Tag: good practice

WEBINAR Peer Lending for People on the Move: Converting Social Capital into Creditworthiness

Posted on December 11, 2025 by Majo Gimenez - Uncategorized

The Mobility Finance Network (MFN) hosted its third webinar in December 2025: “Peer Lending for People on the Move: Converting Social Capital into Creditworthiness.” Ashley Sherwin, Co-Founder of Giving Credit and a member of the MFN advisory council, explored the credit challenges migrants face and the importance of community finance. She also discussed how Giving Credit turns trusted social transactions into recognized credit domestically—with implications for worker mobility and migration programs globally. Access the webinar recording here and the slides here.

The Mobility Finance Network is an initiative powered by LaMP that fosters collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation to cultivate financial tools for workers on the move and the businesses that support them. To learn more about the MFN, sign up for announcements here.

WEBINAR Designing a Win-Win Loan Fund: Incentivizing Worker Retention Through Zero-Interest Training Loans

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Majo Gimenez - Uncategorized

Migrant Health Workers Are on the COVID-19 Frontline. We Need More of Them.

Posted on April 2, 2020 by admin - Uncategorized

COVID-19 Frontline Health Workers (c) UN Women, April 2020

This post was first published at the Center for Global Development

Worldwide, the health worker profession relies on migrants. But policy often restricts their movement. The COVID-19 outbreak has shown that, under crisis, many of these barriers are more malleable than policymakers make them out to be.

How Can Japan Meet Its Goal of 500,000 Foreign Workers by 2025? By Contracting Out Labor Mobility Programs

Posted on September 12, 2019 by admin - Uncategorized

This post was first published at the Center for Global Development

To combat a “super-aging” society, Japan plans to admit 500,000 foreign workers by 2025. But the country faces significant implementation gaps, which could be solved through contracting work out.

The Benefits of ‘Untying’: How to Move from Employer- to Occupation-Specific Work Permits

Posted on July 26, 2019 by admin - Uncategorized

Agriculture workers on a strawberry farm (c) World Bank, September 2007

This post was first published at the Center for Global Development.

Untying’ work permits can reduce workers’ vulnerabilities, strengthen their wages, and improve employer productivity. But these benefits can only be realized if practical barriers to changing employers are removed. Here, we describe how.