Capitalize on Migrant Capacities – Algeria

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Capitalize on Migrant Capacities – Algeria

Algeria is today a country of emigration, immigration and transition, linked particularly to France and Italy.
The project Capitalize on Migrant Capacities in Algeria intends to maximize the development impact of migration in the socio-economic context of the country, by addressing the problem of brain waste and de-skilling of prospective migrants and returnees in order to transform it into brain gain. The second objective of the project is to strengthen the links and the dialogue among Algerian migrants in Italy and France and migrant associations and local authorities in Algeria in the field of migration issues.
Among other formal activities, a major one is to have two career days, in two Algerian cities, each of them in the form of a career fair and pre-departure orientation seminars. These activities will increase the capacities of prospective migrants to make well-informed decision about migrating. In addition, there will be a seminar in Italy, addressing local authorities and civil society organizations from Algeria, France and Italy with the objective to find ways (by multi-stakeholder approaches) to efficiently inform Algerian emigrants already living in France and Italy about job opportunities and the recognition of diploma and skills, in order to avoid de-skilling. The seminar will also confront local authorities with the problems Algerian emigrants face and will encourage contacts among prospective migrants and returnees and Algerian emigrants.

Location:

Algeria, Algiers, Africa

Policy/practice area:

Socio-economic integration

Keywords:

Education, Employment, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Equal access, Human rights and law, Intercultural outreach, School, Training, Undocumented migration, Work,

Integration Practitioner:

Civil society organization

Name of Organization:

Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA)

Website:

http://www.alda-europe.eu/

Contact Information:

c/o Council of Europe, 1 avenue de l’Europe
67075 Strasbourg, France
Phone: 0033 3 90 21 45 93
Email: antonella.valmorbida@aldaintranet.org

Other stakeholders involved in this practice:

Partners of the project:

• Algerian Forum for citizenship and Modernity (F.A.C.M – Forum Algérien pour la Citoyenneté et Modernité)
• Municipality of Lecce, Italy
• Region of Sicily, Italy
• Institute of social and economic research (IPRES-Instituto Pugliese di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali)
• Community of Kouba, Algiers

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