The overall objective of the project is to facilitate the free movement of persons and improve regular labour migration and mobility in the IGAD region in order to enhance regional economic integration, stability and development.
Considering the progress achieved, in June 2020 the project was topped up with an amount of €5 million. This will help promoting inter-regional legal migration further, while enhancing orderly cross-border mobility and migration, regional economic integration, and regional development.
Main objectives
The specific objectives of the project are:
(I) to support the process of adoption, ratification and domestication of the IGAD Protocols on Free Movement of Persons and on Transhumance by IGAD Member States upon their adoption by IGAD Council of Ministers, along with complementary measures to implement them; and
(II) to improve opportunities for regulated labour mobility and decent work for migrant workers in the region.
Contracts
Intergovernmental Authority on Development
EUR 6 800 000
Towards Free Movement of Persons and Transhumance in the IGAD Region - Direct Grant to IGAD
EU Delegation Djibouti
EUR 16 809
OIT - ILO - Organisation Internationale du Travail - International Labour Organization
EUR 6 000 000
Action Fiche
- Start date
- 28 Apr 2016
- Project locations
- DjiboutiEthiopiaKenyaSomaliaSudanUgandaSouth Sudan
- EU contribution
- €14 952 505
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Regional Horn of Africa
- Thematic
- Greater economic and employment opportunities
- Improved migration management
- Strengthening resilience of communities
- Partner
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development
- OIT - ILO - Organisation Internationale du Travail - International Labour Organization
