The Government of Sri Lanka with the support of IOM launched a web-portal on “Migration, Health and Development” on Monday 19th December at the Ministry of Health auditorium in Colombo.
The site was designed and developed jointly by the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka and IOM. It will act as an information hub for the public, policy makers, researchers and industry groups to better understand the health, social and economic impacts migration has on outbound labour migration, inbound migration, internal migration and the impacts on families and children left behind.
The web-portal will also contain technical fact sheets on the key findings of five research studies on migration health commissioned by the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on Migration Health, in collaboration with IOM. These will appear in English, Singhalese and Tamil.
The development of this website was part of an IOM Development Fund project called “Technical Cooperation Strategy for the Establishment of a Migration Health Unit for the Government of Sri Lanka.”
The site is managed by IOM and the Ministry of Health team via the Migration Health and Development secretariat. The content for website is managed by IOM and the Ministry of Health’s Migration, Health and Development Unit.
The site is formally linked to the official Government Ministry of Health website http://www.health.gov.lk
In addition to the above, the website will also track Sri Lanka’s progress on advancing the WHO Health of Migrant’s Resolution and will contain all development milestones toward the establishment of a “National Migration Health Policy.”