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Strengthening the Capacity of Ethiopian Migrant Workers Association
The ILO in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign affairs –Women Affairs Directorate General intends to support the Ethiopian MWs association in Kuwait and Qatar by building the capacity of the association by providing leadership and management, financial literacy, and life skill training to the association’s management and members.
The workshop aims to discuss the main achievements, challenges, opportunities and partnerships established by the association; to review and provide guidance for activities by the association aimed at promoting decent work for migrant domestic workers; to review and advise on priority areas of the association and to ensure that the synergies with parallel initiatives in protecting and promoting the rights of MDWs is created and further amplified between the Ethiopian Consulate, the association and MoFA.
The proposed capacity building initiative on strengthening associations will assist in enhanced monitoring of the situation of Ethiopian MDWs on arrival, placement and return.
Objectives:
To provide financial literacy and life skill training to assist the migrants to save, build assets and insure their livelihood risks against death, disability and accidents affordably;
To facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices in protecting and promoting the rights of Ethiopian MWs and those of their families in Kuwait and Qatar;
To understand the required structure necessary to support and empower Ethiopian women MDWs in Kuwait and Qatar;
To support Ethiopian Migrant association to serve as a catalyst to ensure that: migrants’ have access to health and legal services, social security and health insurance schemes; and improve services of diplomatic and consular missions to protect and ultimately assist women MDWs in Kuwait and Qatar;
