Classic development cooperation has discovered the migration-enrepreneurship link as a meaningful tool to promote job creation, employment generation and innovation. However, practical tools how to “hands on” promote migrant entrepreneurship are often lacking. In 2011, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and CEFE International jointly developed a collection of 16 instruments for development practitioners in the context of migration and entrepreneurship called Migration Tools. Options for Sustainability (MITOS). MITOS offers a set of tools that help leveraging the potential of migration for private sector development and provide complementary options for programmes aiming at sustainable economic development, in particular promotion of trade, innovation, start-ups and investments.

Several of the tools (online tools, trainings of trainers approaches, workshops etc.) have been piloted in different countries (e.g. Philippines, Uzbekistan). Based on these experiences, GIZ decided to adapt MITOS to current debates and developments both in the field of migration and entrepreneurship in general. The result is this toolbox, now called MITOS-entrepreneurship, which consists of 14 tools, clustered in three thematic areas and following GIZ’ multilevel approach