Objective 16: Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion

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 sub-regional R4V programme spans Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, and Guyana, operating at a sub-regional level to combat the social and economic exclusion of Venezuelan refugees and migrants.

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.

On 26 May 2024, the World Health Organization announced the official selection of this years winning films of its 5th Health for All Film Festival. The awards were announced at a special event launching WHOs Investment Round on the eve of the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly in Geneva. Among the film awarded, the special Prize Migrants and Refugees Health was given to Dalal's Story directed by Alexandra Cordukes from Laundry Lane Productions (Australia).

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.

Wo-Mi is a platform created by a group of Latin American women that seek to advance in the effective fulfillment of the rights of all women and girls, visualize the needs, positions, and conditions in migration, and enhance coherence and an enabling environment for non-discrimination.

Talentspace.ai is an enterprise that developed innovative and efficient recruitment solutions to empower job seekers and organizations. Talentspace.ai is committed to to leveraging cutting-edge technology to create impactful career opportunities.

The National Youth Engagement and Volunteering Movement aims to develop institutionalized mechanisms for youth social and civic engagement. It increases platforms to connect youth to one another and to a diverse range of entities, thereby facilitating the creation of youth-led initiatives. The movement targets young people in Jordan, providing them with opportunities for engagement and volunteering

The "Migrant(e)s Help" mobile application is part of the MC2CM programme funded by the EU and implemented by ICMPD. It was developed in partnership with the local NGO Pionniers du Changement of Oujda. The main objective of the project is to connect migrants with information and services. The mobile application enables users to easily locate key institutions such as government offices, health centres, schools, and other essential services in Casablanca, Rabat, and Oujda through a detailed map of available public services