PNAC

Aimed at improving the integration and capacities of immigrants, with particular regard to youth

1. Implementing the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan for Equal Opportunities between Men and Women.
2. Drawing up agreements for assistance and cooperation with countries of origin and transit of migratory flows.
3. Drawing up a coordinated programme of grants for immigrants to obtain training in professional skills and in scientific disciplines, together with grants for postgraduate studies.
4. Designing and implementing a set of measures aimed at preventing the exploitation of immigrants, in any sector of public and social life, and at eliminating practices that may demean their dignity and thus be considered prejudicial to public order.
5. Favouring the incorporation of immigrants into trade union structures and supporting the associational endeavours of immigrants with respect to promoting civic education programmes.
6. Capacity building for immigrant women, in order to encourage their participation and leadership within their respective communities and within Spanish society in general.
7. Adopting specific measures, especially within the sphere of education, aimed at favouring the integration of the children of immigrants, by developing inclusive policies to enable the equality of opportunities in a diversified society.
8. Creating training plans in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, aimed at mayors and city councillors, in accordance with “Religious pluralism and society” courses.
9. Reinforcing mediation, within Autonomous Communities and Local Entities,  as a procedure for crisis and conflict resolution, and drawing up guidelines on good practices.
10. Constituting permanent working groups with countries of origin of immigration, with the aim of centralizing the implementation of the measures set out in the National Plan.
11. Promoting the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth and its extension to other areas, with a view to the signing of a World Convention on the Rights of Youth; incorporating the values of the Alliance of Civilizations into the Ibero-American Plan for Youth Cooperation and Integration.
12. Including an “Alliance of Civilizations” line in the Interministerial Plan for Youth, and drawing up (by the Institute for Youth and the Institute for Women) of action plans in accordance with the principles and goals of this initiative.
13. Designing an employment plan aimed at young immigrants, enhancing and prioritizing the Emancipation Programme for Young People and extending it to other immigrant sectors.
14. Providing funding for a project to internationalize the network of Youth Spaces for Creation.
15. Programme for teaching and applying Communication and Information Technologies, using the Internet and promoting Media Literacy.
16. Integration of young immigrants in the Programme for Young Aid Workers and extension of this programme to areas in which action is taken within the framework of the Alliance of Civilizations.
17. Intensification and possibly extension of the Comprehensive Strategic Plan for the protection of vulnerable young people, especially those belonging to transnational families.