AMIF – Call for proposals on assistance, support and integration of third country national victims of trafficking in human beings – 2024

Objectives

• To facilitate the prevention of labour exploitation of third-country nationals, as well as awareness raising, including in third countries on the risks of labour exploitation and fake job offers
• To facilitate the prevention of sexual exploitation of third-country nationals, as well as awareness raising on the risks of trafficking in human beings, taking into account the online dimension of the crime
• To raise awareness on the demand that fosters trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour and sexual exploitation
• To facilitate the early identification of third-country national victims trafficked for the purpose of labour exploitation, including in the context of labour inspections and through cooperation with the private sector
• To facilitate the identification of third-country national victims of trafficking, especially children, trafficked for the purpose of exploitation of criminal activities
• To provide specialised assistance and support to third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings for all exploitative purposes, considering their specific needs, such as age, sex, and the physical and psychological consequences of the form/s of exploitation they have been subjected to
• With the contribution of the above, to facilitate durable solutions for:
  • the integration of third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings in the host society, which take into account the individual needs of the victims and aimed at preventing re-trafficking; or
  • the safe and sustainable voluntary return of third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings, which build upon appropriate risk assessments and prevent their re-trafficking

Among financed actions

• Initiatives for setting up and improving transnational multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary coordination, especially related to identification
• Initiatives aimed at improving the prevention of trafficking in human beings, in particular for the purpose of labour and sexual exploitation
• Initiatives aimed at improving the referral of victims of trafficking for all exploitative purposes to protection, assistance and support services
• Initiatives aimed at enhancing the provision of specialised assistance and support services, including in specialised facilities/shelters
• Transnational measures facilitating the integration of victims via access to, among others, education, language and vocational training, apprenticeship programmes, job placement services, skills enhancement, workplace training and mentoring, entrepreneurship training, community-led and peer-mentoring programmes involving victims of trafficking
• Initiatives aimed at improving cross-border cooperation on concrete cases, such as in the context of transfer of third-country national victims to the Member State where they first arrived, or the safe and voluntary return of victims to their non-EU country of origin

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be a non-profit making entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories),
    excluding Denmark
  • non-EU countries: countries associated to the AMIF or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months
• Contact: home-amif-union-actions@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 6 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 500 000 and 1 million euro
• Funding rate: 90% of the total eligible costs