On 26 October 2015, within the framework of the IOM Conference on Migrants and Cities, the JMDI, jointly with IOM, launched the “White Paper on Mainstreaming Migration into Local Development Planning and Beyond” at a side event held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Government of Bangladesh approved 7th Five Year Plan (2016-2021) in October 2015 aiming to empower people by creating employment and skill development opportunities, supplying credit for SME development and many other ways for people to be more productive. Along with growth, the 7th Plan will emphasize social protection, urban transition and a sustainable development pathway resilient to disaster and climate change.
The new Law “General Rules Governing International Development Cooperation” (Italian Law 11 August 2014, no. 125), has been definitively approved by the Italian Senate on 1 August 2014.
The National Council for Migration has been established on a plural basis, and the different sectors get together in order to develop the National Plan for Development. One fundamental component of the Council is the social organizations, since there are two places for the civil society. Thus, the public policies and the different programs can be applied always bearing in mind the logics of the migrant people.
This policy reflects the Costa Rican Government's commitments for the next 10 years (2013- 2023) to manage and control migration flows, ensure adequate integration of migrants and promote national development through regulation and coordination of inter-agency actions on migration.
The Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 adopts a framework of inclusive growth, which is high growth that is sustained, generates mass employment, and reduces poverty. With good governance and anticorruption as the overarching theme of each and every intervention, the Plan translates into specific goals, objectives, strategies, programs and projects all the things that the Philippines aims to accomplish in the medium term. 60 provisions on Migration and Development were included in 7 out of 9 chapters of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016.
• The relevant authorities are aware of the mutual influence of migration on the health sector and dynamic of health sector on migration in Morocco.
• The Ministry of Health integrates the topic M & D in sectoral planning and in the national 2016-2017 strategy.
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Following the Government’s policy regarding the relations with the Diaspora and the cooperation with the international partners in the field of migration and development, the Prime Minister’s Decree nr. 58-d (of June 7th 2013) creates the framework for the implementation of the “whole-of-Government” approach in the field of DMD (Diaspora, Migration and Development).
The MOMID pilot project, implemented in the period 2012 – 2013 in the Republic of Moldova, supported the objective of the Moldovan Government to systematically integrate migration and development agendas and develop national policies on international migration and development for implementation by the relevant government agencies, private sector and non-governmental organisations.
Mainstreaming migration and development issues into national development planning is strategic for Jamaica as it aligns the national priority in the country’s first long-term development planning framework Vision 2030 Jamaica — National Development Plan. The Plan seeks to enable the maximization of the benefits of migration while minimizing the negative impacts.