Developed from the pilot phase of the "Shaping Immigration NRW" project, the state government is promoting the nationwide introduction of a municipal
Integration Management (KIM) in all districts and independent cities in North Rhine-Westphalia.

 

In its meeting on 08.12.2022, the Cologne City Council decided that the state program Municipal Integration Management, which has been running in Cologne since 2021, will continue to be implemented. 

 

Municipal integration management sees itself as Integrated control conceptThe aim is to coordinate and standardize the wide range of offers and services in integration work within and outside local government.

 

The focus here is on the improved cooperation and service provision in the standard structures, to make the arrival phase conducive to integration from the outset, to remove barriers and obstacles to access to the regular structure and to enable a seamless transition in the phases of the change of legal status.

 

Successful implementation of strategic municipal integration management not only has a positive impact in fiscal and socio-political terms, but also promotes a growing attractiveness and changed external perception of the municipality as a citizen- and service-oriented administration that values and recognizes diversity.

 

This objective is essentially to be achieved by establishing the following quality criteria:

 

• Development and expansion of the cross-jurisdictional cooperation at the local/municipal structural level
• Implementation of a resource-oriented, holistic Case management at the individual case level
• Consideration local characteristics such as offers, provider landscape, composition of the target group, implementation options of the providers, etc. 
• Differentiation of the various challenges immigrants (EU citizens (from the EU), for example, have different fields of action than refugees)

 

Information from the Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on municipal integration management