Promotion of Gender-Sensitive labour migration policies in Costa Rica, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic

The programme objective is to strengthen the capacity of policy makers and social partners to adopt and implement gender-sensitive labour migration policies, legislation and administration. This will be done by promoting:

i) the adoption and implementation of policies, legislation and administration for better regulation of labour migration flows;

ii) strategies to enhance social security coverage of migrant worker and their families, and;

iii) the improvement of skills’ matching between sending and receiving countries and reducing de-skilling.

For more information: http://www.ilo.org/eval/Evaluationreports/WCMS_220662/lang--en/index.htm

GFMD 2013-2014 - Thematic Meeting 1 "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda ".