IOM and UNIFEM today launched a three-day training workshop in
Dhaka on current migration management and remittance issues for
Bangladeshi labour attachés.

The training, the second of its kind, follows a similar
programme offered last year by IOM and will be attended by 14
labour attachés stationed at 12 Bangladeshi missions
abroad. 

Facilitators and speakers will include labour migration experts
from IOM HQ and IOM Dhaka, local legal and gender experts,
representatives from key government agencies and Bangladesh's
association of recruiting agencies.

The programme is designed to enhance government capacity in
migration management, improve protection of migrant workers, and
optimize the benefits of managed labour migration, including the
development of new labour markets.

Topics under discussion will include global migration trends
against the backdrop of the financial crisis, emerging local
challenges in migration management, the protection of migrant
workers, their rights and mechanisms of inter-state
cooperation.

"Labour attaches are responsible for providing support and
services to Bangladeshi workers abroad. This is a forum where they
can share their experiences and come up with practical solutions
that really meet the needs of the migrants," says IOM Regional
Representative for South Asia Rabab Fatima.

Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Engineer
Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain attended today's opening session. At
the event he launched ten newly updated country-specific booklets
produced by IOM Bangladesh under an ongoing DFID-funded project
entitled "Remittance and Payments Partnership Project", which are
used in pre-departure briefings of outgoing migrant workers.

For more information please contact:

Asif Munier

E-mail: "mailto:amunier@iom.int">amunier@iom.int 

or

Marufa Akter

IOM Dhaka

Tel: +880.2.988.9765

E-mail:  "mailto:makter@iom.int">makter@iom.int