Objective 18: Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences

SEVA is an ISO-certified international organisation for sustainable development. SEVA’s strategy is to stimulate entrepreneurship among the poor and marginalized in developing countries. As of 2011, SEVA received funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the project ’Migration and Development 2011-2013’, which is a continuation of a previous, successful project. For the moment, 25 enterprises have already been established in among others Ghana, Rwanda, Burundi, India and Surinam.

The project "Effective Governance of Labour Migration and its Skills Dimensions" aims to buid the capacity in both Ukraine and Moldova to:

• analyse the skills shortages and oversupply resulting from migration;
• balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;
• strengthen PES capacity;
• propose a system for validation of informal learning; guide on skills matching and qualification recognition and design of occupational profiles.

The Canadian Immigrant Integration Program (CIIP), is an overseas project that delivers services such as group and individual counselling and access to information resources:

The main objective of this program is to attract skilled workers who can succeed in the Canadian economy. It was established to serve the Canadian labour market. The key is to recognize different certification processes for industrial, electrical and construction, equipment operation, natural resources, agricultural and utilities sectors.

The objective is to create a competency-based national qualifications framework, supported by sector councils with the goal of harmonizing accreditation frameworks that promote the attainment of skills for work at home and abroad.

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 programme objective is to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and social partners to adopt and implement gender-sensitive labour migration policies, legislation and administration. This will be done by promoting:

i) the adoption and implementation of policies, legislation and administration for better regulation of labour migration flows;

ii) strategies to enhance social security coverage of migrant worker and their families, and;

iii) the improvement of skills’ matching between sending and receiving countries and reducing de-skilling.

A project operating in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali with the support of Spain in order to maximise the development benefits of migration. The project enhances the employability of migrant workers by supporting vocational training institutions as well as improved training and employment services in countries of origin. It also promotes effective reintegration of migrants in national labour markets upon return.

The project works with Nepal's Ministry of Labour and Pakistan's Ministry of Human Resources to promote well-managed labour migration from South Asia. It works to ensure effective protection of the rights of vulnerable migrant workers and enhance the development impact of labour migration and reduce irregular flows. Specific objetives include:

a) providing reliable information on overseas employment opportunities and capacity building for job matching;

This pilot scheme includes specialized employment services and a system for skills testing and certification for main destination countries in Europe. The project objective is to improve governance over circular migration of professionals and highly skilled personnel in the health care sector. This project is funded by the European Commission.