The Australia Pacific Technical College is a development-cooperation funded vocational training programme operating in Pacific countries. More than 17 000 have graduated from the programme since its inception in 2007, with 83 percent successfully employed. The programme was not designed specifically to promote emigration, but to build skills in islands where local skill basins were insufficient and skilled workers were deployed from developed countries.
Porsche is involved in training auto mechanics for its worldwide network. In a project,
it supports the identification of underprivileged Filipino youth with basic English. language skills for a two-step training and selection programme. The first phase is ten
months basic vocational training, offered through the existing mechanic training at
Don Bosco Technical Institute in Manila, to which Porsche has contributed equipment
and curriculum. Of these, about 40 top graduates annually are selected to participate
The Program 3x1 (“Programa 3x1 para migrantes”) supports Mexicans living abroad to develop social infrastructure and productive projects in their hometown communities, with the participation of the federal, state and local government. The Program 3x1 for migrants is the federal government's answer for supporting migrant desire of improving their hometowns through the development of community social and productive projects. Adding the participation of the state and local government and hometown associations.
Access to justice is one of the principal challenges faced by migrant workers. In many cases, abused or illegally dismissed workers find it difficult or even outright impossible to file and prosecute labor complaints against their foreign employers. Once employment is terminated, the migrant worker has very limited options. Oftentimes, they are deported or opt to return to the home country without receiving their unpaid salaries, benefits and other monetary claims.
IOM's MIDA program, launched in 2001 and operating in eleven African countries, supports the short or longer term (or virtual) return of expatriate skills to key sectors. In each country, a multi-sectoral MIDA Steering Committee is set up, with the aim of greater coherence within the governments. The networks of participants strengthen interactions between origin and destination countries, which may stimulate further returns and development projects involving diaspora and/or the productive use of remittances.
In Bangladesh, pre-employment orientation on overseas employment is offered as an outreach program by an international organization with government and non-government stakeholders, including migrants and media outlets.
The Malian government implements Diaspora fora to connect and build confidence with its diaspora. The first Diaspora Forum in 2003 was the opportunity to discuss three topics:
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.
In Manila, the Overseas Workers Welfare Adminsitration (OWWA) has set up a half-way house to assist returned Filipinas who have suffered abuse abroad. The OFW Halfway Home is intended for transient Overseas Filipina Workers (OFW) who have no place to stay in Manila. The facility can accommodate 40 distressed OFWs, whom OWWA will provide with bedding, meals, and personal hygiene kits during their temporary stay. It also has recreational facilities for table games, televiewing, and group interaction.
Established on 6th March 2007 by Vodafone's Kenyan associate, Safaricom, M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is Africa's leading mobile money service, which operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania.