GSPs in Action

Pilots

Africa Europe

PILOT

Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa (THAMM Plus)

Africa Europe

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing Healthcare Tourism and Hospitality

PILOT

Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa (THAMM)

Asia Europe

Healthcare

PILOT

Professional Mobility in the Plastics Industry by Reskilling and Upskilling Trainings for Tunisian Talents (ProMob PlastSkills)

Africa Europe

Healthcare

PILOT

Global Skills Partnership Serving Talents in the Care Sector (GSP Soins)

Oceania

Agriculture, Horticulture, and Food Processing Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing Healthcare Tourism and Hospitality

PILOT

Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC)

Europe

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

PILOT

Youth, Employment and Skills in Kosovo (YES)

Africa Europe

Information and Communications Technology

PILOT

Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models (PALIM)

Resources

Healthcare

Maximizing the Benefits of Health Worker Mobility: Lessons from New WHO Guidance

Publication

Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Central America

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Options for Green-Skilled Migration Partnerships: A Guide for Policymakers

Publication

Europe

A Win-Win: Migration Partnerships for an Aging EU Workforce

Publication

Global Skill Partnerships for Migration: Preparing Tomorrow’s Workers for Home and Abroad

Publication

CGD and the Development of Global Skill Partnerships

North America Central America

Creating a Global Skill Partnership with Central America Using Existing US Visas

Publication

North America Central America

Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals

Publication

Europe

Healthcare

Why the UK Government Must Seriously Consider a Global Skill Partnership to Fix NHS Staff Shortages

Publication

CGD and the Development of Global Skill Partnerships

Publication

Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC)

Michael Clemens: What have economists learned about immigration?

Podcast

Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models (PALIM)

10 Steps to Implementing the Global Compact for Migration through Global Skill Partnerships

Publication

Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in Settings of Forced Displacement

Publication

Building Migration Pathways at All Levels: Encouraging a Skills Mix

Video

A Tool to Implement the Global Compact for Migration: Ten Key Steps for Building Global Skill Partnerships

Publication

Information and Communications Technology

Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World

Publication

Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World (Brief)

Publication

Réglementation de la migration de la main-d’œuvre dans l’intérêt mutuel: Explication du modèle de Partenariat mondial de compétences

Publication

Regulación de la migración de la mano de obra para beneficio mutuo: Explicación del modelo Global Skill Partnership (Alianza mundial de competencias)

Publication

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

Publication

Four Reasons to Keep Developing Legal Migration Pathways During COVID-19

Publication

Healthcare

Migrant Health Workers are on the COVID-19 Frontline: We Need More of Them

Video

Healthcare

Migrant Health Workers Are on the COVID-19 Frontline. We Need More of Them.

Publication

Emigration Rises Along with Economic Development. Aid Agencies Should Face This, but Not Fear It

Publication

Workers on the Move: Addressing Global Workforce Challenges Through Labor Mobility Partnerships

Video

Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets

Publication

Why It’s Time to Drop the ‘Brain Drain’ Refrain

Video

Europe

The EU Migration Pact: Putting Talent Partnerships into Practice

Publication

Europe

Commissioners Johansson, Schinas, and Urpilainen: Here’s How You Can Use Legal Pathways to “Manage Migration”

Publication

Africa Europe

Promoting New Kinds of Legal Labour Migration Pathways Between Europe and Africa

Publication

Africa Europe

Promoting New Kinds of Legal Labor Migration: Innovations from Germany, Belgium, and Beyond

Publication

Europe

Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships

Publication

Europe

Healthcare

How to Tackle the UK's Chronic Nursing Shortage—and Help Development

Publication

Europe

Healthcare

Investing UK Aid in a Global Skills Partnership: Better Health at Home and Abroad

Publication

Europe

Expanding Labour Migration to Europe: A Multi-stakeholder Vision

Publication

Europe

Healthcare

Four Ways the UK Can Shape Global Health Post-Brexit

Publication

Europe

Commissioners Johansson, Schinas, and Urpilainen: Here’s How You Can Use Legal Pathways to “Manage Migration”

Publication

Oceania

How Has COVID-19 Affected APTC’s Efforts to Promote Labor Mobility in the Pacific?

