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Agreement number: HOME/2019/AMIF/AG/EMAS/0107 – amendment 2

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ANNEX I
DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION

Project ref.:
HOME/2019/AMIF/AG/EMAS/0107

Title:  "  Strengthening  Spain’s  action  along  its  coastlines  within  the  scope  of  the  Humanitarian  Assistance
Programme"

1. Summary of the action

Ever since 2017, Spain has been confronted with a considerable migratory pressure, reaching historical highs in 2018
both in terms of irregular migratory flows and number of applicants for international protection. This state of affairs
placed a considerable strain on the humanitarian assistance systems deployed on the Spanish coastlines and in the
cities  of  Ceuta  and  Melilla,  as  well  as  on  the  National  System  for  the  Reception  and  Integration  of  International
Protection Seekers and Beneficiaries. With a view to strengthening the national capacity to cope with recurrent and
massive arrivals of irregular immigrants and asylum.

The “emergency situation” has continued throughout 2019, which started with the largest number of irregular migrant
arrivals ever recorded in a month of January. Comparative data of migrant flows to the Spanish coastlines indicate that
the number of recipients of humanitarian assistance during the first semester in 2019 (10.775 persons) has dropped
compared to the number of migrants who received assistance during the same period in 2018 (15.489 persons), but
this  figure  goes  well  beyond  the  arrivals  of  previous  years.  Furthermore,  it  is  estimated  that,  in  terms  of  irregular
migration  flows,  2019 might  be  the year  with  the  second highest level  ever  recorded  right  after 2018  when  64.298
arrivals  were  registered.  Moreover,  according  to  current  forecasts,  during  the  lifespan  of  this  project  (1.07.2019  –
31.12.2021), a total of 65.000 migrant persons will require humanitarian assistance.

Mitigation measures that can help alleviate this migratory pressure by means of efficient and responsive mechanisms
and in compliance with human rights, need to be backed up with a significant economic and financial effort that cannot
be carried out relying on the national budget alone. Moreover, the lack of political consensus and the failure to pass
the State’s s General Budget for 2019 (PGE 2019) have triggered a re-enacted budget under which Spain’s previous
year’s funding program is deemed in force. These circumstances pose a number of difficulties: on one hand, in terms
of budgetary constraints and, on the other hand, given the extended budget, the budgetary allocations have not been
increased to keep up with the actual needs.

To  ease  this  burden,  it  is  therefore  necessary  to  resort  to  the  Emergency  Assistance  (EMAS)  foreseen  within  the
scope  of  the  Asylum,  Migration  and  Integration  Fund  (AMIF)  whose  objective  is  precisely  to  provide  financial
assistance  to  address  urgent  and  specific  needs  in  the  event  of  an  emergency  situation.  Point  (k)  of  Article  2  of
Regulation 516/2014 defines it as “a situation resulting from heavy migratory pressure in one or more Member States
characterised  by  a  large  and  disproportionate  inflow  of  third-country  nationals,  which  places  significant  and  urgent
demands on their reception and detention facilities, asylum systems and procedure “.
It is therefore the aim of this project to seek, within the aforementioned context, the additional funding that EMAS could
provide  and  that  DGIAH-MITRAMISS’  Humanitarian  Assistance  Programme  calls  for.  Under  this  Programme,
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particularly noteworthy are the actions related to the Humanitarian Assistance along the Spanish Coastlines that are
subject of this application for an Emergency Assistance.

This project will allow the Spanish Red Cross (CRE) to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance to the migrant
population reaching Spanish coasts mainly by:
- Delivering urgent medical response services, such as first aid and basic and advanced life support techniques, in
order to protect their life and health.
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- Supplying food staples, clothing and hygiene items.
-  Detecting  early  warning  signs  of  potential  victims  of  human  trafficking  and  identifying  persons  likely  to  need
international protection.

Update in November 2020

Throughout  the  year  2020  the  maritime  migration  route  to  the  Canary  Islands  has  experienced  a  great  increase,
coupled  with  the  pandemic  situation  generated  by  the  Covid-19  and  successive  declarations  of  alarm  that  have
created a very complicated situation regarding the management of these migration flows. Thus, in 2018 1.033 people
arrived  to  the  Canary  Islands,  in  2019  this  figure  doubled  and  the  number  of  arrivals  reached  2.613,  while,  until
November 10th 2020, more than 18.000 arrivals have been registered. This figure constitutes a fifteenfold increase until
November 2020 compared to 2018.

Furthermore,  the  number  of  arrivals  continues  to  grow.  In  particular,  the  increase  of  arrivals  of  immigrants  to  the
Canary Island is very significant, since the islands concentrate half of the arrivals that have  taken place this year in
Spain (18.435 people of the total assisted in the Spanish territory, which amounts to 34.808 people). It is noteworthy
the concentration of assistance in the Canary Islands, where 5.442 people have been assisted out of the total 8,348
who arrived to the Spanish coasts in October. In a similar fashion, during the first week of November almost 3,500
people were assisted in the Canary Islands compared to a total of 4,332 in the whole Spanish territory.

Moreover,  in  just one  weekend,  7th  and  8th  of  November, more  than  2.000  people  arrived  to  the  Canary  Islands,  a
situation never seen before that is expected to continue or even deteriorate in the coming dates. However, the Canary
Islands do not currently have the capacity to accommodate so many people in such a short time, which means that
receptions are being referred to the port of Arguineguín and short-term stays in hotels. In October 2019, the Canary
Islands had around 100 reception places that increased during the following months reaching just over 1.000 places at
the beginning of the summer of 2020.

