Promoting safe employment pathways and fair recruitment practices

India remains one of the largest country of origin of international migrants and the top recipient of international remittances. Canada has been a key country of destination for Indian migrant workers over the past years. Canada’s Immigration Levels Plan provides a holistic approach to managed migration, recognizing migrants’ role in supporting economic growth and addressing labour market shortages across Canada. The project, “Promoting safe employment pathways and fair recruitment practices”, contributes to reinforcing regular migration pathways and strengthening national migration policies and procedures by ensuring that employers from Canada and migrant workers from India benefit from skills comparability and recognition systems as well as from fair recruitment practices. These are pursued through the development of policy measures, tools and institutional capacity to advance the comparability and recognition of skills and qualifications; as well as through supporting public and private stakeholders increase their understanding about and apply fair recruitment practices. The project promotes dialogue and exchange of information among relevant stakeholders in India and Canada which may lead to more structured forms of collaboration including through the development of Memoranda of Understanding. The project includes i) the development of a methodology for the comparability of skills and qualifications which looks, among others, at the content of skills and qualifications, the level of proficiency required, and their relevance to specific occupations; ii) piloting the comparability assessment between India and select Provinces in Canada to identify differences and similarities in the education and training systems. This supports key stakeholders in India and Canada to strengthen the comparability and mutual recognition of skills and qualifications and the anticipation of future skills needs through consistent and systematic methods. The project also iii) strengthens the capacity of key stakeholders on fair recruitment practices in line with international labour standards, ILO General Principles on Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment as well as national and sub-national policies including Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations. Multi-stakeholder dialogues and capacity building activities are conducted to identify existing recruitment challenges and fair recruitment channels, promote in-depth understanding of standards and promising practices, and support the application of fair recruitment practices.

Project symbol

IND/24/01/CAN

Admin unit

DWT/CO-New Delhi

Start date

26/03/2024

End date

28/02/2027

Total allocation

1415229

Total expenditure

Status

Active

21383

Development Partners

Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

Country/Countries

India

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions
Outcome 6: Protection at work for all