The TRIANGLE project aims to significantly reduce the exploitation of labour migrants in the region through increased legal and safe migration and improved labour protection. The project will promote both bilateral and regional approaches to deal with shared concerns, make regionalism more effective, and enhance the capacity of institutions in ASEAN. The project objectives are in line with the strategic priorities of the ASEAN Labour Ministers Work Programme (2010-2015).
The Tripartite Action to Protect Migrants Workers from Labour Exploitation (the GMS TRIANGLE project) aims to strengthen the formulation and implementation of recruitment and labour protection policies and practices in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, to ensure safer migration resulting in decent work.
This document reflects the collaboration between the ILO and the Sri Lankan Ministry of Labour to ensure the effective implementation of the Sri Lankan National Labour Migration Policy. The three objectives are to:
1) strenghten policy, legal and institutional frameworks of the migration process and protection and empowerment of migrant workers and their families;
2) review and enhance the processes for improved governance, protection and empowerment;
This regional skills development initiative was launched in 2006 to provide Pacific islanders with Australian qualifications. it is designed to open up employment opportunities in targeted sectors at the national, regional and international level.
The Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is a centre for training excellence and collaboration with over 12 years of experience and broad expertise.
Norway implements the WHO Code of Practice by scaling up education for relevant personnel to ensure sustainability of its own health care system. It has formally stopped recruiting health personnel from countries facing critical shortages in the health workforce.
Kenya is working to incorporate the voluntary WHO Code of Practice into national law. It entered into bilateral agreements with certain countries (including Namibia, Lesotho and Rwanda) regarding collaborative health workforce training and promotion of circular migration of health workers (involving the temporary or permanent return to their home countries).
The National Health Weeks from Mexico are an annual program that mobilizes community clinics to offer a week of services aimed at the Mexican/Latin population with health promotions and programs designed for migrant groups. They provide information about available health services.
These RRTs include crisis management experts from different agencies who are trained and ready to be deployed to crisis-hit areas to bring the Filipinos out of harm's way.
The agreement, assures benefits to female migrant domestic workers (inclulding a day-off per week) and sasfeguarding them from abuse (e.g. deduction of hiring fees from salary payments).
The National Health Insurance Program was established to provide health insurance coverage and ensure affordable, acceptable, available and accessible health care services for all citizens of the Philippines. It is also mandatory for overseas workers to be covered by private medical insurance.