Global Migration and Human Mobility

Recent Grants

Migration

Number of Grants: 55

African Diaspora Policy Centre (The Hague, Netherlands)
$225,000 to support an Africa Consultative Forum on Migration and Development (over three years). (2011)

African Diaspora Policy Centre (The Hague, Netherlands)
$185,000 to build capacity for African officials responsible for working with the diaspora to promote better treatment of migrants and economic development. (2010)

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) (New York, New York)
$400,000 in support of the Civil Society Days of the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2009. (2009)

Aspen Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to promote effective implementation of the World Health Organization's Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (over two years). (2010)

BBVA Bancomer Foundation (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to support Civil Society Days for the fourth Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2010)

Business for Social Responsibility (San Francisco, California)
$400,000 to advance responsible business practices in relation to international labor migration (over two years). (2010)

CARE USA (Atlanta, Georgia)
$625,000 to research climate change and its impact on migration (over two years). (2010)

Center for Global Development (Washington, D.C.)
$1,500,000 to advance research and policy development on the impacts of migration on development and on helping poor countries attain the benefits of globalization (over three years). (2009)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to involve immigrant leaders in policy dialogue on migration and development in the U.S. and Mexico (over two years). (2010)

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico City, Mexico)
$23,000 to evaluate Mexico's 3x1 Remittance Matching Program for Migrants and an assess its applicability as a development strategy for other sending countries. (2009)

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to support a binational analysis of the social conditions and well-being of Mexican migrants in the U.S. and return migrants in Mexico. (2011)

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$230,000 to analyze the impacts of Mexican social policy on emigration and a binational dialogue on migration among experts and public officials from the US and Mexico (over two years). (2009)

Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (Miami, Florida)
$300,000 to study practices of temporary migrant labor recruitment from Mexico to the U.S. (over two years). (2011)

George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
$630,000 to monitor implementation of the Voluntary Code of Conduct for the Ethical International Recruitment of Foreign-Educated Nurses to the United States, and to explore the extension of ethical recruitment codes to allied health professionals, physicians, and teachers (over two years). (2010)

Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$360,000 to create a module of questions on migration and remittances for inclusion in household surveys in developing countries (over two years). (2011)

Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$1,050,000 in support of the development of a set of guiding principles and effective practices for addressing crisis-induced migration (over three years). (2011)

Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$1,050,000 to advance work on the governance of international migration and on the relationship between migration and development (over three years). (2009)

Global Workers Justice Alliance (Brooklyn, New York)
$175,000 to study the temporary worker visa programs. (2011)

Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (Athens, Greece)
$50,000 in support of a business roundtable on migration and development. (2009)

Instituto de Estudios y Divulgacion Sobre Migracion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$225,000 to study and assess recruitment mechanisms and access to social protection benefits for temporary migrant workers in the US, Canada, Mexico and Central America (over 21 months). (2010)

Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to support regional dialogue on transmigration from Central America to Mexico and the United States (over two years). (2011)

International Catholic Migration Commission (Geneva, Switzerland)
$375,000 to support a Coordinating Office for civil society engagement in the activities of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (over three years). (2011)

International Labour Organisation (Geneva, Switzerland)
$50,000 in support of a survey of migrant workers in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. (2009)

International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
$50,000 to support publication of the "World Migration Report"" 2011." (2011)

International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
$150,000 in support of the World Migration Report 2010. (2009)

Kids in Need of Defense (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support legal protection, research and advocacy on behalf of unaccompanied and separated migrant children (over two years). (2010)

Makerere University Refugee Law Project (Kampala, Uganda)
$60,000 to support the Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. (2011)

Migrants Rights International (Geneva, Switzerland)
$300,000 in support of a Global Civil Society Coalition on Migration (over three years). (2011)

Migration Dialogue (Davis, California)
$375,000 to research the development impacts of guest worker programs and the interrelationships among farm policies, migration, and development (over three years). (2009)

Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$1,600,000 in support of a program on migrants, migration and development (over three years). (2009)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Mexican States (Mexico City, Mexico)
$136,000 to support the fourth Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2010)

Ministry of Interior (Athens, Greece)
$100,000 in support of the third Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2009)

National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 to involve immigrant leaders in policy dialogue on migration and development in the U.S .and Mexico (over two years). (2010)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France)
$200,000 to develop the first phase of a harmonized labor force and migration database based on labor force surveys from OECD countries. (2009)

Oxfam America (Boston, Massachusetts)
$150,000 to develop a prototype for a voluntary certification system for fair agricultural labor practices. (2011)

Red Internacional de Migracion y Desarrollo (Zacatecas, Mexico)
$350,000 in support of the Network and its collaborative research efforts on the U.S.-Mexico migration corridor (over two years). (2011)

Red Internacional de Migracion y Desarrollo (Zacatecas, Mexico)
$350,000 in support of the network and collaborative research efforts on migration and development (over two years). (2009)

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany-State University of New York (Albany, New York)
$450,000 to research the interaction between immigration policy debates in the U.S. and Mexico and on cooperative migration management practices (over three years). (2010)

Rostros y Voces FDS (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to integrate development concerns into the migration policy community in Mexico, strengthen civil society input into global migration discussions, and protect the rights of migrants on Mexico's southern border. (2010)

Sin Fronteras (Mexico City, Mexico)
$350,000 to strengthen institutional capacity with the aim of continuing and expanding work to promote and defend the human rights of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Mexico. (2010)

Sin Fronteras (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to improve regional governance of migration in Mexico and Central America and to support advocacy, strategic litigation, and capacity building to protect migrants' human rights (over two years). (2009)

Sin Fronteras I.A.P. (Mexico City, Mexico)
$360,000 to strengthen and promote human rights protection for migrants in Mexico and to research and advocate for improved migration policies in Mexico (over two years). (2011)

UN Women (New York, New York)
$75,000 to support three high level consultations on domestic care workers as part of the Global Forum on Migration and Development for 2011. (2011)

United Nations (New York, New York)
$37,177 in support of a one-day Informal thematic debate on International Migration and Development at UN Headquarters in New York. (2011)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (New York, New York)
$316,000 to support the activities of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development relating to the Global Forum on Migration and Development (over two years). (2011)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (New York, New York)
$237,000 to support the fourth and fifth meetings of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (over 18 months). (2010)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (New York, New York)
$150,000 to support the third Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2009)

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Geneva, Switzerland)
$50,000 in support of the work of the Global Migration Group. (2009)

United Nations Institute for Training and Research New York Office (New York, New York)
$210,000 to support a seminar series on migration and development and a course on international migration and refugee law (over two years). (2011)

University of Oxford International Migration Institute (Oxford, United Kingdom)
$400,000 to identify normal patterns of human mobility in the Great Lakes region of Africa (over two years). (2011)

University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (Oxford, United Kingdom)
$480,000 to research the emergence of the concept of environmental migrant, and how vulnerable populations in developing countries cope with the threat of climate change-induced displacement (over two years). (2010)

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
$100,000 to research the integration of migrants in the United States. (2010)

Washington Office on Latin America (Washington, D.C.)
$52,000 to promote bilateral U.S.-Mexico dialogue on the connection between migration and development. (2010)

Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)
$300,000 to support research on the impact of diasporas on reforming institutions in India and China (over three years). (2009)

Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to promote bilateral dialogue among government representatives, policy experts and migrant leaders on U.S.-Mexico migration issues (over two years). (2010)