Protecting Temporary Workers : Migrant Welfare Funds from Developing Countries

• Tác giả: Neil G Ruiz
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.9 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 320677
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCOUNTABILITY; 2. ASSETS; 3. BANKS; 4. BONDS; 5. COUNSELING

Tóm tắt

 This brief provides an overview and lessons on how countries of origin governments can play a major role in protecting their migrants abroad through migrant welfare funds. It draws from a study by the Migration Policy Institute, on the Philippine Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), a US72 million government-operated welfare fund that is funded by a mandatory US5 membership fee for departing Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). The Philippine experience shows that a welfare fund has to: (1) find the right balance of services
  (2) create meaningful partnerships
  (3) build accountability with its members
  and (4) actively involve destination countries.