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Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Moldova has recently established a Bureau for Diaspora Relations, aiming to coordinate the implementation of state policy in relations with the diaspora, contributing, in this way, to the preservation and promotion of the ethnic, cultural and...
Countries and areas:
Republic of Moldova
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Targets on vulnerability and protection
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The El Salvador Global “knowledge network” aims to contribute to the scientific, academic, technological, and business development of El Salvador by engaging highly qualified Salvadorans abroad. It taps into the knowledge, connections, and resources...
Countries and areas:
El Salvador
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
This project seeks to support Rwanda’s outreach to its diaspora in the EU and beyond and supports short-term individual teaching placements in the health sector. This allowed for 13 specialist doctors from the Diaspora to participated in short-term...
Countries and areas:
Rwanda
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 3: Good health and well being
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Lithuania has bilateral agreements on migrant workers with Germany, Ukraine, and Russia. Lithuania has concluded several bilateral agreements on the employment of foreign nationals and social security. The first such agreements were signed with...
Countries and areas:
Lithuania, Germany, Russia, Ukraine
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Austria has developed an elaborate points system (the Red-White-Red Card Scheme) to facilitate labor migration from non-EU countries for highly skilled workers, as well as for workers in specific shortage professions.
Countries and areas:
Austria
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The Department of Labour of Cyprus systematically tries to fill labor shortages with foreign workers, with over 60% of the total work permits granted going to unskilled agricultural workers (foreign workers made up 36% of the sector in 2012).
Countries and areas:
Cyprus
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Special programs to recruit health professionals from abroad, have been created in Portugal, who sees them as “an important answer to overcome the lack of doctors and nurses,” and filling urgent needs in the health system. The supply of qualified...
Countries and areas:
Portugal, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The 2012-2016 Action Plan for the State Regulation of Migration in Armenia will have GFMD recommendations. The purpose of this action plan is to ensure implementation of the major or prevailing directions of the migration policy established by the...
Countries and areas:
Armenia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Georgia’s main migration document prioritizes the promotion of legal migration and strengthening migrants’ rights, and calls for practical approaches to issues like diaspora contributions to state development, the benefits of international migration...
Countries and areas:
Georgia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Targets on vulnerability and protection
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The National Union of Eritrean Women, an association with branches in numerous countries, addresses matters related to gender and women’s empowerment and involvess second-generation migrants
Countries and areas:
Eritrea
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Targets on vulnerability and protection
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 16: Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion