IGAD - Free Movement of Persons
This project is funded under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Stability addressing the root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa.
Official Name
Republic of Kenya
ISO2 Code
KE
ISO3 Code
KEN
Longitude
1 00 N
Latitude
38 00 E
Geolocation
POINT (38 1)
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- Team Member in RT 2.1. "Reducing the cost of migration and maximizing human development"
- Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship"
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- Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Supporting Migrants and Diaspora as Agents of Socioeconomic Change"
- Team Member in RT 2.2. "Addressing South-South Migration and Development Policies"
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- Team Member in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda"
- Team Member in RT 2.1. "Enhancing the development impacts of labour migration and circular mobility through more systematic labour market and skills matching"
- Team Member in RT 2.2. "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin"
- Team Member in RT 3.2. "Migrants' social and financial remittances (asset transfers) and their effects on health and education"
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- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
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- Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration"
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- Attended the Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Team Member in RT 1.1. "Reducing migration costs"
- Team Member in RT 2.2 "Protection of migrants in all situations"
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- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
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- Team Member in RT 1.2. "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for migration - related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Team Member in RT 3.1. "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector for Global Skills Partnerships"
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Government Team Member in RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development"
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Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Development" and "Labour Migration and Skills"
Better Migration Management Program, Horn of Africa
Mr. Camille Saadé
The program aims to improve migration management in the region, and in particular to address the trafficking and smuggling of migrants within and from the Horn of Africa. The priority is to strengthen the rights of migrants and protect them better from violence, abuse and exploitation. The aim is to make migration in the region easier and safer.
The program’s activities are being implemented on four levels:
Send Money and Invest in Kenya: A Guide for Diaspora Remittances and Investments
The Government of Kenya and IOM released in 2017 a guide for diaspora remittances and investments in the country.
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP)
The European Union-funded “Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy” (MECLEP) project was implemented between January 2014 and March 2017.
Legal and Constitutional Framework of Kenya protecting equality and workers rights
Consitution Article 27(ii)
The government provides equal access to legal protection and social services to all migrants. This is guaranteed in both the constitution and statutes. Article 27(ii) of the Constitution states that every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. This equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and fundamentals freedoms for both women and men. It guarantees the right to equal treatment, including the right to equal opportunities in political, economic, cultural and social spheres.
Labour Institutions Act, Kenya
Part VII of Kenya’s Labour Institutions Act of 2007 has provisions to regulate the activities of private employment agencies that engage in internal and cross-border recruitment. These include registration requirements, obligations on agency directors, competency requirements for employment officers, recruitment-related offences and appeals procedures.
Kenya
Migration in Kenya: A Country Profile provides an overview of Kenya’s migration data, trends and the country’s legal framework and governance structures as they pertain to migration. The report also describes the impact of migration on the country’s health, environment and socioeconomic development. The report can be considered a first step towards an integrated and effective migration data management framework for the country.
DataShift
The DataShift is a multi-stakeholder, demand-driven initiative that builds the capacity and confidence of civil society organizations to generate and use citizen-generated data to monitor development progress, demand accountability and campaign for transformative change. Ultimately, the vision is a world where people-powered accountability drives progress on sustainable development.
Common Market Protocol of the East African Community (EAC)
Ms. Laurence BRON
The Common Market protocol aims to promote development through the facilitation of the free movement of goods, persons, labour, the rights of establishment and residence, the free movement of services and capital.
African Postal Financial Service Initiative
The African Postal Financial Services initiative is a joint regional programme launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Commission in collaboration with the World Bank, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) – a specialized United Nations agency for the postal sector, the World Savings Banks Institute/European Savings Banks Group (WSBI/ESBG) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).