The European Network of Migrant Women provides in this study an analysis and evaluation of the use of the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) to fund activities for migrant women and girls across Europe.

Analysis focuses on how the fund responds to the needs of these women and girls, how it supports their integration and how it ensures gender mainstreaming across its projects. The study also offers corresponding recommendations on AMIF spending to the European Commission.

Research conducted for the study found that of 94 projects supported by AMIF, 63 directly target migrants, refugees and asylum seekers as the main beneficiaries. Among these 63, only four projects indicated a special focus on women within their main activities. Other beneficiaries are employers, local authorities, enterprises, companies, NGOs, social workers, trainers and local communities.

Concluding recommendations of the study include:

• Gender mainstreaming should be implemented at every stage of each project, including proposals, award criteria, project objectives, activities, target groups, dissemination activities and evaluation;

• More positive actions for migrant women should be prioritised to minimise structural inequalities preventing women entering the workforce and to prevent men's violence against migrant/refugee women;

• De-skilling prevention for highly skilled migrant women and up-skilling for low skilled and long-term unemployed migrant women should be specifically mentioned among proposed activities in the calls;

• Contrary to focusing on merely economic aspects, labour market integration projects should consider prior intervention activities to provide psychological support and improve soft skills of migrant women beneficiaries;

• Calls for proposals should encourage grassroots migrant women organisations and service providers to be leading partners;

• Evaluations should examine if projects respect and implement the rights and principles enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union at every stage.

The full report can be accessed here.