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Policy brief
Climate change and human mobility in Bangladesh
The policy brief on climate change and human mobility in Bangladesh brings better understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change and its impact on human mobility, improving knowledge on the country's labour migration, and providing...
Migrant workers
The invisible workers: Bangladeshi women in Oman
The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the lives of working women from Bangladesh and document and analyse the diversity of their individual and collective experiences. The findings reveal a reality that contrasts from the usual...
Impact reflection
Looking back, looking forward: 11 years of ILO’s labour migration interventions in Bangladesh
Over the past 11 years, the ILO’s Migration project funded by the Government of Switzerland has supported the Government of Bangladesh to reinforce labour migration governance and strengthen public and private institutions to secure decent work for...
Virtual dialogue
Impact of COVID-19 on Bangladesh Overseas Migrant Workers
The virtual dialogue was held with trade unions and civil society organisations working on migration on 30 April 2020. It was organized by the ILO Bangladesh migration project to learn what measures and responses the UN agencies, including ILO and...
Policy brief
Skills development for overseas employment
The brief focuses on different issues relevant to skill development for overseas employment in the National Skills Development Policy 2011
Case study
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) for migrant workers in Asia: Bangladesh
In recent years, Bangladesh has made good progress in successfully establishing and implementing a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) system. There are 411 RPL centres in the country and these facilities have provided certificates to 41,560...
Opinion
Human trafficking: Together, we can stop the scourge
This op-ed has been written by members of Bangladesh UN Network on Migration.
Report
Pathways for empowering employment: Diversity and challenges for women migrant workers of Bangladesh
The study focuses on short term overseas employment of semi-skilled and low-skilled workers because most Bangladeshi female workers fall under this category. It covers only regular migration because there is insufficient data available on irregular,...
Labour information system
Towards an effective and integrated labour market information system for Bangladesh
The report presents an analysis of global migration trends with the prospects of Bangladeshi migrant workers in the evolving foreign labour markets while recognizing major challenges for their effective and beneficial participation in them. In...
Migration data
Managing migrant worker information in Bangladesh: Conceptual software architecture and design
This report explores the conceptual software architecture for an integrated migrant workers information system and a labour market information system in Bangladesh. It proposes design recommendations for an integrated database information system on...
Migrant data
Managing migrant worker information in Bangladesh: Needs and gaps
This report presents the findings of the needs and gaps assessment of the Integrated Migrant Workers Information System and the Labour Market Information System in Bangladesh.
Migrant data
Managing migrant worker information in Bangladesh: Compatibility of data integration
This report on the compatibility of data integration of the Migrant Workers' Information System and the Labour Market Information System in Bangladesh compares and assesses the existing Bangladesh databases on the overseas migration with similar...
Migrant data
Managing migrant worker information in Bangladesh: Survey on data integration
This report 'Survey on data integration of the Migrant Workers Information System and Labour Market Information System in Bangladesh' presents the findings of two qualitative surveys that are expected to inform and guide policymakers to develop...
Bilateral labour agreements
Assessment guide for bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding on labour migration, with a special focus on Bangladesh
Bilateral labour agreements and memoranda of understanding between countries of origin and countries of destination provide States with operational frameworks for regulating labour migration flows, ensuring conditions for decent work and protection...
Bilateral labour agreements
Core elements of a bilateral agreement or a memorandum of understanding on labour migration
The Government of Bangladesh has been developing and maintaining bilateral relationships for labour migration with countries in the Middle East and East Asia. Such relationships are promoted through memoranda of understanding and bilateral...
Labour agreements
Good practices and provisions in multilateral and bilateral labour agreements and memoranda of understanding
Memoranda of understanding (MoUs) and bilateral agreements (BLAs) are key instruments of labour migration governance, and when drawn in line with international labour standards, they can be an important tool in making migration a positive...
Labour migration governance
Good governance can protect migrants’ labour rights in the destination country
Project
Application of Migration Policy for Decent Work for Migrant Workers II
The project will help the Government of Bangladesh to operationalize policy and legal measures developed by earlier ILO initiatives, including, the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Policy 2016 and the Overseas Employment and Migrants Act...