The International Labour Organization (ILO) is implementing the project “Free Movement of Persons and Transhumance in the IGAD Region: Improving Opportunities for Regular Labour Mobility” in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The project is a key component of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) financed programme “Towards Free Movement of Persons and Transhumance in the IGAD Region”. The overall objective of the programme is to support the free movement of persons in the IGAD region, with a view to spurring regional economic integration and development
This report forms part of the knowledge-generation component of the project and aims to create an evidence base on labour migration and mobility governance in the region. This should contribute to the development of the IGAD Free Movement of Persons Protocol, as well as to building the capacities of Member States to implement the Protocol, once it is adopted. To this end, labour migration and mobility assessments of the IGAD Member States have been undertaken, to gain an overview of how labour migration and mobility are governed by these States, as well as areas that require reinforcement.
