Labour Migration Governance in the SADC Region

The course aims at providing advanced knowledge and enhancing the capacity of key migration actors to better understand labour migration challenges and opportunities in a changing political, economic and social context. It will also explore fair and effective labour migration governance, linkages between migration and sustainable development, and instruments and mechanisms for protecting migrant workers’ and their families’ rights. OBJECTIVES • Appreciate the challenges and opportunities related to the good governance of labour migration through the seven ILO thematic areas; • deepen their knowledge of a Decent Work approach to labour migration governance and the protection of migrant workers; • appreciate the existing mechanisms and instruments to better protect migrant workers’ human rights, including labour rights; • understand how to develop at national, regional and international level a genuine governance and management of labour migration through migration/development linkages and rights-based approaches; • better understand what support the ILO and the SAMM project can provide regarding Labour Migration; • recognize the pivotal role of social dialogue and key world-of-work actors (representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations) in the development of labour migration policy, and in resolving critical issues relating to labour migration; • validate the SADC Labour Migration Stocktaking report. CONTENT • Gender-sensitive policies and/or strategies regulating labour migration at national and/or regional level. • International labour standards on the protection of migrant worker. • Bilateral labour migration/ circular migration agreements across the region and with third countries. • Fair recruitment and decent employment for migrant workers including regulatory legislation on private employment agencies, aligned to international standards. • Social protection for migrant workers. • Regional Qualifications Frameworks at REC’s level and migrant workers' recognition of qualifications at national and bilateral level. • Labour migration statistics