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The 2005 - 2009 Business Initiative examined the relationship between business and migration to help businesses play a constructive role in shaping a more humane and effective refugee and migration policy agenda, building on its own resources and experiences.

Policy Avenues:

  • Business involvement in policy discussions: contact points, multi-stakeholder platforms, dialogue with public and governmental authorities
  • Diversity policies and human resources: focus on potential, identification of good practice
  • Development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): awareness-building, identification of frontrunners
  • Business responsibility and solutions to global issues (e.g. brain drain / circular migration)
  • Rights agenda: identification of protection gaps, challenges and recommendations
  • Promotion of relevant initiatives in the field (e.g. ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration)


2005 – 2009 THP Business Initiative Key Documents