Spain

The Banco Solidario provides small loans at very competitive rates for migrants departing to Spain in order to cover the costs of their flight, the first days in Spain and family support until the migrant receives his/her first pay.

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The Romanian Ministry of Labour, Family and Equal Opportunities, through its National Agency for Employment has held several Job Fair events in Spain and Italy. These initiatives seem to be easier to set up and work better when they are organized at the bilateral rather than at the multilateral level.

Launched in 1994, EURES is a European cooperation network of employment services, designed to facilitate the free movement of workers. The network has always worked hard to ensure that European citizens can benefit from the same opportunities, despite language barriers, cultural differences, bureaucratic challenges, diverse employment laws and a lack of recognition of educational certificates across Europe.

This web portal provides information on access to job opportunities in 32 European countries. It also promotes the cooperation amongst national employment agencies.

This study has three objectives:

1) analyze migration and development in Europe;

2) provide input for continued policy discussions on migration and development beyond Europe, and;

3) assist states in identifying possible future directions, as well as common ground for addressing migration as an inherent part of development.

The project aims to expand knowledge about possible integration outcomes of admission and employment policies for Migrant Domestic Workers. It hopes to enhance stakeholders' capacity to identify and remove barriers for their socioeconomic integration.

A project operating in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali with the support of Spain in order to maximise the development benefits of migration. The project enhances the employability of migrant workers by supporting vocational training institutions as well as improved training and employment services in countries of origin. It also promotes effective reintegration of migrants in national labour markets upon return.

The Co-Development Project between Ecuador's Cañar province and the the Murcia Region in Spain ran between 2008 and 2009. It aimed to improve contitions for migrants from the province of Cañar in the Murcia Region by generating a series of good practices that could potentially be replicated elsewhere.

Created in 2006 to promote modern agriculture and reduce food insecurity, unemployment, illegal emigration and rural exodus, the Agency REVA has been in function since February 2008. Decree 1336 of 29 November 2006 inception, gives two main tasks:

This trust fund was set up with the double aim of strengthening the work of the ECOWAS in the field of migration and development, and also financing civil society and other institutional projects at national and local levels in the areas of policy development and implementation, strengthening of coordination structures, promoting free circulation of people and preventing irregular migration.