Governance of Labour Migration in South Asia (GOALS)

GOALS is a first-of-its-kind UN Joint Programme on ensuring decent work for migrant workers from South Asia. It is a three-year joint regional programme between the International Organization for Migration (lOM), International Labour Organization (ILO), and The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Co-Convened by the ILO and IOM and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the overall objective of the programme is that labour migration is safe, orderly and regular for all women and men from Colombo Process Member States through strengthened collaboration and effective migration governance. The Programme will have a focused approach on the improvement of overall governance of labour migration, also keeping in mind the impacts of COVID-19 on labour migration and the lives of migrant workers, at the sub-regional level in South Asia while translating it to operational perspectives at the national levels on matters pertaining to skills development, fair recruitment, and sustainable reintegration. The programme conceptualizes the links between countries of origin and destination countries and strives to strengthen governance from policy to practice, regional to national, and vice versa.

Project symbol

RAS/19/09/IOM

Admin unit

CO-Kathmandu
DWT/CO-New Delhi

Start date

29/07/2020

End date

31/01/2024

Total allocation

1966824

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1701751

Development Partners

International Organization for Migration

Country/Countries

Asia and the Pacific - regional

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all