2. We still cry!
"Sister, we tell our stories to so many journalists,
so many people like you, but then nothing
changes. We still cry. Our employers continue to
harass us; still there are young ones in sex
work. There are so many people working on this
- the rescuers, the HIV people, people like you-
and so much money going into this problem. But
why doesn't anything change?"
- a woman migrant worker who was trafficked; in a
conversation to a visitor.
3. Goal and objectives
Goal: Empowerment of women migrant workers from India at both
source and countries of employment
Objectives:
4. To promote sustained policy dialogue and advocate for legal
reform and policy formulation as appropriate
l To promote and strengthen socio-economic security and rights of
women migrant workers in collaboration with bilateral and
multilateral partners in countries of origin and employment
l To contribute to the knowledge base on gender, migration and
development by engaging in quality research / studies on policy
and programmatic issues
4. Strategic Approaches
l Pilot project : Developing a model of good practice
l Policy advocacy for engendering the programmes
and policies
l Communication strategy for awareness raising on
safe migration
l Capacity-building of key stakeholders on safe
migration related issues
l Knowledge Management and Research
11. Monitoring mechanisms
5. Strategic approaches
l Pilot project : Develop a model of good practice at source
( select district in Andhra Pradesh) and destination countries –
engage stakeholders, gender sensitive reintegration programmes,
focus on economic literacy, base line and EPO evaluation
component
l Policy advocacy: on engendering the programmes, policies,
budgets – Consultative meetings with government and civil
society partners for policy harmonization, on protection issues;
National Advisory body meeting; follow up of GFMD;
implementing CEDAW GR 26 and other relevant national,
regional and international instruments related to WMW
l Develop Communication strategy for awareness raising on safe
migration
6. Strategic Approaches
4. Capacity-building
Women migrant workers: on safe migration, improved access of
services, pre departure skills training, Develop training curriculum and
guidelines, economic literacy, protection schemes, reintegration
initiatives; selection of new skills and development
Media Training: Policy dialogue/orientation on right based journalism,
issues of wmw
Recruiting agent and their network: Policy dialogue /orientation for
implementation of the code of conduct
National Coalition of civil society actors on issues of women migrant
workers is established
Peer learning visits and activities to country of employment and origin,
like UAE and others
7. Strategic approaches
5. Knowledge Management and Research:
1. Information exchange: analytical reports, technical publications
and guidelines, best practices and successful models,
Research findings
3. Dialogue forum on Safe migration on a social networking
platform like Ning to facilitate regular evidence based policy
dialogue with different stakeholders
5. Documentation of the good practices: On initiatives for
protecting the rights of WMW, Up-scaling the good practices,
financial schemes and reintegration
7. Support policy review and analysis, development of fact sheets
and dissemination of census data on wmw
8. Research
Base line survey:
a) Estimates of numbers:
WMW population, Highest density source area, Interstate and
Internal, favoured Destination countries
Women migrant workers:
Profile; main issues they face (Pre-departure, transit, Destination,
Returnee migrants
Existing knowledge on safe channels, HIV, sexual violence
Behaviour, Attitudinal and Practice studies at Source and
Destination
Empowerment status
Existing relevant laws and policies:
implementation and effectiveness, CEDAW implementation
levels, Code of Conduct for Recruiting Agents
d) Stake holder analysis;
● Logical Framework analysis, which will strengthen and realign the project
logic
9. Research
l Remittances study : WMW percentage contribution to
the GDP
l Study on developing a ‘business model project’
l Regional studies: on overseas market and selection
of new trade, projection of migration trends and the
favored destination sites
l Research on fraudulent marriages in Punjab
