Policy Coherence

As agreed in the National Development Plan 2010 – 2014, the Ministry of Labour is responsible for producing the evidence base for the formulation of a public policy on labour migration. The Ministry of Labour is in the process of undertaking various activities that support this objective; The creation of an statistics tool for monitoring labour migration in the country, including data from different institutions such as the National Statistics Department, the migratory agency and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection; b.

The National Bureau of Statistics in Moldova is gathering information about Migration in three national surveys:

• Labour Force Migration (2012, 2013),
• Labour Force Survey (quarterly) and
• Research on Household Budget (quarterly).

Every Survey focuses on different aspects of Migration (labour, remittances use, etc...), contributing important data to the IOM Extended Migration Profile (EMP) Report of the Republic of Moldova released in 2012.

This project of the EU aims to contribute to the protection of rights of Armenian citizens leaving for work abroad, economic stabilisation and reintegration of labour/circular migrants and the prevention of irregular migration. The specific objective is to empower all stakeholders in Armenian labour/circular migration in order to make migration work better for development.

Main Activities

• Inter-agency networking within migration environment;

• Study of reintegration programs;

• Training and study trips for government agencies;

The Disposition of the Prime-Minister on the implementation of the-whole-of-Government approach on Migration and Diaspora wsa signed on 07.06.2013. According to the document in all national authorities (30 state institutions) there is a focal point responsible for implementation, and a key person responsible for promotion of the Diaspora Policies. The novelty of the Moldovan Mainstreaming is based on two key items – empiric-based approach to policy design and policy coherence issue.

The purpose of the project on Mainstreaming migration into national development strategies is to enable the governments involved and their United Nations Country Team partners to develop a context-specific, evidence-based, participatory, and holistic approach to migration and development at the national level, based on guidance provided by the GMG Handbook on Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning that was endorsed by governments at the 2010 GFMD in Mexico.

In projects’ context and with international partners support, some major changes took place:

ASEAN Members States (AMS) aim to realize the free flow of skilled labour within ASEAN by 2015 as embodied in the Economic Blueprint, one of the three blueprints adopted for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). 

Thus far, a Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) Framework has been formalized among AMS for the mutual recognition of education and experiences obtained in seven priority sectors

This database is based on censuses of OECD countries and provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries. It is helpful to better understand migrant characteristics and inform policy development in this regard: highly qualified migration and brain drain issues, available skills and qualifications among diaspora members, localization and so on. 

The French Government has created a program that is specifically responsible for all migration issues. Its creation responds to a triple challenge:

• - to manage migration by organizing channels for regular migration and to fight against irregular migration;
• - to promote labour migrants mobility, and;
• - to promote development in the countries of origin.

Vision 2030 Jamaica is a plan designed to guide Jamaica towards a developed country status. Under the vision “Jamaica – the place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business”, the plan is designed “to ensure that international migration is adequately measured, monitored and influenced to serve the development needs of Jamaica”.

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: