Thursday, October 22, 2009
Posted on Tuesday, 20-10-2009
Bangladesh - IOM and UNIFEM today launched a three-day training workshop in Dhaka on current migration management and remittance issues for Bangladeshi labour attachés.
The training, the second of its kind, follows a similar programme offered last year by IOM and will be attended by 14 labour attachés stationed at 12 Bangladeshi missions abroad.
Facilitators and speakers will include labour migration experts from IOM HQ and IOM Dhaka, local legal and gender experts, representatives from key government agencies and Bangladesh's association of recruiting agencies.
The programme is designed to enhance government capacity in migration management, improve protection of migrant workers, and optimize the benefits of managed labour migration, including the development of new labour markets.
Topics under discussion will include global migration trends against the backdrop of the financial crisis, emerging local challenges in migration management, the protection of migrant workers, their rights and mechanisms of inter-state cooperation.
"Labour attaches are responsible for providing support and services to Bangladeshi workers abroad. This is a forum where they can share their experiences and come up with practical solutions that really meet the needs of the migrants," says IOM Regional Representative for South Asia Rabab Fatima.
Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain attended today's opening session. At the event he launched ten newly updated country-specific booklets produced by IOM Bangladesh under an ongoing DFID-funded project entitled "Remittance and Payments Partnership Project", which are used in pre-departure briefings of outgoing migrant workers.
For more information please contact:
Asif Munier
E-mail: amunier@iom.int
or
Marufa Akter
IOM Dhaka
Tel: +880.2.988.9765
E-mail: makter@iom.int
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