1. Panel 1: Synergies between policies and EU funds Creating dynamics and impacts Grzegorz Gajewski DG Migration and Home Affairs
EU Funds for integration –
How can we better support people with a migrant background?
European Economic and Social Committee
24 Janaury 2018

2. Funds as important policy means
To ensure sustainable dynamics of economic growth
To expand effective social cohesion
To develop empowerment capacities of actors
Investments are not only a question of committing budgetary resources
Costs and impacts of insufficient investments to meet challenges

3. Building positive interactions
4 Ps interrelation
Policies as basis for targeting actions
Potential offered by the migrants
Partnership between relevant actors
Performance of the funding
Coordination of structures to build Coherence of interventions ensured by Complementarities of funding
Impact of empowerment of administrations on empowerment of immigrants and inclusive communities

4. Designing institutional architecture of action
Cooperation between policy makers and administrations
Coordination with/among authorities managing funds
Partnership with implementing actors
Dynamics between various levels of institutional competence – local, regional, national

5. Achieving impacts through coherent intervention logic

6. Increasing leverage effect
Optimal combination of inputs (legal, operational, technical, informative instruments) to deliver right outputs (operational and tangible deliverables)
EU funds as important inputs to achieve great impacts without "cherry on the cake" approach
Multiplication effect - local projects with national/European dissemination
Added value to achieve performance of use of EU resources

7. Ensuring synergies in administrative processes
Research, studies and other forms of mapping of challenges and needs related to migrants
Programming of funding orientations and application procedures
Information and communication of potential beneficiaries
Awards and commitments
Controls and audits
Monitoring of progress and evaluation of results and impacts

8. Considering major specificities of Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)
Available resources in – EUR 7.1 billion
Wide scope for support of management of migration flows
Specific focus on asylum, early integration/reception and return related actions
Limitations regarding target groups
National programmes of funding priorities and national level of implementation
No possibilities of blending with other EU funds

9. Examples of actions to ensure synergies and apply 4Ps approach
Reception and early integration
Information, awareness raising and cultural actions towards local communities before/upon arrival(AMIF) – establishing social housing (ERDF) – provision of other well-being/social assistance services (ESF)
Healthcare and assistance
Developing tools of information, models of intervention; individual assistance for target groups (AMIF) – developing service units (ERDF) – training for healthcare staff (ESF)
Employment
Mapping of skills and migrants' potential, language courses and information sessions (AMIF) - basic skills and vocational trainings (ESF) – support to business creation (ERDF, EAFRD)

10. DG Migration and Home Affairs
Thank you for
your kind attention
Grzegorz Gajewski
DG Migration and Home Affairs