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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.

Israel made substantial efforts on integration with the elaboration of their Ulpan Program. 

Intensive Hebrew Language Programs for new immigrants are usually housed within Absorption Centers, and include five hours of intensive, immersive Hebrew-language instruction, five days a week, for five months.

The project Nascer Cidadão (To be born a citizen) allows every new born to be automatically and immediately registered in the hospitals and public maternities. This prevents parents from being forced into bureaucracy and helps to detect  any kind of vulnerabilites and special needs of certain communities, parents and their children

In 2015 the Strategic Plan for Migration came into effect. This is to meet several new challenges at the demographic, economic and social level faced by Portugal.

The Strategic Plan focuses on 5 priority policy areas:

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.

This Handbook is a tool to accompany training on the operationalization of the ‘Guidelines: Protection Assistance for Vulnerable Migrants in Zambia’. The Handbook will be used during training of first line officials, to help them understand the needs of vulnerable migrants and to assist them in becoming conversant with international and national standards to be upheld in meeting the needs of such migrants.   

The Thai Cabinet endorsed in October 2016 the National Strategy Migrant Worker Management B.E. 2560-2564 (2017-2021), which amongst its objectives, include the management of the importation, working condition, and the return to the country of origin of migrant labor and the improvement of migrant labor standards to become in line with international standards.

Recognizing the importance and dynamics of migration, as well as the challenges of both immigration and international emigration, the Government of Burundi has initiated the process of drafting and adopting a National Migration Policy. This document resulted in a draft of the National Migration Policy and a National Diaspora Policy that were adopted.

In pursuit of building a unified, inclusive and caring South African society, the Department of Home Affairs launched the inaugural Mkhaya Migrants Awards as part of the Africa Day 2015 programme, marked annually on the 25th of May.

The Mkhaya Migrants Awards aim primarily to recognise outstanding migrants residing in the country who immensely make contribution to South Africa’s development in various fields. Secondarily, it also acknowledges South Africans contributing to the development of the African continent through their work in areas of need and strife.

Due to the lack of a national migration data system a first Migration Profile (MP) project in 2010, which culminated in the publication of “A Review on Vietnamese Migration Abroad”, was implemented by the Government of Viet Nam in partnership with the International Organization of Migration.