The Diaspora Support Unit within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana hosts and maintains a diaspora website which serves as a platform for facilitating the engagement of the country’s emigrants in sustainable development by the Government of Ghana.
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.
Ghana's Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA) 2010 - 2013 identifies the major policy thrust for migration by, inter alia: establishing a comprehensive institutional framework for the management of migration, harmonizing legislation on migration, creating a comprehensive database on migration, mainstreaming migration into the national development policy framework and building the human, technical, and logistical capacity of migration institutions for better migration management.
Mexico's 2013-2018 National Development Plan specifically calls for policies that incorporate migration into the country's poverty reduction strategy.
Portugal's Action Plan for the Integration of Immigrants (in its second edition) embodies the "whole of government" approach at the heart of mainstreaming: it tackles integration issues across different sectors (employment, health, education, etc) across distinct target groups (descendants of immigrants, family reunification, older migrants, etc) and across the government (involving 10 ministries).
The Government of Nepal has endorsed the UNDAF for the period 2013-2017 which has specific outputs pertaining to migration and development and has identified migrants and families as one of their client groups.
The Government of Zimbabwe has introduced Migration and Development into the Country's Medium Term National Development Plan 2011-2015. This Plan was announced under the theme “towards sustainable inclusive growth, human centred development, transformation and poverty reduction”. In this policy document, the Government highlighted the following as being National Priorities:
i. Infrastructure Development
ii. Employment Creation
The policy memorandum sets out the migration and development policy framework for the Government of The Netherlands, focusing on six key policy priorities aimed at areas in which the Netherlands can make a difference, such as institutional development in migration management; promoting circular migration and brain gain; strengthening the involvement of migrant organizations; strengthening the link between remittances and development and encouraging sustainable return and reintegration.
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.
Given the practical action oriented focus, the agreed checklist will be launched by the governments of Jamaica, Ghana and others at GFMD 2012 in Mauritius as a migration and development practice. The launching governments will initiate a "call for action" for governments to identify which provisions in the checklist are already being implemented in their countries and send in these good practices to UN Women. With the help of partner agencies, responses will be collected and an analytical inventory of protection initiatives by GFMD governments developed.