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 City of Amsterdam, Netherlands launched the 180 Amsterdammers campaign in which it displays the portraits of individuals from 180 different nationalities, in local media as well as social media, to emphasize the diversity and the richness of their community.
In Toronto, Canada CBC Radios Business Case for Diversity combines their audience growth strategy with effective diverse hiring and recruitment practices to become the top rated morning show in the city.
Voces del Sur (Voices of the South) has been running since 2017 and has trained 20 migrant women in journalism and communications to enable them to generate content for an Andalucan local radio network of nearly 100 stations, as well as local television partners. The network has existed for four decades and is a trusted voice in the communities it serves. The purpose of the project is integration through communication not serving good news about migration. It does not encourage the beneficiaries to report on migration but all other topics from daily life.
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 Youth initiative includes two main components: Language App: This app leverages AI to help refugees integrate better into their host societies by providing language learning tools and resources and Digital Psychological/Psychosocial Services: This service connects refugees to specialists, offering free digital psychological and psychosocial support.