This document is the AU/ILO/IOM/UNECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa is a Strategic Framework from 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 the achievement of the labour migration aspects of several global and continental policy and strategic frameworks