Project Overall Objective
Migrants, particularly marginalized men and women improve their well-being due to safer migration practices and better migration governance.
Specific Objective
- Men and women migrant workers make an informed decision on migration with a view to choose pathways that maximise economic returns and minimise risks related to migration in prevailing context including Covid-19 pandemic.
- Public and private sectors provide new or improved services needed for safe migration
- Migrant Workers, returnee migrants, and their family members are able to reduce exposure to external shocks, incl. the COVID19 pandemic by using remittances more effectively.
- Communities at the grassroots level are informed about safe migration processes and consequences of irregular migration and trafficking.
- Aspirant men and women migrant workers avail pre-employment orientation (PEO) and pre-departure making orientation (PDMO).
- Men and Women aspirant migrant workers are referred to effective and relevant skills development support activities.
- Men and Women migrant workers have access to effective legal support for addressing grievances.
- TTC, DEMO, and LGI capacitated on high quality PDO provision, safe work-travel information, and safe migration information dissemination respectively.
- ADR, law enforcement, BMET arbitration and legal aid organizations are strengthened.
- Financial service providers are sensitized on the need for specific financial products for MW.
- Migrant workers, returnee migrants, and/or their families are knowledgeable in financial literacy to manage remittance effectively.
- Migrant workers, returnee migrants and their families use remittances for productive purposes.
Project Focus Area
- Pre-departure Making Orientation (PDMO), PDO class to TTC & DEMO, Outreach Campaign (Graffiti painting, Street Drama) for Safe migration awareness.
- Legal support, GMC, CTC meeting to access effective legal support for addressing grievances for Men and migrant workers.
- Continuous meeting with local level stakeholders (Forum members, UP chairman’s, Word Counsellor, Peer Informants).
- Financial Literacy Training, Entrepreneurship Development Training, Linkage building workshop etc.
Geographic Area
District:
- Narsingdi
- Cumilla
Upazila: (Union-50, Narsingdi-30 & Cumilla-20)
- Narsingdi Sadar
- Polash
- Raipura
- Belabo
- Monohordi
- Shibpur
- Burichang
- Meghna
- Brahmanpara
- Debidwer
