Capacity-building to the Government of Haiti for Improved Management of Labour Migration and the Formulation of Labour Migration Accords

The proposed labour migration project seeks to significantly strengthen the capacity of the Government of Haiti (GoH) to provide support and protection to Haitian migrants that regularly take up short-term wage labour opportunities in neighbouring countries, and provide technical support to the GoH in understanding the internal processes that would need to be the basis for the formulation of bilateral labour migration agreements with neighbouring countries that are host to significant and growing numbers of Haitian labour migrants.

The project will achieve these objectives by improving the institutional capacities of the relevant ministries/governmental entities, notably the National Office for Migration. Specifically, the project will support the formulation of bilateral labour agreements by making available legal and migration management expertise to guide a GoH consultative process that will bring together relevant Haitian actors, governmental and non-governmental alike, to draw on the experience from previous bilateral labour migration agreements and formulate a comprehensive legal labour migration management strategy.

The expected results of this project are: 1) significantly enhanced GoH capacity to formulate and negotiate bilateral labour migration accords with countries in the region that receive large numbers of Haitian labour migrants; 2) a final report and recommendations to the GoH for the establishment of an institutional framework for the provision of pre-departure and post-return support to labour migrants, and support in the country of destination (through training of labour attachés) to Haitian migrant workers.