Ukraine

Lithuania has bilateral agreements on migrant workers with Germany, Ukraine, and Russia. 

This Extended Migration Profile (2011) has been prepared in the framework of the “Building Migration Partnerships” initiative funded by the European Union’s Thematic Programme, which was implemented between January 2009 and June 2011. The overall objective of this initiative was to contribute to the implementation of the Joint Declaration agreed at the Prague Ministerial Conference "Building Migration Partnerships" (April 2009). This Extended Migration Profile has been elaborated on the basis of a template prepared by the European Commission.

Migration in Ukraine: 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. Nowadays, Ukraine is a country of origin, transit, and destination for migrants. The main bulk of immigrants originate in the FSU countries, whereas migrants from outside the former Soviet area constitute a less significant share of the total number of immigrants. Concerning emigration from Ukraine, the numbers vary greatly across sources.

The goals of this scheme are the following: to develop the operational framework and logistical roadmap for the pilot circular migration scheme between Ukraine and Portugal; to test the effectiveness of the established operational framework/logistical roadmap for the pilot through selection of migrant workers and delivering pre-departure and post-arrival trainings; to facilitate the return and effective reinsertion of 50 Ukrainian temporary migrants into the local labour market, through provision of vocational trainings, and; to test the effectiveness of incentives package for circularity t

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.

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;