The goal of this project is to improve financial services, including remittance delivery capacity, of 10 selected micro- finance institutions (MFIs) targeting the rural poor and migrant worker families. The project promotes migrant’s savings and investment through community-based MFIs in the migrant workers’ home villages.
Japan and Indonesia have established a close economic relationship in a wide range of areas: both sides have considerable mutual commercial interest and there’s complementary nature of trade and investment structure of Japan and Indonesia. IJEPA aims to strengthen and promote mutually beneficial economic ties between the two countries, and contribute to realizing multi-layered cooperation for capacity building in various ways.
The integrated project is a tripartite Agreement signed in September 2015 between the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and Burundi Post. It seeks to utilize different components of the postal sector in Burundi to achieve lasting socio-economic development for the rural population as well as for the Burundian diaspora.
The service contributes to enhancing the capacities of the national Moldovan money transfer services providers in order to diversify the existent transfer channels and ensure their transparency and costs reduction, through establishing an efficient and sustainable international money transfers system between Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Republic of Moldova.
The Economic and Financial Learning Program is a pioneer multi-partner initiative for Filipino migrant workers and remittance-receiving family members. It is among the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)’s efforts to promote financial inclusion by educating the public in basic financial matters. The program aims at helping Filipinos understand important economic and financial issues in order for them to develop the “skills needed to make well-informed” decisions and choices.
The H-2B program allows U.S. employers or U.S. agents who meet specific regulatory requirements to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary nonagricultural jobs. The new H-2B issued in April 2015 enhance U.S. worker recruitment and strengthen worker protection with respect to wages, working conditions and benefits that must be offered to H-2B workers and U.S. workers in corresponding employment.
In 2012 President Obama issued an executive order that strengthens existing protections against trafficking relating to federal contractors by, among other things, prohibiting contractors and subcontractors from doing business with the federal government, from charging recruitment fees, to prospective employees, using fraudulent or misleading practices during the recruitment process or withholding workers’ passports or identity documents. These provisions address many of the areas of potential abuse in the recruitment process.
The Law for the Protection and Development of the Salvadoran Migrant Persons and their Families (Ley Especial para la Protección y Desarrollo de la Persona Migrante Salvadoreña y su Familia) was passed by the Parliamentary Assembly in 2011.
The Azerbaijani government continues to assume primary responsibility for the care and protection of the country's 597,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), who fled their homes in the early 1990s as a result of the conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. It has devoted significant resources to IDPs’ problems over the past two decades. It has also raised awareness on displacement, collected data, trained officials on IDPs’ rights and adopted laws, policies and programmes for their protection.
In the end of 2014, after the crisis declared in Honduras due to the important migration of minors, unaccompanied minors, the Government created the Task Force for Migrant Children. It is composed by different entities, as the First Lady Office, the International Cooperation Institution, the Sub Secretary of Consulate and Migrants Issues or the Sub Secretary of Human Rights and Justice. This Task Force is based on the collaboration among institutions in the government, together with other instances of international cooperation, city councils, media, as well as the Chamber of Commerce.