are the main ethnic groups of migrants and refugees in Brazil. We impact income generation through free mobile app connectivity between migrants and refugees who can provide services, from A to Z with people who need services. We promote on the Nobis platform (by mobile, people-centric application), including communication and appreciation of diversity, improving hospitality levels in Brazil, by engaging in servant activities related to migrants' personal capabilities: We offer qualification for new work contexts. We increase the self-sufficiency of migrants and refugees through service work. We identified the skills and competences developed in the migrants' country of origin. The solution works: First, we identify in host and internalization institutions and agencies and support the possibilities for synergy. They allow us to dialogue with refugees and migrants to confront them by dialogue to build a relationship and promote solutions that are ever closer to their challenges and reality. Then we address one of the most pressing needs: income generation and access to work. Network Support & Governance: The qualification offer in different dimensions is made by the presential and distance modalities. Some training areas: Portuguese Language, specific technical courses specific to the context of Brazilian services, legislation, access to benefits and support. Nobis is also working to improve micro-entrepreneurship skills among migrants. This also benefits Brazil, as it promotes skills exchange, diversity, inclusion and socio-cultural coexistence. All of these actions are underpinned by a network governance.

Geography of focus (500 characters)

The Nobis platform beggins activities in Paraná state, with Haitians, Venezuelans migrants and refugees (Paraná has 77,000 migrants). We choose that zone by the fact that Nobis is in this state, as by geographic proximity, which also make it easier to approach the migrants and refugees reality. At this point we are working to expand to Sao Paulo, state where is the biggest migrants concentration in Brazil (530,000) and after that we advance to the whole Brazil territory (1,4 millions migrants).

Building Bridges: What bridge does your idea build between people on the move and neighbors towards a shared future of stability and promise? (500 characters)

Nobis has built bridges with different organizations to carry out activities and realize synergies to work out how to deepen and act on the challenges of migrants and refugees. Organizations: Public Prosecution Service (to seek regulatory guidance and provide legal mecanisms to work inclusion from migration in Brazil) NGOs working with refugees and migrants, focusing on how we could improve opportunities. Several churches/religions in with we can draw bridges in favour to migrants inclusion.

What human need is your idea solving for? (1,000 characters)

The needs met by Nobis: economic and social inclusion of migrants and refugees, free access to technological mediation of work in services A to Z, as well as training and human development. Networking with support groups and institutions to identify regulatory aspects and understand the challenges. Offer of qualification to migrants and refugees: work(ability), building autonomy; micro entrepreneurship; and technology use. Identification of the skills brought from the countries of origin to include them in the Nobis platform. Free access to the mobile application Nobis, for migrants and refugees to offer services, as well as conduct transactions, financial control. Nobis is responsible for conectivity these services and mobilizing customers to integrate migrants into service delivery in Brazil. We are developing a platform to expand the offer of qualification by distance modality. Hence the involvement of national and international organizations in the qualification of migrants.

What will be different within the community of focus as a result of implementing your idea? (1,000 characters)

The results generated and to be enlarged by the Nobis Plataform consists: 1. In the governance of the support net focusing on income generation: It’s noted high fragmentation and disacurtilation between organization that act with migrants in Brazil. Many organizations attends migrants in isolated way. 2. More than qualification, we offer free access work opportunities by service provision opportunities with supporting to autonomy. 3. With the platform it’s possible to generates reports that point statistics about the migrants and refugees work profile. The geoprocessing in services, potentialize integration and social and economic migrant insertion in Brazil. 4. We accompany people, offering support and continuous qualification, not only punctual ways, as many projects and institutions do, but procedural and daily action. 5. We can establish nets between migrants in a community perspective of mutual support, promoting cooperation between migrants at local and regional levels.

What is the inspiration behind your idea? (1,000 characters)

Nobis is inspired by the concrete purpose of show Brazil and worldwide that is possible to cross geopolitics barriers by the peace exercise, that only can be promoted when people really care with the “Other”. Who is the “Other”? More than geographic proximity we talk about human proximity. So “Other” is the one that need more of humanity, but She/He has His/Her own history, culture, competencies and experiences. So, the history that we want to build is very practical: Of the one migrants or refugee that arrives in Brazil, regulates the legal situation and starts to think in himself survival. The Nobis platform will be more than a technological mediation space, it will be a space of work opportunities, income generation and plurality, where it is possible to bring on the baggage, beyond the history, the abilities that the migrant or refugee developed in another world place, and that can used as a way of autonomy conquer and integration in a new place through work. We trust in humanity.