Despite the effort to create new reception places in the Canary Islands, these places are not sufficient to assist and
manage these numerous migration flows. This situation has extraordinarily led some of these people to stay overnight
in tents and places lacking the characteristics to meet their basic needs.

In consequence, for the time being it is necessary to find temporary solutions for the reception of more than  7,000
people who are currently beneficiaries of the Humanitarian Assistance programme in different locations, some of them
provided by public administration, but mostly hotels.

The tents and prefabricated modules that are to be purchased under this project will enable MISSM to create 7.000
semi-permanent  places  in  up  to  5  camps  in  the  Canary  islands,  with  the  following  distribution:    Canarias  50  and
Colegio León in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Canteras and Las Raíces in San Cristobal de la Laguna in Tenerife
Island and El Matorral in Puerto del Rosario in Fuerteventura Island. These new places are essential to address the
urgent situation in the Canary Islands since the tents purchased thanks to previous EMAS are being used already for
humanitarian assistance in the Canary Islands and in the Spanish mainland.

Besides, these 7.000 new places are designed to assist mixed migratory flows for a period between 15 days and one
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month,  that  can  be  extraordinarily  extended  to  3  months,  until  migrants  can  be  referred  to  permanent  assistance
places  or  transferred  to  the  Spanish  mainland.  Due  to  the  Covid19  pandemic  and  borders  closure,  forced  and
voluntary return has become very difficult to carry out. Thus, new needs of humanitarian assistance arise in order to
protect public order and safety.

In the aforementioned camps an individual assessment of each person shall be carried out to determine its necessities
and specific vulnerabilities and refer them to proper humanitarian assistance places, either in the Spanish mainland or
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in the Islands, where a more individualized assistance will be given. Professional staff of Humanitarian Assistance will
work in these camps to detect vulnerabilities and organize the referral. Therefore, this emergency assistance aims to
organize a swift referral, avoid the presence of immigrants in unprepared facilities and abide by the sanitary measures
in force due to the Covid19 pandemic.

In  addition,  it  is  very  important  to  insist  in  the  public  health  emergency  caused  by  COVID-19,  which  requires  the
adoption  of  extraordinary  measures  in  the  reception  of  immigrants  arriving  to  our  coasts.  This  crisis  has  led  to  a
decrease in the number of places available for humanitarian care due to the establishment of limitations in the number
of places in the centers to comply with the necessary measures to avoid health risks, which has forced the blocking of
places for the quarantine and / or isolation of people residing in centers. This crisis has also led to an increase in the
length  of stay in  the shelters,  reducing  their capacity to  accommodate  newcomers,  an issue  that  especially  affects
certain territories where the number of places is already insufficient due to the increase in the number of arrivals.

The revision of EMAS project HOME/2019/AMIF/AG/EMAS/0107 aims to tackle this extraordinary situation since the
pre-financing of this project has been exhausted by CRE. Therefore, an additional pre-financing for the financial top-up
of this project would be required to address the new urgent needs. In addition, DGIAH requests a 6 months extension
period  until  December  31th,  2021  of  the  project  implementation  period  foreseen  in  the  article  I.2.2.  of  the  Special
Conditions.

2. General objective (expected impact) and response to the emergency situation

The  main objective  of  the  EMAS  project is  to strengthen the  national  capacity  to  meet  needs  of public,  social  and
humanitarian interest that stem from the irregular arrival of extremely vulnerable migrants to the Spanish coasts.  This
capacity building will allow CRE:
- To provide immediate assistance to 65.000 migrant persons throughout the project lifetime, both in cases of ordinary
migrant arrivals and emergency situations triggered by massive arrivals established in the COPLAN-Estrecho to face
massive arrivals of irregular migratory flows in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar, Alboran Sea and adjacent waters,
produced by the Coordinating Authority tackling Irregular Immigration in the Strait of Gibraltar (ACIE).
-  Provide  semi-permanent  shelter  for  1,200  people  belonging  to  groups  with  special  vulnerability,  in  the  case  of
occupation  of  the  places  managed  by  the  SEM-MITRAMISS  within  the  framework  of  the  Humanitarian  Assistance
Program.
-  Reinforce  the  emergency  healthcare  assistance  CRE’s  units  provide  to  immigrants  according  to  the  criteria
established in the Action Guide for Healthcare Intervention with Immigrants along the Spanish Coastlines which sets
out  the  procedures  related  to  the  diagnosis  of  health  conditions  and  the  subsequent  assistance  to  immigrant
population and according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social welfare.
-  Improve  the  management  and  treatment  capacity  of  information  derived  from  humanitarian  interventions  with
migrants both on their arrival at ports of reference and on beaches without established communications infrastructure,
and have an integral vision of the development of interventions, geographical positioning, volume of people assisted in
real time, services performed, as well as the development of emergency actions derived from the actions of COPLAN-
Estrecho
-  Provide  semi-permanent  shelter  for  7.000  people  that  arrived  to  the  Canary  Islands  including  preparation  of  the
ground,  purchase/rental  of  tents,  transport  of  tents,  deployment  of  provisional  camps,  deliverables  and  services  to
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assist immigrants. It is estimated that the total number of people assisted in the Canary Islands will reach 15.000.

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