A Good Idea in Settlement & Inclusion

Sharing Settlement and Integration Practices that Work

Posted on: August 21, 2021

In almost every report about innovation, technology, and capacity building in the Canadian immigrant and refugee-serving sector, building knowledge transfer, mobilization, and sharing capacity in the sector comes up. This Pathways to Prosperity project seeks to share innovative sector approaches to client service delivery and sector capacity:

"Promising practices are innovative practices that have an objective basis for claiming effectiveness in achieving their stated aims and have the potential for replication. Thus, promising practices are defined in terms of their innovation and effectiveness, which can be empirically measured as successful outcomes of the practices. Our approach focuses not only on identifying truly promising practices, but on analyzing and sharing key features that can be replicated. Promising practices may have faced challenges in their initial implementation, and these challenges are also considered and analyzed so that others can learn from these experiences."

Each practice has a video featured practice leads outlining their work and is summarized in a document with the following template:

Overview of the program

  • Name
  • Description
  • Goal(s)
  • Target Client Group(s)
  • Delivery Partners
  • Human Resources
  • Funding

Key features that contribute to this being a promising practice

  • Effective
  • Efficient
  • Relevant
  • Sustainable
  • Transferable
  • Innovative and Forward Thinking
  • Differs in Definable Ways from Other Similar Practices
  • High Client Uptake
  • High Client Retention
  • Strong Evidence of Successful Outcomes

Performance measurement and evaluation strategy

Links to more information

Find out more on the Sharing Settlement and Integration Practices that Work site.

Summary

This Pathways to Prosperity project seeks to share innovative sector approaches to client service delivery and sector capacity.
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