The Co-Development Project between Ecuador's Cañar province and the the Murcia Region in Spain ran between 2008 and 2009. It aimed to improve contitions for migrants from the province of Cañar in the Murcia Region by generating a series of good practices that could potentially be replicated elsewhere.
Since 1996, the Dutch city of Almere has maintained friendship relations with the city of Kumasi in Ghana. In 2001, the Mayors of Almere and Kumasi signed the “Sister Cities Agreement 2001-2006”, in which the principles of their co-operation are laid down.
This agreement involves Ghanaian migrants that facilitate collaboration in the areas of waste management, urban planning, women empowerment and cultural exchanges.
This Handbook presents the One-Stop-Shop approach as a holistic strategy for mainstreaming the provision of immigration services and facilitating migrant integration process. The One-Stop Shop promotes the idea that integration is a two-way process, where the receiving society actively engages in ensuring the integration and adaptation of migrants.
At the request of the Governments of Netherlands and Switzerland, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) developed this handbook as a tool for policymakers and practitioners to help them reach out to their diaspora and develop meaningful partnerships with them in their home and host countries. The handbook reflects the outcomes of a survey implemented jointly by the IOM and MPI among GFMD focal points, as well as the discussions within the GFMD on how to engage the diasporas and migrant communities.
In order to better protect migrant children, Mexico has created a unique model for the Protection of Unaccompanied Migrant and returnee children and adolescents. The model includes the creation of a specialized corps of child protection officers (in Spanish: Oficial de Protección a la Infancia, OPI) within the National Migration Institute (INM).
The policy memorandum sets out the migration and development policy framework for the Government of The Netherlands, focusing on six key policy priorities aimed at areas in which the Netherlands can make a difference, such as institutional development in migration management; promoting circular migration and brain gain; strengthening the involvement of migrant organizations; strengthening the link between remittances and development and encouraging sustainable return and reintegration.
The Rwandan Diaspora Guide provides information to Rwandan Diaspora on national procedures and opportunities. Information is included on diaspora mobilisation and advocacy, knowledge transfer, money transfer, business or investment opportunities and available facilities for Rwandan Diaspora.
More than 30% of qualified Hondurans have emigrated. Some of these emigrants have founded a network called "Honduras Global" in which they systematically organize a knowledge transfer back to Honduras. With support from the Honduran government, the private sector, foundations and GIZ, the network organizes mentoring, summer schools and networking as well as fundraising for start-ups.
Since 1983 the Philippines has provided a Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) providing relevant and tailor-made information to help them cope with their new work environment and the culture of their country of destination.
Since 2009, the PDOS has expanded with the implementation of a Comprehensive Pre-Departure Education Program (CPDEP) for Household Service Workers (HSWs).
The unlimited potential program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is a public private partnership between the government of the Philippines and Microsoft (as part of the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Program-Community Technology Skills Program (UP-CTSP)). The program focuses on improving lifelong learning for under-served Filipino youth and adults by establishing learning centers and providing IT skills training in cooperation with non-governmental organizations.