Capacity Building

Barbados offers certain scholarships that require students to return to the country and work in their field for a period of time.

The "Welcome Home Plan" of Ecuador offers training in entrepreneurship and financial issues to returning migrants. The Welcome Home Plan (also known as Plan Bienvenidas a Casa) was launched by Ecuadorian Government under President Rafael Correa’s 2006 campaign to aid in the return of immigrants in a way that is “voluntary, dignified and sustainable.”

IOM, jointly with the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), implemented a project which aimed to contribute to the GoN’s initiatives to generate employment opportunities for returnee migrants and remittance receiving households (RRHHs), through the engagement of the private sector in Nepal. The project funded by IOM Development Fund was a joint initiative of the MoLE and IOM following discussions with government, returnee migrant organizations and the private sector.

The Tanzania's Employment Service Agency (TaESA) is an Executive Agency under the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Under this agency, and in order to better protect departing migrants, the Government of Tanzania organizes pre-departure training to migrants.

Apart from the provision of the above trainings, the TaESA has the main functions:

The Migration Information Bureau was set up in July 2006 and it has been in charge of prevention and awareness raising on the risks and costs of irregular migration. The Service has recently launched a documentary to be aired on all the country's TV channels and has been involved in Public Education Campaigns (PEC's) throughout the country, involving lectures, drama, stories of returnees, leaflets and posters.

OBJECTIVES

The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), has established (with the support of IOM) a Migrant Resource Center in Kathmandu which provides correct and reliable information on overseas migration and destination countries to potential labour migrants. This includes mandatory pre-departure training to migrants, literacy training to families of migrants and entrepreneurship training to returnees - the MRC's have been expanded in order to cover more districts. Insurance is also mandatory for every departing migrant. 

This Program offers courses on Korean language and society to foreign immigrants, encouraging them to sign up by offering certain incentives (e.g., they will be exempt from the written exam and interview for acquiring citizenship and the waiting period is also shortened).

Ecuador’s former National Secretariat for Migrants (Secretaria Nacional para el Migrante - SENAMI) has been elevated to the level of Deputy Ministry for Human Mobility (Viceministerio de Movilidad Humana).

This Diaspora Database supports the Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) project which is a comprehensive guiding framework to accommodate the desire of migrants and diaspora members to contribute to the development of their countries of origin, and to facilitate the circulation of their competencies, expertise and experience in Africa.

The State Office for Croats abroad is a central state administration body established to promote cooperation and strengthen relations between the Republic of Croatia and Croatians living outside the country.

The State Office is mandated under the Act on the Relations between the Republic of Croatia and the Croatians outside the Republic of Croatia to: