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Date Shared: 
Friday, December 27, 2013 - 17:45
Title: 

WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (Kenya)

Countries and areas: 
Kenya
Thematic Area: 
Governance of migration and coordination of dialogue, Labour migration and mobility, Rights of migrants
Tags: 
Migration in the United Nations, Temporary and Circular Labour Migration, Empowerment and Rights of Migrants
Summary: 

Kenya is working to incorporate the voluntary WHO Code of Practice into national law. It entered into bilateral agreements with certain countries (including Namibia, Lesotho and Rwanda) regarding collaborative health workforce training and promotion of circular migration of health workers (involving the temporary or permanent return to their home countries).

GFMD Source: 

GFMD 2013-2014 - Thematic Meeting 1 "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda ".

Link: 

For more information:

  • http://www.who.int/hrh/migration/code/practice/en/
  • http://www.who.int/entity/hrh/migration/code/code_en.pdf
  • ...

Source (retrieved on 04/12/2026 - 18:35): https://www.gfmd.org/pfp/ppd/80