The Business Immigration Program seeks to bring experienced business people to Canada. This program is open to three categories of migrants: investors, entrepreneurs and self-employed persons. These people will help develop a strong and thriving Canadian economy.
The main objective of this program is to attract skilled workers who can succeed in the Canadian economy. It was established to serve the Canadian labour market. The key is to recognize different certification processes for industrial, electrical and construction, equipment operation, natural resources, agricultural and utilities sectors.
This web portal offers a database to employers with information on immigrants looking for jobs reflecting their language and professional experience.
The objective is to create a competency-based national qualifications framework, supported by sector councils with the goal of harmonizing accreditation frameworks that promote the attainment of skills for work at home and abroad.
In Bangladesh the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) has worked with the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment and IOM to create Market Research Units (MRUs) in receiving countries. The MRUs are responsible for gathering information on labour market needs in recruiting countries and to report these to BMET so that they can be taken into account when developing future training and educational programs.
The Algerian-Belgian Medical Association is made up of doctors who organize trips and training days in Algeria. They carry out surgeries free of charge. These actions involve both Belgian and Algerian doctors. Currently there are people that have been trained in Algeria and are now working in Belgium.
The e-Diaspora project has catalogued over 8000 websites relating to some 30 diasporas throughout the world. It clearly shows the abundant resources and vitality of this new universe, in which today’s migrants are full participants.
The project works to strengthen the organizational and institutional capacity in Moldova and Ukraine to regulate legal labour migration and promote sustainable return. It focuses on enhancing human resources capital and preventing skills waste. The project intends to build capacities to:
i) analyse the skills shortages and oversupply as a result of migration;
ii) balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;
This ILO and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) partner project, aims to increase respect for the fundamental rights of workers in Jordan, particularly foreign migrant workers. It supports trade unions outreach to empower migrant workers, providing them with better services and information; it engages factory and QIZ managers, employers and recruitment agencies to increase awareness of workers’ rights; and supports labour-management cooperation aiming for more, better collective bargaining agreements in the QIZ and the construction sector.
A Middle East regional program to provide necessary technical support to national constituents to improve the governance and protection mechanisms afforded to low-skilled women and men migrant workers in different sectors (construction, manufacturing, health, retail, hospitality, tourism, and domestic help). The program's focus is regional data management, research and policy reform; service delivery to migrant workers; and capacity training programmes for key stakeholders.