Transfer of Values, Ideas, Knowledge and Skills

Attracting Qualified Human Resources from Abroad Program.

Three Somali regions (Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland) have mainstreamed migration into their respective Health Sector Strategic Plans January 2013 – December 2016. There is recognition of the great reliance of the public health system on contributions from by bilateral donors, UN agencies, and NGOs, which are nevertheless short-term interventions. Similarly, diaspora contributions to human resource development are acknowledged; in some cases it is noticed that skills are concentrated in a few young well-trained staff from the diaspora.

In 2014 the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation has started to work with a group of six individuals from the Bosnian Diaspora in Switzerland who have initiated a process to constitute an overarching diaspora platform for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Switzerland. The platform aims at connecting the fragmented Bosnian Diaspora in Switzerland with view to providing information, fostering exchange and transfer of knowledge and skills, as well as promoting initiatives of the diaspora for the development of their country of origin.

The CTRS project is an initiative of the Swiss development cooperation in Tunisia. The project interventions focus on cooperation with the Tunisian Government in line with its efforts in strengthening Tunisia’s links with its diaspora and to promoting the diaspora’s engagement in Tunisia’s national and local development.
The project aims at acknowledging the competences and skills of the Tunisians living in Switzerland with view to strengthening their contribution to the socio-economic development of Tunisia in four areas:

The project was implemented within the framework of the Dialogue on Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM) by ICMPD and IOM between July 2011 and September 2014. The overall objective of the project was to enhance the institutional capacities of national authorities charged with migration and development to better harness the contributions of their diaspora communities.

The role of the Ghanaian Diaspora in national development has, in recent years, won unprecedented recognition from the government at the highest levels. The Government values the ideas, skills and contributions of Ghanaians abroad, just as those living in Ghana, much more than any other natural resource and therefore, considers the entire Ghanaian populace as its basic first priority. Government has therefore, taken steps to leverage Diaspora knowledge, experience, skills and financial resources to complement those at home for accelerated national development.

This program provides newcomers with training, mentoring and supports required to become self-employed by providing them with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to participate in the local labour market as entrepreneurs.

Starting in 2010, this seminar series have attracted more than 300 participants around Portugal. The objectives of the program include promoting diversity on the media, improving the theme of immigration in research and media production and promoting the values of intercultural diversity and integration of migrant communities.

Eight stories about the experience of migrants in Greece were broadcast on TV100, a TV channel serving northern Greece, following a TV & radio production training course on migration and diversity, organised jointly by the Media Diversity Institute and Symβiosis, in partnership with TV100 in 2012.

IOM's MIDA program, launched in 2001 and operating in eleven African countries, supports the short or longer term (or virtual) return of expatriate skills to key sectors. In each country, a multi-sectoral MIDA Steering Committee is set up, with the aim of greater coherence within the governments. The networks of participants strengthen interactions between origin and destination countries, which may stimulate further returns and development projects involving diaspora and/or the productive use of remittances.