Migration is an opportunity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – to leave no on behind . Listening to and understanding the poorest and disadvantaged men and women is a central promise of the Agenda 2030 and includes the specific needs of migrants. The SDC “Leave No One Behind” Thematic Working Aid on Migration clarifies specific vulnerabilities and how migrants can be at risk of being left behind. It also lays out that migration can be a poverty reduction tool and where the poverty-reduction potential of migration can be found. 

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May 2020

Vocational Skills Development (VSD) is for SDC a broad concept, that encompasses all support aiming at assisting the development of technical, social and personal competences. VSD fosters the social and economic development of individuals, their integration into labour markets and/or into education and further training. It can therefore be a powerful approach to support both societies and migrants including refugees, internally displaced persons, and other groups. VSD can be used as a tool to address both opportunities and challenges related to migration. The better educated and trained migrants are, the better they can take advantage of the opportunities migration offers them. This will also benefit society and the economy, mainly in host countries, but also in countries of origin. 

The working tool aims to support SDC: 

- to check, adapt and design VSD projects to take into consideration populations of migrants incl. refugees as part of the target group or as the main target group of the intervention; and 

- to add or make better use of VSD as an instrument for economic and social integration and development in other SDC projects on migrationc , humanitarian aid etc.