A/75/183 E. Existing alternative care and reception arrangements for migrant children and their families 45. The present section provides a non-exhaustive compilation of good practices and initiatives demonstrating that there is a wide range of alternative reception and care arrangements available, which can enhance the protection of the human rights of migrant children and their families while their migration status is being resolved. These alternative arrangements include family-based alternative care options such as foster care or kinship care, and community-based arrangements or appropriate reception centres. It is worth highlighting that some of these care arrangements integrate migrant children into national child protection systems. In the meantime, progress has been made in recent years on engagement-based solutions that use a case management approach to increase children’s participation and find sustainable solutions in each child’s best interests. Alternative care arrangements for unaccompanied children 46. Alternative care arrangements should be viewed as provisional measures while family tracing is carried out and until children can be reunited with family members, if applicable and appropriate for their best interests (see General Assembly resolution 64/142). Priority should be given to family- and community-based solutions, with residential care only considered for the shortest time possible and when the former are not possible or are not in the child’s best interests. 47. A commendable effort in providing alternative care for migrant children has been the initiative taken by the mayors of 10 European cities, who pledged to shelter unaccompanied migrant children living in desperate conditions in Greek island camps or near the Turkish border. In a letter addressed to European Union leaders, these mayors called on European Governments to show much greater generosity and solidarity with children in desperate need, and declared their cities ready to provide shelter, comfort and safety for unaccompanied children. 53 On this front, the European Commission is also leading important efforts to relocate 1,600 unaccompanied children. As of the time of writing, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland are part of this initiative. 54 Integration of migrant children into national child protection systems 48. Migrant children should be considered as children first, and States are obliged to fulfil the rights of every child in their territory. Some promising practices exist in which States identify and refer unaccompanied migrant children to their national child protection systems. According to the information received, this is the case, for example, in Azerbaijan, 55 Croatia, 56 Cyprus, 57 Germany, 58 Hungary, 59 Ireland, 60 __________________ 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 12/23 Public statement from European cities on vulnerable children in the re fugee situation in Greece, 22 April 2020. Available at www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/City-Letter-on-refugeechildren-relocation-April-2020.pdf. European Commission, “Migration: first unaccompanied children relocated from Greece to Luxembourg”, 15 April 2020. Available at https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ en/IP_20_668. Submission by Azerbaijan. Submission by Croatia. Submission by Cyprus. Submission by Germany. Submission by Hungary. Submission by Ireland. 20-09734