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ILO Migrant Worker Resource Centre (MRC) Map
The ILO delivers assistance directly to migrant workers and their communities through a network of Migrant Worker Resource Centres (MRCs) across the ASEAN region. These MRCs are managed in partnership with government institutions, trade unions and...
Domestic workers
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers: Organizing and empowering domestic workers through skills trainings, awareness raising...
The report assesses the key achievements, challenges and lessons learnt of the ILO’s Developing International and Internal Labour Migration Governance (DIILM) project supported by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT).
Labour migration
Experiences of ASEAN migrant workers during COVID-19: Rights at work, migration during the pandemic, and remigration plans (Second...
This study – conducted from mid-October to December 2020 – is a follow-up to the initial assessment undertaken in March and April 2020.
Skills and labour migration: The role of social partners in promoting policy coherence in Myanmar
This paper, Skills and labour migration: The role of social partners in promoting policy coherence in Myanmar, takes stock of Myanmar’s international migration trends; examines horizontal and vertical policy coherence; maps relevant policies related...
Domestic Worker Stories
Celebrating International Domestic Workers Day 2021 #Valuing domestic work as work
June 16th 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the adoption of ILO’s Domestic Work Convention (No. 189) at the International Labour Conference in Geneva. Every year in Myanmar, we celebrate this day to raise awareness about the valuable contribution...
Op-ed
A decade of decent work for domestic workers; are we making (enough of) a difference?
Ten years on from the adoption of ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention, much more needs to be done to recognize the rights and improve working conditions for domestic workers writes Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, ILO’s Assistant Director-General and Regional...
Migrant Welfare Funds: Lessons for Myanmar from Nepal, Thailand and the Philippines
This paper prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) provides details of the development, administration and...
Social security system in Myanmar and migrant workers (ILO Brief 2)
This is the second brief on Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund...
International Law, Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers (ILO Brief 1)
This is the first brief on Social Protection and Myanmar Migrant Workers prepared by ILO Myanmar’s Development of Internal and International Labour Migration (DIILM Project) (February 2016 – June 2021) funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund...
Migration
Closing the Migration-Trafficking Protection Gap: Policy Coherence in Myanmar
This current paper, addresses horizontal policy coherence in labour migration and anti-trafficking arenas, with an examination of the main actors and their roles, the laws and policies involved, and strategies and mechanisms. Stronger, better...
DIILM updates
Developing International and Internal Labour Migration project update no.5, migrant centres
The Developing International and Internal Labour Migration (DIILM) project has supported Labour organisations and Civil Society Organisatioins (CSOs) to run Migrant Centres in different strategic locations across Myanmar. The centres are places...
DIILM Updates
Internal Labour Migration Governance
DIILM Update No. 4, January 2021
MIGRANT STORIES
Celebrating International Migrant Day 2020 #Bringing back the skills
December 18th is International Migrants Day. On this day 30 years ago, countries around the world agreed on international standards to protect migrant workers. Every year in Myanmar we celebrate this day to remember Myanmar migrant workers, thank...
Extending the scope of social security to internal migrants in the informal economy: An analysis for Myanmar
Extending the scope of social security to internal migrants in the informal economy: an analysis for Myanmar, examines the extent of social protection coverage for workers in Myanmar, particularly internal migrant workers in the informal economy.
Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants
The Assessment Study on the Skills of Returned Myanmar Migrants was conducted in November 2019 prior to the return of Myanmar workers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
DIILM Updates
International Labour Migration Governance
DIILM update #3 focuses on the ILO’s work with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, and Population (MOLIP); Parliamentarians, the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation, labour organizations and CSOs to strengthen the legislative and policy...
Policy Coherence for Development: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Labour Migration Governance in Myanmar
This paper provides an overview of the legal framework and actors involved in governing migration, gender equality, and women’s empowerment in Myanmar, and examines examples of gaps in the design and implementation phases of the policy cycle that...
DIILM Updates
Making decent work a reality for domestic workers
DIILM Update No. 2 Domestic Workers, October 2020
DIILM Updates
DIILM’s responses to the needs of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic
DIILM Update #1 Covid-19 Response, September 2020
The ILO supported Kawthaung Migrant Centre receives recognition for assisting returning migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Kawthaung Migrant Centre run by the Foundation for Education and Development is the second of the Migrant Centres supported by the ILO to receive the Honorary Record from the National League of Volunteers, chaired by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.