IOM Philippines completed the creation

offourOne-StopShopResourceCenters(OSRCs) in the provinces of Masbate,

Antique, Maguindanao, and Agusan del

Sur (MAMA) under the Spanish-funded

Millennium Development Goal

Achievement FundJointProgrammeon

YouthEmploymentandMigration(MDG-

FJPYEM)tocatertotheneedsofyouth

andmigrants.TheOSRC’swillserveasfacilitiesforinformationdissemination,

capacity building activities, case

handling and counselling services on

matters of employment, livelihood,

entrepreneurship and career options

aswellasmigrantreintegration.

November 2012

Provincial One-Stop Resource

Centers (OSRCs)

IOM transformed existing facilities

identi.ied by local government in three

sitesandbuiltanewstructureinanotherandcompletelyfurnishedthemwithbasic

furniture, equipment, signage and

informationmaterials.

According to IOM National Programme

Of.icer, Ricardo Casco, “an equallyimportantpartoftheinnovationhasbeen

tobuildamultisectornetworkofpartners

through a Memorandum of Agreement

among national and local government

units, public employment service of.ices,

development NGO’s, private sector and

civil society and train them on serviceprogrammes thatmaybeoffered through

the OSRC’s.” IOM, in partnership with

ATIKHA(aPhilippineNGOworkinginthe

.ield of migration and development)

trained some 430 individuals over 12

capacity-buildingsessionsonthesubjects

of migration and development, casehandlingand.inancialliteracy.TheOSRC

is expected to bene.it further from

training obtainedbymulti sector entities

on pre-employment orientation, counter-

traf.ickingandlabourmarketinformation

services under the Joint Programme onYEM.

“TheOSRC’smustbeseenasa time-and-

space sharing facility by government and

other service institutions whereby they

canbringtheirservicesdowntothesefar

.lung provinces at a speci.ic committedtime and frequency each month”, Casco

said. The other notable strategic

development about the OSRC experience

in these provinces is that the provincial

governments of Antique, Agusan del Sur

and Maguindanao have issued localordinance and resolution for the

sustainable support of the OSRC as a

mainstream facility, backedup by budget

andhumanresources.

“It is the goal of IOM that the success of

thesepilotOSRCsintheMAMAprovincescan be popularized in other parts of the

Philippines and serve as learning

reference to the rest of the world,” says

Mr.OvaisSarmad,formerChiefofMission,

IOMPhilippines.

The OSRCs were established under theMDG-F JP-YEM which IOM implements

jointlywithILO,UNICEFandUNFPA.

Campaign Against Illegal Recruitment, Trafficking and Irregular Migration

• Four CAIRTIM rollouts conducted in the

MAMA provinces

• 388 prosecutors, police officers, media

partners and government officials attended CAIRTIM trainings

• 1578 students, out-of-school youth,

youth entrepreneurship and technical vocation graduates and Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) families went to the Pre-Employment Orientation Sessions (PEOS)

Channeling Remittances for Enterprise Development

• 636 participants from the MAMA

provinces trained

Project Development and Implementation Training

• 23 participants from IOM Manila and IOM

Vientiane trained

One-Stop Resource Centers

• Four OSRCs established in the MAMA

provinces

• 430 people attended preliminary

training Emergency Response

• 333 Internally displaced (IDP) families

transferred to permanent shelters

• 7,744 IDP families benefited from IOM

Shelter Repair Kits, Emergency Shelter Kits, and camp interventions

• 605 IDP families moved from school

Evacuation Centers and camps in poor conditions to transitional shelters

Educational Subsidy

• 500 out of the 511 students in the

programme graduated

• Three beneficiaries moved on to their

last year of high school

Provincial Government, National Government Agencies and IOM sign a MOU in-

stitutionalizing the Antique OSRC

Education Subsidy

Within the framework of the Joint

ProgrammeonMDG-YEMwhichaimstostrengthen community-based safe

migration information, orientation and

advocacy, IOM, in partnership with the

Philippine Overseas Employment

Administration (POEA), launched the

Campaign Against Illegal Recruitment,

Traf�icking and Irregular Migration(CAIRTIM).CAIRTIMwasundertakenin

the four provincial sites of Masbate,

Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del

Sur.

At least1,500students frommore than.ive schools bene.ited from pre-

employmentorientationseminarswhich

contributed to their career counselling.

