Promoting safe employment pathways and fair recruitment practices

Fact Sheet

Background

India remains one of the largest countries of origin of international migrants and the top recipient of international remittances. Canada has been a key country of destination for Indian migrant workers over the past years. Canada’s Immigration Levels Plan provides a holistic approach to managed migration, recognizing migrants’ role in supporting economic growth and addressing labour market shortages across Canada.

The project, “Promoting safe employment pathways and fair recruitment practices”, aims at supporting and strengthening regular migration pathways and national migration policies and procedures by ensuring that employers from Canada and migrant workers from India benefit from skills comparability and recognition systems as well as from fair recruitment practices.

These are pursued through the development of policy measures, tools and institutional capacity to advance the comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications; as well as through supporting public and private stakeholders increase their understanding about and apply fair recruitment practices. The project promotes dialogue and exchange of information among relevant stakeholders in India and Canada which may potentially lead to more structured forms of collaboration.

Key outcomes

• Enhanced institutional capacity for the comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications
• Increased institutional capacity and understanding of key stakeholders on fair recruitment practices

Key outputs

• Harmonized approach for the comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications developed and pilot tested
• Technical assistance on the comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications and the anticipation of future skills provided to institutions/stakeholders in targeted sectors
• Technical assistance provided on fair recruitment practices to public and private employment agencies, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other relevant stakeholders

Key activities

• Development and pilot testing of methodology for comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications
• Review and update of relevant training curricula
• Capacity building on comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications and anticipation of future skills needs
• Capacity building and multi-stakeholder dialogue on fair recruitment practices
• Knowledge sharing and multi-stakeholder collaboration on comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications and fair recruitment practices.

Contact

Ms Yukari Kanamori (Technical Officer): [email protected]

Ms Radhika Sunger (National Project Coordinator): [email protected]

Ms Geetha Chandran (Project Assistant): [email protected]