Mobility Partnerships - instrument for dialogue and cooperation with partner countries

28 November 2017, EP

European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs

The external dimension of the migration policy

• Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM)(2005 / 2011) – four pillars

• Partnership Framework on Migration (2016)

Existing MPs

20162014

Tunisia

Jordan

2013

Morocco

Azerbaijan

2011

Armenia

Georgia

2009

2008

Cape

Verde

Moldova Belarus

Mobility PartnershipKey features

• Long-term framework for bilateral cooperation on migrationand mobility between a non-EU country, the EU, andinterested EU Member States;

• Available, in particular, for EU Neighbourhood countries;

• Holistic approach.

Mobility PartnershipsMain characteristics

• Not legally binding, settled through a joint political declaration;

• Tailor-made, adapted to the specificities of each partnercountry and taking into account its priorities;

• Open, flexible and adaptable;

• Respecting division of competences between the EU and theMembers States;

• Addressing all GAMM pillars;

• Including, in principle, visa facilitation and readmissionagreements.

HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES

14%

Pillar 1 - Legal

migration/Mobility

management

25%

Pillar 2 - Irregular

migration/trafficking

30%

Pillar 3 - Maximising the

development impact of

migration and mobility

20%

Pillar 4 -

Protection/asylum

11%

Overview of actions in the 9 MP countries by Pillar

Details by MP country

HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES Pillar 1 Pillar 2 Pillar 3 Pillar 4 Grand Total

Armenia 5 4 10 3 2 24

Azerbaijan 4 1 4 3 12

Belarus 1 1 2 1 5

Cape Verde 7 11 11 9 2 40

Georgia 10 15 13 14 1 53

Jordan 5 6 5 2 15 33

Moldova 16 37 35 18 7 113

Morocco 12 26 41 27 16 122

Tunisia 13 26 28 28 7 102

Grand Total 73 127 149 101 54 504

Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus

Cape

Verde Georgia Jordan MoldovaMorocco Tunisia Grand Total

BORDER MANAGEMENT 6 2 1 4 5 1 8 13 12 52

CIRCULAR MIGRATION 1 4 6 1 12

CRIME/CYBERCRIME 1 1 2

DIASPORA 2 8 1 11 3 13 38

DOCUMENT SECURITY 1 5 6 12

EDUCATION 1 8 4 3 4 2 8 30

FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGAL

MIGRATION 1 1 1 8 4 15

INTERNATIONAL

PROTECTION 1 2 2 1 15 6 14 7 48

LABOUR MIGRATION 2 1 1 1 7 1 19 10 8 50

LOCAL/REGIONAL SUPPORT 1 4 1 5 15 3 29

MARITIME/AIR SECURITY 3 1 4

MIGRATION STRATEGY 2 1 2 2 3 2 8 8 28

MONITOR/MANAGEMENT OF

FLOWS 2 4 8 2 4 4 24

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 3 3

QUALIFICATIONS 1 1 2 3 2 9

READMISSION 1 1 6 1 2 3 5 19

RECEPTION CONDITIONS 1 1 1 1 4

REINTEGRATION 3 2 6 10 8 29

RETURNS 1 1 4 6 5 17

SMUGGLING / TRAFFICKING

OF HUMAN BEINGS 1 1 1 3 6 5 2 19

SOCIAL SECURITY 11 2 13

STRENGHTENING

CAPACITIES OF

INSTITUTIONS DEALING

WITH MIGRATION 3 1 1 1 2 12 1 21

TRANSFER OF

REMITTANCES 1 2 2 5

UNACOMPANIED MINORS 4 2 6

VISA 2 1 3 5 4 15

Grand Total 24 12 5 40 53 33 113 122 102 504

Return actions

Country Number of actions on returns

Belarus 1

Georgia 1

Moldova 4

Morocco 6

Tunisia 5

Grand Total 17

Local Cooperation Platforms: Ensure the follow up to the decisions taken by the HLM

