Migration and Development – General

Across the world, migrants, their communities at home and the grassroots organisations they set up highlight the development impact of migration on a daily basis. What is currently lacking to ensure that migration becomes a truly effective tool for development is, on the one hand, identifying and linking up the actors working on these issues across the world and, on the other, formulating new policy tools to strengthen the links between migration and development, both in migrant sending and host countries.

The overall objective of the EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative is to support civil society organizations and local authorities seeking to contribute to linking migration and development.

The Joint Initiative aims to 1) set up and reinforce networks of actors working on migration and development and 2) identify good practices and share information on what actually works at the local and international level among those who are active in this field with a view to 3) feeding into policy-making on migration and development.

The JMDI sets out to do this through a Call for Proposals providing approximately 10 million Euro in funding to support concrete projects in four priority areas: 1) Migrant remittances; 2) Migrant communities; 3) Migrant capacities; 4) Migrant rights. The projects are implemented through partnerships linking civil society groups and local authorities from the European Union member states and their counterparts in sixteen target countries.

The JMDI has also launched an online, global Community of Practice, facilitated via this website, which brings individuals and groups from around the world together to exchange information and ideas on migration and development, develop skills and provide each other with mutual support.

Highlighted below are documents and projects related to migrantion and development, as well as organizations working in this area.