Governing Labour Migration and Coherence with Employment Policies

This online training builds and strengthens the capacities of practitioners and policy makers to design and implement labour migration policies through access to tools and instruments for evidence-based policy making on labour migration and ensuring policy coherence. The training offers an innovative e-learning platform for open dialogue between participants from various ministries, workers’ and employers’ organizations representatives and other relevant stakeholders to build their capacity and skills to promote policy coherence at national and regional level with regards to labour migration in a view as well to extend social protection to migrant workers and their families. OBJECTIVES • To build the capacities of key stakeholders dealing with labour migration in developing fair and effective labour migration governance frameworks, institutions and services to protect migrant workers and facilitate access to social protection. • Empower participants to successfully contribute to their respective countries’/organizations’ labour migration policies. • Provide the participants with the tools to impact on how policies are developed and implemented. CONTENT The training course was organized into four structured modules as follows: • An introductory module and context: Key concepts, definition and dynamics related to labour migration, the importance of access to decent work for migrant workers and impact of labour migration on labour markets for both origin and destination. • Module 1: Developing and implementing a labour migration policy • Module 2: The bases of good governance of labour migration • Module 3: Fundamentals of a labour migration policy