Between the 31 May and 25 June 2010 the Gender & Migration Virtual Community successfully hosted the III Virtual Discussion: “Migration, Remittances and Gender-Responsive Local Development”. The discussion summary with key policy recommendations is already available on this website. Thank you to all of you for creating such an inspiring e-discussion! 

The discussion was based on the UN-INSTRAW and the UNDP research findings in Albania, the Dominican Republic, Lesotho, the Philippines and Senegal. This joint research project sought to enhance gender-responsive local development by identifying and promoting options for utilizing remittances for sustainable livelihoods and for building social capital in poor rural and semi urban communities. 

The virtual discussion is an excellent platform for the community’s users to network and exchange information and good practices with other professionals around the globe (at the moment, our Virtual Community has more than 800 members from nearly 100 countries). 

• The main goals of the virtual discussion were:

- To share the UN-INSTRAW & the UNDP findings from the project “Gender & Remittances: Building Gender-Responsive Local Development 

- To analyze what is needed to efficiently address and include gender into projects of migration, remittances and local development. 

- To develop a document with gender-sensitive recommendations and policies for migration and development.

 • The discussion was based on UN-INSTRAW and UNDP research project “Migration, Remittances and Gender-Responsive Local Development - Case Studies: Albania, the Dominican Republic, Lesotho, the Philippines and Senegal”.

To read the Discussion Summary, please click here.