AU, ILO undertake a workshop on Joint Labor Migration Programme in Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa March 6, 2023 (FBC) – The African Union Commission, Department of Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and International Labour Organization (ILO) organized an end of project workshop on Joint Labor Migration Programme (JLMP) to share results, good practices and lesson learned as well as brainstorm on how future interventions will better serve beneficiaries’ needs.

According to AU, the Joint Labour Migration Programme (JLMP) is a Priority Project that showcases learning ventures.

The three-year project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), launched in 2018 with the overall objective of improving the governance of labour migration to achieve safer, orderly and regular migration in Africa, AU stated.

It added that the event will be held under the theme: African Labour Migration: Emerging Issues and Policy Response at Radisson Blu in Addis Ababa and serves as an avenue to disseminate the knowledge products prepared within the project.

In addition, it will also serve as a forum for resource mobilization in order to address the unfunded areas of the JLMP, in line with the Strategic Framework.

Furthermore, during the learning event, implementing partners will receive input from labour migration experts (through panel discussions and presentation of research papers, reflecting emerging trends including on the impact of COVID-19 on labour migration in the continent) on different labour migration themes.

AU indicated that the event will also identify partnerships and support opportunities that match and complement the synergy of programmes existing within the JLMP and Sensitize stakeholders on the knowledge products created by JLMP implementing partners during the duration of JLMP Priority;

AU stated that the JLMP Priority project came to an end on the 31st of March 2022. Given the amount of experience gathered within the 3 years implementation period and in consideration of the recommendation of the JLMP midterm evaluation and stakeholders to have a learning platform, the JLMP partners have scheduled an end of project workshop that will serve as a learning event for JLMP stakeholders.

By: Yonathan Yoseph