Supporting employability and labour market integration of Venezuelans in Latin America

ILO is the co-lead of the Integration Sector of the Regional Platform "Response for Venezuelans" (R4V), and leads the technical assistance on socioeconomic integration of Venezuelans and host communities within the Quito Process. In this framework, ILO has drafted, jointly with UNDP, the regional strategy for socioeconomic integration of Venezuelan refugees and migrants The project seeks to support ILO's technical assistance for the implementation of this strategy in the Quito Process region, with special emphasis on the skills, employability and access to decent work components. The Quito Process involves the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, and ILO has ongoing technical assistance activities targeting migrants and refugees in many of these, at the country level. This project would be complementary to these activities, and its added value would be the focus of the technical assistance at the regional level, rather than on the ground at the country level. Since the Venezuelan displacement is a regional phenomenon and the Quito Process is a regional effort, some crucial solutions need to be implemented at the regional level: clear examples of this are the creation of a network of national Public Employment Services and the regional recognition of professional and occupational skills, both of which contribute to orderly and safe labour mobility. This parallel and mutually reinforcing work (at the regional and at the country level) will maximize the impact (socioeconomic integration) on the final beneficiaries (Venezuelan refugees and migrants).

Project symbol

RLA/20/02/CAN

Admin unit

RO-Latin America and the Caribbean

Start date

25/03/2021

End date

31/05/2022

Total allocation

93352

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

93352

Development Partners

Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

Country/Countries

Americas - regional

Outcomes

Outcome 7: Adequate and effective protection at work for all