SUMMIT - Safeguarding Unaccompanied Migrant Minors from going Missing by Identifying Best Practices and Training Actors on Interagency Cooperation

“The Smile of the Child” participated as an associate partner in the Project “Safeguarding Unaccompanied Migrant Minors from going Missing by Identifying Best Practices and Training Actors on Interagency Cooperation” (SUMMIT) that is being implemented with the financial support from of the European Union.

The general objective of the project was to reduce the numbers of unaccompanied migrant children who will go missing and to protect the rights that they are entitled to, by the following actions:
- To identify best practices in the prevention of and response to vulnerable UAMs going missing from reception centers
- To develop guidance for improved interagency cooperation in preventing and responding to the problem of missing unaccompanied migrant minors
- To facilitate implementation of the guidance through joined seminars involving all relevant actors/stakeholders

The Project was implemented under the coordination of Missing Children Europe (MCE) with the participation of the following organizations:

• University of Portsmouth (England)
• KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU – KMOP (Greece)
• TUSLA, Child and Family Agency, HSE (Ireland)
• NIDOS (Netherlands)
• The Child Circle (Belgium)
• Defence for Children – ECPAT Nederland (NL)

In addition, in the project participated the following organizations as associate partners:

• The Smile of the Child, Greece
• Fundacion ANAR, Spain
• Telefonno Azurro, Italy
• Child Focus, Belgium
• Missing People, UK
• Consortium of «Hope For Children» UNCRC Policy Centre, Cyprus

The project started on October 2014 and was completed on March 2016.

The SUMMIT project was implemented with financial support from the European Union

More information about the project you can find here
or you may contact with us at the e-mail address: projects@hamogelo.gr