Turkey 2014-2015

The OASIS project, Overall Assistance for Startup Immigration System, which is enforced by the Department of Justice and the Small and Medium Business Administration, and operated by 5 institutions designated as "Global Start-up Immigration Centers" (KIPA, Korea Immigration Service Foundation, Seoul Global Center, Korea Techno Venture Foundation and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), is a system to help foreigners establish start-up companies in Korea based on their intellectual properties.

The Investment Code determines the eligible projects and the conditions of access and accreditation formalities and tax benefits, for national people, foreign people and the diaspora.

The DataShift is a multi-stakeholder, demand-driven initiative that builds the capacity and confidence of civil society organizations to generate and use citizen-generated data to monitor development progress, demand accountability and campaign for transformative change.  Ultimately, the vision is a world where people-powered accountability drives progress on sustainable development.

The Sendai Cooperation Initiative for Disaster Risk Reduction outlines Japan's cooperation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) from 2015 to 2018, through a triple approach combining: 1) non-material assistance, such as human resource development and institutional development, 2) material assistance centering on the development of quality infrastructure, and 3) the promotion of global and region-wide cooperation.          

Official representatives from 38 member countries and associate members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, which contains a series of agreements to strengthen the implementation of population and development issues beyond 2014, at the end of the First session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held from 12 to 15 August 2013 in the capital of Uruguay.

The local authorities of Upala, in Costa Rica, have a key role in managing unique local migratory contexts. Upala is an immigration and transit zone at the border with Nicaragua, home to many Nicaraguan migrants in search of employment opportunities, access to social services and better living conditions or workplace of many Nicaraguans who cross the border each day to make a living, thus living in a ´cross border´context.

On 26 October 2015, within the framework of the IOM Conference on Migrants and Cities, the JMDI, jointly with IOM, launched the “White Paper on Mainstreaming Migration into Local Development Planning and Beyond” at a side event held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Ministry of State for Migration and Egyptian Affairs Abroad has been established in 2015, which is related to the migrants. This is a very important development for Egypt since it’s the Egyptian diaspora who has for the first time influenced this work. In the previous years the migration issues were mostly handled by the Ministry of Labour. Egypt is highly focused on diplomacy and aims to make sure that the migrants abroad contribute to the economic development of the country.

The Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has a network of Offices for Labour and Social Affairs in four EU countries. The so-called “labour attachés” that head these four offices provide labour and social affairs services to Bulgarian citizens in seven countries.