Republic of Moldova

Official Name
Republic of Moldova
ISO2 Code
MD
ISO3 Code
MDA
Longitude
47 00 N
Latitude
29 00 E
Geolocation
POINT (29 47)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.1 "Mainstreaming migration into development planning - key actors, key strategies, key actions"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Reintegration and circular migration - effective for development?" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Regional and Inter-regional Processes and Fora"
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Joint Strategies to Address Irregular Migration"
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Reducing the cost of migration and maximizing human development"
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship"
  • Team Member in RT 3.3 "How can RCPs and Inter-regional better include the migration and development nexus?" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in Cluster III "Tools for Evidence-based Migration and Development Policies" 
  • Co-Chair in Working Session 3.1 "Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning/Migration Profiles"
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Mainstreaming Migration into Strategic Policy Development" on 12-13 October 2011 in Chisinau, Moldova.
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Migration Profiles: Developing Evidence-based Migration and Development Policies" on 30 June 2011 in New York, USA.
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Migration Profiles - Lessons Learnt" on 12-13 July 2011 in Batumi, Georgia.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Supporting National Development through Migration Mainstreaming Processes, Extended Migration Profiles and Poverty Reduction Strategies" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Operationalizing mainstreaming and coherence in migration and development policies"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin"
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Migrants' social and financial remittances (asset transfers) and their effects on health and education"
  • Team Member in Business Roundtable
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration, particularly labor migration: Cooperative approaches to fair recruitment practices and lower remittance fees"
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDGs"
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants, who are compelled to cross international borders, through international cooperation on labor market access, educational opportunity, family reunification, and other avenues of mobility" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Private sector-government partnerships to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation, with a focus on small and medium entreprises"
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Reducing migration costs"
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2 "Connectivity and migration"
  • Panelist in RT 2.1 "Migration, diversity and harmonious societies"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Protection of migrants in all situations" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Harmonious Societies" on 18 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.1 "Tools and Safeguards for policy coherence - finding the right policy mix to balance different interests and objectives" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Fostering the development impact of returning migrants"
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

Government Team Member in RT 3.1 "Aligning governancr with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" 18-19 April 2018, Morocco

Republic of Moldova

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), Mission to Moldova is proud to present the result of a two years work in the field of migration data collecting and analysis in Moldova - the Extended Migration Profile (EMP) Report of the Republic of Moldova, developed in context of the project “Supporting the implementation of the migration and development component of the EU–Moldova Mobility Partnership”, funded by EU and implemented by IOM.

Republic of Moldova

“Migration in Moldova: A Country Profile 2008” is part of a series of migration profiles produced by IOM Budapest within the “Black Sea Consultative Process on Migration Management” project, funded from IOM’s 1035 Facility. Moldova is a net emigration country. Moldavians started to emigrate soon after the country proclaimed its independence, but emigration (especially Labour migration) has started to peak in the late 1990s following a severe economic crisis.

Council of Heads of Migration

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The Council has been established as an effective mechanism of cooperation. In practice, Russia and partners from CIS have signed bilateral and multilateral agreements and schemes for organized recruitment of foreign labour force which guarantee migrants with rights, competitive salaries, security and other crucial issues.

Effective Governance of Labour Migration and its Skills Dimensions - Moldova, Ukraine

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The project "Effective Governance of Labour Migration and its Skills Dimensions" aims to buid the capacity in both Ukraine and Moldova to:

  • analyse the skills shortages and oversupply resulting from migration;
  • balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;
  • strengthen PES capacity;
  • propose a system for validation of informal learning; guide on skills matching and qualification recognition and design of occupational profiles.

Effective Governance of Labour Migration and its Skills Dimension (2010-2013)

Submitted by Mr. Dário Muhamudo on

The project works to strengthen the organizational and institutional capacity in Moldova and Ukraine to regulate legal labour migration and promote sustainable return. It focuses on enhancing human resources capital and preventing skills waste. The project intends to build capacities to:

i) analyse the skills shortages and oversupply as a result of migration;

ii) balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;

iii) negotiate and manage labour migration schemes, including bilateral agreements on social protection, and;

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