­This document was produced in the context of Bridges for Inclusion project by the consultant José Manuel Henriques.

It aims at "contributing to build a common language to facilitate the communication among Bridges for Inclusion project’s partners. The concrete linking of social protection, employment and local development depends very much on context. It depends on history (legacy), national institutions and territorial conditions. That is the reason why the concreteness of this linking cannot be anticipated before project’s developments help to identify the relevant situations.

Therefore, the central aim of this document is to offer a proposal of sense making and suggestions of action possibilities. This proposal can be used as a framework for sense making in looking for additional information and in trying to cope with the diversity of concrete challenges faced by project’s members.

This can be understood­ as an initial step towards collective interaction in search for the best ways to develop “Bridges for Inclusion” in the­ future. That is the reason why this document can also be seen as a “living document”. On the basis of the concrete situations arising from the development of “Bridges for Inclusion” new organisational arrangements can be built in order to facilitate the search for best solutions. Either in a bi-lateral or in a collective way, the document should offer the framework for the search for information in order to build context-dependent knowledge and action capacity."

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