Action Programme for Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers (WMDWs) in Lebanon

The proposed project aims at consolidating an ongoing ILO initiative by improving the situation of women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and ensuring favourable working conditions and a better regulated and monitored environment that protects their rights. It is framed within the regional and global priorities of the ILO that meet the priorities of regulation and monitoring of international labour migration and the protection of the rights of domestic workers. The action proposed aims at building on the momentum created by the adoption of unified contract and the decree on regulating and monitoring private placement agencies. The provisions of the unified contract and the decree on regulating and monitoring private placement agencies constitute a great improvement in the legal situation of the women migrant domestic workers. However, prejudice and negative attitudes with regard to this group of workers prevails, making it necessary to intervene at the policy, institutional and grassroots levels in order to contribute to changing the preconceived notions on women migrant domestic workers in the country. Within this context, the specific objective of the project is: Improved working conditions of women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon.

Project symbol

LEB/10/04/EEC

Admin unit

RO-Arab States/DWT-Beirut

Start date

01/06/2011

End date

31/10/2014

Total allocation

2031538

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1967601

Development Partners

Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon

Country/Countries

Lebanon

Outcomes

Working Conditions