Recognizing Migrant Skills for Enhance Employment – ReMSEE

Recognizing Migrant Skills for Enhance Employment – ReMSEE
In 2018, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reports that 60% of all migrants are migrant workers and 41.6% of these migrant workers are women. Many of these migrant workers return to their home countries with prior or newly acquired skills, competencies, and knowledge. Over 4,000 Ghanaian returned from Libya in 2017. According to the ILO report, migrants not only need to possess relevant skills in order to gain access to employment or decent job, but skills need to be recognized. Palmer (2009) noted that in Ghana, many skills and competencies acquired informally through self-learning or apprenticeships are not recognized.

The ReMSEE project aims at supporting returned and potential migrants to recognize their skills and competencies acquired through non-formal or informal learning to facilitate their integration into the labour market by matching them with employment options and self-employment by providing them with access to credit facilities through peer savings and lending institutions.

This project aligned with the National Migration Policy, the Sustainable Development Goal as well as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which Objective 18 of the compact calls on member states to invest in skills development and facilitate recognition of skills, qualifications, and competencies.

The objective(s) of the project are:
• To support potential and returning migrants to obtain recognition of their skills and competencies acquired through non-formal or informal learning.
• To match them with employment options in local growth markets, and continue to mentor them deep into the job.
• To provide them with access to credit facilities through peer savings and lending associations.
• To develop a standard guideline within the context of the TVET qualifications framework, thereby using it to recognize their skills and competencies.
• To strengthen consensus among relevant agencies, organisations, employers, and institutions to recognize and validate migrant skills and competencies in accordance with the guideline.