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Vanessa Phala is the Director, ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone as well as Liaison Office for ECOWAS. In this interview with
SYLVESTER ENOGHASE, on the sideline of a two-day training workshop on labour migration in the Context of COVID-19 in Nigeria, she speaks on how labour movement conditions from Africa to other countries could be improved amid the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Excerpts:
Could you, please, tell us the purpose of this workshop?
This workshop is specifically a capacity building workshop to support some private organisations such as the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), and some labour agencies on how to raise and deal with issues that border on labor migration within the context of COVID-19.
Indeed, the pandemic escalated vulnerabilities of labour migrants to abuse of human and labour rights as well as victimisation and unfair/unethical recruitment processes arising from desperation. x
Estimates by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), indicated migrant workers rose to 169 million globally in 2019. The gender distribution revealed that 68.1 million or approximately 41.6 per cent were female.
In addressing fair labour distribution, the ILO convened a training workshop organised within the framework of the fairway project as a component of a wider response strategy towards enhancing the effectiveness of employers’ organisations, Private Employment Agencies (PEAs) in the area of labour migration amid the context of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
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