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| National Labour Migration Policy Launch |
This new policy is closely associated with the overall development strategy for the country - The Mahinda Chintana - the country’s Ten Year Development Plan as well as the National Policy for Decent Work, which both emphasize safe and skilled migration as the main strategy for labour migration. It is intended to do so through the institutionalization of policies, laws, regulations, services and facilities for migrant workers and their families. Special emphasis is put on the development of skills as a an effective means of protection for migrant workers and their families.
The policy is structured in three sections; namely, governance of the migration process, protection and empowerment of migrant workers and their families, and linking migration and development processes.The National Policy sets forth the Government's policy commitments and elaborates on challenges and policy responses identified by all stakeholders in the consultative process. The policy is developed through an extensive consultative process among all concerned stakeholders - relevant government ministries and agencies, employers' and workers' organizations, migrant associations, civil society and concerned international agencies. The Policy further contains a detailed work plan outlining action addressing important policy issues that have emerged.
The development of the Policy was supported by International Labour Organization and was guided by the ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, which elaborates non-binding principles and guidelines for a rights-based approach to labour migration, which makes Sri Lanka the first country in the South Asian region to develop a policy based on this internationally accepted instrument.
The Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare takes full responsibility to carry forward this National Policy on Labour Migration, recognizing the roles and responsibilities placed on key stakeholders and actors in the process and counts on their cooperation for realizing the objects of this policy. The MFEPW will establish mechanisms for monitoring and reporting back on the implementation of the policy and the realization of its objectives.
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