Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration

Referring to its two pledges/commitment during the New York Leaders Summit, Tanzania is reviewing its 2003 refugee policy so as to abide with international requirements, like having provisions for inclusion and self reliance, and two, to provide access to local employment for qualified refugees into the local labor market.

Tanzania have also amended the Immigration Act 2015, as well as Immigration Regulations 2016 all under CAP 54, to give preferential treatment to East African Citizen, with reduced fees and entry qualifications.

South Africa has come up with Special Permits for undocumented Zimbabweans and Lesotho nationals to regularise their stay. This progressive measure is aimed at recognising the specific vulnerabilities that migrants find themselves in.

The Migration Strategy 2016-2020 is the third strategic document for Georgia defining migration policy. It aims to provide a strategy to reach Georgia's migration policy goal by 2020 which is to create a legislative and institutional environment that: 

The European Union introduced a new Migration Partnership Framework in June 2016 that fully integrates migration in the European Union’s foreign policy. This is a key element of the European Union Global Strategy.

This Recommendation supplements the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised 1949), No.97 by including provisions for migrants who are refugees and displaced persons.

The Recommendation contains guidance on, among other matters, the organization of the free service provided to assist migrants and the types of assistance that it should provide, as well as the information that  States should make available to the ILO. It provides for the regulation of intermediaries undertaking the recruitment, introduction or placing of migrants for employment.

 It calls for:

Budapest Process is a good example of cooperation between countries of two regions; Europe and Asia. A successful process, it gathers over 50 countries and more than ten international organisations. It aims to foster dialogue and share best practices in managing migration flows in order to achieve concrete and results-oriented outcomes.

The Almaty Process aims to address the multiple challenges resulting from complex migration dynamics and mixed migratory movements in Central Asia and the wider region, in a cooperative and coordinated manner.

The Almaty Process promotes sustained dialogue and exchange of information on migration issues and on refugee protection challenges such as, but not limited to:

• Irregular migration
• Human Trafficking
• Migrant Vulnerabilities
• Migrant Integration
• Human Mobility
• Human Rights of Migrants.

The mobility partnerships are the most complete framework for bilateral cooperation between the EU and its partners, based on mutual offers of commitments and project initiatives covering mobility, migration and asylum issues, within the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM). Helping citizens to move around Europe in a secure environment is a key component of the Eastern Partnership, which promotes the mobility of the citizens of the EU Eastern partner countries through visa facilitation agreements, and provides rules for managing the return of irregular migrants through

Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD) is a regional consultative process on managing labour migration in Asia and focuses on developing four key, action-oriented partnerships between countries of origin and destination for development around the subject of temporary contractual labour, based on a notion of partnership and shared responsibility:

On February 4, 2016, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), an agency of the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) which regulates activities related to Filipino migrant workers, passed Governing Board Resolution No. 4, series of 2016, which allows private recruitment agencies in the Philippines to participate in the recruitment, deployment and employment of Filipino nurses for Germany free of placement fee charges.