IOM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Transport
Management, this week organized a four-day training on Essentials
of Migration Management for Nepali government officials.

Participants included 24 officials from the Ministries of
Finance, Home Affairs, Women Children and Social Welfare, Justice,
Health and Population, Labour and Transport Management, the
Department of Immigration, the Police, the Department of Foreign
Employment and the Foreign Employment Promotion Board.

The training, which was facilitated by IOM officials from
Geneva, New Delhi and Dhaka, as well as local speakers from the
National Planning Commission, UNIFEM, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the Ministry of Women Children and Social Affairs, was
aimed at improving the level of understanding of migration dynamics
among officials working in related areas.

The event, which ends today, is also expected to approve the
formation of an Inter Ministerial Coordination Group to improve the
management of labour migration, while preventing irregular
migration and trafficking in human beings.

Labour migration is critically important to the Nepalese
economy, which is a major country of origin for migrant workers and
where remittances account for some 18 per cent of GDP. Some 1.2
million documented and an estimated 1.3 million undocumented
Nepalis live and work abroad, mainly in Malaysia and the Gulf
states.

For more information please contact:

Pravina Gurung

IOM Nepal

Tel. +977.1.44 26 250

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