l Support a technical working group : technical inputs
to the research studies, meets at 6 monthly intervals
10. Strategic approaches
6. Monitoring mechanisms:
Develop mechanisms to monitor the
effectiveness of implementing CEDAW GR 26
and other relevant national, regional and
international instruments related to WMW
Monitoring and Evaluation activities
11. At Countries of Employment
Stakeholder analysis especially looking at the
legal process involved in immigration
Stakeholder’s attitudes
Situation analysis of the Domestic Workers
Redressal Systems
Indian Embassy
Remittance process
CEDAW GR 26 implementation
12. ICOE-UNIFEM PROGRAMME
TWG Functions: UNIFEM Focal Point for ICOE Advisory Board
Research, Members:
Baseline, EOP, ICOE,UNIFEM
surveys V V G NLTI
KM, CB tools, ILO/ IOM
Ethical Comm Civil Society
PWN+,WMW
others
UNIFEM
TWG Members: Mgmt & Secretariat function
VVGNLI
ICOE
UNIFEM
OMCAP & NGOs contracted for Pilots in AP
ILO, IOM
other training
Tech Exp
Institutes
Ethics Comm
WMW Communities in AP
13. Women Migrant Workers
Community of Practice
UNIFEM / ICOE
South Asia Secretariat
NGO and staff
Program Manager State and district
Research Manager stakeholders
Finance Manager teams
Consultants,
UN, IOM, CARAM, Community
NACO, INTL NGO, Members,
Other NGO Recruiting
agents,
14. AP’s Khammam District – 5 Taluks
25 lakhs, ~50,000 wmw
Yellandu Madhira Khammam Burgapadu Paloncha
5 Lakh pop
8000-10,000 WMW
Recruiting Agents Panwala/Brokers Money lenders
SMS to Web to SMS Voice 2 Web 2 Voice Community Radio Post Office
PO/PE/IT-Kiosk Community Mobilization Capacity Building
Sustainability by Community Life Competence Process
17. KM Process in Ning
Discussion Transcripts Knowledge Assets
Chat, Tele, Video Conf
or Resources
consisting of
E-forum discussion Discussion summary Recommended
Documents,
Blogs Consolidated Replies Websites,
Contacts,
Organizations…
SMS, Audio, Video Final Blog
Group work Collaborative Document
FGD, Field or Immersion Visit Reports, Guidelines, budgets Archives
Transliteration Translated docs
18. NACP–IV RECOMMENDATIONS
• All kinds of restrictions on female migration should be removed
immediately: men and women should be given equal rights to choose to
migrate or not.
• To ensure decent work conditions for both men and women, 1990 UN
Convention and relevant ILO conventions should be ratified by all sending
countries
• Civil societies of sending countries should create pressure on their
governments to put migration on the agenda for different regional fora and
also to convince the receiving countries to ratify.
• Upcoming global forum should push for recognition of domestic work as
wage labour and attempt to bring it under the labour laws of receiving
countries
• Social identity of women migrants should be respected. Social space of
the migrant workers both men and women should be protected through
ensuring strict working hours, better access to communicate with family,
family reunification, holidays and recreation. All these should be placed in
the negotiating table in bilateral and multilateral fora.
19. NACP–IV RECOMMENDATIONS
•Female labour migration is complex. Pre-departure training for female
migrant workers should be made mandatory in all labour sending countries.
• Philippines and Sri Lanka developed institutions to better govern female
migration. Institutional mechanisms for experience sharing and learning
from each other should be in place. SAARC, ASEAN, etc. could be such
forum..
•To lift women up from low end care giving to professional workers, other
sending countries can learn from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and India about
how to lift the standards of their training centers for health care workers.
• Women migrants send home larger portion of their income than men.
Women migrants deserve to be rewarded both nationally and internationally
for their contributions.
• To sustain women’s economic empowerment, gender segregated
investment tools are required.
20. No one has ever done this before!
"Sir, no one has ever come and talked
before like this, No NGO, No Government,
No one from UN, No funder, ever! Today
we saw our own dreams, recognized our
own strengths, and will see how we can
tackle our own issues."
- a returnee woman migrant worker to a
male facilitator, after she had a “taste” of
the Community Life Competence Process
