The System of Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) is comprised of local bodies that are grant access, within the threshold of available resources, to the National Fund for asylum policies and services, for the performance of projects for integrated reception. At a local level, the local bodies, with the priceless support of actors in the third sector, ensure …

In 2001, starting from the experience of decentralised and networked reception activities, performed between 1999 and 2000 by associations and NGOs, the Ministry of Interior – Department of Immigration and Civil Liberties, the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) signed an agreement for the establishment of the “National Asylum Programme”. That …