The UAE’s National Qualifications Authority, still faces the challenge of appropriate assessment tools to verify migrants’ qualifications, because of the proliferation of individual certification systems in the many countries of origin of its foreign contract workers.
In Germany the web portal “Make it in Germany” is the first check for foreign workers, and German advisers are also posted abroad (India, Indonesia and Vietnam) to provide information and advice to those wishing to go to Germany. Responsibility for this could also be shared between countries of origin and destination, and be included in labour agreements.
The German money transfer site (www.geldtransfair.de), shows current rates charged by MTOs and financial institutions, as a transparent way of informing and helping diaspora select cost effective transfer modes.
The Vice-Ministry for Salvadorans abroad has the main goal of promoting the protection of the Salvadorans residing abroad and to enable their access to opportunities to be part of the development of the country.
This objective is to make diaspora investment and remittances more productive and effective and to connect western markets and emerging markets.
The Diaspora Business Centre is a one stop shop that combines business and social interests, paired with professional know-how by diaspora experts.
Their activities entail the following:
The MPNP – Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program – is the government service that selects skilled immigrants and their families to move to Manitoba and share in the prosperity of our province’s communities.
AFFORD-UK is a non profit-making diaspora organization which supports diaspora-based business and job creation in countries of origin through various types of partnership. As one practical example of a partnership that delivers business services to microenterprises, AFFORD has recruited African professionals in the UK and sent them as diaspora volunteers to Sierra Leone.
It is a process that has different phases. The first one is the identification of skilled migrants in host countries. Once they are identified, networks of migrants are established. Within these networks, migrants are encouraged to create thematic groups. Once this network is constituted, a big national seminar in Morocco is created to which Ministries, National Institutions, Center of Research and Universities are invited. So far, there are networks in Germany, the United States, Canada and Denmark.
Sweden reformed its labour immigration rules in 2008. The reform is designed to create a demand-driven, effective and flexible system which will make it easier for people to come to Sweden and work, and for Swedish companies to recruit labour from outside the EU/EEA area . The Swedish system recognizes that we need workers of all skill levels and in many different branches and sectors. The reform is therefore designed to allow workers of all skill levels to migrate to Sweden under one general framework and with access to a wide range of rights.
The Government of Mexico has created the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior) to provide support to emigrants and promote leadership abroad; it helps improve the integration of Mexican communities in destination countries and maintains systematic and direct communication between Mexico and its Diaspora.