Promoting health and wellbeing amongst migrants transiting through Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen

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International Organization for Migration (IOM)'s project aims to support the relevant authorities and other stakeholders in migration management with a focus on promoting the health and wellbeing amongst migrants transiting through Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Libya. All countries and the activities are ODA eligible.

Labour Cooperation Agreement

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This agreement aims to design together active policies of labour mobility research, in order to face shared challenges on this matter. It also seeks to guarantee decent labour conditions for temporary migrant employees from both countries. Furthermore, it tries to create binational database in order to make a fair recruitment that guarantees the rights of migrant workers.

Law on Integration of Foreigners

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This law has been established given the need to build a uniform legal framework for the integration of foreigners in the economic, social and cultural life of the Republic of Moldova, to ensure the rights, freedoms and obligations. This law provides partial transposition of the European Council Directive no. 83/2004/CE of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification to be third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or benefit of persons who otherwise need international protection and the content protection granted.  

EQUI HEALTH project

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The project seeks to improve access and appropriateness of health care services, health promotion and prevention for migrants. The EQUI HEALTH project also supports the development of a harmonized EU approach for access to and appropriate provision of healthcare for migrants and ethnic minorities. It works towards the reduction of health inequalities faced by migrants, Roma and other vulnerable ethnic minority groups. The project also raises the issues of health and border management, public health, occupational health and migrant health in detention at the Eastern Schengen border. 

Platform to Support Refugees (PAR)

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Confronted with the need to help refugees, a group of Portuguese institutions decided to establish a platform to support those who come to Portugal. The joint initiative provides a national framework for the coordination of action to address the arrival of refugees in the course of the next two years. The objective of this platform is to centralize the offers of host homes, municipalities, local authorities and enterprises willing to help by rendering available human and material resources like employment, guidance and information. 

Five-year Development Plan (2014-2019)

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The plan is focused on different priorities such as promoting an inclusive economic model and advancing universal social services and social protection. It also places human rights at the centre of policy making, including human rights of migrants and their families. It contains different points of action, and one of them is to support migrants abroad and link them to political, social and economic events in El Salvador.

Improving human security in the bateyes

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The goal of the project is to protect residents in the bateyes from physical threats to their human security while empowering isolated communities to access their rights by way of: (i) ensuring that Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, and Dominicans living in the bateyes are protected from threats to personal and political security; (ii) strengthening economic security by enhancing people’s income generation capacity and providing educational opportunities; (iii) decreasing the high levels of food insecurity; (iv) advancing health security by increasing access to basic primary care and

Improving human security for vulnerable communities in southwest Serbia

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The project’s objective is to promote economic security and social cohesion towards improving the overall human security of vulnerable communities in Sandžak. To this end, the project proposes to: (i) improve income generation and open employment opportunities for vulnerable populations; (ii) enhance inter-ethnic understanding and community cohesion; (iii) increase access to social and public services and provide official documentation to displaced groups; and (iv) promote the human security concept within central and local governments and civil society organizations.

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