Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

This national R4V programme in Colombia assisted over 72.9K individuals with financial inclusion and financial education services (41%) and support for self-employment or entrepreneurship initiatives (29%) in 2023, continuing in 2024. Furthermore, the sector improved national and local institutional responses with competency certification programs and entrepreneurship support. Is this a best practice or just regular assistance programming?

In Ecuador, in 2024, R4V partners reached 73,634 refugees, migrants and host community members through various initiatives to promote socio-economic inclusion. These efforts included support for access to employment through vocational and technical training, capacity-building programmes, and job placement assistance to enhance labour market integration.

The RMRP covers 17 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean with an overview of 12 thematic areas of direct assistance (Education, Food Security, Health, Humanitarian Transportation, Integration, Nutrition, Protection, Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking and Smuggling, Shelter and WASH).
This structure, also replicated at a national level, provides an ample scope of response and collaboration between the partners of the platform and the local government, and this is reflected in regional and country response plans.

FAIR in its' third phase promotes fair and ethical recruitment of migrant workers, contributing to fair and regular migration, enhancing migrants' contribution to development in selected African countries, creating a level playing field for responsible employers, and protecting migrants, including migrants in vulnerable situations from abuse and exploitation.

Labour migration remains an important feature of migratory trends in AO. The recruitment of workers remains very informal. A large number of recruitment agencies are not officially registered and operate informally. Governments are aware if this concerning situation, specific steps to better regulate labour migration are still to be defined.

The overall aim of the study is to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of children, girls and boys up to the age of 18, affected by labor migration , and to provide a basis for future interventions in West Africa.

AFFORD's innovative approach mobilizes the financial, intellectual and political assets of the diaspora and channels them to stimulate entrepreneurship, economic growth, social development and job creation in countries of origin. Interventions are channeled through the AFFORD Business Center (ABC), which provides holistic services to SMEs and investors in the diaspora and at home, and plays a crucial role in the promotion and realization of innovative development projects.

AGRIDOM promotes decent work for migrants in agriculture and domestic services. 3 levers: i) strengthening the legal and regulatory framework for better governance of labor migration, ii) supporting mechanisms to include migrant workers in the informal economy, and iii) strengthening employment opportunities and livelihoods for migrant workers through training and access to support services.

EU-Belong is a 3-year project run by the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and 12 partners, and co-funded by the AMIF Programme (AMIF-2020-AG-CALL) of the European Union. The project is pioneering the field of inclusion & integration, by using an intercultural approach developed by the Council of Europe to innovate regional policymaking. EU-Belong will showcase how multistakeholder approaches, tailored capacity-building, co-design and transnational mutual-learning leverage regional efforts and generate innovation.

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