Scoreboard: monitoring tool, containing detailed information on initiatives, and providing for indicators for monitoring and evaluation

High Level Meetings:Overall strategic steering, guidance and leadership for the implementation of the MP

High Level

Meetings

Local

Cooperation

Platform

Scoreboard

MP Implementation Architecture2

MP Scoreboards

• Contain a list of projects developed under each Mobility Partnership

• Though regular updates, the scoreboard enables an overviewof the most/least developed areas

Benefits and outcomes

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Changes in legislative and policy framework in partner countries and EU MS

Increased mobility and people to people contacts

Strengthening of national institutions’ capacities

Progress with visa dialogue

Enhanced international cooperation

The Mobility Partnership FacilityEU initiative providing targeted, flexible and tailor-made assistance to prepare and

implement MPs and CAMMs

Implementing Agency

ICMPD

Legal basis

2014 Work

Programme

(AMIF, ISFP and ISFB)

Duration

35 months

Budget

EUR 5.5 million

Donor

EU

Dimensions

• Institutions

• Interests

• Ideas and interventions

• Innovation and impetus

„5 Cs“-principles of the MPF

• Capitalisation

• Consolidation

• Continuation

• Complementarity

• Coherence

Strand “Grants”

1 3 4PRIORITIES

EU MS and partner

countries define

priorities

CALL FOR

PROPOSALS

Open deadline for the

submission of Grant

Applications

GRANT

EVALUATION

COMMITTEE

Proposals

evaluated within 15

working days

GRANT

CONTRACT

Grant Contracts

signed with ICMPD

within 8 weeks

IMPLEMENTATION5

2

APPLICANT

A public body of a EU MS responsible for the

overall management and coordination of the action

CO-APPLICANT

A public body a EU MS or a partner country

(having signed the respective MP or a CAMM),

involved in the implementation of the action

Examples of actions – East

6 MPF actions:

• RO-MD: ISF-B

• FR-AM: AMIF

• EE-GE: AMIF

• LV-GE/MD: ISF-B

• SE-AM: AMIF

• IT-MD: AMIF

Examples of actions - South

2 MPF actions:

• IT-MA/TN: AMIF

• SP-MA: AMIF

B1In case no EU Member State is in a position or available to implement a specific actionunder MPF concerning a particular need, ICMPD can be tasked by the MPF SteeringCommittee with direct implementation of the action.

B2

Analysis of the political and operational environment Regular collection of partner countries’ priorities Understanding of political and operational landscape in partner countries Update / set up of online information platforms

Knowledge management and dissemination of good practices Solid monitoring and evaluation system at action and facility level Lessons learnt and good practices to inform policy-making levels Improved knowledge leading to identification of feasible action ideas

Outreach, communication and awareness raising Network of MPF Focal Points, more than 400 contacts Regional workshops and thematic events Communication and Visibility Plan and related materials

“Horizontal” Strand

MPF – catalyst for MPs

Advantages of the MPF

Light formal requirements

Fast evaluation

procedure of maximum 15 working days

High co-financing (up to 95% of the total budget)

No long-term planning required

Contacts and shaping of

ideas facilitated by

ICMPD

MPF’s added value

Establish and further advance mutual

operational and political cooperation

Expand cooperation networks, incl. at experts’

level, through peer-to-peer approaches

Deepen their understanding of the institutional realities

and migration context

Tap into EU financing in order to meet their

cooperation priorities

Build up synergies with other actions funded by the EU and other EU MS

Increase their visibility by showcasing practices

from both sides

MPF’s added value

MPs in brief

• Partners

• Clarity

• Cooperation

The way forward

• MPF II

• Evaluation

• Peer-to-peer exchanges and practices

• Reinforce the „architecture“

• Improve the monitoring structure

Contacts

DG HOME – Unit A3 MPF Team

Add contact MPF@icmpd.orgwww.icmpd.org/mpf