Migration trends in Sub-Saharan Africa reflect the general trends in global migration. Many countries show trends towards globalization of migration, that is, more countries are affected more profoundly by significant flows of migration to and from an increasing variety of destinations and origins. African migration is to a great extent intra-continental even if there has been an acceleration and spatial diversification of emigration out of Africa since the late 1980's. African migration is often seen as being essentially driven by poverty, violent conflicts and underdevelopment, increasing migration seems rather to be driven by processes of development and social transformation, which have increased the capability and aspirations to migrate, a trend which is likely to continue.The international community is increasingly acknowledging that migrants can make a positive contribution to development, both in countries of origin and destination. Migration has postive effects on poverty reduction via remittances that contribute to savings, investment, the well-being of persons, improved resilience, and the creation of jobs and services. Immigrants have much to contribute to to development although there are factors such as poor integration and underemployment that could undermine their contribution. Data on immigrants could help to create policies that maximize the contribution of migrants to development.The implementation of standardized approaches to collect, process and utilize labour migration relevant data is therefore a priority of this project. In that regard, the project will support the respective African Union Commission (AUC), REC Commissions and member states to promote harmonised methodologies for labour migration data, including supporting the appropriation and use by member states of international standards, methodologies and compatible operating procedures for migration data collection and analysis. On the basis of improving national data sets the project also foresees the compilation of regional data sets providing overviews of labour migration and employment data and trends in the respective REC sub-regions. Use of several forms of data sets is anticipated to strengthen data collection on labour migration. These include field studies using multi-site areas, special studies, administration record systems, national census, population and household surveys, and longitudinal surveys.Hence, this contribution is aiming at supporting Statistics Sweden to achive the following:- To improve the availability of data and analysis on migration and labour statistics at the RECs and improve institutional capacity where the capacity is low,- To enable RECs to harmonize and  incorporate migration, remittances and related issues into the standard households surveys at the member states level,- To enable the RECs to regularly avail the data and analysis on migration, remittances from migrants and the refugee situation in the regions and enable member st