Return and Reintegration

The Swedish Public Employment Service leads a 3-year project 2012-2014 aiming to strengthening the capacity of Moldovan authorities to manage return migration and supporting social and economic reintegration of returning Moldovan citizens, informing the Moldovan population on the possibilities of working and living legally in the EU and enhancing the capacity of Moldovan Diaspora Associations to better maximize the links between migration and labour market development in destination countries and in Moldova.

The overall objective of the project is to strengthen Georgia’s capacities to harness the development potential of its Mobility Partnership (MP) for the benefit of migrants, the sending and receiving country. This shall be achieved by means of activities in four components:

The Government of Thailand pays special attention to returning workers from overseas employment. If they fail to get a job or get lower wages, the government will facilitate accessible labor market services and provide career counseling services to enable them to get the right job matching with their qualifications and employers’ demands.

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) grants tax incentives to diaspora, including through lower customs duties and fees, reduction in income tax rates, lower tariffs on equipment for investment, and tax deductions on charitable goods. 

This project seeks to support Rwanda’s outreach to its diaspora in the EU and beyond and supports short-term individual teaching placements in the health sector.

This allowed for 13 specialist doctors from the Diaspora to participated in short-term programs treating Rwandans in hospitals located in remote areas of the country. 

The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has a Returning Nationals Secretariat, which offers assistance and services to returnees such as help finding jobs, locating housing and getting access to other social services. They also offer guidance and essential information, assistance navigating the relocation bureaucracy and counselling where necessary. 

Nationals who have lived abroad for at least ten years qualify for certain tax exemptions upon returning.

CAMPO started as a project in the area of migration that promoted regular mobility between Cape Verde and the European Union (EU): Strengthening the capacity of Cape Verde to manage labour and return migration within the Framework of the Mobility Partnership EU/CV. It provides free counseling services to Cape-Verdean citizens willing to migrate to the EU. It also provided reintegration information to EU retuning Cape Verdean migrants.

The OFW Reintegration Program (OFW-RP) is a special loan program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in partnership with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank).  It is intended to support enterprises development among OFWs and their families.

The Israel Brain Gain program was created to assist Israeli scholars considering returning to Israel. The program has consolidated all the information about opportunities, programs and benefits of the various government offices, in one place.

The program will assist interested individuals with:

The Government of Germany, supports the establishment of a training and information centre in Shakhrizabz, Uzbekistan, which inter alia offers business start-up training, enhancement of entrepreneurship skills, and financial literacy courses to returning migrants and families, as well as the local unemployed.