The 2014 AUC’s Ouagadougou + 10 Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development in Africa

The AUC’s Ouagadougou + 10 Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development, which was adopted by AU Assembly of Heads of States, in January 2015 in Addis Ababa, places labour migration and regional economic integration as one, and social protection as another one of its six key priority policy areas.

In order to facilitate its implementation, a Five Year Priority Programme on Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development (5YPP) accompanies the Ouaga+10 Declaration with the following expected outcomes on labour migration:
  • Outcome 1: Increased ratification, domestication and implementation of key international labour standards on labour migration
  • Outcome 2: Improved use of databases on labour migrants’ skills, economic activities, education, working conditions, and social protection
  • Outcome 3: Inter-regional and intra-regional skills and labour matching operational
  • Outcome 4: Social Security extended to migrant workers and their families through access and portability regimes compatible with International Standards and good practice.
  • Outcome 5: Labour migration governance, policy and administrative responsibilities effectively carried out by capable Labour Market Institutions in RECs and MS
  • Outcome 6: Tripartite policy consultation and coordination on Labour Migration operational at continental and regional levels.