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Germany pre-departure information for migrant health workers
Working in Germany pre-departure information for Filipino and Indian migrant health workers bound for Germany
This pre-departure booklet contains basic information about several topics to help Filipino and Indian health workers who are bound to work in Germany. It seeks to empower health workers to make informed decisions and raise awareness of the issues...
Finland pre-departure information for migrant health workers
Working in Finland pre-departure information for Filipino and Indian migrant health workers bound for Finland
This booklet focuses on information needed by workers who have already made a decision to migrate to Finland for work.
Denmark pre-departure information for migrant health workers
Working in Denmark pre-departure information for Filipino and Indian migrant health workers bound for Denmark
This pre-departure booklet is part of a series of migration information materials developed for Indian and Filipino health workers under the ILO’s Decent Work Across Borders (DWAB) project. The project seeks to facilitate an approach to migration...
Return and reintegration for migrant Filipino health workers
Return and reintegration to the Philippines: An information guide for migrant Filipino health workers
Return and reintegration in this booklet shall refer to the process of going back to one’s country of origin (in this case the Philippines), including preparation and implementation. Return may be voluntary or enforced.
Philippine labour migration for health workers
Philippine pre-decision booklet on labour migration for health workers
The Philippines is known as a major source country of migrant labour in the world. More than 10 million Filipinos are living or working in different parts of the world. Labour migration from the Philippines has grown constantly for the past three...
Indian pre-decision booklet on migration
Indian pre-decision booklet
This booklet focuses on information needed by workers prior to making a decision to migrate for work overseas. Some aspiring migrants have opted to abandon plans to move to another country after receiving information on actual living and employment...
Norway pre-departure information for migrant health workers
Working in Norway pre-departure information for Filipino and Indian migrant health workers bound for Norway
The migration information materials seek to address information needs of migrant health workers at all the stages of migration -- from pre-decision to return and reintegration.
Decent work and safe migration
Be informed! Your ticket to decent work and safe migration
These tools are designed to ease migrants’ transition into the country of destination, empower them to maximize the benefits of their overseas employment and ensure, in due course, a positive return to the country.
Return and circular migration experiences of India health professionals
Documentation of return and circular migration experiences of India health professionals
There were 10 case studies detailing the experiences of a variety of Indian healthcare professionals.
Policy briefs for stakeholders on the migration of health professionals
Policy briefs for stakeholders: Taking off from the ILO Decent Work Across Border Project on the migration of health professionals
The ILO Decent Work Across Borders project (DWAB) commissioned out various policy studies on the many dimensions of this phenomenon to a number of international experts in Europe and in Asia. These studies were designed to support the ILO’s...
Migrant health professionals and skilled workers
Promoting decent work across borders: A Philippine based project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers: Final project fact...
Migration trends had shown that skilled nurses and other health professionals while vital, were also globally scarce.
Entrepreneurship skills training programme for Filipinos health professionals
Entrepreneurship skills training programme for Filipinos health professionals
The training programme – HealthBiz: returning home to your business has been developed by the ILO-Decent Work Across Borders Project with the leadership of the National Reintegration Center for OFWs, one of the attached agency of the Philippines’...
Reintegration of overseas Filipino workers
Analysis of the enabling and disabling factors of a successful reintegration of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
Under the leadership of the National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), the report was commissioned by the European Union funded ILO Decent Work Across Borders’ project, with an objective to look into the enabling and disabling factors explaining...
Migration of health professionals
Policy briefs on the circular migration of health professionals
Circular migration is still vaguely understood as a migration concept, especially when it concerns health professionals or skilled workers.
Health-care professional migration
Philippines’ bilateral labour arrangements on health-care professional migration: In search of meaning
The Philippines started developing bilateral labour arrangements for the mobilization, training and employment of skilled and less-skilled workers in the 1970s. Since then, arrangements concluded by the Philippines with destination countries have...
Circular migration of health-care professionals
Circular migration of health-care professionals: What do employers in Europe think of it?
The paper discussed the development of the policy debate around the concept of circular migration and contrasts with the reality on the ground.
Migration
Policy brief 6. Regulating the recruitment industry through incentives: POEA awards for recruitment agencies
This policy brief calls on the ways to improve the POEA awards based on the assessment results. While stakeholders up hold the principles underlying the awards, they pointed out the limitations and suggested improvements to enhance the awards'...
Migration
Policy brief 3. Forging Philippine bilateral arrangements and agreements: Experiences and lessons
Bilateral arrangements and agreements (BLAs) are important policy instruments to facilitate ethical recruitment and circular migration of health professionals. While bilateral arrangements are nori-legally binding and flexible, bilateral agreements...
Migration
Policy brief 5. Monitoring the ethical recruitment of Filipino health professionals: A multi-stakeholder approach
This policy brief presents the Philippine experience in monitoring, the implementation of the 201.0 WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Professionals.
Migration
Policy brief 1. Improving migrant services for health professionals
In managing Filipino worker migration, the Philippine government enacted laws and policies to promote and protect migrant workers' rights and welfare and ensure legal and ethical recruitment.