PA'LANTE: A Comprehensive Approach to Achieve Socio-economic, Cultural and Urban Integration of Migrant and Refugee Families in Barranquilla

Barranquilla commits to implement the PA'LANTE project from June 2023-December 2024 to support 500 migrant and refugee families with a comprehensive service approach to support their socioeconomic, cultural, and urban integration.
With this programme, Barranquilla shifts from a service-focused intervention model to a model that starts with a deep understanding of the needs of each family and all of its members, in order to facilitate their access to a set of services that cater to their individual needs and preferences. The model also measures progress of the integration trajectories by factoring in the opinion of the migrants, refugees and their families, and their own assessment of the evolution of their well-being. The objectives of the programme are as follows:
Increase the level of integration of 500 beneficiary families in the social, cultural, urban-housing, and productive components.
Implement a new intervention model for the Integration Center based on the integration trajectories and preferences of beneficiary families.
Generate a scalable and replicable intervention model in other regional contexts that comprehensively addresses the family to achieve their socioeconomic, cultural, and urban integration.
Develop a qualitative analysis and a synthetic index of migrant and refugee integration that assesses the initial state of family trajectories and their evolution throughout the intervention process.

https://localaction.mayorsmechanism.org/actions/palante-comprehensive-approach-achieve-socio-economic-cultural-and-urban-integration

GFMD 2021-2022 – Mayors Mechanism’s Call to Local Action