The International Labor Organization (ILO) in cooperation with the UN Development Program starte4d implementing a new project to combat human trafficking.
As a REGNUM correspondent was told at the ILO office in Tajikistan, financing of the two-year project will total $1mn and will be appropriated by the Japanese government via the UN Trust Fund of Human Security.
According to the source, the new project will help implementing the program to promote decent work signed by Tajikistan and the ILO this June.
The source drew attention to the fact that the ILO and UNDP initiative is aimed at encouraging effort of all national partners in the migration sphere in order to increase protection of Tajik workers abroad and establish decent working conditions in the home country. According to the ILO, pilot projects will be conducted in the Rasht Valley (eastern Tajikistan), an economically underdeveloped area with the highest migration rate in the country.
"Poverty, lack of reliable information and opportunities to be employed in the home country are factors that exacerbate the condition of Tajik workers and make them search for a job abroad," believe authors of the project. "Today the government is taking measures actively to improve migration legislation and policy, as well as strengthen cooperation with destination countries that host the migrants."
According to the Tajik Labor and Social Protection Ministry, about 600,000 Tajik workers are employed abroad.
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