Publication

Oceania

A Pacific Skills Partnership: Improving the APTC to Meet Skills Needed in the Region

Publication

Oceania

Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Publication

Asia

Sharing Responsibility for the Rohingya Crisis: What Role Can Labor Mobility Agreements Play?

Publication

Oceania

How to Meet Australian Demand for Pacific Foreign Vocational Workers

Video

Africa Europe

Promoting New Kinds of Legal Labour Migration Pathways Between Europe and Africa

Publication

Africa

Enabling African Youth to Up-skill and Move

Event

Africa

Using Regularized Labor Migration to Promote Nigeria’s Development Aims

Publication

North America Central America

The Missing Piece in Biden’s Plan for Central America: Bilateral Labor Agreements

Publication

North America Central America

Harnessing Northern Triangle Migration for Mutual Benefit

Publication

Africa Europe

Information and Communications Technology

Labour Mobility: Enabel's approach as a blueprint for the EU

Video

Accessing Overseas Employment Opportunities for Moroccan Youth Project

Canada Home Child Care Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot

Canada International Mobility Program (also known as the Open Work Permit)

Canada Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP)

Canada Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)

Youth, Employment and Skills in Kosovo (YES)

Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC)

Africa Europe

Information and Communications Technology

Ylva Johansson et le patron de l'Anapec font le point sur l’évolution du projet Palim

Video

This is the future. This is the kind of cooperation that we should upscale; giving opportunities for young people to develop the skills that they can use both on the Moroccan labor market and in the European labor market.

Ylva Johansson European Commissioner for Home Affairs

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

H-1B Program

H-1B1 Program

H-2A Program

H-2B Program

Kiribati Australia Nursing Initiative (KANI)

Make It In Germany

Migration of African Talents through Capacity Building and Hiring (MATCH)

Northern Australia Worker Pilot Program (NAWPP)

Recruiting Trainees from Viet Nam (Triple Win Nurses)

Singapore S Pass

Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP)

Seasonal Migration from Haiti (USAIM)

Singapore Foreign Worker Permit

Tarjeta Migratoria de Trabajador Fronterizo (TVTF)

Technical Intern Training Program (TITP)

Temporary and Circular Migration Project between Portugal and Ukraine

Temporary Labor Migration of Georgian Workers to Poland and Estonia

Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa (THAMM)

Training Nurses from Vietnam to Become Geriatric Nurses in Germany

Youth, Employment, and Skills (YES)

Digital Explorers

High Opportunity for Mediterranean Executives Recruitment (HOMERe)

Enhancing Tunisian Youth Employability through Professional Internships in Belgian Companies

Mediterranean Network for Training Orientation to Regular Migration (MENTOR)

Western Balkan Regulation

Collective Management of Hiring in the Country of Origin

Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme (SAWS)

Sectors Based Scheme

Seasonal Workers Directive, Employment Regulation (Beschäftigungsverordung)

Blue Birds

Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA)

Strengthening the development potential of the EU Mobility Partnership in Georgia through targeted circular migration and diaspora mobilization

Promoting legal mobility among highly qualified Tunisian experts

Global Skills Partnership Nursing in the Philippines

Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS)

Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS)

Pilot Program Addressing Labor Shortages through Innovative Labor Migration Models (PALIM)

Pilot Program Aimed at Attracting Personnel from Vietnam to Train as Nurses in Germany

Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE)

Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP)

Sustainable Recruitment of Nurses (Triple Win)

Transformation Partnership in the Healthcare Sector (TAPIG)

Temporary and Circular Labour Migration (TCLM) Model

Canada Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot

Canada/Guatemala Temporary Guest Worker Program (TGWP)

Cartaya Program

Employment Permit System (EPS)

German–China Geriatric Nursing Pilot Program

German–Tunisian Mobility Pact

Malaysia-Bangladesh G2G program

Healthcare

Why There’s No World Health Organization Ban on Health Worker Recruitment

Publication

Healthcare

Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers: Using Bilateral Cooperation to Fulfill the World Health Organization’s Global Code of Practice

Publication

Introducing the Global Skill Partnership Portal

Publication

Africa

Managed Labor Migration Can Help Unlock Nigeria’s Unrealised Economic Potential

Publication

Africa

Of Roads Less Traveled : Assessing the Potential of Economic Migration to Provide Overseas Jobs for Nigeria’s Youth

