CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ENSURING SAFE LABOUR MIGRATION

Coverage Sitakund & Mirshari Upazilla under Chittagong Duration Since 2007- 2009.

Donor

Refuge and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) and Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF)

Goal

The goal of this project is to increase the choice of the poor to use migration as a livelihood option and for reducing poverty.

Specific Objectives

 Major objectives of the project area:

• Influence migration policy in favour of imparting comprehensive training.
• To fill in the information gap among wider audience particularly the poor about labour migration process and encounter misinformation for the same.
• To address poverty by ensuring safe migration.
• To reduce fraudulent practices in the labour migration process.
• To make potential migrants aware of their rights at work in destination countries.
• To make migration a planned exercise and to make it economically and socially successful in terms of poverty reduction, both for the individual as well as for the nation.
• To increase capacity of local and national actors in managing migration.

Target Group

a) Capacity Building of Local Opinion Leaders and Journalists
b) Capacity Building of Bank Officials
c) Module Development Component
d) Media Advocacy Component
e) Involvement of Target Group
f) Equal Participation of Women

Major activities

The activities envisaged under this project are given below according to the four components.

• Capacity Building of Local Opinion Leaders and Journalists.
• Capacity Building of Bank Officials.
• Regular Monthly Coordination meeting of MRPC.
• Weekly Counselling Provide in the working area by MRPC Members.
• Implementation MRPC activates (Market Meeting, courtyard meeting, Essay Competition, Folk   song, film Show, Orientation etc) in working area. 
• Day Observation (Migrants Day, women’s day).  

Beneficiary/Primary target population

a) Capacity Building of Local Opinion Leaders and Journalists Component

Primary target of the training programme on capacity building of local leaders will be government functionaries, NGOs, public representatives of the local government, local opinion leaders and journalists. However, the ultimate beneficiary of the project will be potential migrant workers and their families.
b) Capacity Building of Bank Officials Component:
Primary target of the training programme on capacity building of commercial banks will be mangers of selected banks. However, the ultimate beneficiary of the project will be migrant workers and their families.

c) Module Development Component

Primary target beneficiaries are the outgoing migrant workers and secondary stakeholders including government, non-government and private offices involved in migration governance process. Such organizations include BMET, private recruiting agencies, medical centers and migrant workers’ associations.

d) Media Advocacy Component

Primary target groups are families of potential migrants, female members of male migrant families. Secondary target groups include different local elite groups / opinion leaders, different stakeholders from GO / NGO and general mass.

Budget

(in BDT): 1,600,540.00/=.

Location

Sitakund & Mirshari Upazilla under Chittagong.

Name of Upazilla	Name of Union
Sitakund	2 no Baraiyadala 3 no Pourashava 4 no Muradpur 7 no Kumira
Mirshari	9 no Mirshari 12 no Khaiachara 14 no Hayetkandi 16 no Shairkhali

 

Expected Outcomes

Capacity Building of local Opinion Leaders and Journalists Component

• Increased capacity of GO, NGO staff, 800 local opinion leaders and journalists.
  
• Increased knowledge of more than 100,000 common people (indirect beneficiaries) (40% of the total population of selected areas) about safe migration procedure.
  
• Increased ability to make informed decision by the potential migrants at local levels.
  
• Increased capacity of the local level opinion leaders to perform their functions as well as allocation of resources to provide services.
• Capacity Building of Bank Officials
• Increased capacity of 460 bank officials on labour migration process.
  
• Increased ability to make informed decision by the potential migrants about different issues at local levels.
  
• Increased capacity of the bank officials for providing information regarding the flow and use of such remittances.
  

Program Achievements at a glance

Sl. No.	Targeted  Activities	Target	Coverage as per completed activities of this Period (No. of participants male, female, children, area)	Deviation with reasons (if any)	Activities undertaken (completed, not completed, in the process)	Remarks Period
01	Rapport building meeting at grass root level for formation of MRPC comprising of local opinion leaders and journalists, Bankers and Returnee Migrants	6 MRPC Formation	Male-318 Female-136 Total = 454	Not Applicable	Completed
02	Information to RMMRU about local Banks, NGOs, BMET office, Recruiting agency’s	N/A	completed	Not Applicable	Completed
03	Needs Assessment Workshop at Grassroots Level	01 Program &        30 Participants	Male-25 Female-05   Total = 30	Not Applicable	Completed
04	Communication with Bank Officials (Project area)	14 Banks	202 Times	On going Process	Completed
05	Communication with Local Opinion leaders, Journalist, MRPC member, etc	250	Male-941 Female-331	Not Applicable	Completed
			Total=1272 (times)
06	Attend Capacity building of Local Opinion leaders and Journalist at TOT	08	Male-06 Female-02	Not Applicable	Completed
			Total=08
07	Attend Better Management of Migrants Remittance: Needs assessment workshop for Bank officials	04	03	01	Completed
08	Training of Trainers(TOT) for Capacity  Building of Bank Officials at chittagong Division	20	20	Not Applicable	Completed
09	Collection Bank Information for Bank Officials workshop at Chittagong Region	35	35	Not Applicable	Completed
10	To Organize  6 batch Capacity building Training of Local Opinion leaders and Journalist at Field Level	6 batch (126 members)	Male-115 Female-25 Total=140	Not Applicable	Completed	25-28Nov’07 30nov-01Dec’07            & 19-22Jan’08,   2-3Feb’08 Annexes-2
11	MRPC Monthly Coordination meeting	108	108Meeting  (Male1292 Female- 232  )	Not Applicable	Completed
			Total=1524
12	Counselling  at field level	403	403Counselling (Male-2636 Female-527 )	Not Applicable	Completed	12 Counselling contracted by 2 MRPC members
			Total=3163
13	Courtyard meeting	82	82 meeting (Male1111 Female4655 ) Total=5766	Not Applicable	Completed
14	Market meeting	16	16meeting (Male-1312 Female-250 ) Total=1562	Not Applicable	In the process
15	Case study Collection	25	25	Not Applicable	Completed
16	Remittance Fair	01	01 Fair Male-260 Female-220) Total=480	Not Applicable	Completed
17	Essay Computation	01	60 Students	Not Applicable	Completed
18	Folk Song	15 show	15 show Total=13660	Not Applicable	Completed
19	Film Show	15	15 Film Show-960 By Cable - 4600	Not Applicable	Completed
20	School Orientation	12	12Orientation Total Student-1347	Not Applicable	Completed
21	Pre Departure Orientation	01	Male-13 Female-12	Not Applicable	Completed
			Total=25
22	Orientation of Religion leaders	06	06 Orientation  108 Persons	Not Applicable	Completed
23	Teachers Orientation	01	01 Orientation 20 Persons	Not Applicable	Completed
24	Making & Campaign Materials Distribution	00	3500	Not Applicable	In the process
25	Day Observation	03	03      Male-480   Female-430)        Total=910	Not Applicable	Completed
26	Quarterly Reporting to RMMRU	09	Quarter-9	Not Applicable	Completed
27	Yearly Report	02	02	Not Applicable	Completed
28	Project Completion	01	01	Not Applicable	Completed