Anetworkofpublicemploymentservice

of.icers, teachers, career counsellors,

recruitment agencies and NGO’s also

took advantage of the trainers trainingfor pre-employment orientation. At

least388lawenforcersandprosecutors

participated in the lecture-seminar on

the laws and nuances on anti-illegal

ShariffAguak,Maguindanao-Norma Bulingkig slowly

walked up the stage in her white cap and gown. She approached the stand, looked over her fellow classmates

of Maguindanao National High School and began to

deliver her Valedictorian address.

Normaisoneofmanyscholarsbene.itingfromthe

EducationSubsidy(ES)componentundertheMDG-YEM

JointProgramme.TheSpanishgovernment,OverseasWorkersWelfareAdministration(OWWA)andIOM

partneredwiththegoalofreducingdropoutratesinthe

MAMAprovinceschools.IOMManilaandits.ield

coordinatorsworkedcloselywithMAMAschool

administratorstoidentifystudentsat-riskofdroppingout

andotherout-of-schoolyouth.SelectedstudentswereprovidedwithamonthlyallowanceofPhp1,000whiletheir

schoolswereprovidedwithPhp500perstudentperschool

yeartocoverschool-relatedfees.

Campaign Against

Illegal Recruitment,

Trafficking and

Irregular Migration

(CAIRTIM)

Atty. Jone Fung of the POEA conducts a Training on Illegal Recruitment and Traf-

/icking of Persons for Law Enforcers and Prosecutors

recruitment and anti-traf.icking. The

of.ice of the Chief Prosecutor in

Masbate appreciated the interventionaspracticallyenlighteningasthePOEA

laid down an exhaustive list ofmodus

operandi by traf.ickers and illegal

recruiters. IOM observed that the

ranks of the Provincial Police are

composedofyoungpolicemen,notablyparticipated by a good number of

policewomen, who need a sustained

capacity-buildingintervention.

Information, education and

communication (IEC) materials were

produced and distributed for eachprovincial campaign. These included

shirts,posters, rubberbracelets, anda

newpre-departurechecklist .lyer. IOM

and POEA of.icials made rounds of

media networks in print, radio andtelevisiontosharecoremessagestothe

local public on their share of

responsibility against irregular

migration as well as traf.icking and

illegalrecruitment.

The IOMhassubsequentlyentered into

an agreement with Australian Aid to

intensify CAIRTIM programme in

Maguindanao. This partnership was

launched on 18 July 2012 during the

inauguration of the OSRC in

Maguindanao.

Insteadofhavingtoworktohelptheirfamiliesordropping

outbecauseofeducationalexpenses,theallowance

providedbytheprogrammeallowedbene.iciariestostayinschool.Fromthedataavailable,outofthe511at-risk

students,500ofthemgraduated,ninedroppedoutandtwo

thirdyearstudentsmovedontotheirlastyearofhighschool

overtheschoolyears2010-2012.Furthermore,our

partnershipwiththeILOhaveallowedforadditional

assistanceintheformoftechnical,vocationalorentrepreneurshiptrainingforthestudents.

AstheEducationSubsidyprojectcomestoaclose,IOMand

itspartnerslooksforwardtothelocalgovernment,along

withourothergovernmentpartnersandOFWgroups,in

appropriatingormobilizingfurtherresourcestocontinue

theEducationSubsidysystemforhighschoolstudents.

Migration Profile

Philippines Embarks on its First

Country Migration Report

FollowingtheGlobalForumonMigrationandDevelopment

conference onMigration Pro.ile hosted by the Philippineson October 2011, the IOM launched the Migration Pro.ile

DevelopmentProjectforthecountryinDecember2011, in

response to the expression of interest and support by the

Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the

DepartmentofForeignAffairs(DFA).

Sincetheoutsetof2011,aseriesofmappingactivitieshavebeen undertaken in coordinationwith the Commission on

FilipinosOverseas(CFO)andthePOEAtotakeinventoryof

thevariousdatasetsonmigrationproducedbyanumberof

national government agencies. Themapping included the

identi.ication of the challenges and gaps in the data

managementsysteminthePhilippines.

About23nationalagencieshaveconsistentlyparticipatedin

theprocess. Theyseethattheirownstakesinthereforms

that are needed are in line with the formulation of theShared Government Information System on Migration

(SGISM) contemplated by the Migrant Workers and

Overseas FilipinosAct. The SGISMenvisions transparency

and timely information, as well as eventual electronic

linkagesbetweenagencies.

TheIOMshallassistthePhilippinestoorganizeitsmigration

datasetsintoits.irstCountryMigrationReport(apreferred

title for the MP), in collaboration with the Scalabrini

Migration Center (SMC), and in consideration of the IOM

developedtoolonthepreparationofMigrationPro.iles.

