The purpose of the project on Mainstreaming migration into national development strategies is to enable the governments involved and their United Nations Country Team partners to develop a context-specific, evidence-based, participatory, and holistic approach to migration and development at the national level, based on guidance provided by the GMG Handbook on Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning that was endorsed by governments at the 2010 GFMD in Mexico.

In projects’ context and with international partners support, some major changes took place:

1. Institutional Changes: BRD creation and development (2012). BRD role is to enhance Diaspora- Government communication, to coordinate national diaspora policies and to provide bases for policies coherence, to be a creative and innovative policy and programs unit for the Government and to support Diaspora capacities enhancement.
2. Policy changes: Mainstreaming process began in 2013. The novelty of the Moldovan Mainstreaming is based on two key items – empiric-based approach to policy design and policy coherence issue. In this regard, every policy designing unit will calculate the Migration impact when elaborating new policies (ex-ante) and when assessing policy implementation (ex-post).

The Mainstreaming process is supported with budgetary programming changes (2013). One new Budgetary sub-Program that would address specific Diaspora needs has been approved, 12 diaspora programs are implemented (Birth right, Medical Insurance for Students) etc.  18 new programs are designed in all domains (UN Women and BRD concept on Migrant Women Financial Habilitation, Diaspora bonds, Migrants Investment Fund, bilateral agreements on social security, etc.)

Government Action Plan (2013, 2014) has 47 cross-cutting actions addressing Migration and Diaspora.