If the project is successful the ministry will seek to extend the model to doctors, dentists and perhaps others (lab and X-ray technicians being in particularly short supply), and there is also interest in Samoa in developing a similar project. Of all such initiatives, the 3x1 Citizens Initiative in Mexico is much the best known, perhaps because migrants’ efforts are matched by financial contributions from the national government, for the development of public projects (public works and community improvement), and because it has been in existence for more than a decade. Although widely considered to be ‘best practice of migration management’ (Latapi 2009), it seems to have spawned few other national parallels.