📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174594
Region: East asia and pacific
The proposed PDO is to build employer-responsive systems for increased participation in and equitable access to labor mobility schemes, while enhancing the benefits for participants and their households. The project will help to expand PNG’s participation in the labor mobility programs in Australia and New Zealand by meeting employers’ needs, facilitating better and more inclusive access to labor mobility opportunities, while also helping to ensure that temporary migration has lasting impacts on the wellbeing of workers and participating households.Given the prolonged impacts of COVID-19, a project priority will be to support PNG economically in the post-COVID recovery phase through facilitation of increased employment and skills development opportunities, as well as remittance income. Employment and income overseas will be an important source of livelihood for low-and semi-skilled workers and their households, who are more vulnerable to the adverse economic impacts of the pandemic. Component 1. Expanding PNG’s participation in labor mobility programs by meeting employers’ needsThis component would support the development of employer-friendly systems and processes for the selection, recruitment and sending of workers overseas.It is envisaged that support would be directed towards institutions at both the national and sub-national levels, given the important role of regional recruitment hubs, with support channeled through the LMU. The component would be selective in the activities that it funds to complement existing support from other development partners, particularly PLF. It is envisaged that the project through thiscomponent would aim to: •Facilitate linkages between Australian and New Zealand employers and the LMU/regional recruitment hubs.•Support employer-focused selection, recruitment and mobilization arrangements.•Support employer-driven upskilling of Papua NewGuineans.•Examine and support the supply of workers to industries in which PNG’eans have a comparative advantage.
