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Capacity building and technical cooperation projects
MIGRANT contributes to building the capacity of Government and workers' and employers' organizations to meet today's challenges in migration governance. Through a rights-based approach, MIGRANT
- promotes the ratification and implementation of international standards
- facilitates the participation of governments and of employers' and workers' organizations in migration policy
- provides advisory services and a forum for consultations
- serves as a global knowledge base
- conducts technical cooperation projects to strengthen the capacity of governments and of employers' and workers' organizations and other relevant stakeholders' (such as non-governmental organizations and migrant associations) to deal with a wide range of labour migrations issues, including
- the protection of the rights of migrant workers
- governance (developing and implementing gender-sensitive labour migration policies)
- social security (extending coverage for migrant workers and their families)
- skills development and recognition
- financial and social remittances
- increased awareness of the link between labour migration policy and wider labour market policies, at national as well as regional level.
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The International Training Centre (ITC) of the ILO in Turin, Italy collaborates closely with MIGRANT in the area of capacity building. This includes the annual two-week Labour Migration Academy targeted at national Governments, trade unions, employers’ associations, international organizations, civil society groups and migrants’ associations that covers the protection of migrant workers, labour standards, gender, social dialogue, and migration and development linkages, among other topics. Courses are also offered on labour migration and specific issues such as return migration and professional reintegration and social security coverage for migrant workers and their families. Courses are held in Turin as well as in the field.