In partnership with Small Enterprises Research and

Development Foundation (SERDEF) and Jobs Education forPeace(JEP),IOMpursuedaseriesoftrainingsinvolvingthe

social and technical preparations necessary for

CRED.FollowingtheIOM-commissionedstudyconductedby

SERDEF,promotingthevaluechainframeworkinthepursuit

of CRED in agriculture-related enterprises, a series of

training courses bene.ited a total of 636 participants from

theMAMAprovinces.

Goats,rice,cornandmuscovadosugarwereamongtheagri-

based products that were available to the potential small

enterprise investors. Participants were educated on value

chain components including: production, processing,

packaging, marketing and the procurement of required

Channelling Remittances for Enterprise Development (CRED)

equipment and technology. The participants included CRED

provincialpartnersandstakeholders, suchas theDepartment

ofAgricultureandDepartmentofTradeandIndustry,aswellasOverseasFilipinoWorker(OFW)circlesandcooperatives.The

participantswerepleasedwiththetrainings,withsomeciting

an increased interest in starting agri-businesses in post-

seminarsurveys.

In the provinces ofAntique,Masbate andMaguindanao, thereare.ivegroupsofOFWswhohavegonethroughCREDandare

planningtotakepartindifferententerprises.TheOFWgroups

haveplannedtopooltheirresourcestogointothebusinesses

of goat raising, aswell as into the production ofmuscovado,

ginger tea, abaca, rubber, dishwashing liquid, fabric

conditioner,organicfertilizerandcococoir.

(left) Members of the Tacurong OFW cooperative promote their detergent and dishwashing liquid

(right) Members of the Datu Paglas OFW Family Cooperative showcase their ginger tea products

Project Development and

Implementation (PDI) Training

IOM Manila concluded a four-day

training involvingkeystaff fromtheboth the Mission and the Manila

(Global)AdministrativeCenter. The

seminar aimed to promulgate and

educateIOMstaffonthenewproject

development procedures based on

thenewIOMProjectHandbook.

The training was organized by the

StaffDevelopmentandLearningUnit

and was conducted by Dr. Poonam

Dhavan from IOM Manila, Kristina

Mejo from IOM Bangkok, and

Caroline San Miguel from IOMGeneva.

The 23 participants were from the

various units of IOM Manila and

MAC, with one participant .lying in

from IOM Vientiane to attend the

training. The interactive nature ofthe training, combined with the

variety of participant backgrounds,

allowed for lively discussion and

groupwork.

Participant Ina Garcia, from IOM

Manila’s Counter Traf.icking Unit,

found that, “The most interesting

part was the collaboration among

colleagues from different projects

andMACunitstodevelopaproposaltogether. Not only did [the training]

give us the opportunity to simulate

the process of designing a proposal

butitalsohelpedusappreciatewhat

we each brought to the table based

onourbackgroundandexperiences.”

On the last day of the training, Mr.

Ovais Sarmad visited the training

withguestsMr.MohammedAbdiker

from Department of Operations and

Emergencies,andMs.AurelaRincon,

who is here from Colombia for the

IOM Knowledge ManagementInventoryExercise.

PDI training participants pose with Mr. Ovais Sarmad, former Chief of Mis-

sion, IOM Philippines and Dir. of the Manila (Global) Administrative Center

(now IOM Chief of Staff), guests Mr. Thonglaik Xiong (also a training partici-pant from IOM Vientiane), Mr. Mohammed Abdiker and Ms. Aurela Rincon

Upcoming Tools

and Publications IOM Philippines will release three

publications before the year ends

namely the (a) Campaign Against

Illegal Recruitment, Traf.icking andIrregularMigration: TrainersManu-

al; (b) One-Stop Youth and Migrant

ResourceCenter: Establishmentand

OperationsManual and (c) Channel-

lingRemittancesforDevelopment:A

StudyTowardsCreatingModelMech-

anisms.

Earlier this year, a .lyer on SafeMi-

gration Preparation Checklist and a

reference guide on Education Subsi-

dy: Helping Achieve MDG Goal on

Universal Primary Education havebeenissuedtoconcernedinstitutions

andstakeholdersoftheMDGFYouth

EmploymentProject.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: International Organization for Migration Philippines 28th Floor, Citibank Tower Condominium Paseo de Roxas, Makati City Philippines Tel: +63.2.230.1999 Fax: +63.2.848.1257 E-mail: iomphilippines@iom.int Website: www.iom.int

The cover of the One-Stop Youth

and Migrant Resource Center

manual, in production under the MDG-YEM project