ILO project to sustainably reintegrate migrant workers in Bangladesh

Signed in December 2023, the project aims at strengthening reintegration of such workers through institutions and cultivating an effective coordination mechanism that can offer employment and business development support services to the workers, an ILO release said.

Titled ‘Reintegration for Migrant Workers Project: Enhancing Policies, Capacities and Systems for Inclusive and Sustainable Reintegration’, the project will have the International Organisation for Migration, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the Parliamentary Caucus on Migration and Development as partners.

“The contribution of the project is going to be immense and instrumental and will significantly help us to develop our capacity, systems of inclusive and sustainable reintegration,” said Mohammad Saiful Haque Chowdhury, additional secretary in Bangladesh’s ministry of expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment.

“Switzerland has accompanied Bangladesh to design to the labour migration policy architecture in the country over the last 14 years and we are pleased with this long-standing partnership”, said Corinne Henchoz Pignani, deputy head of mission and head of cooperation at the embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh.

Migrant remittances account for about 40 per cent of Bangladesh’s export earnings, only second to the readymade garment sector.

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