Collaboration between the USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub and the Diaspora Investment Alliance (DIA)

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The USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub (the Hub) helps to facilitate East African Community (EAC) investment and technology adoption. The project connects investors with investees and builds awareness of opportunities for African and U.S. firms to increase trade and expand business partnerships, particularly under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

Sendai Cooperation Initiative for Disaster Risk Reduction

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The Sendai Cooperation Initiative for Disaster Risk Reduction outlines Japan's cooperation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) from 2015 to 2018, through a triple approach combining: 1) non-material assistance, such as human resource development and institutional development, 2) material assistance centering on the development of quality infrastructure, and 3) the promotion of global and region-wide cooperation.          

Ghana's National Migration Policy (NMP)

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For the first time since independence in 1957, the Government of Ghana has formulated a National Migration Policy (NMP) to help manage its internal and international migration flows in the context of national development as well as sub-regional, regional and global interests. The Government of Ghana formally approved it in April 2015, policy which was developed with support from IOM Ghana and the IOM Development Fund (IDF).

Improving human security in the bateyes

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The goal of the project is to protect residents in the bateyes from physical threats to their human security while empowering isolated communities to access their rights by way of: (i) ensuring that Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, and Dominicans living in the bateyes are protected from threats to personal and political security; (ii) strengthening economic security by enhancing people’s income generation capacity and providing educational opportunities; (iii) decreasing the high levels of food insecurity; (iv) advancing health security by increasing access to basic primary care and

Ad hoc inter-ministerial committee to manage refugee emergency situations

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The Inter-ministerial Ad hoc Committee to manage emergency situations concerning refugees in Cameroon was created by President Paul Biya on March 2014 as a response to the massive influx of refugees and displaced people escaping from the sectarian fighting in the Central African Republic as well as those escaping from the armed fighting between Boko Haram and army of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Statistics on the refugee situation in the country put the total number at above 110,000.

Civil Society "Stockholm Agenda" on migrant and migration-related goals and targets

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On June 19, 2014 a civil society agenda on the inclusion of migrants and migration in the post-2015 development framework was launched by the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) in partnership with civil society networks Global Coalition on Migration, NGO Committee on Migration New York, and MADE, with the endorsement of over 100 additional organizations.



Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

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The post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction was adopted at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, which represented a unique opportunity for countries to:

(a) Adopt a concise, focused, forward-looking and action-oriented post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;

(b) Complete the assessment and review of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters;

Philippine Medium Term Development Plan (2004 - 2010)

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The basic task of the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP), 2004-2010 was  to fight poverty by building prosperity for the greatest number of the Filipino people. 

With more than 4 million workers abroad, the Philippines systematically included labor emigration in the Plan to supplement its wider national program of job generation to alleviate poverty. The plan includes, for instance, topics such as dealing with brain drain by turning push factors into pull factors

Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM)

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 As an example of South-South capacity building at a bilateral level: Cuba offers training of health personnel to other developing countries, for example through its Latin American School of Medicine, which produces more than 2000 graduate doctors every year for Latin America and the Caribbean; and its brigades of health professionals to fill resource gaps in poorer countries.

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