Title: Migrant-Friendly Labor Policies through Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue in MENA
Date: Jan-2013 to Apr-2013
Location: Regional
Donor: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Budget: $52,650
This pre-project is to lay the foundation for the multi-stakeholder dialogue in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, UAE & Qatar which would enhance the change in the labour market system, the framework conditions for labour migrants and the accountability of duty bearers.
Thus, the primary focus of the pre-project, presented here, will be to link an appreciation for labor market policy to a conceptual understanding of the impact of labor migration on the economy and society as a whole.
Stated more concretely, the respective national participants in the project will ultimately be able to articulate and disseminate proactive positions on how active labor market policy and the inclusion of labor migration into this equation, is inextricably connected to overall development within a given society. Rule of law, labor market policy, a comprehensive grasp of how labor migration is linked to both and a country’s medium and long term developmental goals thus go hand-in-hand.
The key facilitating agent of this process will be a multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) process to be developed, designed, and implemented based on the specificities of each unique project country
