Background Paper: Progress on the Background Paper: Progress on the Background Paper: Progress on the Background Paper: Progress on the Recommendations adopted at past Recommendations adopted at past Recommendations adopted at past Recommendations adopted at past meetings of the AFML meetings of the AFML meetings of the AFML meetings of the AFML ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand
Presentation outline 1. First background paper 2. Purpose and objectives of the 7th AFML background paper 3. Methodology and limitations 4. Clustering of recommendations 5. Summary of progress against each cluster 6. Next steps
1. First Background Paper to the 5 th AFML • In 2012, the ILO prepared the first background paper to the 5 th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour. • Consolidates and summarizes a ctivities, experiences, good practices and challenges of implementing AFML recommendations • Prepared with the intent to assist AMS to mutually support one another in responding to the recommendations A full copy of the ILO Background paper is available at: www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_219040.pdf
2. Purpose and objectives of the 7 th AFML background paper 1. To describe the progress made in the implementation of the recommendations made in the past six AFML meetings. 2. To provide an input to the discussion of the 7th AFML meeting 3. To be submitted for consideration at the 8th meeting of the ACMW as it prepares for its post-2015 work plan.
3. Methodology and limitations Data collection methodology: � Document review � Responses of AMS on the Expanded Template on Sharing Experiences � National preparatory meetings for the 7 th AFML, including the conduct of validation interviews. Limitations: � Limited response to survey: 5 out of 10 ASEAN Member States submitted templates � 7 ASEAN Member States held tripartite national preparatory meetings � Validation of content will follow the 7 th AFML
4. Clustering of recommendations To date, there have been 64 recommendations made at the 6 AFMLs… � The extensive nature and various themes of the different AFMLs require that the recommendations made be clustered for facility of tracking and monitoring. � 6 Clusters are as follows: 1. Information sharing, dissemination and public information campaigns 2. Collection, sharing and analysis of data 3. Effective return and reintegration strategies 4. Facilitative access for complaints and grievance mechanisms 5. Promotion of cooperation, partnerships, information exchanges and meaningful involvement among all stakeholders 6. Regulation of overseas recruitment
Cluster 1: Information sharing, dissemination and public information campaigns regarding overseas work, including costs at all stages and working conditions information for sending countries and positive perception of migrant workers • 11 recommendations from the past AFMLs grouped into this cluster: � repeated inclusion in each AFML signifies the impetus being given by the AMS to ensure that migrant workers be well-informed during the migration decision making process. • First background paper noted substantial progress against this recommendation • Achievements of new outputs or initiatives will be reported in five thematic areas: • Pre-departure training; • post-arrival orientation; • migrant worker resource centres; • efforts to promote a positive image of migrant workers; and • legislative and policy frameworks.
Cluster 1 Pre-departure training • Mandatory and being conducted in almost all countries of origin in ASEAN, though the quality of the curriculum, duration of training, teaching methodology and implementing agencies Post-arrival orientation • post-arrival orientation in destination countries is conducted only by a few origin and destination countries (e.g. Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines). Information on the coverage of these programs needs to be collected. Migrant worker resource centres • Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam;run through cooperation with government, local governments departments, trade unions and civil society • Thailand Singapore, Philippines have opened MRCs for fishermen
Cluster 1 (cont.) Efforts to promote a positive image of migrant workers: • Since 2012, the campaigns in Malaysia and Thailand have continued with broad stakeholder support. Greater engagement of social partners is required in order to increase the reach of these campaigns remains valid. Legislative and policy frameworks: • Cambodian government has issued eight new prakas (ministerial orders)to supplement Sub-Decree 190 on the Management of the Sending of Cambodian Workers Abroad through Private Recruitment Agencies. • Prakas 46/13, Recruitment process and pre-departure orientation training: Private Recruitment Agency shall provide training on pre-departure orientation to workers in accordance with pre-departure orientation curriculum as determined by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training.
Cluster 1: (cont.) Some good practices Viet Nam : MRCs are integrated into the employment service centres run by the departments of labour in five provinces. • Singapore: The Employers' Orientation Programme (EOP), three-hour programme that provides employers with a basic understanding of their roles and responsibilities when hiring a domestic worker. • The Migrant Workers Centre ( SNTUC and the SNEF) have set up the Seafarer’s centre • set up past the immigration point so that irregular fishers are able to access services • Seafarers are provided with food, water, access to file a complaint, and access to a mobile phone to call their families and friends.
Cluster 2: Collection, sharing and analysis of data regarding migrant workers for both sending and receiving countries 7 recommendations that pertain to data collection and sharing. 6 the 6 th AFML, where data collection and sharing was a sub-theme; 1 from the 4 th . Regional Initiative: International Labour Migration Statistics Database in ASEAN
ILMS Database in ASEAN … providing an openly-available, comprehensive and tractable information source to enable evidence-based policymaking on international labour migration in ASEAN… � All ASEAN Member States covered � Eight time-periods (2006-2013) and older data, where available � Obtained exclusively from official Government sources : Labour Force Surveys Population and Housing Censuses Administrative records Other surveys Official estimates 12
Data collection: Overview Summary of the data available and those collected… MODULE B MODULE A MODULE C International International migrant stock Nationals abroad migrant flow 1a 1b 1c 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam NOTES: indicates data were collected during Round I; indicates data were collected during Round II; indicates data exist but could not be collected; indicates the Table cannot be filled based on the known sources. Table 1 is divided into three here to reflect the data collected on: ‘1a’ the migrant population; ‘1b’ the migrant labour force; and ‘1c’ employed migrants. 13
Cluster 2: Some good practices Philippines: Inter-ministerial data collection mechanisms • National workshop held to bring together labour migration data focal points • Created an inter-agency working committee to support a more coherent data collection system. • Initiative can be replicated in AMS where sources of labour migration data comes from different government agencies. • Initiative contributes to achieving a more efficient ILMS for ASEAN.
Cluster 3: Effective return and reintegration strategies including sustainable alternatives for migrant work The majority of recommendations on return and reintegration emanated from the 4 th ASEAN forum in Bali, 2011. � Limited progress in this area and AMS need to continue to make a concerted effort to put in place comprehensive, integrated, and well-defined national reintegration programmes and policies. � Feasibility studies for the establishment of Migrant Welfare Funds: support the return and repatriation of workers in case of crisis situations, are currently underway in Myanmar, Cambodia and Lao PDR. � No progress in developing ASEAN guidelines on effective return and reintegration and bilateral and multilateral agreements amongst ASEAN countries do not include agreements for portability of social security benefits. � Further efforts to ensure migrant workers’ skills are certified and employment history certificates/testimonials issued to workers prior to their return.
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