In Sweden, a three-year programme to promote entrepreneurship among people with a foreign background was initiated in 2008 by the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications and implemented by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional growth (NUTEK). It includes specific measures to increase banks’ awareness of the needs of migrant business owners in order to facilitate the extension of loans to those clients.
The Home Development Mutual Fund (abbreviated as HDMF), more popularly known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development responsible for the administration of the national savings program and affordable shelter financing for Filipinos employed by local and foreign-based employers as well as voluntary and self-employed members. It offers its members short-term loans and access to housing programs.
The Salvadoreños en el Exterior (Salvadorans Abroad) portal is a platform that proposes a set of social projects and basic infrastructures in the most vulnerable areas of El Salvador, which need financial resources, to Salvadorans residing abroad. It creates opportunities for these citizens to contribute to the development of their country and to use their financial resources to successful productive initiatives.
The Norwegian Training Center, Manila (NTC-M) was established by the Norwegian Shipowners' Association (NSA) in order to provide relevant upgrading training for Filipino seafarers serving on the ships of its members.
Ghanacoop is a social cooperative promoting the competences of Ghanaian migrants residing in the Province of Modena, Italy. The cooperative was created through IOM's Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) programme, which supports migrant diasporas wishing to invest in their country through skills transfer and new enterprises,
The Ghanaian diaspora have partnered with local government and local business to set up agrarian cooperatives back home, which in turn trade their produce with the community in Italy.
Labour Market Information tools: Employment and Social Development Canada’s (ESDC) Job Bank (www.jobbank.gc.ca) and Working in Canada (www.WorkinginCanada.gc.ca) Web sites help connect Canadians with available jobs. These sites will be merged into one (new Job Bank) in Winter 2014. By using Job Bank:
The Korean Government’s Employment Permit System has integrated provision of free training and reintegration services with a view to minimising overstay by temporary migrant workers admitted under the EPS.
There are measures to prevent human trafficking in the fishery industry by establishing Coordination Centers for Sea Fishery Workers with the purpose to coordinate whose workers are allowed to work legally, to set up a system for controlling, monitoring and protecting workers as well as to provide knowledge to employers and workers to acknowledge their rights, as well as to prevent labour shortage and forced labour as a form of human trafficking.
The Department of Employment of Thailand has started to send workers from the agricultural sector to Israel under the Thailand-Israel Employment Cooperation (TIC) secured via an Agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). This scheme benefits the workers and reduces the cost for all Thai workers overseas.
This objective is to make diaspora investment and remittances more productive and effective and to connect western markets and emerging markets.
The Diaspora Business Centre is a one stop shop that combines business and social interests, paired with professional know-how by diaspora experts.
Their activities entail the following: