Together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNDP is supporting eleven countries—Bangladesh, Ecuador, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, the Philippines, Serbia, Senegal and Tunisia, to continue to address the plight of migrants and their host communities by supporting national and local governments to mainstream migration into development plans.

In Belize, teaching youth life skills has helped solve practical problems that could be barriers to employment, for example, legal identification papers. In Tajikistan, with support from Japan, the Youth Innovation Centre is serving as a platform for 50,000 young people to network and exchange experiences.  

Moldova, with the support of Switzerland, was successful in ensuring two-way dialogue through organizing the diaspora/migrants and local development programme where more than 10,000 migrants participated. To date more than 300,000 people benefit from better services in their villages and cities.

In Zambia, the Sustainable Resettlement Programme works with local government, UN agencies, civil society organizations and the private sector to implement activities that are needed to help displaced persons and their host communities shift from humanitarian assistance to more medium and long-term development initiatives. This has resulted in social, cultural and economic integration and cohesion for former refugees as new permanent residents, allowing greater freedom of movement and the opportunity to engage in income opportunities.