The program

The Su.Pr.Eme.2 program is an extraordinary and integrated five year plan of interventions to combat and overcome forms of serous labour expoitation, (gangamaster) unlawful recruitment activities and situations of serious marginalisation and vulnerability experienced by foreigners in the five regions of Southern Italy (sicily, alabria, Apulia, Basilicata and Campania).

The context

Su.Pr.Eme.2 is part of the National Program for the Prevention and Fight against Undeclared Work and Unlawful Recruitment Activities (Gangmaster Phenomenon) of the Directorate General for Immigration and Integration Policies of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies. It intends to systematise, for the sake of continuity and innovation, the services, results and impacts achieved with the previous Su.Pr.Eme e P.I.U.Su.Pr.Eme. projects.

Areas of activity

WP1

Governance for innovation

  • Tables to combat unlawful recruitment (gangmaster) activities to define and share strategies and joint action plans
  • Institutional and community empowerment and Change Management support paths
  • Support and empowerment of migrant associationism to encourage their active participation
  • Mapping, sensitisation and engagement of the employment system to promote societal-work inclusion paths and guide processes to support emergence
  • Study and  awareness of capacity building
WP2

Emergence
laboratories

  • Inter-institutional (anti-gangmaster) anti-unlawful recruitment help desk, a specialist, multi-channel and multilingual service that promotes emergence and facilitates access to information and services
  • Support for inspection task forces in complementarity with other territorial interventions
  • Integration budget with allocation to individual recipients from a pool of resources designed to support them on their path to socio-economic empowerment
  • Governance of emergence actions and inter-regional referral mechanism for the integrated action of all interventions

WP3

Cultural ecosystem
integration

  • Integrated social hubs for multidimensional undertakings
  • Proximity actions: territorial linguistic and intercultural outreach and mediation
  • Transport bolstered by intercultural mediation activities
  • Inclusive housing measures aimed at dignified migrant living conditions, also through co-housing actions and independent living pathways
  • Orientation and strengthening of skills for recipients
  • Innovative social agriculture pilot projects to support recipient entrepreneurship
  • Strengthening of Employment Centres and supply/demand job matching services

WP4

Mainstreaming
awareness

  • Communication and information plan
  • Social media management, digital communications, press office
  • Interregional training course for journalists and communicators
  • Awareness and promotional campaigns
  • Events
  • Storytelling and narration (“Beyond the ghetto”)

RECIPIENTS

The project is aimed at approximately 18 thousand seasonal migrant workers employed mainly in the agricultural-food sector and in other production sectors at risk of labour exploitation in the five regions involved

Parternership

The partnership is led by the Sicilian Region, supported by the Regions of Basilicata, Calabria, Campania and Apulia and by Nova National Consortium for Social Innovation.

Funding sources

ASYLUM MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION FUND (AMIF) 2021-2027
Specific Objective “2. Legal Migration and Integration” – Implementation measure 2.d – Scope of application 2.h – Intervention “f) Prevention and fight against undeclared work and the phenomenon of (gangmaster) unlawful recruitment activities

National Inclusion Plan and the fight against poverty ESF+ 2021-2027 – Priority 1 “Support for social inclusion and the fight against poverty” – Specific objective ESO4.9) Promoting the socio-economic integration of third-country nationals, including migrants