ILO Socio-economic integration of migrants from Venezuela ILO Socioekonomisk integration av  migranter från Venezuela 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. Stöd till ILO för genomförande av ett projekt för att stärka socio-ekonomisk integration av venezolanska migranter och flyktingar genom ökad tillgång till anständiga jobb i värdländerna. 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.