Describe the dynamics of the community in which the idea is to be implemented. (1,000 characters)

Nobis founder in meeting with Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Empathetic dialogue brings people closer to the real needs of others. Many migrants cannot get jobs. Hence the need to create mechanisms for identifying skills and services in which they can participate and develop autonomy, supported by a network. Nobis founder in meeting with Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Empathetic dialogue brings people closer to the real needs of others. Many migrants cannot get jobs. Hence the need to create mechanisms for identifying skills and services in which they can participate and develop autonomy, supported by a network.
Nobis founder in meeting with Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Empathetic dialogue brings people closer to the real needs of others. Many migrants cannot get jobs. Hence the need to create mechanisms for identifying skills and services in which they can participate and develop autonomy, supported by a network. Nobis founder in meeting with Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Empathetic dialogue brings people closer to the real needs of others. Many migrants cannot get jobs. Hence the need to create mechanisms for identifying skills and services in which they can participate and develop autonomy, supported by a network.
One of the meetings of Nobis platform founder Claudia Coser with Venezuelan migrants. The goal is to strengthen ties, meet challenges with proximity and empathy, and then support them in generating income by creating opportunities. One of the meetings of Nobis platform founder Claudia Coser with Venezuelan migrants. The goal is to strengthen ties, meet challenges with proximity and empathy, and then support them in generating income by creating opportunities.
One of the meetings of Nobis platform founder Claudia Coser with Haitian migrants. The goal is to strengthen ties, meet challenges with proximity and empathy, and then support them in generating income by creating opportunities. One of the meetings of Nobis platform founder Claudia Coser with Haitian migrants. The goal is to strengthen ties, meet challenges with proximity and empathy, and then support them in generating income by creating opportunities.
The Nobis platform is being recognized by society as an inclusive, collaborative platform that provides opportunities for working in services to vulnerable people.
Uma das imagens utilizadas pela área de comunicação da Nobis relacionada ao programa de inclusão de migrantes e refugiados. A campanha foi veiculada inicialmente no Paraná e em São Paulo. Na sequência o programa será expandido em todo o território brasileiro. Uma das imagens utilizadas pela área de comunicação da Nobis relacionada ao programa de inclusão de migrantes e refugiados. A campanha foi veiculada inicialmente no Paraná e em São Paulo. Na sequência o programa será expandido em todo o território brasileiro.
Nobis platform is important to the migrants and refugees because it promotes an income generation by the provision of services as produces social and economic integration from WORKABILITY Among the dynamical Nobis’s principles:autonomy, flexibility, proximity and collaboration. The dinamic of the Nobis platform: 1.Network governance with institutions that do the initial care: of integration; and qualification. 2.From the interactions with the institutions, the Nobis gain space to interact, directly with migrants and refugees, with objective to know the different groups realities as well their abilities. 3.After dialogue we offer qualification related do work. 4. Migrants and refugees starts sign up in the platform and start to negotiate services and generate incomes with autonomy. 5. Nobis does campaigns about inclusion and plurality to intensify the economical and social integration. 6. Foment the sing up in terms results, income generation, qualification and dignity.

How does your idea leverage and empower community strengths and assets to help create an environment for success? (1,000 characters)

The Nobis platform communicates diversity and plurality. It informs the purpose of promoting people for income generation in technology-mediated services.
In a didactic way we present how the Nobis platform works, about the free and accessible connectivity services.
In a didactic way we present how the Nobis platform works, about the free and accessible connectivity services.
Example video used to teach people how to sign up. In the dialogue, an invitation is made for migrants to perform the registration of services.
The Nobis platform seeks to interact with the diverse agents of society: public and private, aiming at the integration and strengthening of attention and support to migrants and refugees. The Nobis platform seeks to interact with the diverse agents of society: public and private, aiming at the integration and strengthening of attention and support to migrants and refugees.
Some actions we develop for the social and economic integration and insertion of migrants and refugees. Some actions we develop for the social and economic integration and insertion of migrants and refugees.
The idea lever and potencialize the following strong points from migrants and refugees groups which arrive in Brazil 1.Upgrade values and welcomes capacities, abilities that migrant developed in another place in the world (Siria, Venezuela, Haiti etc) 2. Promotes economic and social integration between brazilians and migrants. 3. The migrants ability can be redraw from qualification. 4. The integration of migrants in Brazil promotes diversity and generate wealth through sinergi of intercultural competences. 5. From the free offer from Nobis platform to sign up services and income generation allow de AUTONOMY development. 6 The WORKABILITY is condition to be established and have dignity; The intermediation by the migrants inclusions in the services sector in brazil enables the build of relations by PROXIMITY between people, since the services involves human interaction. 7 In more advanced levels, the is potential to entrepreneurship, what reverses in news value sources.

