Consultative workshop

Consultative workshop on SDG indicator 10.7.1 guidelines for measuring recruitment costs

On September 13-14 2018, the ILO and World Bank, with the financial support of the EU, held a consultative workshop to determine how best to promote the adoption and production of an internationally comparable SDG indicator on recruitment costs.

The workshop, bringing together experts from NSOs, the ILO and World Bank, and research institutes,discussed a draft set of Guidelines developed by the ILO, through the EU-funded REFRAME project, and the World Bank’s KNOMAD consortium, to determine how best to promote the adoption and production by national statistical agencies of an internationally comparable SDG indicator on recruitment costs. This set of Guidelines identifies a number of conceptual issues and definitions with respect to the SDG indicator, and suggests possible approaches to collecting nationally representative data on recruitment costs through approaches tailored to national circumstances and taking into account the needs and resources of National Statistical Organisations (NSOs). The workshop specifically aimed at providing concrete feedback to the proposed Guidelines and hence contribute to its finalization. On October 6 2018, following a formal submission of the Guidelines to the UN, the SDG indicator 10.7.1 was reclassified from Tier III to Tier II.

The workshop brought together representatives from NSOs, who are statistical experts with experience on household surveys, particularly labour force surveys or living standards measurement surveys, recruitment costs or migration surveys; technical specialists from the ILO and World Bank; and representatives from institutions that have implemented migration cost surveys in the past.

A corollary objective was to exchange views on how to strengthen the capacity of national statistical systems to produce such internationally comparable statistics on a regular basis.

A preliminary agenda for the meeting can be downloaded from the link above.