Investment
under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund has the objective of further
strengthening national capacities and improving procedures for migration
management, as well as to enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between
Member States.The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)
Programme for Malta has a total budget (EU+MT share) of around euro
52.3 million.
The programme will target the following four specific objectives:
Supporting
the Common European
Ayslum System (CEAS) by
providing material aid and security services,
strengthening communication with migrants, supporting vulnerable groups and providing
healthcare services amongst other interventions;
Focusing on providing integration services to
third country nationals (TCN), promoting diversity and
embracing ethnicity at the local level to support the integration of TCNs;
Addressing
effective return cooperation management systems, strengthening the
referral network to promote voluntary return and countering irregular migration;
and
Furthering
bilateral cooperation with other Member States through resettlement and
humanitarian admission to enable voluntary admissions.
Technical Assistance,
funded through the programme, will also ensure an effective implementation of
the Programme through preparatory, management, monitoring, evaluation,
information and control actions of the financed interventions.
Beneficiaries that may benefit from such funding
include the migrant community, public entities, NGOs, international
organisations and / or voluntary organisations.
The approved AMIF Programme for
Malta 2021-2027 may be found here.