Capacity Building

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.

In Peru, the R4V initiative has been implemented at the national level to address the limited access to formal employment and income-generating opportunities for refugees and migrants for over 18,000 migrants, refugees and host community members.

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.

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.

The Philippines Online Accreditation Management System (OAMS) is a web-based application fir the accreditation of foreign principals and employers.

The DMW Mobile App is a digital solution designed for Overseas Workers (OFWs) providing a comprehensive mobile platform to enhance the overseas journeys of the Philippines citizens, providing essential services such as securing your OFW Pass.

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.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia has set up an Online Apostille/Legalization service for electronic apostille. Through this online system, the users can do a full online procedure for apostille of official documents with the need of going to a consular or notarial office, saving time and money.