The main objective of Pagesos Solidaris is to participate in the human, economic and social development of rural communities and to give these communities support to develop organizational structures. To this end the Foundation aims to:
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO published this brochure, as a contribute to greater transparency among the various operators and services on the Swiss market. In addition, in promoting private sector development in transition and developing countries, it is helping to create attractive savings and investment opportunities on site. This encourages recipients to use the money not only for spending but also, and increasingly, for productive investments, thereby contributing to growth and job creation in their own country.
The overall objective of MIDA (Migration for Development in Africa) is to assist African governments to achieve their development goals through the creation and strengthening of sustainable links between migrants and their countries of origin.
MIDA focuses on the circulation of competencies, expertise and experience of the Diasporas, without jeopardizing their legal status in their host countries or newly adopted home countries.
Swedfund provides risk capital, expertise and financial support for investments in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Swedfund’s mission is “to help in enabling poor people to improve their lives” and “to bring about strengthened democracy, equitable and sustainable development”. By co-financing sound investments, it encourages economically, environmentally and socially sustainable development.
Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen signed an agreement to start electronic money transfers using technology that has been developed by the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
According to the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the agreement will now allow the eight countries to exchange money orders on a multilateral basis. This is particularly valuable in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, where more than 80% of the population are foreigners, and millions of dollars are sent to home countries through remittances.
The project has as main goal to promote the creation of business ventures by immigrants through their training to acquire entrepreneurship skills.
Main activities:
Portugal recently established an Office for the Support of Family Reunification (GARF) in each of its National Centers for Immigrant Support, in Lisbon, Porto and Faro.
The National Centers for Immigrant Support were created in 2004 to address some of the challenges faced by immigrants in their integration process in Portugal. Due to the cultural differences, differences in the society, differences in the legal system and the number of different services to which the immigrants have to access led to the creation of a center that would bring together in the same space all different services, institutions and offices available to immigrants.
The goals of this scheme are the following: to develop the operational framework and logistical roadmap for the pilot circular migration scheme between Ukraine and Portugal; to test the effectiveness of the established operational framework/logistical roadmap for the pilot through selection of migrant workers and delivering pre-departure and post-arrival trainings; to facilitate the return and effective reinsertion of 50 Ukrainian temporary migrants into the local labour market, through provision of vocational trainings, and; to test the effectiveness of incentives package for circularity t
CAMPO started as a project in the area of migration that promoted regular mobility between Cape Verde and the European Union (EU): Strengthening the capacity of Cape Verde to manage labour and return migration within the Framework of the Mobility Partnership EU/CV. It provides free counseling services to Cape-Verdean citizens willing to migrate to the EU. It also provided reintegration information to EU retuning Cape Verdean migrants.