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Date Shared: 
Monday, December 30, 2013 - 10:45
Title: 

Promoting Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia

Countries and areas: 
Nepal, Pakistan
Thematic Area: 
Governance of migration and coordination of dialogue, Labour migration and mobility, Rights of migrants, Strategies for addressing irregular migration and enabling regular migration
Tags: 
Policy Coherence, Capacity Building, Empowerment and Rights of Migrants
Summary: 

The project works with Nepal's Ministry of Labour and Pakistan's Ministry of Human Resources to promote well-managed labour migration from South Asia. It works to ensure effective protection of the rights of vulnerable migrant workers and enhance the development impact of labour migration and reduce irregular flows. Specific objetives include:

a) providing reliable information on overseas employment opportunities and capacity building for job matching;

b) reducing migration costs and recruitment abuses by improving recruitment services and increase protection of migrant workers during employment , and;

c) enhancing training, portability of skills for outgoing and returning migrant workers and promoting the development impact of migration.

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.ilo.org/kathmandu/info/public/pr/WCMS_233175/lang--en/index.htm


Source (retrieved on 04/13/2026 - 00:16): https://www.gfmd.org/pfp/ppd/89