Regional

AMICALL was a transnational action project, coordinated by COMPAS in 2011-2012, exploring the role of Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) in communicating with their citizens about the difficult questions raised by migration. Led by a partnership of six European research institutions, with the Council of Europe as an associate partner, the project provided a platform for the sharing of good practice and the development of new strategies for the communication of positive attitudes towards migrants and migrant integration at the local and regional level.

Visa for Music, a musical event held in Rabat, is the first professional platform gathering and federating artists of the music industry in Morocco, the Middle East, and Africa. The event provides a space for interprofessional music in Morocco for the countries of the South. Visa for Music Association works on the economy of arts, artistic mobility, and narratives on accepting others.

Africa Art Lines Association is a fund that allows artists and cultural operators carrying artistic projects between Morocco and other African countries to benefit from grants for their travel expenses, thus promoting labor mobility and cultural awareness. Africa Art Lines accepts artists and cultural professionals living and working within the continent and holding projects related to Morocco.

The European Programme for Integration and Migration is an initiative of 25 private foundations with the goal of strengthening the role of civil society in building inclusive communities and in developing humane and sustainable responses to migration, by offering targeted, outcome-driven support through collective philanthropic action. 

In the framework of the programme EUROMED Migration IV, ICMPD is developing together with the Observatory on Public Attitudes on Migration (OPAM – EUI) a study in three chapters entitled “Impact of Public Attitudes to migration on the political environment in the Euro-Mediterranean region”.

The Migration Media Award (MMA) recognizes and rewards the journalistic excellence, relevance and newsworthiness of press pieces dealing with migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region in all its aspects. For its first edition in 2017, the MMA rewarded 35 journalists based in an EU country or a Southern Partner Country (SPC) and 41 in 2018, and had their winning stories published on www.migration-media-award.eu.

OBJECTIVES

FAO Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) initiative addresses energy needs during emergencies and protracted crises, and builds resilient livelihoods in a sustainable manner. The work of the SAFE project in this area can have important multiplier effects – from better food security, nutrition and health, to the sustainable management of natural resources, greater resilience to climate change and natural hazards, and increased livelihood opportunities. 

The Recommendations of the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (2018) to guide ASEAN Member States’ efforts on leveraging technology to

1. improve labour migration management, and
2. provide digital services for migrant workers, with an overarching view of furthering all migrant workers’ well-being giving due consideration to gender sensitivity and to the specific needs in rural areas and agricultural sectors.

Deepening financial inclusion and enhancing rural people’s resilience by providing low-cost, cross-border mobile money transfers across the Kenya-Uganda corridor, linked with savings, loans and other financial services, and by promoting entrepreneurship for migrant family investment.