In Bangladesh the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) has worked with the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment and IOM to create Market Research Units (MRUs) in receiving countries. The MRUs are responsible for gathering information on labour market needs in recruiting countries and to report these to BMET so that they can be taken into account when developing future training and educational programs.
The Colombo Process is a Regional Consultative Process on the management of overseas employment and contractual labour for countries of origins in Asia. According to best estimates, over 2.5 million Asian workers leave their countries every year under contract to work abroad. A large proportion of workers from South and Southeast Asia head for the Gulf States to perform various types of service, trade and construction jobs, while others move to North America, Europe and Asian countries.
The e-Diaspora project has catalogued over 8000 websites relating to some 30 diasporas throughout the world. It clearly shows the abundant resources and vitality of this new universe, in which today’s migrants are full participants.
A research project focused on labour market integration of newly arrived immigrants in six EU countries. The project will provide new empirical evidence on the labour-market integration trajectories of these immigrants into middle-skilled jobs. Relying on a combination of data analysis, qualitative research, and interviews with policymakers and social partners.
The project works to strengthen the organizational and institutional capacity in Moldova and Ukraine to regulate legal labour migration and promote sustainable return. It focuses on enhancing human resources capital and preventing skills waste. The project intends to build capacities to:
i) analyse the skills shortages and oversupply as a result of migration;
ii) balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;
The purpose of this project is to contribute to the Government of Ghana's effort to mobilise the country's diaspora toward its socio economic development through dialogue and subsequent developmental engagements in Ghana.
The project targets Ghanaian diaspora associations in the 6 countries with the highest concentration of Ghanaian emigrants. Specific interventions include:
1) a profiling of Ghanaian diaspora groups in target countries;
2) the holding of dialogue fora between the GoG and the diaspora;
The LMIS project ("Best practices on collecting and sharing Labour Migration Data for the improvement of the Labour Market Information Systems") was aimed at supporting the inclusion and proper management of labour migration information in labour market information systems (LMIS); contributing to policy making with a view to fostering greater intra regional labour mobility and international dialogue and cooperation and also to enhancing the positive effect of migration on the economic development of six countries in the sub-region including Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Libya.
The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare & Overseas Employment was established in 2001 by the Government of Bangladesh with the main objective to ensure the welfare of expatriate workers and enhance overseas employment. As a new institution, the Bureau of Manpower, Employment & Training (BMET) is currently the Ministry's only active unit. The objective BMET is to create new overseas employment opportunities through the global market. BMET ensures the welfare for the overseas employees and helps them directly to search works in the various countries of the world.
The Tanzania's Employment Service Agency (TaESA) is an Executive Agency under the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Under this agency, and in order to better protect departing migrants, the Government of Tanzania organizes pre-departure training to migrants.
Apart from the provision of the above trainings, the TaESA has the main functions:
This Diaspora Database supports the Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) project which is a comprehensive guiding framework to accommodate the desire of migrants and diaspora members to contribute to the development of their countries of origin, and to facilitate the circulation of their competencies, expertise and experience in Africa.