“GENDER AND REMITTANCES
in the CENTER WESTERN METROPOLITAN AREA (AMCO)”
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Project completed
This study on Colombian migration to Spain is the result of a joint effort between UN-INSTRAW and the International Organization for Migration - IOM – originating from the database that “Alianza País” had developed for one of the regions in the country from where the greatest number of migrants goes to Spain (the Metropolitan Center-West Area (AMCO). This partnership reflects a common goal, consisting in the integration of the gender perspective into policies, programmes and development projects in order to contribute to its effectiveness and sustainability. The complementarity between the quantitative and qualitative data allows to analyze in a more comprehensive and complex ways how gender operates on projects and migratory processes and the sending and use of remittances, as well as determining what other structural variables beyond gender affect the migration and remittances patterns.
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Objectives
- To analyze the aspects of gender that influence the mailing and uses of remittances in Colombia.
- To formulate recommendations for the implementation of policies that link migration, remittances and development from a gender approach.
Components and Methodology
On the one hand, the information corresponding to the survey of International Emigration and Remittances (EEIR) applied in AMCO between 2000 households and to the survey to Beneficiaries of Remittances in Exchange Institutions (EBRIC) applied to 25 thousand recipients at national level will be exploited. On the other hand, depth interviews and focal groups were realized in the households that receive remittances in AMCO and to Colombian migrant that reside in Spain.
Funding Organism
Alianza País: IOM, Department of Foreign Affairs and its Colombian program “Nos Une”, Administrative National Department of Statistics – DANE, the Republic Bank, the Association of exchange institutions of Colombia - ASOCAMBIARIA, la Asociación América - España Solidaridad y Cooperación - AESCO, the Public Universities network of Coffee Area – ALMA MATER, and the United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA.
Partners: This Project is a collaboration with IOM Colombia and INSTRAW.
Duration: March 2006 - March 2007.
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.
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