Progress towards the integration of migrants and refugees in Portugal | Voice of the Plain Radio – 104.5FM
The project “Portu: Improving Migrant Integration Services” supports the High Commissioner for Migrants as “the sharing of coordination and mechanisms for integrating the most important information between migrants, and organizations, that support migrants in the integration process.”
“Improve the response of emergency teams and support to help with the use of the various social security channels and how to support the help of the various social security channels, how to help health workers, evaluate and how to facilitate the support of the various channels of social security. social security of the State, care of such health services, finances”, are also foreseen purposes.
The contribution also to the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, in particular, “Goal 1: Collect and use accurate and detailed information to define policies based on on hard data” and “Goal 15: Provide access to basic services for migrants”.
This project financed by the European Commission, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is financed by the European Union, through the Technical Assistance Instrument (TSI), is to provide the High Commissioner for Migration in Portugal (ACM) in the work to improve the integration of migrants and refugees in the country, including displaced persons from Ukraine.
It is believed that education housing with the same job, the High Commissioner for Migration will be able to give “robust responses and exercise of integration of officials and employees across the country, particularly with regard to the evolution of work”.
Also, this entity “improve quick access to State rights and services, including legal advice, with the aim of helping to improve socio-economic integration and participation in the labor market.”
Portugal has seen, over the years, an increase in the arrival of migrants, currently more than 690 thousand residing in the territory, representing about 6.7 percent of the total resident population, reveals the document.