Africa

The Ghanaian government passed the bill granting dual citizenship for Ghanaians living abroad in 2000 and voting rights in 2006. 

As a result of the AENEAS 2006 Labour Migration Project for West Africa, the Labour Migration Unit established a database for candidate migrant workers at the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare of Ghana. Through this and a series of targeted training workshops, the foundation has been laid for the establishment of a job-matching scheme between Ghana and Italy as well as circular migration schemes involving other EU Member States and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

This practice facilitates the investments of individual Malians or Malian Diaspora associations in France in local community development projects or enterprise creation in Mali. Participation in this programme by Malian migrants in France is not conditional on permanent return.

This programme addresses all aspects of migration, including annual consultations between France and Mali and twinning arrangements between villages.

The Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE) is a competitive grant program aimed at funding innovative, small scale development projects which are profit-making, results-oriented and have the potential to be scaled up or replicated.

The program has two components:

The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) was established in 1966 under the Ministry of Health. The Fund's mission is to provide  accessible, affordable, sustainable and quality social health insurance through effective and efficient utilization of resources to the satisfaction of stakeholders, that is the members to the Fund. All the people who contribute to the Fund have access to its facilities and to government hospitals and certain private hospitals within the country. This service is also provided to migrant workers.

The Government of Togo has implemented different recruitment mechanisms to attract qualified members from the diaspora who have scientific and technical skills and those who are interested in creating a Small or Medium enterprise.

National Electronic Labour Exchange (NELEX) project is an innovative platform which is designed to evolve a database of employable Labour in the Country so as to facilitate the job exchange functions of the Ministry.

On NELEX website, you can get the right type of candidate. Our database comprises of employed and unemployed persons that are active searching for work.

Employers and Licenced Private Employment Agencies are allowed to mine through the abundant human capital resources available to arrive at the best mix of jobseekers to fill that job vacancy.

The House Committee on Diaspora established the NiDO's (Nigerians in Diaspora Organizations) to form a global network of all Nigerians living outside Nigeria in order to enable a focused contribution to development through collective efforts en engagement.

The National Policy on Labour Migration addresses the following three broad objectives:

• Promotion of good governance of labour migration;
• Protection of migrant workers and promotion of their welfare and that of families left behind;
• Optimization of the benefits of labour migration on development while mitigating its adverse impact

Specific objectives

Governance

The Ministry of Labour and Productivity invoked the provision of the Labour Act of Nigeria in 2006 to begin the registration of private employment agencies. Conditions for registration as private employment agencies were made stringent enough to discourage fraudulent companies from engaging in job matching and labour contracting both domestically and internationally.