A/76/257 Spain has kept its borders open to facilitate return. Sri Lanka, in coordination with IOM and ILO, has developed projects for the return of Sri Lankan migrant workers in line with the national COVID-19 response plan for migrant workers. The Philippines has provided returning migrants with loans and other financial support, training on financial literacy, entrepreneurial development business counselling and job referrals for both local and overseas employment. ILO has worked with the Ethiopian Ministry of Labour and the Amhara Credit and Savings Institution to provide cash transfers for vulnerable returned migrants. The Salvadoran Institute for the Comprehensive Development of Childhood and Adolescence has provided health care support and testing for returned migrant children and adolescents, before assisting with their reintegration into their families. 91 Working with civil society organizations and stakeholders 77. Civil society organizations have provided humanitarian emergency support and livelihood assistance, including food, hygiene kits, health care, mental health care, sexual and reproductive health items and cash for the payment of other living costs. They have carried out research and provided psychosocial support and legal advice, as well as information, including on immigration procedures, education and ways to counter xenophobia and discrimination. In coordination with national human rights institutions, they have monitored and intervened with authorities on detention related abuses. 92 78. Several Governments have engaged in consultations with civil society organizations and have included them in the development of COVID -19 responses. In many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has strengthened the partnership and alliance with and between civil society organizations, humanitarian organizations and other stakeholders on the front line of assistance. In Azerbaijan, a public council consisting of NGOs has been established under the State Migration Service overseeing relief activities and other projects in favour of migrants in vulnerable situations. 93 Portugal has provided financial support to some 41 civil society organizations, most of which work with migrants and refugees, including within the context of COVID-19. 94 In Cambodia and other Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and Thailand, as well as in Ecuador, Greece, Peru, Tunisia and the United States, and in many other contexts, civil society organizations – including humanitarian and faith-based organizations, community-based networks and associations, volunteers and grass-roots groups, as well as migrant worker resource centres – in coordination with national and local authorities and other stakeholders, have led solidarity __________________ 91 92 93 94 18/22 Submissions by Sri Lanka and El Salvador; Submission by ILO; Submissions by University of the Philippines and the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. See also ILO, “COVID -19: Impact on Cambodian migrant workers”, available from www.ilo.org/asia/publications/issuebriefs/WCMS_752836/lang--en/index.htm. ILO, “COVID-19: Impact on Cambodian migrant workers”; Submissions by: Migration Forum Asia; Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice; CARE Ecuador; Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos; Europe Must Act. Submission by Azerbaijan. Submission by Portugal. 21-10577