ILO Socio-economic integration of migrants from Venezuela
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Support to the ILO for a project aiming for socio-economic integration of migrants and refugees from Venezuela through increased access to decent jobs in their host countries. The ILO project Providing Venezuelan migrants and refugees with access to decent jobs in their host countries contributes to the Swedish Regional Strategy for Development Cooperation in...
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Support to the ILO for a project aiming for socio-economic integration of migrants and refugees from Venezuela through increased access to decent jobs in their host countries. The ILO project Providing Venezuelan migrants and refugees with access to decent jobs in their host countries contributes to the Swedish Regional Strategy for Development Cooperation in Latin America 2021-2025, in particular to its objective “to improve conditions for productive employment and decent work, in particular for migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons".This project seeks to provide opportunities for socio-economic development for migrants from Venezuela, as well as for host countries and communities. This collaboration is guided by the Regional Platform for Inter-agency Coordination “Response for Venezuelans” (R4V), where the ILO co-leads, jointly with the IOM, the Integration Sector of the Regional Platform.The project’s objective is to improve and increase levels of socio-economic integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in their host countries through a decent work approach.The project will be implemented from January 2022 - December 2024. It will cover four countries in the region: Colombia; Peru; Argentina and Dominican Republic. These countries have been selected based on the fact that they recently have implemented, or currently are implementing broad regularization efforts. The project thus builds on the possibilities created for migrants who have achieved a legal status allowing them to reside and work in their host communities, setting the ground for successful socio-economic integration. In this way the project has the potential to highlight how migrants can contribute to local and national development throughout the region and point to lessons learned and inspiring examples for other countries to increase regularization and strengthen integration. The project will start with a three months inception phase during which ILO will develop a detailed plan of implementation, a final detailed budget, a finalised log-frame and a monitoring framework. These documents together with the inception report presented at the end of the inception phase will be subject to Sida's approval.The project will include cooperation with a series of national and regional partner organisations and platforms such as South-American Conference on Migration, the Quito process, MERCOSUR, Community of Andean Nations, Ministries of Labour and Foreign Affairs, trade unions, public employment services and others.
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In 2023 the Project has advanced its technical assistance strategy at both regional and national level. Horizontal cooperation is promoted and the progress and experiences of the countries involved contribute to finding solutions to common challenges for labor inclusion of migrants and refugees. Results achieved in 2023 include: Based on an evaluation made in 2022, the institutes for technical or vocational training in Colombia and the Dominican Republic have adapted their services to reduce access barriers for the migrant population. The institutes have also incorporated complementary training in soft skills to increase permanence and completion of the training. To strengthen the services and job intermediation of the Public Employment Services, a set of guides have been developed that promote the labor inclusion of refugees and migrants, as well as nationals. At national level, Colombia has developed a reference mechanism between labor orientation and certification of labor skills that promotes comprehensive assistance to the users. In Peru the Migrant Orientation Guide has been updated with an intersectoral approach including 33 key services that promote integration. In Argentina a local approach based on multi-stakeholder coordination in seven municipalities has improved migrants' access to both employment and social services. A pilot model of mutual recognition of labor skills between Colombia and Ecuador has advanced and will offer lessons to extend this approach to other countries in the region. As many vulnerable migrants, as well as nationals, have to opt for self-employment or entrepreneurship the project carried out an evaluation of 209 business development service providers in the four countries and formulated a set of specific recommendations to overcome the barriers that hinder access to these services by migrants. Furthermore, the IMESUN methodology, developed by ILO, will be transferred to selected business development institutions including guidance to improve the migrant and gender focus in their services. To enhance equitable hiring and counteract discrimination the project has certified 173 people in Argentina, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. Certifying operators of public employment services, businessmen, trade unionists and key actors of civil society will contribute to prevention of forced labor, precarious labor conditions and informality that disproportionately affect refugees and migrants in their insertion into the labor market. It can also contribute to reduce the risk of trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation. To develop the south-south cooperation strategy three exchanges of experiences were implemented in 2023, on statistics (Peru-Argentina), prevention and care of trafficking in women migrants (Peru-Chile) and financial inclusion of migrants (Peru-Argentina). These exchanges also served to systematize the national practices. For the continued knowledge generation, the project concluded four studies of barriers to socioeconomic integration of migrant and refugee women from Venezuela. The publication of the studies is scheduled for the first half of 2024 and recommendations are already used as input for the technical assistance and it will be used to nurture the agenda of diaspora organizations and to influence regional mechanisms such as the Quito Process. The project also aim to strengthen the responsibility of employers' and workers' organizations in matters of socioeconomic integration of refugees and migrants. Therefore, a regional guide for business organizations has been created to address key issues for the employability of the migrant population such as education, training and development of skills aligned with labor market demand. This regional instrument is complemented with actions at country level, as in the case of Peru where the project has supported an inter-institutional effort to develop a route to guide companies in the hiring of migrants, refugee seekers and refugees. In Argentina the Project promoted the creation of the Inter-Union Network on Labor Migration and Mobility. This mechanism seeks to strengthen the capacities of trade unions in matters of labor migration and socioeconomic integration to improve their advocacy actions in design and implementation of policies, boost the affiliation of migrant workers and strengthen the representation of migrant workers in their organizations. The project has developed a comprehensive communication strategy that complements its technical work, promoting the visibility, dissemination and recognition of its contributions. Intensive use is made of information technologies, guaranteeing a digital version of all communication resources. Strategic communication actions have been carried out with inter-institutional alliances, improving both cost-efficiency and direct outreach to refugees and migrants. With project funds and additional resources from ILO the Regional Strategy Regional for Socioeconomic Integration of Migrants from Venezuela (ERISE) was evaluated, including a mid-term evaluation of the project as a case study. The evaluation will be publicly released in June 2024. The Project has had a growing participation in regional integration mechanisms and consultative processes fulfilling technical and advisory roles. This has allowed it to influence and achieve a greater positioning of the socioeconomic integration approach and the issues of labor inclusion of refugees and migrants. The project has also strengthened cooperation and collaboration with agencies of the UN System such as IOM, UNHCR, UNDP, UN Women reducing the risk for duplication of efforts and improving the complementarity and synergies of actions. An area where the project has not made significant progress is the data and information component. Although an evaluation of the migration information systems and processes in the four countries is completed, a commitment of the responsible institutions has not been possible and technical assistance to advance in the implementation of the recommendations has not been initiated.
The overall objective of the project is that the socio-economic integration of migrants and refugees in their host countries and communities has been improved through a decent work approach. This will be developed through 4 outcomes: 1. Improved capacity of vocational training institutes to serve national (host) and displaced populations. 2. Increased decent employment opportunities for Venezuelan migrants and refugees and their host communities by strengthening the link between public employment services and the job market. 3. Enhanced labour opportunities for Venezuelan women migrants and refugees. 4. Strengthened labour market information and labour migration data systems.
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