To contribute to the efforts aimed at harnessing the potential of remittances in developing countries by mainstreaming gender issues into the study of remittance flows socio-economic uses and impacts on recipient households and communities.

1. To better understand the gender patterns present in remittance flows and their impact on gender roles within remittance’s receiving households and communities
2. To provide key stakeholders – migrant association, NGO’s, Academia, international assistance agencies, United Nations agencies and financial institutions- with the tools to enhance the gender perspective in programmes that draw connections between remittances and development.

You can read the country briefs of that study in the map of the introduction section. For a more detailed review of the results of the investigation, please see the complete report at our Publication Section.