The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is home to eleven indigenous ethnic groups. The percentage of men and women from the CHT districts who have access to overseas employment is extremely small due to the lack of information available on labour migration and social networks which often serve as one of the drivers of migration in Bangladesh. The current CHT Development Board aims to promote labour migration of the CHT population to foreign countries and requested the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to provide special quotas for them in the labour migration pool of Bangladesh. IOM has been asked to assess the skills and willingness of men and women of ethnic and religious minorities for labour migration. The proposed project will develop a strategy which contributes to the diversification of livelihood opportunities and social cohesion efforts of the GoB in the selected districts of ethnic minority groups. The project will conduct a comprehensive scoping study in the CHT and other minority pockets in Bangladesh to support the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training and the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment to explore migration opportunities for the ethnic minorities. The study will be participatory in nature and will result in a comprehensive strategy document. At every stage of the project implementation, key stakeholders such as the GoB officials, representatives of ethnic minority groups, CHT council members and CSO representatives will be consulted so that the strategy remains grounded to the actual needs of the ethnic minority groups.