Publication

Africa Europe

Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain

Publication

Africa Europe

Why Europe Should Build Legal Migration Pathways with Nigeria

Publication

Africa Europe

Healthcare

A Global Skill Partnership in Nursing between Nigeria and the UK

Publication

Africa Europe

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

A Global Skill Partnership in Construction between Nigeria and Germany

Publication

Africa Europe

Information and Communications Technology

A Global Skill Partnership in Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) between Nigeria and Europe

Publication

We Analyzed 57 Legal Migration Pathways. Here’s What We Found

Publication

Africa Europe

How the World Bank can support mutually beneficial migration partnerships between Africa and Europe

Publication

Africa

Managed Labor Migration Can Help Unlock Nigeria’s Unrealised Economic Potential

Publication

Africa

Information and Communications Technology

Nigeria’s Tech Sector Could Benefit from More Managed Migration

Publication

Europe

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

Publication

Oceania

Australia Needs More Pacific Mid-Skill Migration: Here’s How to Facilitate it

Publication

Europe

Enhancing the Development Impact of the UK’s Immigration Pathways

Publication

Financing Legal Labor Migration Pathways: From Pilot to Scale

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

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)

Global Skill Partnerships are part of the solution for Germany.

Olaf Scholz Chancellor of Germany

Europe

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Fulfilling the EU’s New Green-Skilled Mobility Goals

Publication

CGD and the Development of Global Skill Partnerships

Publication

Europe

Healthcare

Why the UK Government Must Seriously Consider a Global Skill Partnership to Fix NHS Staff Shortages

Publication

North America Central America

Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals

Publication

North America Central America

Creating a Global Skill Partnership with Central America Using Existing US Visas

Publication

CGD and the Development of Global Skill Partnerships

Global Skill Partnerships for Migration: Preparing Tomorrow’s Workers for Home and Abroad

Publication

Europe

A Win-Win: Migration Partnerships for an Aging EU Workforce

Publication

Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Central America

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Options for Green-Skilled Migration Partnerships: A Guide for Policymakers

Publication

Healthcare

Maximizing the Benefits of Health Worker Mobility: Lessons from New WHO Guidance

Publication

Africa Europe

Healthcare

UK Recruitment of Nigerian Nurses Can Be Win-Win

Publication

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Linking Migration and Training to Meet the Green Transition: A Global Overview

Publication

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Meeting Skill Needs for the Global Green Transition: A Role for Labour Migration?

Publication

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

The Workforce for the Future: International Skills Partnerships for the Green and Just Transition

Event

North America

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

Publication

North America

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

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

Publication

North America

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

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

Publication

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

The Billion Dollar Benefits of Expanded Green-Skilled Migration

Publication

Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing

Linking Training and Migration for the Green Transition

Video

World Bank Publishes Guidance on Global Skill Partnerships

Asia Europe

Healthcare

Hundreds of Nurses Trained Through Philippines-Germany Global Skill Partnership

Publication

Hundreds of Nurses Trained Through Philippines-Germany Global Skill Partnership

You address real labour shortages in host countries like the United States, and you invite people from partners in developing countries, and you train people back at home

Alexander Kustov Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Global Skills Partnership Serving Talents in the Care Sector (GSP Soins)

Professional Mobility in the Plastics Industry by Reskilling and Upskilling Trainings for Tunisian Talents (ProMob PlastSkills)

Skills Partnerships Between Senegal/Ghana and Germany

Digital Explorers II

Partnerships for Development-Oriented Labour Migration (PAM)

Philippines-Germany Nursing Global Skill Partnership

Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa (THAMM)

Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa (THAMM Plus)

Asia

Experts Unveil Pathways to Economic Prosperity through Global Skills Partnerships

Video

Europe

Demographic Changes and Labour Migration Within the EU

Publication

Europe

Agriculture, Horticulture, and Food Processing

What Role for Skills Mobility in the Green Agri-Food Transition?

Publication

Europe

New and Innovative Ways to Attract Foreign Talents in the EU

Publication

Agriculture, Horticulture, and Food Processing Construction, Engineering, and Manufacturing Tourism and Hospitality

The Role of Immigrant Workers in the Green Transition

Publication