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Date Shared:
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Jamaica Diaspora Agriculture Taskforce (JDAT) Investor Circle provides microfinance funding for local farmers. The Circle provides an opportunity for persons and organizations within diaspora and Jamaica, to pool their resources in an effort to...
Countries and areas:
Jamaica
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Loan Programme for Returned Nepalese Migrants provides loans of 1 million Nepalese rupees ($8,908) to people who had returned to Nepal in the three years preceeding the beginning of the programme (November, 2018). The loans are meant to be used to...
Countries and areas:
Nepal
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 2: Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
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, 13 August 2019
The Migrant Support Fund is a federal fund administered to states according to the size of their repatriated migrant populations, which provides migrants one-time seed grants of up to USD 1,500 to start a new business. Because the Mexican labor...
Countries and areas:
Mexico
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
Targets that could benefit from the potential of migration and migrants
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
FAO is supporting the sustainable reintegration of returnees through livelihoods support and a large-scale project with the Green Climate Fund aimed at increasing climate resilience of smallholder farmers and food systems in El Salvador. The project...
Countries and areas:
El Salvador
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 2: Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
Date Shared:
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Programs of employment creation for migrants, and economic and psychosocial integration projects for returnees offer returned migrants in El Salvador access to local job-search databases, vocational training, skills accreditation, and seed grants up...
Countries and areas:
El Salvador
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The Recommendations of the 11th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (2018) to guide ASEAN Member States’ efforts on leveraging technology to improve labour migration management, and provide digital services for migrant workers, with an overarching view of...
Countries and areas:
Asia
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program was established in 1974. It has proven to be a successful labour mobility program between Canada and Mexico; it is a model of international cooperation that has demonstrated the possibility to maintain an...
Countries and areas:
Canada, Mexico
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The ILO project “Development of capacities to promote union affiliation and coverage of collective bargaining in Colombia” (COL/13/05/ NOR) sought to develop the internal capacities of trade unions, complementing the projects that had been developed...
Countries and areas:
Colombia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 2: Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
OM, the UN Migration Agency, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate the ethical recruitment of Filipino workers between the Philippines and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The agreement will involve pilot...
Countries and areas:
Philippines, Canada
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
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:
Friday, 9 August 2019
Supporting refugee farming initiatives in rural and regional Australia: This initiative evolved spontaneously from research led by University of Wollongong and University of Melbourne academics in partnership with a community-based food cooperative...
Countries and areas:
Australia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries