STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2020-2030 FOR THE AU/ILO/IOM/UNECA JOINT PROGRAMME ON LABOUR MIGRATION GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION IN AFRICA JLMP

This document is the AU/ILO/IOM/UNECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance
for Development and Integration in Africa (JLMP) Strategic Framework 2020 - 2030. The JLMP is
a long-term joint undertaking among the four organizations in coordination with other relevant
partners operating in Africa, including development cooperation actors, private sector organizations and civil society representatives. It is the instrument dedicated to the implementation of
the 5th Key Priority Area of the Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment, Poverty Eradication and Inclusive Development which was adopted by the Assembly of Heads of States and
Governments (AU/Assembly/AU/20(XXIV)/Annex 3, January 2015) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The purpose of the Strategic Framework is to provide an adjusted response with a 10-year-strategic vision, which allows for clarity and coherence around the progress in the implementation
of the first five-year period of the JLMP from 2015 - 2019.
The Strategic Framework, which represents the next ten-year period for the JLMP starting in
2020, is in line with, and supports achievement of the labour migration aspects of several global
and continental policy and strategic frameworks. These include the following:
• UN Sustainable Development Goals (particularly goals 8 and 10)
• The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM)
• The African Common Position on the UN GCM and it three-year Plan of Action (2020-2022)
• Ouagadougou + 10 Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment, Poverty Eradication and
Inclusive Development in Africa
• Agenda 2063 and its First Ten Year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023)
• AU Migration Policy Framework for Africa (MPFA) and its Plan of Action (2018-2030)
• Protocol to the Treaty establishing the African Economic Community relating to the Free
Movement of Persons, Right of Residence and Right of Establishment (2018) and
• The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), 2018
Many key elements in this Strategic Framework remain the same as the first five-year period of
the JLMP. For example, the JLMP implementation strategy continues to focus on intra-African
labour migration since over 60 per cent of migrant workers remain on the Continent. This emphasis on intra-African labour migration, however, does not obviate the emerging issues related
to protection of migrant workers outside the Continent1
.
A major emphasis of this Strategic Framework is the focus on results, that is, accountability
for results especially for the final beneficiaries of the JLMP – male and female migrant workers
and their family members. A migrant worker is defined as a person who is to be engaged, is
engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a
national2
. Refugees and displaced persons, in so far as they are workers employed outside their
home country are covered under the category of migrant workers3
.