Promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers: Ensuring the effective implementation of the Sri Lanka NLMP.

‘Promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers: Contributing towards effective implementation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy’ is the International Labour Organisation (ILO) component of the Safe Labour Migration Programme (SLMP) in Sri Lanka, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Global Programme for Migration and Development since 2010. The three previous phases of the ILO Project supported by SDC, have assisted the Government of Sri Lanka and other stakeholders to implement Sri Lanka’s National Labour Migration Policy (adopted in 2008) by strengthening the governance of labour migration to ensure that migration for employment is safe, orderly and regular for women and men workers. In this exit phase of the Project, interventions now shift from policy making to enhanced policy implementation through assumption of ownership of the Safe Labour Migration Programme by the Government of Sri Lanka and other stakeholders. Phase IV of the Project aligns itself with these core themes through its three Outcomes: Outcome 1: Outward Labour Migration policies and plans are better monitored for implementation, by the Government of Sri Lanka Outcome 2: Fair and ethical recruitment, skills recognition and certification, and sustainable reintegration is fostered through institutional enhancement and the ‘Whole-Of-Government-Approach’ Outcome 3: Improved Evidence Base on Labour Migration to inform knowledge, dialogue, policy and action ILO collaborates with SDC Partners on skills and vocational development of returnee and aspirant migrant workers; and the ‘National Convenor’ on civil society (including trade unions) inclusion in the governance of labour migration This phase of the Project is aligned with the regional Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS) Programme The prioritisation of skills recognition and certification in this phase of the Project, reinforces the Government of Sri Lanka’s own objective of skilling migrants for employment, and recognises that higher skilled jobs are better remunerated and in better conditions of work. While addressing existing shortcomings in the Recognition of Prior Learning system to improve take-up by migrant workers of assessment and certification of their non-formally acquired skills and competences; the Project expands access and availability of the RPL system through its digitalisation (e-RPL).

Project symbol

LKA/20/03/CHE

Admin unit

CO-Colombo

Start date

18/01/2021

End date

30/11/2024

Total allocation

1033596

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1023867

Development Partners

Switzerland, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Country/Countries

Sri Lanka

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all