ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral Programme

(ILO/Japan Labour Migration Project)

The ILO/Japan Regional Programme on Managing Cross-Border Movement of Labour in Southeast Asia (ILO/Japan Labour Migration Project) aims to promote decent employment opportunities at home and abroad through effective labour migration management.  The project, the ultimate beneficiaries of which are the migrant workers coming from, or are employed in these countries, will strengthen capacities of labour and manpower ministries in countries of the Mekong region namely, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia to formulate and administer labour migration policies, through following four immediate objectives.

• •Improving information and knowledge critical to formulation, implementations and evaluation of national migration policies and practices.
• Formulating and implementing coherent labour migration policies and programme, which respect the fundamental rights of migrant workers, and are beneficial to employment, economic growth and development in both original and destination countries.
• Strengthening capacity of the governments and social partners and other specific target for good governance of migration processes.
• Establishing an efficient, safe and low cost remittance system and new initiatives for supporting services on micro-enterprise development in migrant workers’ communities.

Project Target Countries

• Mekong region: Laos, Cambodia and Thailand
• Indonesia