Member States

Sri Lanka has established an inter-ministerial and inter-agency coordination framework for migration health and development comprised of a National Steering Committee on Migration Health (inter-ministerial), a National Migration Health Task Force (inter-agency and inter-ministerial) and a Migration Health Secretariat. The Secretariat coordinates the national migration health agenda housed within the Ministry of Health and supported by IOM.

The Chilean Ministry of Health’s “Sectoral Health Advisory Team for Immigrants”  developed the Health Policy for International Migrants launched in 2017 which now constitutes the national framework for actions focused on migrant’s healthcare.

The health policy promotes the right to health for all persons in the nation’s territory (including citizens and foreign nationals), a system that is migrant-sensitive, and the lowering of health service access barriers.

The “Être Humain et Mobilité” project aims to raise awareness on discrimination and migration in ten holiday centers of the Ministry of Youth and Sports as well as ten public middle schools.

Mastering Darija, the Moroccan spoken language, is an important part for the linguistic, cultural and professional integration of migrants. Many immigrants do not master Moroccan local languages, which is a real challenge for their socio-cultural and professional integration. Therefore, the project aims at developing a new method of learning Darija for non-Arabic speaking migrants and refugees.

The project aims at strengthening the role of civil society in promoting the rights of migrants, especially through dialogue with local public institutions. Beneficiaries are migrants, refugees, Moroccan returnees and the local population.

The City of Oujda integrated the topic of migration as a transversal theme when it elaborated its Plan d’Action Communal (PAC) for the period of 2017 – 2022. The inhabitants of Oujda, among them Moroccan returnees, migrants and refugees benefit from this project.

Somalia is experiencing a remarkable recovery from decades of war and instability. Moving forward it is essential for the country to develop a strong and sound financial system which is up to international standards in terms of  efficiency, transparency and regulation. One key element of the Somali financial system is mobile money. Mobile money allows Somalis to store money, as well as to receive and make payments. This is a major development for a country that lacks a strong currency, remains unsafe in many regions and in which 90% of the population does not have a bank account.

The Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014 allows the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to rely on state examinations of MTOs, reducing duplicative oversight and increasing the effectiveness of overall supervision. In March 2016, FinCEN released guidance to make regulatory expectations related to MTO principal supervision of agents clearer and to eliminate misunderstandings about what is expected from principals.

The UK Government introduced Payment services legislation in 2017 to implement the second European Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The Legislation will come into force in the UK in January 2018. Under this legislation credit institutions will be required to provide payment service providers (PSPs) with access to payment accounts on a proportionate, objective and non-discriminatory basis, and report instances where access has been denied to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). 

The government of Turkey is working to improve the platform that is set on the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency’s (BRSA) web site and that discloses all fees charged by banks for the services they provide. 



The BRSA started to license payment institutions in July 2015 and will continue to progress this work. 



To improve sector competition, the Law allows payment institutions and electronic money institutions to conduct money remittance services through a more extensive service or agent network compared to banks.