Working Group Description

Integration sector coordinates the response of international cooperation to refugees and migrants´s needs of employability, entrepreneurship, productive strengthening, financial inclusion and prevention of xenophobia. Its purpose is to strengthen capacities and eliminate restrictions on refugees and migrants to operate, autonomously and adequately, in the economic and social dynamic of host territories. Under RMRP 2020, the response priorities of the sector are: • Strengthen the employability route of the Public Employment Service, its management and placement exercises, and the expansion of the complementary offer of services in order to mitigate barriers to labour insertion; • Promote the management of Special Stay Permits for the Promotion of Formalization (PEPFF by its Spanish acronym) and the validation of degrees and work experience - two of the greatest difficulties faced by refugees and migrants in their process of labour insertion; • Support entrepreneurs’ access to technical training, seed capital, and existing finance mechanisms (adapted to the specific skills and capacities of different profiles); • Promote the formalization of labour and dignified work, from coverage to social security in health and pensions, the elimination of child labour, or working conditions inspection; and • Generate spaces for peaceful coexistence and prevention of discrimination and violence. This includes initiatives of communication campaigns, exercises of participation and active citizenship, in order to strengthen the social cohesion between refugees and migrants and the host communities.