What other partners or stakeholders will work alongside you in implementing the idea, if any? (1,000 characters)

The governance network contemplate some partnerships 1. Host Institutions: Shelters, Foundations. With these institutions we established the first contacts with migrants and refugees. 2. Transitional Institutions: Institutes, people who welcome migrants into their homes, clubs, churches, nonprofit organizations. Here we work on identifying migrants and starting qualification programs. We also mobilize basic resources (mattresses, beds, furniture, event sponsorship). 3. Training institutions: schools, universities. Here we offer training related to job possibilities. Future Partnerships: 1. With private companies (industry, commerce and services), aiming to jointly promote the qualification offer in three dimensions: cultural / behavioral; Technical abilities; self management; micro entrepreneurship. 2. Local Governments: from the generation of information and reports, to impact local governments aimed at intensifying the inclusion of migrants in the country's economy.

What part of the displacement journey is your solution addressing

  • Arriving and settling at a destination community

Tell us how you'd describe the type of innovation you are proposing

  • Platform: Creating a community or market that facilitates interaction between users and resources

Idea Proposal Stage

  • Early Adoption: We have completed a pilot and analyzed the impact of that pilot on the intended users of the idea. I have proof of user uptake (i.e. 16% to 49% of the target population or 1,000 to 50,000 users).

Group or Organization Name

Name: Nobis Platform The name Nobis means "we / ours" in latin. It represents the purpose of integrating people generating collaboration and proximity, diversity and value. www.nobisapp.com.br

Tell us more about your group or organization [or lived experience as a displaced person?] (1000 characters)

Nobis was developed in 2017 and launched in June 2018 as a socially impacted, people-centered business with the ability to apply its skills in new ways of working, especially technology-driven services. Nobis offers 1) Accessible connectivity for people working in new work, services, A to Z (ie from the simplest to the most specialized and across all industries). Since the beginning of Nobis activities, migrants and refugees have been contemplated. We have developed a support network roughly with the reality of migration. To date, we have invested R $ 500,000.00 with our own resources. In addition to promoting income generation, we generate data and statistics that support decisions and enable geoprocessing for the service sector in Brazil. In October 2019, we will launch a version of the platform for distance education across the country. For the coming months, we will work with fundraising to intensify this dynamic of migrant integration and empower to micro-entrepreneurship.

Website URL:

www.nobisapp.com.br https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobis.app&hl=pt_BR https://www.instagram.com/nobis_services/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1lS4S3vyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrnPJitot8Q https://www.facebook.com/nobisservices/

Type of submitter

  • We are a For-Profit Startup or Startup Social Enterprise

Organization Headquarters: Country

Nobis is headquartered in Brazil, in the state of Paraná, in the city of Curitiba. As a startup, it operates throughout Brazil.

Organization Headquarters: City / State

Nobis is headquartered in Brazil, in the state of Paraná, in the city of Curitiba. As a startup, it operates throughout Brazil.

Attachments (1)

nobis english.pdf

This file is a brief presentation of how the Nobis platform works. What problems we seek to solve, how the platform works and how we generate resources for economic and social sustainability. The financial sustainability of a social business such as the Nobis platform only occurs when we can work in an intensely integrated and plural network. We seek to establish synergy relations with public and private organizations.

Inspired by (1)

ENHANCEMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS TO THE PEOPLE ON THE MOVE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ENHANCEMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS TO THE PEOPLE ON THE MOVE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Dear Claudia,

You have a very interesting proposition. In my own conceptual framework to (in European rural villages) integrate/incubate refugees who face difficulties to immediately connect to the labor market (on average it takes 5 years to find employment for refugees in Europe) I have designed a socially bit different alternative approach to address the inequality and participation issues: http://www.openideo2018.refival.org/ maybe it can be useful for your project?

Kind Regards,

Hans van Nieuwkerk
www.docs.refival.org
www.openideo2019.refival.org

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Hello Hans van Nieuwkerk
Thanks for the feedback. I also thank you for the idea of inclusion from the rural area.
In Brazil, we have aggravating economic, political and social issues that make employment increasingly difficult for Brazilians, especially for migrants and refugees. Brazilian industry has been facing investment constraints for years to revitalize manufacturing and technology, so job creation is increasingly limited.
Thus, the Nobis platform seeks to work on new possibilities for income generation from services, in a logic of collaboration and neighborhood. We work hard for social and economic inclusion for the qualification of people and the relationships that people establish with each other.
It's good to be connected to share our experiences in different parts of the world.

www.nobisapp.com.br
www.claudiacoser.com.br

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Dear Claudia,

Thank you for your reply. Although I currently focus on the synergy between refugee integration and rural revitalization in Europe, most of the conceptual frameworks I developed are universal and can be adapted to almost any situation.

For your context I think that my Universal Basic Employment framework may be of interest to have a look at. It converts "welfare money" (if available), which requires solidarity of a population to give it, into "basic income" based on a contribution to society, which in principle generates solidarity. (see: https://medium.com/@refival/universal-basic-employment-7e0e474da869 and http://www.openideo2018.refival.org/).

Kind Regards,

Hans van Nieuwkerk
www.docs.refival.org
www.openideo2019.refival.org

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