Addressing the medium to long-term reintegration needs and strengthening social protection support mechanisms for the social inclusion of Bangladeshi migrants.

Addressing the medium to long-term reintegration needs and strengthening social protection support mechanisms for the social inclusion of Bangladeshi migrants’ project is a Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) joint programme. The International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN Women are the participating United Nations organizations and IOM is the convening UN organization of the project. This project supports the medium-term recovery and social inclusion of returnee migrants in Bangladesh by addressing their complex challenges with a systematic and holistic approach fostering their reintegration and enhancing their social inclusion within their communities. The project implements in collaboration with different Ministries of the Government of Bangladesh, private sector, trade unions and civil society organizations (CSOs). A Project Steering Committee (PSC) provides strategic guidance, fiduciary oversight, management and coordination of the project. Under the joint programming, ILO supports the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) and the Wage Earners' Welfare Board (WEWB) for labour market reintegration of returnee migrants to ensure employment support services through job placement and career guidance services including capacity enhancement of Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) to facilitate affordable and easy financial schemes to returnee migrants. Further, ILO supports the local NGOs and Worker’s Organizations to support and reintegrate returnee migrants affected and develops policy brief followed by a review of the best practices of social health protection and supports the Trade Unions on the labour market reintegration with a focus on mainstreaming returnee migrant workers in the existing national social safety net programs. In addition, ILO focuses on stimulating national-level discourse to counter stigmatizing narratives of returnees, coordinating two sub-national roundtable discussions on this topic and supports relevant stakeholders including the media to promote balanced reporting on migration and combat stigmatizing narratives of returnee migrants with a special focus on women returnees.

Project symbol

BGD/24/51/UND

Admin unit

CO-Dhaka

Start date

29/08/2024

End date

26/02/2027

Total allocation

383474

Total expenditure

Status

Active

112720

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Bangladesh

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all