Capacity Building

The OPT program is a broad opportunity that is available to graduates in any field and provides a visa to stay 12 months in the United States after graduation. The US is a top destination for studying sciences, technology, engineering and math, the STEM fields. And as part of a particular effort around those fields, the US has expanded access to the OPT program for those in the STEM fields for an additional seventeen months beyond the initial twelve month for the prior program.

The website called EducationUSA.info operates as comprehensive and very user-friendly website but partners up advisers in US Embassies and Consulates overseas with the variety of partner institution who provides millions of international students with information on US universities. The Department of Home Land and Security similarly host a website about studying in the States .dhs.gov.

College assistant migrant program helps students who are migratory seasonal farm workers enroll in their first year of undergraduate university studies. Those projects include services like visits to employers and graduate programs, vocation exploration and internships. And then to supplement primary education for refugee kids. The US Department for Health and Human Services provides grants to help refugee children to improve their academic performance and adjust and integrate.

The High School Equivalency Program (HEP) helps migratory and seasonal farmworkers (or children of such workers) who are 16 years of age or older and not currently enrolled in school to obtain the equivalent of a high school diploma and, subsequently, to gain employment or begin postsecondary education or training. The program serves approximately 5,000 students annually. Competitive awards are made for up to five years of funding.

The Brazilian Service to Micro and Small and Enterprises (SEBRAE) is a non-profit private entity. It is an agent of capacity building and promotion of development created to support the small business in the country. It works since 1972 to stimulate entrepreneurship and enable the competitiveness and sustainability of the micro and small initiatives.

It also encourages workers in Brazil to attain professional qualifications.

The idea of Health Portals is to make it easier for people to get health services, and also to create an awareness about public health. They also do vaccination campaigns. These health portals are done together with private health and public health agencies in the US.

The Portuguese and Brazilian Governments signed a bilateral agreement in 2009 aimed at regularizing the immigrant status of several Brazilian nationals residing in Portugal. 

The Council of Brazilians Abroad (Conselhos dos Brasileiros no Mundo) establilshes the principles and directives of the Brazilian Government policy towards its communities residing abroad. It created the Brazilians around the World Conferences - CBM, the Council of Representatives of Brazilians abroad - CRBE and, under the coordination of the MInistry of External Relations, acts on behalf of the Brazilian communities abroad.

The medical training initiative accommodates overseas post-graduate medical specialists to undertake a fixed period of training in the UK for up to two years. This is a temporary route and it seeks to promote circular migration so that participants in a particular scheme could return to their home country and apply the skills and knowledge developed during that time in the UK. 



The MTI scheme allows International Medical Graduates (IMGs) to come to the UK for a maximum of 2 years to train within the National Health Service (NHS).

The UK funds a health partnership scheme, which enables overseas volunteering by UK health professionals in order to contribute effectively to global health development and also to strengthen the skills of the UK workforce when the volunteer returns. 

The Health Partnership Scheme (HPS) works to improve healthcare for some of the world’s poorest people through partnerships between the NHS and UK institutions and developing countries’ health systems.