Migrant health professionals and skilled workers
Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers
The International Labour Organization (ILO), with funding support from the European Union (EU), implements a programme called Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers.
Duration
1 February 2011 - 30 November 2014
Development partner(s)
European Union
Reference
INT/09/11/EEC
Contact
Ms Catherine Vaillancourt-Laflamme, Chief Technical Advisor
Additional details
Access project dashboardThe Project aims to better understand schemes in line with the migration of health professionals. This will be done by engaging governments, trade unions, employers’ organizations into policy dialogues; establishing networks of experts and trained practitioners; strengthening employment services for health care professionals; facilitating skills recognition processes and enhancing labour market information systems. Through this Project, the ILO seeks to foster a “win-win-win” approach to migration that benefits the migrant workers, the source and destination countries within the rights-based framework for labour migration management.
The Project focuses its activities on three Asian countries with significant outflows of health professionals and skilled workers for foreign employment, namely: the Philippines, India and Viet Nam. Whereas the Philippines has been training nurses for employment abroad for many years, India and Viet Nam are now also looking into this strategy. These countries are actively pursuing cooperative agreement on hiring of health care professionals to various destination countries like European countries and North America.
Tale of a Journey
Project Leaflets
- Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers (Dec 2011)
- Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers (Oct 2012)
- Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers (May 2013)
- Brochure on Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers (Apr 2014)
- Promoting Decent Work Across Borders: A Philippine based Project of Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers (Nov 2014)
For further information please contact:
ILO Country Office for the Philippines (CO-Manila)19th Floor, Yuchengco Tower
RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue
Makati City 1200, Philippines
Tel: +632 8580 9900
Fax +632 8856 7597
Ms Seeta Sharma
ILO DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India
Core 4B, 3rd Floor
India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110003
India
Tel: +91 11 4750 9200
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