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Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
FAO is working towards building the capacity of poor and vulnerable youth in migration prone areas, including cash transfers beneficiaries, and engaging them in productive activities along agro-food value chains; and support youth entrepreneurs to...
Countries and areas:
Kenya
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:
Friday, 9 August 2019
FAO supports rural youthwith alternatives to migration in a number of countries through fostering decent rural employment in sustainable agriculture and agribusiness along value chains. For instance, in Senegal , the FAO fostered productive...
Countries and areas:
Senegal, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico
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
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot is a community-driven program designed to spread the benefits of economic immigration to smaller communities by creating a path to permanent residence for skilled foreign workers who want to work and live in...
Countries and areas:
Canada
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
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 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
This highly innovative project works to digitize migrant workers’ remittances both in Malaysia and in countries of origin through e-wallets (wallet-based mobile-enabled remittance system), thus providing remittance recipients access to additional...
Countries and areas:
Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities - 10.c on remittances costs reduction
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
Deepening financial inclusion and enhancing rural people’s resilience by providing low-cost, cross-border mobile money transfers across the Kenya-Uganda corridor, linked with savings, loans and other financial services, and by promoting...
Countries and areas:
Kenya, Uganda
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities - 10.c on remittances costs reduction
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
Objective 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The second implementation phase (2015-2018) of FAO's Integrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agri-food system targeted Senegal, Uganda and Guatemala. FAO's efforts in this programme are aimed at providing rural...
Countries and areas:
Uganda, Senegal, Guatemala
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:
Friday, 9 August 2019
In May 2017, the Government of Guatemala established the National Strategy for Labor Reintegration for Returned Guatemalan Migrants (Estrategia Nacional para la Reinsercion de los Migrantes Guatemaltecos Retornados) to collect returnees'...
Countries and areas:
Guatemala
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Targets that contribute to employment or employment creation
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies
Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
Date Shared:
Friday, 9 August 2019
The Ethiopian National Rural Job Opportunity Creation Strategy targets rural job seekers, primarily the unemployed and underemployed, literate and illiterate, and those without regular and sufficient income, both women and men, who are above 15...
Countries and areas:
Ethiopia
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:
Friday, 9 August 2019
FAO is supporting the channeling of remittances (using the “1+1” matching approach) for agricultural development, nutrition and social protection in national food systems, including by assisting migrants and their families and communities in...
Countries and areas:
Tajikistan
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 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
Date Shared:
Friday, 5 April 2019
In October 2018, Nepal signed a labour agreement with Malaysia, the preferred job destination for Nepali migrant workers. Nepali Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista and Malaysian Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran...
Countries and areas:
Nepal, Malaysia
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