Migration policy framework for Africa and plan of action (2018 – 2030) xi. Promote the standardisation of bilateral labour agreements to ensure the protection of migrant workers and facilitate remittance transfers. xii. Ensure coherence at the national level between bilateral and regional agreements pertaining to the movement of workers, national labour market policies, migration policies and other relevant policy areas, such as health or agriculture, in line with international human rights law, norms and standards. Key stakeholders, including civil society, social partners, employers, trade unions, women’s rights organisations, training institutions and migrants, must be consulted in developing labour migration related strategies. xiii. Domesticate the RECs’ free movement of persons protocols and provisions. xiv. Promote equality of opportunity and the protection of the rights of migrant women by ensuring that labour migration policies and practice are gender-sensitive and nondiscriminatory, in recognition of the increasing feminisation of labour migration. xv. Promote respect for, and protection of, the rights of labour migrants including combating discrimination and xenophobia through, inter alia civic education and awareness-raising activities. xvi. Incorporate mechanisms that monitor and evaluate the provision of decent work for all migrants and enable them to access legal provisions for social protection. xvii. Promote HIV/AIDS awareness raising and prevention campaigns targeted towards labour migrants, with participation of social partners, in order to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS within the labour force. xviii. Facilitate technical cooperation activities with international agencies, including ILO, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other concerned entities, in order to enhance the developmental effects of labour migration. 36 xix. Enhance national and regional labour migration data collection, analysis and exchange to document the conditions and needs of migrant women and men workers and their families. xx. Facilitate the integration of all migrants, women and men, in the labour market including in the education and training sector, removing gender-based barriers that restrict women from being recruited, as well as the right to join trade unions, to form community organisations; to associate and collectively bargain. xxi. Set up national and sub-regional social dialogue mechanisms to address migrant labour issues, including the challenges faced by women migrant workers. xxii. Provide social protection and social security benefits, particularly unemployment insurance, compensation for employment injury, long-term illness, death benefits, disability, parental leave, supplementary insurance schemes, and old age pension for all labour migrants, including women migrant workers, while working abroad and/or upon their return.

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