The Development Research Group at the World Bank is drawing up best practice principles for measuring migration in censuses and household surveys. The intention is to use these leassons learned in the Bank's own assistance to countries, as well as to spread them around the global research and policy community more generally through papers, seminars etc.
"Development on the Move" is a ground-breaking global research project gathering new qualitative and quantitative data about migration’s development impacts. The project aims to comprehensively assess how migration affects development in a number of different countries around the world, and how policy can maximise migration’s development benefits and minimise its costs. It is a joint project of the Global Development Network (GDN) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), UK.
This project was undertaken by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Africa Region and Development Prospects Group at the World Bank with the objective of examining the incidence and impacts of migration and remittances across sub-Saharan Africa, a region where relatively little is known about migration trends and the impact of remittances upon development.
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), under its Regional Programme on 'Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia', partners with recruiting/placement agency associations in some Asian countries to negotiate favourable contracts, benefits and working conditions for women; and to inform them of their rights.
The programme began implementation in 2001, promoting women’s human rights and empowerment by:
The Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), established in 2003 at the initiative of the UNSG Kofi Annan, produced its report in 2005 recognizing that human mobility is an integral component of the global economy and that international migration has the potential to play a very positive role in human development. It argues that in order to maximize the benefits of international migration while minimizing its adverse consequences, migration policies should be based on shared objectives and a common vision.
Guyana’s Diaspora (GUYD) Project is a project implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the IOM Guyana Office. The project seeks to engage Guyanese Diaspora by documenting skills, resources and the return interest and plans of those willing to support the development.
The main goal of the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) is to increase access to finance for small and medium enterprises – which is especially relevant for returning migrants. The AGF’s key mandate is to assist financial institutions to increase their financing to African Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) through the provision of partial financial guarantees and capacity development assistance. AGF’s products and services provide financial institutions with the means which they can leverage in bringing their African SME financing interventions to the required scale.
The African Institute for Remittances (AIR) is a specialized technical office of the African Union Commission (AUC) established to assist the AU Member States to:
(a) improve their statistical measurement, compiling and reporting capabilities on remittances data;
(b) Promote appropriate changes to their legal and regulatory frameworks for remittances, payment and settlement systems as well as use of innovative technology so as to promote greater competition and efficiency, resulting in reductions of transfer costs; and
The Advanced Technical School for Hotel Management and Tourism Services decided in 2019 to partner with the Italian Tourism School Elena Cornaro of Jesolo to provide its students high quality education and training that are in line with both national and international labour market requirements.
The IOM Independent Network of Labour Migration and Integration Experts (LINET) was created in 2009 by the International Organization for Migration in order to provide the Directorate General of Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission with expert analysis and advice on economic migration and labour market integration of third country nationals.