Project profile — Venezuelan Health Professionals Strengthen Peru’s Health System

• Peru (100.00%)

• Health, General: Medical services (12191) (50.00%)
• Basic Health: Health personnel development (12281) (35.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Reproductive health care (13020) (15.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)

This project aims to increase the economic independence of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, particularly women with professional qualifications in Peru's health sector. Project activities include: (1) facilitating the degree revalidation processes; (2) supporting skills upgrading of revalidated professionals by providing access to online education; (3) promoting certified Venezuelan professionals’ recruitment by employers in the health and other sectors; and (4) assisting professionals in gaining experience in the local job market by subsidized, short-term placements with local health facilities, health service providers, and other organizations in the public and private sectors. The project targets at least 2,500 Venezuelan professionals (50% women) in the health sector including at least 600 professionals in other sectors. It aims to focus primarily on Lima, a concentrated area in Peru with 85% of the Venezuelan population, other regions with refugee and migrant populations, and where they are most needed.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved professional qualifications of Venezuelan refugee and migrant health professionals, particularly women, recognized by Peru's health and other sectors; (2) increased equitable, decent, and formal employment opportunities for qualified Venezuelan refugees and migrants, particularly for women; and (3) increased acceptance of Venezuelan refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, particularly women, in the Peruvian host society.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) supported 275 Venezuelan refugees and migrants (77% women) to become certified health professionals in Peru. It does so by revalidating their degree with the National superintendence of higher education or registering with the relevant Professional Board; (2) 209 Venezuelan refugee and migrant health professionals (80% women) received a job placement aligned with their educational credentials and experience in 7 private and 1 public health centre; (3) improved professional qualifications recognized by Peru’s health sector by increasing equitable, decent, and formal employment opportunities for qualified Venezuelan refugees and migrants, particularly women; and (4) increased independence and empowerment of Venezuelan refugees and migrants with professional qualifications in Peru’s health sector, particularly women.

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