Events and training on labour migration

November 2015

  1. Working together to promote human rights due diligence and protect workers’ rights during recruitment

    16 November 2015

September 2015

  1. Regional tripartite workshop on the promotion of decent work for migrant workers: Governance and integration dimensions, African Regional Labour Administration Centre (ARLAC)

    28 September - 1 October 2015

    he workshop was intended for 20 officials of governments, employers’ and workers organization and all those who are involved in the development, strengthening, implementation and evaluation of national, regional and international labour migration policies and practices in ARLAC member countries. Sessions dealt with the ILO Fair Migration Agenda and Decent Work approach to migration, Global trends in labour migration, Regional integration, Adopting a Rights Based Approach, Managing migration in Times of Crisies (IOM), HIV Aids and Migration and Social Dialogue and the Governance of Labour Migration.

  2. Training workshop on labour migration and trade unions at the request of the Commission des Syndicats de Travailleurs de l’Océan Indien (CSTOI)

    18 - 19 September 2015

    In collaboration with ACTRAV and the ILO Country Office in Madagascar, the ILO DWT Pretoria offered a two-day training workshop on labour migration to this platform of Indian Ocean trade unions in order to sensitize and train unionists to the protection of migrant workers from a Decent Work and Fair Migration perspective. The workshop was attended by 25 participants from the most representative unions of each territory constitutive of the CSTOI (4 from Mauritian unions; 3 from Mayotte; 2 from Reunion; 1 from Seychelles; 2 from Comores; 13 from Madagascar; 11 of whom were women). An action plan including labour migration activities was drafted and adopted by all members. In addition to updating CSTOI priority actions, it aligns to ILO standards and frameworks on labour migration, as well as to the African Union Joint Labour Migration Programme and SADC Labour Migration Policy Framework.

  3. Special Session on Labour Migration and Regional Integration, ILERA Congress

    7 September 2015

    Presentation by Aurelia Segatti, Labour Migration Expert, ILO DWT for Southern and Esterna Africa, on Labour Migration Governance and Regional Trends.

July 2015

  1. Labour Migration Information Sharing Session

    17 - 18 July 2015

    A two-day labour migration information sharing session was convened by the Zimbabwean Ministry of Labour and Social Security, to review and update the national draft labour migration policy and validate progress in the Migrant Doemstic Workers Global Action Programme which Zimbabwe is part of. Over 40 participants from a range of ministries, international organisations (IOM), social partners and the IFRC EU funded project on trafficking and Migrant Domestic Workers attend the event. Anew timeframe for completion of the draft policy by end of 2015 was supported. Various presentations were given y ILO specialists on the following topics: "Global, regional and sub-regional policy frameworks on labour migration"; "BLAs on Labour Migration: Examples of good practice” ; “Convention 189 on Domestic Workers”; "The Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and its achievements”.

June 2015

  1. Training on migration instruments and General Survey Report and Labour Migration Information Sharing Session

    17 - 18 June 2015

    A two-day training on migration instruments for the 2016 General Survey Report and labour migration information sharing session was convened by the Lesotho Ministry of Labour. Over 60 participants from a range of ministries, international organisations (IOM, UNDP), social partners (NACOLA) attended the two days. Presentations from ILO specialists, the Lesotho Ministry of Labour, migrant workers' organisations, and social partners provided targeted information on how to respond to an ILO General Survey and what are the specificities of the ILO migration instruments. An action plan for Lesotho to finalise its report was adopted. More presentations were given on the second day on various aspects of Lesotho's Decent Work Country Programme priorities, labour migration policy globally and regionally, on progress in the Lesotho leg of the Migrant Domestic Workers Global Action Programme and on organisational challenges in mobilisation migrant workers in Lesotho.

October 2014

  1. Planning Meetings on the Community of Practice Network for Domestic and Migrant Domestic Workers

    18 - 19 October 2014

    International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) conducted a series of visioning and planning workshops under the auspices of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) in order to identify priority products and services to be delivered to migrant domestic workers through the established Community of Practice (CoP) and to train IDWF members to use the tool.

September 2014

  1. Planning Meetings on the Community of Practice Network for Domestic and Migrant Domestic Workers

    22 - 25 September 2014

    International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) conducted a series of visioning and planning workshops under the auspices of the Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families (GAP-MDW) in order to identify priority products and services to be delivered to migrant domestic workers through the established Community of Practice (CoP) and to train IDWF members to use the tool.