Reception and Integration of Persons benefiting from International protection in Valencia (Spain)

Community Sponsorship offers the opportunity for citizens to participate directly in the main tasks of reception and integration of refugees. Community Sponsors are committed to providing social, material and financial support to newcomers during their integration process into their new communities.

This strategy develops the materialization of a Reception and Integration System that is developed through individualized integration itineraries, whose purpose is to facilitate the progressive autonomy of the recipients and their social and labor integration into the host society

The main gols of this iniciative are a)contribute to the improvement of shared responsibilities, by expanding the use of Community Sponsorship as an instrument for refugees in need of protection and solutions; b) encourage the expansion of resettlement, strengthening the capacities of states, civil society actors, and citizens, to launch Community Sponsorship programs; c) Provide a mean that mobilizes citizens in direct support of refugees and encourage a broader political debate that supports the protection of refugees.

Presentation of the pilot experience

Brief of the projects: signatories , main goals, target groups, some fresh news, budget and scope for replication.

Region strategy

Main lines of work in the matter of migration of the Autonomous Community, text that inspires the creation of the pilot project and that governs the main actions that the region has to develop to guarantee the full social inclusion of migrants.