Securing Women Migration Cycle

The project

Securing Women Migration Cycle aims to contribute to the efforts of IOM and ILO in Lebanon and Ethiopia in strengthening the tools for the protection of human rights and the management of female migratory flows through the strengthening of the protection and assistance network for 1.500 women all within the migration cycle from Lebanon to the return to Ethiopia and other countries of origin in the period 2018-2021.

The Municipality of Milan will collaborate with CELIM, leader of the project, supporting it:

  • in strengthening shelter services and staff capacity building through an exchange of best practices between the migrant reception facilities managed by the Municipality and the Lebanese shelters, through the involvement of immigration experts,
  • in raising the awareness of institutional actors through information activities on the rights and risks of trafficking, through the involvement of experts on the subject.

The main partners are:

  • CELIM (leader),
  • The municipality of Milan,
  • Center for International Political Studies - CeSPI
  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Department of Psychology,
  • International Domestic Workers Federation,
  • Community Volunteers for the World,
  • Caritas Lebanon,
  • Caritas Ethiopia (Ethiopian Catholic Church).

Project duration: 36 months, from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2021.

  • Contribute to the efforts of IOM and ILO in Lebanon and Ethiopia in strengthening the instruments for the protection of human rights and the management of female migratory flows, in accordance with the Lebanese Anti-Trafficking Law and the Ethiopian Immigration Proclamation
  • Guarantee and strengthen the protection and assistance network for 1.500 women within the migration cycle from Lebanon to return to Ethiopia and other countries of origin in the period 2018-2021.

  • Strengthening of the services of 3 shelters and capacity building of the staff
  • Structural improvements and detention conditions of Adlieh prison
  • Strengthening of the voluntary repatriation assistance service
  • Improvement of assistance services for returnées
  • Empowerment of professional skills and information on rights
  • Provision of the work and social outplacement service
  • Study on employment, small business and use of remittances with micro-credit in Ethiopia
  • Training families on the use of remittances for small business
  • Raising awareness of communities of origin, institutional actors and employment agencies (Round table on strategies for adequate communication in the countries of origin - Ethiopia-Lebanon)
  • Raising awareness among employers regarding the Kefala system (Lebanon)

  1. The reception, protection and repatriation capacity of 3 shelters was supported and detention conditions improved in Adlieh prison for migrant women in Lebanon
  2. The reception and economic-social reintegration capacities of 2 shelters in Ethiopia have been strengthened for the benefit of migrants repatriated from Lebanon
  3. An experimental model has been launched to support the productive investment of economic remittances with the families of origin of the migrants
  4. Dialogue on the protection of migrants aimed at Lebanese institutions, communities of origin and employers has been strengthened

Updated: 22/08/2022