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Projects

Moldova: Leveraging the Positive Impact of Migration on Moldova’s Development Through Improved Policy Evidence and Better Engaged Diaspora.

Migration waves, which started in the 1990s, have led to an outflow of Moldovan nationals, with a quarter of the population residing abroad (approximately 720,000 persons according to the National Bureau of Statistics).

MATCH – Hiring African Talents

MATCH contributes to enhanced productivity through matching highly skilled talents from Senegal and Nigeria to private sector companies whose labour needs cannot be satisfied through recruitment from the EU labour market.

Programme Migration & Diaspora (PMD)

The Programme Migration & Diaspora (PMD) supports partner countries in shaping migration policies and the provision of information on regular migration to key destination countries, including Germany.

Capacity building of local governments in Santiago (Chile) and Mexico City to strengthen the socioeconomic integration of migrants and refugees through access to decent work, sustainable livelihoods, and social dialogue

This joint project seeks to improve migrant workers and refugees’ access to decent work and sustainable livelihoods by ensuring their employability, and access to employment opportunities and social protection programs implemented in Mexico City and Santiago.

Empowering migrant and refugee women

This research project, which ran from July to November 2016, looked to identify good practices in the delivery of services and programs to migrant and refugee women and their families in Australia. It was conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies of the Australian Government.

Triple Win Programme

The International Placement Services (ZAV) from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit and GIZ have established a project for the placement of qualified nurses with German companies.

Ethiopia: Innovative Approaches to Address Inclusion and Integration, Through Health and Economic Empowerment of Migrant Street Children and Youth in Addis Ababa

Ethiopia, with a population of 107 million, is a hub for outward and inward migration. In addition to being one of the major labour sending countries, it is also the largest refugee hosting country in Africa. The burden this poses for cities is colossal.

PROMISE – Poverty Reduction through Safe Migration, Skills Development and Enhanced Job Placement in Cambodia, LAO PDR, Myanmar and Thailand

PROMISE seeks to improve migrants’ employment opportunities and working conditions through promoting safe migration and skills development in cooperation with the private sector, training institutions, civil society and governments.

Better Migration Management (BMM) Programme

The Better Migration Management (BMM) Programme aims to enable national authorities and institutions to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration, and effectively address and reduce trafficking in human beings and smuggling of migrants within and from the Horn of Africa region by applying a

Bridging Recruitment to Reintegration in Migration Governance: Philippines (BRIDGE)

BRIDGE will ensure that: government initiatives for fair and ethical recruitment and reintegration are evidence-based, gender-responsive and coordinated; and the government has mechanisms that translate evidence into policy and practices of recruitment and reintegration.

Migration Governance Indicators (MGI)

In an effort to support countries to build comprehensive migration policy, IOM formulated the Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) to offer an opportunity to governments to have an introspective look at the initiatives they have in place and identify good practices as well as areas of potential

THAMM - Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa

Designed as a regional programme, THAMM supports partner institutions in North Africa to draft and implement policies and mechanisms for safe, orderly and regular migration, as well as fostering cooperation and regional exchange between relevant stakeholders in North Africa.

Serbia: Promoting Evidence-Based Migration Governance for Maximizing Development Potential of Migration

The project will address migration data needs and strengthen policy capacities at both national and local levels.

MIGNEX – Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus

MIGNEX – Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus – is a five-year research project (2018–2023) with the core ambition of creating new knowledge on migration, development and policy. It involves researchers at nine institutions in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Strengthening the Capacities of IGAD and its Member States to Support Regional Migration Policies in the Horn of Africa (SIMPI)

The SIMPI project supports the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and its member states in developing and implementing migration and displacement policies in the Horn of Africa.

Empowerment of 'Families left behind' for improved Migration Outcomes in Khatlon, Tajikistan

The 'left behind' families of absent migrants are a vulnerable and under-served population. A comprehensive approach of top-down protections and policy, with bottom up empowerment, will aim for long- term sustainability through government learning.

Migrant Rights and Integration in Host Communities

This Thematic Working Group aims to help policymakers and other stakeholders better gauge migrant rights by generating globally comparable measures of integration.

Expanding Social Orientation & Integration for Newcomers in Rural Areas in Europe (SHARE SIRA)

The SHARE SIRA project, implemented from January 2021 to December 2022 and co-funded by the European Union’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), fosters inclusive territorial approaches in rural areas in Europe, which are playing an increasingly important role in receiving newcomers.

Strengthening Capacity to Harness the Positive Effects of Migration

The Programme aims to strengthen capacities at global, regional and country level to adopt and implement policies, strategies or corresponding programmes that promote sustainable alternatives to migration, support family members that stay behind or enhance the positive impacts of migration for

Combating Human Trafficking along Migration Routes

The project “Combating Human Trafficking along Migration Routes” aims at enhancing the ability of interested participating States and Partners for Co-operation to effectively investigate/prosecute human trafficking and to promptly identify victims of trafficking in human beings (THB) along migration

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