Migration that works for everyone.

The Global Skill Partnership is a migration model that ensures mobility contributes to development for all. Both countries of origin and destination get new workers, with needed skills, to help businesses grow and thrive.
But that’s not all.

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Countries of origin get support
for their broader development goals

Countries of destination
get to manage migration
in a safe, legal, and ethical way

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And trainees get access to safe migration pathways,
new opportunities,
and better lives

Global Skill Partnerships meet global skill shortages by providing targeted training in countries of origin and helping some of the trainees move.

Flexible

They adapt to the needs of the cooperating countries, working around old structures and building new ones.

Market-led

They are driven by the demands of employers and supply of employees, especially in mid-skill sectors like construction, healthcare, hospitality, and IT.

Proactive

They equip people with the skills they need before they move, making sure migration happens in a managed way while encouraging integration.

GSPs in Action

CGD and the Development of Global Skill Partnerships

Global Skill Partnerships are part of the solution for Germany.
Olaf ScholzChancellor of Germany

Skills Mobility Partnerships Could Contribute €2.8 Billion Per Year to European GDP

Regulating Labor Migration for Mutual Benefit: Explaining the Global Skill Partnership Model

Resources

Hundreds of Nurses Trained Through Philippines-Germany Global Skill Partnership

Publication

Linking Training and Migration for the Green Transition

Video

The Billion Dollar Benefits of Expanded Green-Skilled Migration

Publication

How Can Labour Migration Help the UK’s Green Transition? Takeaways From a Cross-Sector Roundtable

Publication

How Can Labor Migration Help the US Green Transition? Takeaways From a Cross-Sector Roundtable

Publication

Helping Tackle Labor Shortages with Data: How the Department of Labor Can and Should Update Schedule A

Publication

Migration Pathways
We define “legal pathways” as migration pathways between at least one country of migrant origin and one country of migrant destination. We have only included pathways that are (1) moving people for work purposes from lower to higher income countries; (2) are skill- and/or sector-targeted; and (3) have an important government component in the design of the program and/or its implementation. The pathways can be temporary or permanent, current or completed. Please do get in touch with us to add to or edit the data.