Morocco pays particular attention to Moroccans living abroad (MRE), and is making major efforts to strengthen ties with its diaspora. In this context, the Moroccan government has implemented a comprehensive and integrated policy in their favor, described in the "National Strategy for Moroccans Residing Abroad".
DEPOMI is financed by the European Union's Emergency Trust Fund for Stability and the Fight against the Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa ("EUTF").
The project aims to better integrate the migration dimension is gradually into public policies and strategies at national and local levels in Morocco. It targets three regions of Morocco where the country is piloting advanced regionalization, namely: Beni Mellal - Khenifra, Souss Massa, Oriental.
The project is structured around 5 main axes (the Results):
A program which invites Diaspora Armenian professionals to serve in the public sector and in the government of the Republic of Armenia.
The Republic of Armenia's Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs announces the launch of the ´iGorts 2023ª program, which invites Diaspora Armenian professionals to serve in Armeniaís and Artsakhís government for a duration of one year.
The Distance Education Service (SEAD) provides Primary and Secondary Education to those students who are temporarily residing abroad. In this way, they are given the possibility of continuing to practice the national language, maintaining the feeling of belonging to the country of origin and facilitating their reincorporation into the Argentine Educational System.
The SEAD is aimed at Argentine students or children of Argentines residing abroad. This modality is not available for those students who live in Argentina.
The UK is home to some of the largest diaspora communities worldwide and to help leverage this untapped potential, IOM UK launches the Diaspora for Climate Action (D4C) project.The project will enable diaspora members to build connections with key stakeholders in Bangladesh, Jamaica, Ghana and Albania that can help them achieve more effective and coordinated climate action, and greater and longer-lasting impacts on climate-vulnerable populations.
Since 2021, the partnership between Cenfri and IFAD through the Remittance Access Initiative (RAI) programme, co-financed by the European Union, has supported 14 remittance service providers (RSPs) in the seven PRIME Africa countries, to enable financial inclusion of remittance families. Through innovations on identity and digital financial services, RAI supports RSPs in lowering remittance transfer costs while simplifying onboarding requirements for low-income, rural and vulnerable families.
ADFC will be set up as an independent, non-AU continental finance institution, operating as a social enterprise and working together with other African and global finance, development, and diaspora institutions. The first phase of the ADFC implementation involves the initiation of an innovative finance scheme through the RemitAidô Remittance Match Funding mechanism.
This project built on the progress to date in developing and implementing a framework and shifting perspective on alternatives to immigration detention (ATD) in Mexico, with the specific aim of fostering sustainability and empowering local stakeholders towards building preventative and community-based ATD models for the longer term through collaborative initiatives.
Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism (NSM) will be established to screen those who have protection claims in Thailand and grant a 'protected person status' to eligible applicants which in theory would protect them from arbitrary detention. However, many details remain unclear, including what protections persons with ‘protected person status’ will be able to access, and whether they will be protected from detention in practice. Discussions are ongoing for how this will be implemented.
Peer learning exchanges between governments and civil society implementers have
facilitated the sharing of ideas, experiences, knowledge, and challenges on
implementing ATD. Some countries have made significant progress in restricting or
even ending the use of immigration detention for some or all groups of people, while
others are beginning to embark on this journey. While there is no one-size fits all
approach, the sharing of successes and lessons learned means that stakeholders