“Distance Education Oriented for Salvadorans Abroad” is the name of the program currently being executed by the Viceministry for Salvadorans Abroad and Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador (UTEC), which will allow the undertaking of joint actions to develop distance educational services for Salvadorans living overseas.
In January 2013, the OECD launched the project, “Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development: case studies and policy recommendations”, which aims to enhance partner countries’ capacity to incorporate migration into the design and implementation of their development strategies. The project seeks to better understand how international migration affects non-migration related public policies, and conversely, how these affect migration.
The National Reintegration Program promotes the delivery of responsive, productive and sustainable reintegration services to oversea Filipino worker returnees that will enable them to maximize the gains of overseas employment, mitigate the social costs of migration and cushion the impact of forced repatriation due to unexpected events.
The basic task of the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP), 2004-2010 was to fight poverty by building prosperity for the greatest number of the Filipino people.
With more than 4 million workers abroad, the Philippines systematically included labor emigration in the Plan to supplement its wider national program of job generation to alleviate poverty. The plan includes, for instance, topics such as dealing with brain drain by turning push factors into pull factors
"Development on the Move" is a ground-breaking global research project gathering new qualitative and quantitative data about migration’s development impacts. The project aims to comprehensively assess how migration affects development in a number of different countries around the world, and how policy can maximise migration’s development benefits and minimise its costs. It is a joint project of the Global Development Network (GDN) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), UK.
The Government of Mauritius has established a multi-agency "Empowerment Programme", in order to, among other objectives, mount training and re-skilling programmes for the unemployed and to enhance Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) development. Established in 2006, the Programme has become today an important tool in efforts to reskill those who have lost jobs in declining sectors, to reintegrate those who are left behind and to prevent those on the periphery from sliding into poverty.
The Occupation Permit (OP) is a combined work and residence permit which allows foreign nationals to work and reside in Mauritius under the following 3 specific categories(Investor, Professional & Self-Employed).
With this facility, if private sector needs are not met, the Government can issue Occupation Permits allowing a company to meet their needs abroad. This facility also covers foreign investors.
The Dual Training and University Program is based on the active cooperation of the Private Sector and the universities in Mauritius. In this collaboration, the university and private sector representatives sit together and assess the future job needs. This close collaboration allows for gradutes to have higher possibilities of finding a job after finishing university.
Through Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade, federal, provincial and territorial governments agreed to eliminate inter-provincial barriers to the free movement of workers, goods, services and investments within Canada. In early 2009, all governments approved amendments to Chapter 7 of the Agreement to achieve full labour mobility for workers in regulated professions and red seal trades. The Chapter now requires that a certified worker in one province or territory who wishes to relocate to another province or territory to work shall, upon application, be certified for t
The National Bureau of Statistics in Moldova is gathering information about Migration in three national surveys:
Every Survey focuses on different aspects of Migration (labour, remittances use, etc...), contributing important data to the IOM Extended Migration Profile (EMP) Report of the Republic of Moldova released in 2012.