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The aim of the project 'Regulating Labour Migration as an instrument of Development and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia' is to ensure the development of a more comprehensive strategy for labour migration and more effective regulation of migration flows in Central Asia.
Migration, as a human and economic phenomenon requires legal frameworks protecting human and labour rights. The labour and skills circulation already operating across Central Asia is an indicator of the imperative for greater integration. This circulation of labour in larger markets happens precisely to better link capital and labour towards achieving more productive use of labour. And indeed, what we suggest here today is that migration may already be a pillar towards prompting greater economic, social and policy cooperation in the region. Only the larger markets, larger resource bases and larger labour forces of the 60 million rich population of Central Asia can hope to contend with the ten or so established blocks of that size or many times bigger.
ILO provides the nexus between labour migration and its context of labour market regulation, decent work, employment creation, and economic development. This role is necessarily expressed through activity of promotion and supervision of international norms, generating information and analysis, providing technical cooperation and capacity building to governments and social partners, and enabling social dialogue. The ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration provides relevant advice on good governance and management of labour migration, which steer migration through regular channels, thus reducing irregular migration.
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