Giz Ghana organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue and validation workshop for migration stakeholders

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Ghana, through its Migration & Diaspora program, organized a one-week multi-stakeholder dialogue workshop to validate the action plans of its partners on the implementation of national policy labor migration.

The workshop was also used to validate a study report jointly commissioned by the Home Office and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the establishment of the Ghana National Commission on Migration (GNCM), a major recommendation of Ghana’s national migration policy. game-changer in Ghana’s efforts to harness migration for national development.

The multi-stakeholder workshop brought together key state and non-state participants, including the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, the National Council of population, Congress of Trade Unions, Ghana Employers Association, Center for Migration Studies, IOM Ghana, among others, for follow-up to a three-day capacity building supported by GIZ Ghana and awareness raising of technical working group on labor migration held in November 2020.

In her remarks, the Senior National Coordinator of the Migration & Diaspora Program at GIZ Ghana, Abena Owusua Amponsah-Bio, congratulated the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations – the lead ministry – for its leadership in the development of the national labor migration policy and other stakeholders for their considerable role played so far in the realization of the soon to be launched national labor policy.

She said: “GIZ – PMD will continue to engage with you in our collective effort to support the Government of Ghana in the migration governance policy space. We look forward to the kind of collaboration encouraged in this event in the many other collaborations to come ”.

She expressed GIZ Ghana’s resolve to work with all partners on behalf of the German government.

For her part, the IOM Head of Mission (Ghana, Togo and Benin), Ms. Abibatou Wane-Fall, pledged IOM’s continued support to the Ministry in developing the policy. She said that “good governance of labor migration is essential in Ghana as well as in the region – and of course worldwide. Ghana is a country of origin, transit and destination, and faces both migration opportunities and challenges. “