Goal 3: Good health and well being

The Japanese Economic Partnership Agreements with Indonesia and the Philippines established the legal framework to receive Indonesian and Filipino nurses and care workers. Japan has been receiving candidates to become nurses and care workers from these countries for years. The program provides language training and the opportunity to work in Japanese hospitals. Candidates can take the examination to become qualified nurses and care workers and access work in Japan beyond the 3- or 4 year- period foreseen by the program.

Programmes promoting effective management of health workers' migration, health system capacity building, and skill/knowledge transfer from the diaspora are underway in Somalia, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Ghana. 

In Somalia, IOM’s "Migration for Development in Africa" (MIDA) is an ongoing capacity-building programme, which helps to mobilize competencies acquired by African nationals abroad for the benefit of Africa's development. 

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes migration as a core development consideration — marking the first time that migration is explicitly integrated into the global development agenda. Implementation of the SDGs provides an opportunity to protect and empower mobile populations to fulfil their development potential and benefit individuals, communities and countries around the world. But the migration-SDG connections reach far beyond just implementing migration poli-cies, and entail integrating migration across governance sectors. 

Public Services International (PSI), in collaboration with ILO's European Union-funded “Decent Work Across Borders” (DWAB) project has produced seven pre-decision, pre-departure, and return migration guides for healthcare workers.

• Labour migration and mobility 

Bilateral agreements constitute an effective way to regulate migration flows and to foster development, both in the countries of origin and destination.

• The relevant authorities are aware of the mutual influence of migration on the health sector and dynamic of health sector on migration in Morocco.

• The Ministry of Health integrates the topic M & D in sectoral planning and in the national 2016-2017 strategy.

Expected outcomes :

In recent years, the Ecuadorian government has had an agenda with focus on the return of intellectuals and highly trained nationals who emigrated in search of better opportunities, often driven by economic incentives and hence contributing to the country’s “brain drain”. One of the policies that is being implemented in order to facilitate the repatriation of national professionals is the program “Healthy Ecuador, I am back for you”; it seeks to promote the voluntary return of Ecuadorian doctors and specialists of the health sector living abroad.

The Ministry of Health is working closely with foreigners in the following areas:

- Occupational medicine: Ambatovy QMM: staffing materials and medical equipment, services (medical and surgical consultation, screening), Community Health, health education (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Waste Management)-

- Humanitarian mission :

Chinese medical mission with the MoU between the Chinese Government and the Government Malagasy: Intervention areas: Mahitsy, Vatomandry, Ambovombe, Sambava.

The plan promotes the coordination and inter-linkage of actions over a 5 year horizon (2016-2020) and seeks to give people incentives to stay in their own countries by means of structural change that offers economic opportunities and transforms the citizen’s of the Northern Triangle of Central America quality of life, mainly in regions affected by the highest rates of poverty, migration and vulnerability.

The US National Institute of Health's Fogarty International Center (FIC) aims to strengthen the capacity of institutions in low- and middle-income countries to conduct HIV/AIDS-related research.