International Migration Papers No. 100

Strengthening social protection for African migrant workers through social security agreements

The ‘Extending social security coverage to African migrant workers and their families project’ (MIGSEC) aims to improve national and regional strategies for the extension of social security coverage to migrant workers and their families through social security agreements, and to strengthen sub-regional mechanisms to effectively prepare or reinforce the compliance with regional social security conventions to accompany the various subregional integration processes in Africa. The MIGSEC project covers Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.