This project is designed to strengthen national institutional capacities to govern labour migration and to reinforce male and female migrant worker protection. The project:

i) provides national stakeholders with knowledge, capacities and practical tools to elaborate and implement coherent rights-based, gender-sensitive labour migration policies through consultation with social partners and relevant civil society organizations;

ii) supports the reinforcement of national laws and practices concerning labour migration and the protection of migrant workers in light of relevant international instruments, and;

iii) supports an intra-regional dialogue on labour mobility and protection of migrant workers.