Migration Partnership Facility (MPF)

What is MPF?

Launched in 2016, the MPF is a DG HOME funded programme managed by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). Its mission is to ensure the implementation of the EU migration policy’s external dimension. By supporting EU countries in the establishment of partnership projects with target countries, the MPF helps address shared migration challenges and opportunities. Specifically, the MPF can support initiatives targeting:

• Legal Migration and Mobility (aligned to the Talent Partnerships);
• International Protection and Asylum Policy;
• Trafficking in Human Beings;
• Return and Reintegration;
• Border Management;
• Anti-Smuggling;
• Capacity Building for Migration Management.

Supporting the implementation of labour mobility projects and other interventions aligned with the proposed EU Talent Partnerships, as described in the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum, are a flagship element of the MPF’s work. The MPF has developed tools and initiatives to enable an environment for labor and skills mobility. It therefore ensures that opportunities to replicate, scale and extend mobility schemes are available and known.

• The MPF set up the EU Labour Mobility Practitioners’ Network ‒ a platform to promote deeper, more insightful, and sustained engagement on labour mobility by experts and practitioners.
• The MPF also designed a Labour Mobility Partner Country Dashboard for use by policy makers, employers, recruiters, and other interested parties that are looking at employing non-EU nationals, either through existing schemes or considering which country to target for a new labour scheme.

Interactive map of MPF partnerships

Who?

The MPF supports a range of EU-based actors who address migration priorities with partner countries. These include national, regional, and local public administrations, agencies or other specialised bodies in EU countries, universities, NGOs, think tanks, private sector associations and others. So far, the Facility has supported joint actions between 23 EU countries and 27 partner countries, with more partnerships to follow in the next years.

Where?

The MPF focuses on countries of strategic relevance to migration management and governance. Its focus includes:

• Western Balkans and Türkiye
• Eastern Partnership and Southern Partnership
• Africa
• Asia
• For labour mobility there is a focus on Talent Partnership countries.