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Innovative skills partnerships are laying a solid foundation for legal migration and workforce development between Ghana, Senegal, and Germany.

The closing conference of the project “Reinforcement of the Migration Management System in the Republic of Armenia,” (ReMMAr) funded by the EU through the MPF and implemented by People in Need, was held on 23 April 2025 in Yerevan. The event showcased the project’s key achievements and underscored its impact on supporting both individual migrants and returnees and Armenian state institutions.

The crucial role of the newly-established Risk Analysis system in combatting irregular migration in Pakistan was highlighted during the closing conference of the RAPAK Project that took place in Islamabad.

A delegation of 15 Gambian senior officials visited the ICMPD Brussels Mission on 19 February to learn more about the MPF and the Rabat Process as part of activities of the Migration Management for the Gambia Programme, coordinated by the UNU-MERIT Maastricht University through the Migration Partnership Facility.

After three years of successful implementation, the 'Women as Financially Independent Rural Actors' (WAFIRA) project, one of the flagship projects under the MPF’s labour migration portfolio, officially wrapped up activities with a closing ceremony in Rabat, Morocco, on 24 January 2025.

The Migration Partnership Facility makes available a detailed mapping of labour migration pathways across the 27 European Union member states to the wider public. Following an initial presentation at the third annual conference of the Labour Migration Practitioners’ Network earlier in November, the mapping is offered now available to all audiences, with labour migration practitioners, researchers, and policymakers particularly in mind.

The 2024 edition of Labour Migration Practitioners’ Network (LMPN) In-person conference brought 100 European practitioners in labour migration, skills recognition and employment to Brussels, Belgium for a two-day conference under the theme of “Moving Talents: Scaling up Action in Key Sectors”. After two days of lively discussions and in anticipation of the conference report, here are six take-aways from the conference.

A Nigerian delegation with representatitves from the Nigerian President's office, the Nigerian Diaspora Commission, and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment  completed an exchange visit to Brussels, Belgium and Szczecin, Poland in late October 2024.