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Tanzania Charts Path Forward for Labour Migration Governance in Dodoma
Fifth National Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on Labour Migration in Dodoma, Tanzania to review progress, address implementation challenges, and promote the programme’s exit strategy for long-term impact.
Aligning Data, Skills, Protection and Recruitment Governance under a Coordinated National Framework in Ethiopia
This article highlights the outcomes of the National Project Co-Creation and Co-Design Workshop held in Bishoftu in January 2026 under the EU–ILO Action. It outlines how federal and regional institutions, social partners and technical stakeholders...
Ethiopia Strengthens Fair Recruitment Oversight through the Migrant Recruitment Advisor (MRA) Platform
Targeted IT training and stakeholder consultations lay the foundation for embedding the Migrant Recruitment Advisor within Ethiopia’s labour migration governance system.
Adapting Traditional Craft to Modern Market Demand
"My biggest problem was not skills or materials, but the market. I could make products, but I did not know how to reach buyers or get fair prices,” said Nathan Mugote.
Integrating the LeMengede Application into Ethiopia’s Migration Preparedness Framework
TVET trainers and key stakeholders across Ethiopia were equipped to integrate the LeMengede mobile app into pre-departure training, strengthening migrant workers' access to multilingual migration information, complaint mechanisms and an SOS feature...
Labour migration
From registration to return: Strengthening overseas employment governance in Bangladesh with ILO support
Standardising OSSC Service Delivery through Ethiopian Labour Market Information System E-LMIS Capacity Building in Ethiopia
Frontline staff across three Ethiopian cities got to grips with the digital systems powering the country's One Stop Service Centres, sharpening skills in everything from biometric registration to labour market data reporting and laying the...
Retooling TVET Trainers to Strengthen Skills Training in Hairdressing and Domestic Work
Twelve trainers in hairdressing and domestic work walked away with sharpened technical and instructional skills, directly addressing the instructor shortage holding back five BRMM-supported TVET centres and raising the quality bar for vocational...
Kenya Reviews Cabinet Directives to Strengthen the Labour Migration Management Bill, 2025
Kenya's multi-agency stakeholders gathered to comb through Cabinet directives on the draft Labour Migration Management Bill, reaching consensus on key revisions including a proposed rename to the "Labour Mobility Bill," in a step toward a more...
Testing Methodology and Digital Systems for the Labour Force and Migration Survey in South Sudan
South Sudan took a decisive step toward its first nationally representative Labour Force and Migration Survey, putting survey tools, field procedures and a tablet-based data collection system through their paces in Juba, with results pointing to a...
BRMM Programme
UK Commonwealth and Development Office highlights progress of Better Regional Migration Management programme in Kenya
A UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) annual review mission to Kenya assessed progress under the Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM) programme, meeting government institutions, implementing partners, and returnee migrant...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Regulatory and Inspection Systems for Private Employment Agencies in Tanzania
Tanzania brought government, social partners, private employment agencies and civil society to the table to scrutinise how recruitment agencies are regulated in practice, surfacing gaps in inspection capacity and enforcement while pointing toward...
Labour Migration Strategy Workshop in Djibouti
Djibouti used a two-day series of high-level engagements to relaunch its national labour migration strategy, with government, social partners and international stakeholders taking stock of what the BRMM programme has built and defining what needs to...
Community Awareness Campaign Strengthens Protection of Migrant Workers in Bossaso
A week-long campaign in Bossaso cut through to migrant workers, employers, religious leaders and media alike, combining community workshops, digital outreach and multilingual materials to raise awareness of rights, surface compliance gaps and build...
Supporting Institutional Readiness of the Bossaso Migration Response Centre
Equipment and furniture handover to the Bossaso Migration Response Centre quietly did what policy alone cannot, giving frontline staff the tools to deliver timely protection, counselling and referral services to migrants navigating one of the Horn...
Labour Migration Governance in Focus: Youth and Media Engagement in Uganda
On the same day in Kampala, university students and journalists were pulled into the same conversation about labour migration from opposite ends, one through a public lecture at Makerere, the other through a media breakfast, each leaving better...
Institutionalising Labour Migration Governance Gains in Uganda
With the BRMM programme nearing its end, Uganda's tripartite partners and key stakeholders turned their attention to what comes next, working through an exit strategy designed to embed labour migration governance gains into national systems long...
Regional Workshop Validates MRC Operations Manual
The Regional Operations Manual for Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) brings together representatives from across the region to harmonise operational standards, strengthen service delivery, and enhance coordination among MRCs. The meeting provided a...
Multi-Stakeholder Workshops Translate Labour Migration Governance into Advocacy and Storytelling across Three Countries
Across three cities in ten days, policymakers, migrant workers, trade unions and civil society came together to turn BRMM's technical achievements into advocacy and storytelling, capturing the human realities of labour migration before the programme...
Global training in Doha strengthens action toward fair recruitment and labour rights
The ILO, ITCILO and Qatar's Ministry of Labour brought together 60 participants from over 20 countries in Doha for a week-long training on fair recruitment, covering everything from forced labour prevention to gender and data-driven policymaking,...