Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM)

The project aims at strengthening the capacities of countries in East Africa to govern labour migration by using evidence-based policies, enhancing migrant workers’ qualifications and skills, and actively engaging the social partners for improved development outcomes. The project will focus on laying the foundations for improving labour migration governance in East Africa by using evidence-based policies, enhancing migrant workers’ qualifications and skills, and actively engaging the social partners for improved development outcomes. The project will cover 3 inter-related pillars of intervention, namely: i) Established and strengthened foundations for enhanced labour market and migration information systems (LMMIS); ii) Better skills matching, recognition and development along specific migration corridors; iii) Strengthened capacities of the social partners to engage in labour migration policy development and implementation. The imperative to strengthen each of these 3 pillars has been recognized widely by both countries of origin and destination, as well as by employers and workers’ organisations, providing a basis for dialogue and action within and across countries. The first pillar will contribute to the design and implementation of labour migration policies, which are evidence-based and gender-sensitive, and reflect real labour market needs. It will help countries to develop sustainable data collection methodologies and collect harmonised data on labour migration, in line with the international statistical standards, and institute durable mechanisms for perpetuating systematic data collection and sharing in East Africa over the long term. The second pillar will build the capacity of the relevant national institutions and the social partners to improve labour migration governance with specific reference to skills. It would apply a corridor approach to build capacity to facilitate skills portability, delivering technical assistance to both origin and destination countries, which can foster the design of occupational profiles in selected economic sectors, in specific migration corridors. The third pillar focus on building the capacity of employers’ and workers’ organizations to contribute to labour migration policy design, implementation and monitoring. Given the growing importance of labour migration and mobility to economic development, workers’ and employers’ organizations can and should play a larger role in migration policy reforms. The project will draw on existing or recently completed ILO interventions in East Africa and beyond.

Project symbol

RAF/21/10/GBR

Admin unit

CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

08/09/2021

End date

31/03/2025

Total allocation

18506532

Total expenditure

Status

Active

16349835

Development Partners

United Kingdom/UK-Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office

Country/Countries

Kenya
Ethiopia

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all