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Dec 12, 2020 12:06 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
This report is the result of an assessment of the Migrant Workers Assistance Centers made by the ILO upon a request from the Ministry of Labour. The assessment aimed to holistically review the Migrant Workers Assistance Center model and provide recommendations on how to enhance the centres’ effectiveness in delivering services to migrant workers.
This report outlines the structure and mandates of the centres, reviews their achievements to date, and provides a set of recommendations on how the centres can be further strengthened to ensure that a larger number of migrant workers will be able to access quality services and seek redress for their complaints.
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Dec 12, 2020 01:33 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
In line with the structure of the 2016 ILO’s Guiding Principles on the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market, the compendium synthesizes the main lessons learned and emerging good practices on ILO’s refugee response programmes that have been more systematically captured since 2013 in the areas related to governance framework, economic and employment policies, labour rights and equality of opportunities, along with partnership, coordination and coherence.
The compendium is built on the ILO’s expertise in providing access to decent work, notably through its large-scale and comprehensive interventions in responding to the Syrian refugee situation in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan and more recently in supporting constituents to address the labour market challenges posed by the Venezuelan displacement situation and in the Horn of Africa and North Africa under the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
This compendium makes the case as to why employment and decent work should be part of a comprehensive response for refugees and FDPs and host communities, and for the ILO’s increased engagement in this area. Through the compendium, the ILO also seeks to reinforce coordination and coherence across its technical branches and field offices, as well as with partner organizations in operationalizing access to decent work for refugees and other FDPs.
The compendium is the result of a collaborative effort within the ILO between the Labour Migration Branch (MIGRANT), the Development and Investment Branch (DEVINVEST) and the Office of the Director General for Policy.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:01 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:11 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Research
This Global Comparative Study on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs was prepared ahead of the Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs, which took place in Geneva from 14 to 16 November 2018. It brings together the findings from five regional reports that examined 90 national government responses, 18 bilateral agreements and 12 multistakeholder initiatives. The analysis of findings provides a clearer picture of how Member States have addressed the issue of recruitment fees and related costs at the policy level. Overall, the report advances ILO’s work on promoting Fair Recruitment, in particular to reduce recruitment fees and related costs paid by workers.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:14 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
Charts that depicts international labour migration trends from Pakistan
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Dec 12, 2020 12:19 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
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2020
Category: Information Material
Charts that depict business practices of Pakistani recruitment agencies and the role of intermediaries in foreign employment.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:17 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
Charts that depict female labour migration from Pakistan.
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Dec 12, 2020 01:37 AM
Author: ASEAN Viet Nam 2020
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
Viet Nam, as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020, hosted the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, and online on 10 and 12 November 2020. In response to the theme of ASEAN Chair 2020 “Cohesive and Responsive” and taking into account the current situation of COVID-19, the 13th AFML was organized with the theme “Supporting Migrant Workers during the Pandemic for a Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN Community”. Under this theme two subthemes were defined: Sub-theme 1. Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers and Responses in ASEAN, and Sub-theme 2. Cohesive and Responsive Labour Migration Policy for Future Preparedness in ASEAN.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:24 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
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2020
Category: Policy
A report on the framework for measuring international labour migration based on a combination of data sources with numerical illustration in the case of Turkey.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:22 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
A strategy paper on development of methodologies for the collection of data on international labour migration.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:27 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Training Material
The purpose of this handbook is to guide UNHCR public health and programme staff and ILO staff working on social protection at country level on the considerations and practical steps required to assess options for the inclusion of refugees in national social health protection schemes.
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Dec 12, 2020 12:31 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Project and Programme
ILO joined the UN Network on Migration for a briefing to Member States. With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the flaws in labour migration governance across many regions, ILO stressed how cooperation, including through BLMA, can strengthen sustainable responses ensuring migrants workers’ rights and decent work
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Dec 12, 2020 12:38 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Project and Programme
The virtual event discussed the key contribution of employment and decent work to peacebuilding, social cohesion and social justice, in particular in the time of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:15 PM
Author: Manolo I. Abella & S. K. Sasikumar
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Research
While the wide-ranging impact of COVID-19 on incomes and livelihoods of people
around the world will take some time to become known and understood, it is already
clear that those who are in manual, mostly low-wage, occupations are among the
worst-hit workers. This paper uses data from a sample survey of migrant workers
to come up with useful parameters for estimating the potential losses from possible
retrenchment of migrant workers due to the pandemic. The paper employs a simple
estimation model using parameters derived from data collected from a KNOMADILO survey of low-skilled migrant workers in the India–Saudi Arabia migration
corridor, conducted during 2016–2017. An important fnding is that the aggregate
losses that low-skilled Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are likely to incur due to
COVID-19-related retrenchment may be as high as 21% of their expected earnings.
Adding recruitment costs can push up their losses to 36% of expected or potential
earnings, while the aggregate remittances to their families could drop by USD 2
billion.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:31 PM
Author: Enerelt Murakami, Satoshi Shimizutani & Eiji Yamada
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Research
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is inevitably affecting remittance-dependent countries through economic downturns in the destination countries, and restrictions on travel and sending remittances to their home country. We explore the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the welfare of remittance-dependent households using a dataset collected in the Philippines prior to the outbreak. First, we confirm that remittances are associated with welfare of households, particularly for those whose head is male or lower educated. Then, we use the revision of the 2020 GDP projections before and after the COVID-19 crisis to gauge potential impacts on households caused by the pandemic. We find that remittance inflow will decrease by 14–20% and household spending per capita will decline by 1–2% (food expenditure per capita by 2–3%) in one year as a result of the pandemic.
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