Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility in North Africa

The Action is designed as a sub-regional programme aiming at the strengthening of migrant workers’ protection mechanisms throughout the migration cycle and whether workers are leaving the region or seeking employment there Planned over 36 months, it covers three countries: Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia and will be inclusive of and open to other North Africa countries for sub-regional activities. The Action is aligned to existing policy frameworks at global (Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration) and regional (African Union Migration Policy Framework Plan of Action 2018-2030) levels and factored in preliminary consultations with relevant national stakeholders. The Action comprises four Specific Objectives managed jointly by the ILO and IOM: SO 1: Policy, legislative, institutional and regulatory frameworks in the field of legal migration and mobility in particular those aiming at enhancing migrant workers' rights and combatting forced labour, child labour and slavery are progressively established; SO 2: Mechanisms for assessment, certification, validation and recognition of migrants' skills and qualifications are improved; SO 3: Migration related knowledge and data management in the field of legal migration and mobility is improved; and SO 5: Cooperation between relevant stakeholders in the field of legal migration and mobility, in particular job placement, is improved. A fifth component (SO 4: Mobility-schemes are established and/or improved) as well as part of SO5, implemented by GIZ, are the subject of a separate Description of Action and contract. Key expected results are: 1. Strengthened governance and implementation structures; 2. Harmonised data collection mechanisms and analytical capabilities; 3. Strengthened policy coherence (between in particular migration, education, employment policies); 4. Improved migrant workers’ rights and skills recognition; 5. Labour migration issues effectively mainstreamed into social dialogue mechanisms; 6. Regional spaces for exchange of good practice.

Project symbol

RAF/17/06/EUR

Admin unit

CO-Algiers
DWT/CO-Cairo

Start date

01/11/2019

End date

31/10/2023

Total allocation

3785330

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

3723110

Development Partners

European Commission, EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa

Country/Countries

Tunisia
Egypt
Morocco

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all