A new inform from the European Migration Network (EMN) ‘Migration and development cooperation’ offers a comprehensive overview of EMN Member Countries and Serbia’s approaches to the migration-development nexus at both strategic and operational levels.
Some countries implement this nexus through dedicated strategies, while others incorporate it into broader development or migration strategies. For instance, Belgium, Germany, France, and Italy have specific strategies, while fifteen EMN Member Countries include migration-development links in their national development cooperation strategies, and ten do so in their national migration strategies.
These approaches often focus on creating sustainable perspectives in countries of origin and destination to tackle the root causes of irregular migration, improving migration governance structures, fostering regular migration and skills mobility, voluntary return and sustainable reintegration, diaspora engagement, and raising awareness on the migration-development nexus. At operational level, programmes implementing this nexus target diverse populations, such as displaced people, migrants, returnees, and local communities, and involve a wide range of partners, including international organisations, NGOs, local authorities, universities, and the private sector.
