The document discusses challenges faced by vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic and actions taken to support them. It focuses on how the crisis has highlighted mutual dependence between migrants and host communities. Cities are encouraged to use this opportunity to build more inclusive policies that ensure access to essential services and recognize qualifications for all, including migrant populations who provide important economic contributions. A checklist is provided for public actions to support migrant integration at the local level through coordination, proximity initiatives, capacity building, and sectoral policies related to jobs, housing, welfare and education.

4. Contributing to a global effort
oecd.org/coronavirus/

5. Time to hear from you
In your city, who do you think is most
at risk from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Poll

6. Ljubjana

8. Rosannie Filato
Montreal

9. COVID-19: challenges and measures for the
population and specific groups
Communication campaign in 16 languages
- Homeless people: new shelters, temporary sites
and sanitary facilities.
- Community services provision: support to food
banks and creation of emergency fund.
- Migrant communities: reach out and
communication initiatives.

10. The recovery: an opportunity to make things differently
Lay the foundations for a resilient, prosperous, green
and inclusive city that will leave no one behind.

11. Rotterdam

12. Rotterdam is with 650.000 inhabitants one of the poorest
cities of the Netherlands. 91.000 people live in poverty

13. One out of five children grows up in poverty

14. 60.000 households are at risk of
problematic debts

15. Our policy approach; ‘Disentangle’ and ‘The Rotterdam
approach to poverty’ & RESET ROTTERDAM, towards a
debt-free generation

16. Time to hear from you
What is the most important thing cities
should do to protect the most vulnerable?
Poll

18. Territorial inequalities and migrants:
the amplified mirror of the situation of native populations
• Immigrants are less likely to be employed than their native peers. In most
countries, they tend to struggle less in metropolitan than in non-
metropolitan regions.
• In most European-OECD countries, migrants are more likely to live in
overcrowded dwelling than native born across all regions but tend to be
worse off in metropolitan regions than in non-metropolitan regions.
• People in regions with large migrant communities and low
unemployment rate of native born population show on average more
positive attitude towards migrants.

19. COVID: a change in perception
From vulnerabilities to mutual dependence
Municipal
leaders, citizens,
NGOs, businesses
Access to appropriate
housing, health, food,
education, etc.
Recognition of
qualification
Lasting effect of the
change in perception?
Migrant
background
population
Providers of essential
services
Key economic actors
e.g. In Europe 29% of
European Tech
founders have a
migrant background

20. A narrow window of opportunities for building more inclusive cities
Checklist for public action to migrant integration at the local level
12 Objectives
Block 1: Institutional and financial context
Vertical and horizontal coordination/cross-
sectoral policy coherence and Finance
Block 2: Time and proximity: keys to
integration
Public Action from day 1 over the long term /
Common Public Spaces / Civil society: initiatives
and Communication
Block 3: Policy formulation and
implementation
Public sector capacity and diversity/
Cooperation with non state/ Evaluation
Block 4: Sectoral Policies
Jobs/ Housing/ Welfare and Education
oe.cd/migrant-integration
In Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin,
Gothenburg, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Altena…

21. Q&A

22. oe.cd/champion-mayors
ChampionMayors@oecd.org
@OECD_local
linkedin.com/company/oecd-local
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