Diasporas are major direct investors in critical and emerging industries, known patrons of nascent tourism initiatives, and generous philanthropists. This Road Map offers national policymakers and practitioners a practical guide and real-world process for smartly and successfully galvanizing...

As a humanitarian collaborative platform and community of practice, the Diaspora Emergency Action & Coordination (DEMAC) is providing data, analysis, information and coordination on diaspora humanitarian action, as well as offering and strengthening access to capacity building for diaspora...

Migrants and diaspora communities are recognized for their invaluable role in society due to their rich cultural contributions, diverse voices, social capital, and their economic contributions to the countries they live in and come from, including philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and innovations...

Repository of migration and development-related policies and programmes submitted by governments and inspired by GFMD discussions and recommendations. Meetings of the Platform for Partnerships (PfP) meetings are organized to allow face-to-face interactions between governments and key partners, as...

This project aims to mobilise the expertise of the three involved organisations to support governments, employers, workers and their organisations, educational institutions and training providers to develop and recognize the skills of migrant workers.

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. 

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. 

Address by Michael Clemens to representatives of 117 countries at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, October 12, 2017, at the 6th Informal Thematic Consultation for the Global Compact on Migration. Panel hosted by Tunisia and Germany.

This report examines why skills partnerships have not been implemented more widely and proposes measures for making them more successful on a global scale. 

Not all heroes wear capes. Not all heroes fight dragons. Not all heroes will have their names on the news. On World Humanitarian Day, we honor real-life heroes who dedicate their lives to helping others.

This publication discusses how skilled migration can contribute to enhancing human capital, knowledge and skills transfers, and remittances in the country of origin and the satisfaction of labour needs in countries of destination. 

Urban profiles (examples available from Lebanon, but also other countries) including focus on different sectors such as Water and Sanitation, education or health as well as other services; the profiles including spatial data collection at neighborhood level.  

Bilateral labour migration agreements (BLMAs) have become important tools for facilitating the governance of labour migration. The present guidelines are part of the ILO effort in this area and focus on the specific inclusion of skills in BLMAs. It also focuses, on one hand, on extending the...

This second edition of the guide includes recent developments in enhancing the migration services offered by various employment services providers. Its purpose is to keep this useful tool up to date and reflect new and emerging needs, as well as good practices, including in the COVID-19 context.

This document lists eight essential prerequisites for Skills Mobility Partnerships to be operational and sustainable, on the basis of UN’s institutional framework and guided by the principle of migrants’ wellbeing. 

The database presents a comprehensive collection of labour migration policies and programmes, which can be browsed by region/country and theme/sector. It includes practices on promoting fair recruitment.

The Global Skill Partnership model proposes a bilateral labor migration agreement between a country of origin and a country of destination whereby the latter takes on the technology and finance for the training of required skills in prospective migrant workers.

This website provides further reading materials and an overview of skills partnerships, as well as country and regional studies identifying the potential for skills partnerships between the respective countries and other stakeholders.

This Global Public Private Knowledge Sharing Platform on Skills for Employment promotes the cooperation of all relevant stakeholders involved in facilitating skills mobility.   

The Thematic Working Group 4 is focused on Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements and ways in which they can enhance regular pathways for migration, thereby facilitating decent work and labour mobility.