Philippines

Official Name
Republic of the Philippines
ISO2 Code
PH
ISO3 Code
PHL
Longitude
13 00 N
Latitude
122 00 E
Geolocation
POINT (122 13)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Ms. Patricia Sto. Tomas was the General Rapporteur of the RT 1.1 “Human Capital Development and Labor Mobility: Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks”.
  • Government Team Member for the RT 1.2 “Temporary labor migration as a contribution to development: sharing responsibility”.
  • Ms Rosalinda Baldoz, Administrator of the Philippines Overseas Employment Agency, was speaker for the RT 1.2 “Temporary labor migration as a contribution to development: sharing responsibility”.
  • Mr. René Cristobal, President of Manpower Resources of Asia, was panelist for the RT 1.3 “The role of other-than government partners in governing the developmental contribution of temporary labor migration”.
  • Co-chair for RT 2.1: “Improving the formalization of transfers and reducing their cost”.
  • Marianito D. Roque, Administrator of Overseas Workers Welfare, was speaker for RT 2.1: “Improving the formalization of transfers and reducing their cost”.
  • Mr Enrique A. Manalo, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in Geneva was co-chair for RT 3.3: “Operating Modalities (Future of the Forum)”.
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • The Philippines hosted the 2008 GFMD Summit
RT Participation
  • Co-chair for RT 1.1 “Protecting the Rights of Migrants –A shared responsibility-”.
  • Patricia Sto. Tomas, Former Secretary of Labor and Employment and Philippines Chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines was Resource Person for RT 1.1. “Protecting the Rights of Migrants –A shared responsibility-”.
  • Fr. Fabio Baggio, Director of Scalabrini Migration Center, was resource person for RT 1.2: “Empowering migrants and diasporas to contribute to development”.
  • Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Fostering more opportunities for regular migration”.
  • Lawrence Dacuycuy, Chair of the Department of Economics at De La Salle University – Manila, was Resource Person for RT 2.1: “Fostering more opportunities for regular migration”.
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Inclusion, protection and acceptable of migrants in society –linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development”.
  • Government Team member for RT 2.2:”Reintegration and circular migration –effective for development?”
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Government Team member for RT 1.2: “Joint strategies to address irregular migration”.
  • Government Team member for RT 2.2: “Migration, gender and family”.
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

  • Thematic Meeting held in Manila.

RT Participation
  • Government Team member for RT 1.1: “Engaging the private sector in labour market planning”.
  • Government Team member for RT 1.2: “Lowering the cost of migration”.
  • Government Team member for RT 1.3: “Global care workers at the interface of migration and development”.
  • Government Team member for RT 2.1: “Addressing Irregular migration through coherent migrant and development strategies”.
  • H.E. Esteban Conejos Jr., Undersecretary of Migrant Workers’ Affairs at the Department of
  • Foreign Affairs, was co-chair for RT 3.1: “Mainstreaming migration into development planning/migration profiles”.
  • Government Team member for RT 3.1: “Mainstreaming migration into development planning/migration profiles”.
  • Government Team member for RT 3.2: “Impact assessments of migration and development policies”.
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Migration Profiles" on 20-21 October 2011 in Manila, Philippines.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Government Team member for RT 1.1: “Beyond the Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development”.
  • Ms. Carmelita S. Dimzon was sub-session moderator for the RT 1.1: “Beyond the Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development”.
  • Government Team Member for RT 2.1: “Supporting National Development through migration mainstreaming processes, extended migration profiles and poverty reduction strategies”.
  • Government Team Member for RT 3.1: “Improving Public Perceptions of Migrants and Migration: Challenging Preconceptions and Sharing Perceptions”.
  • Government Team member for RT 3.2: “Migrant Protection as Integral to Migration Management”.
  • Mr Eduardo M.R. Meñez was chair of break-out session for RT 3.2: “Migrant Protection as Integral to Migration Management”.
  • Ambassador Evan P. Garcia was co-chair for RT 3.3: “Protecting Migrant Domestic Workers-Enhancing Their Development Potential”

 

Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Government Team Member in RT 1.1: Operationalizing mainstream and coherence in migration and development policies
  • Government Team Member in RT 1.2: Framing Migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda 
  • Moderator in RT 2.1: Enhancing the development impact of labour migration and circular mobility through more systematic labour market and skills matching
  • Government 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
  • Moderator in RT 3.1: Empowering migrants, their households and communities for improved protection of rights and social development outcomes
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- 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
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Served as a Co-Chair for RT 1.1: “Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration”
  • Government Team Member in RT 1.2: “Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration particularly labour migration”
  • Government Team Member in RT 2.1: “Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level”
  • Government Team Member in RT 2.2: “Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDGs”
  • Government Team Member in RT 3.1: “Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants..”
  • Government Team Member in RT 3.2: “Private sector-government partnership to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation with a focus on small and medium enterprises”
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended 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.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Government Team Member in RT 1.1: “Reducing migration costs”
  • Government Team Member in RT 1.2: “Connectivity and migration”
  • Government Team Member in RT 2.1: “Migration, diversity and harmonious societies”
  • Government Team Member in RT 2.2: “Protection of migrants in all situations”
  • Served as a Co-Chair for RT 3.1: “Migrants in situations of crises: Conflict, climate change and natural disasters”
  • Government Team Member in RT 3.2: “Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration”
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Harmonious Societies" on 18 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • The Philippines contributed financialy to the GFMD 2017 budget
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Fostering the development impact of returning migrants" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the potential of the private sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

Financial contribution of USD 10,000 non-earmarked

RT Participation

Co-Chair in RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development"

Government Team Member in RT 1.1 "Harnessing the capital of migrants to realise their potential"

Goverment Team Member in RT 1.2 "Migrants' engagement with public services: from basic access to co-production"

Government Team Member in RT 2.1 "South-South mobility: trends, patterns and transferable learning"

Government Team Member in RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" 18-19 April 2018, Morocco
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Labour Migration and Skills" 3 May 2018, Geneva
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Children and Youth on the Move: Implementing Sustainable Solutions" 21-22 June 2018, Morocco

Community Learning Centers

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Access to education is fundamental in leaving no one behind in the thrust towards SDGs. In that regard, Indonesia, working together with CSOs and private sectors, has established several community learning centers in Malaysia to ensure access to education for the children of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia.

While appreciating the Government of Malaysia for this policy, Indonesia calls on receiving countries to give broader access to education for migrants and their families.

Migration Governance Index

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Jointly implemented with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the project involves the development of a policy-benchmarking framework to assess the extent to which national migration policies facilitate orderly, safe and well managed migration, as laid out in SDG Target 10.7.

The LGU's Guide in Mainstreaming Migration and Development in Local Development Planning and Governance

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The M&D Mainstreaming Guide primarily aims to help the local governments of CALABARZON (Laguna, Batangas, Cavite, Rizal and Quezon) in integrating M&D into their local planning, and provide them with a sample menu of services that their localities can provide for the migrants and their families. It will also provide pertinent information on international migration, issues of migrants and the national government agencies involved in M&D initiatives so the LGUs could link up with them.

Overseas Filipino Workers- Help Desk

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The establishment of OFW Help Desks is mandated by the Migrant Workers’ Act (RA 8042 as amended by RA 10022), and is institutionalized with a Memorandum of Agreement on Convergence Program for OFWs forged by DOLE, TESDA, POEA and OWWA with the local government.

These help desks are established at the local level to attend to the problems and concerns of the OFWs and their families, and to provide information on all aspect of overseas employment.

Mainstreaming migration and development into the governance of local authorities of the Bicol Region Project

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The proposed project seeks to localize, mainstream and actualize migration and development (M&D) issues and projects among key provinces, cities and municipalities in the Bicol Region. Among others, the project will establish migration resource centers in the Bicol region. These resource centers will serve as one-stop hubs for services and projects for overseas Filipinos and their families. These centers will also help generate investments to provide Bicolanos with alternative economic options apart from overseas work.

Republic Act 10801

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The Philippine government, along with their partners from the civil society organizations, private institutions, and international organizations, has continuously strived to integrate gender in the migration-related legislation. This led to the recent passing of the Republic Act 10801, known as the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Law (this May 2016), a new legislation promoting gender responsive migration.

Alert level classification system

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The Philippines Alert level classification system essentially classifies the degree of threat and of immediate danger that the migrant worker is facing. The system serves as an advisor to all affected Filipino workers by instructing them on what to do to keep them safe and secure in times of crises. n accordance with the established protocols on international relations, the Crisis Alert Levels, with their respective indicators and deployment status, are:

Case Study #18: Ensuring vertical policy coherence in migration management for development through strategic coordination mechanisms

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

This case study forms part of a series of case studies on good practices, lessons learnt and recommendations extracted from the projects supported by the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) to enhance migration management for local development. The experience of the JMDI shows that the most effective initiatives are anchored with local or regional authorities and carried out in a multi-stakeholder and participatory approach, including migrants and migrants’ associations or diaspora.

Case Study #9: The key role of academia in supporting the mainstreaming of migration into local development planning

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

This case study forms part of a series of case studies on good practices, lessons learnt and recommendations extracted from the projects supported by the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) to enhance migration management for local development. The experience of the JMDI shows that the most effective initiatives are anchored with local or regional authorities and carried out in a multi-stakeholder and participatory approach, including migrants and migrants’ associations or diaspora.

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