Outcome NER_D_2.2

Economic migration is safe and regular for migrant women and girls

The outcome could not achieved during the course of 2021 as this is an ongoing long-term process. However, UN Women contributed to it via 3 set of interventions: normative level, capacity building and knowledge products. UN Women reviewed and provided substantive contributions to strengthen the inclusion of gender equality considerations in a variety of policymaking and technical processes in relation to migration, such as the development of the 2nd National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons, revision of Law No. 2015-36 on the Illicit Smuggling of Migrants, the Communication Plan of the National Migration Policy (NMP) and the Coordination Strategy of the Nigerien Consultation Framework on Migration. UN Women provided the 30 newly elected women members of parliament (MPs) with knowledge and skills on advancing the rights protections of women migrant domestic workers, including a presentation on ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers and its importance in the context of national legislation. It also increase the understanding of 25 CSOs on the links between gender equality and migration, and migrant women's rights. UN Women developed and disseminated four knowledge products on the situations of situations of women migrating from, into and through Niger was developed, highlighting the challenges that women may face at various stages of migration. In addition, at local level, UN Women in partnership with the NGO ADESP has increased the level of knowledge of the rights of migrant women as well as their means of subsistence. UN Women through advocacy, sensitization campaigns and training has built the capacity of more than 2,125 migrant women and girls and 160 state and civil society actors on the advancement of migrant women and girls. To give migrant women a better footing, UN Women supported 1,325 women and girls with economic kits, particularly for fattening, sewing, weaving and leather goods. A mission report shows that women work collectively to fully exercise their income-generating activities.

Economic migration is safe and regular for migrant women and girls

ON track: At the normative level, UN Women supported a gender analysis of Niger's National Migration Policy in 2022 and subsequently initiated a revision of the policy's current action plan to make existing activities gender sensitive in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior. The dialogues at the workshops were based on the Policy Guide and practices developed by UN Women under Outcome 3 and provided participants with knowledge of the legal framework for migration at the national and international level, with a focus on the National Migration Policy and the Global Compact on Migration.Revising the current policy action plan to make existing activities gender sensitive in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior. The dialogues at the workshops were based on the Policy Guide and practices developed by UN Women under Outcome 3 and provided participants with knowledge of the legal framework for migration at the national and international level, with a focus on the National Migration Policy and the Global Compact on Migration. To retain and reduce irregular migration, UN Women reached more than 2,448,160 people, including 1,608,000 women, through a mass awareness campaign through the production of communication materials (audio and visual. In 2022, 664 femmes migrantes potentielles et réelles ont été sensibilisées à travers une campagne de sensibilisation et la paire éducation sur leurs droits et la migration sûre, ordonnée et régulière. Also 26 data actors, including 12 women, have acquired skills in the production and analysis of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics on migration in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics. And a survey instrument on the situation of women migrating from, to, through and back was developed, tested and enriched by UN Women in order to provide national actors with a reference tool on the subject. - (12) Twelve migrant educators have been trained and equipped with awareness-raising materials on the risks of irregular migration, their rights and responsibilities and are able to conduct pre-departure awareness-raising sessions for migrant women. They were able to sensitize 764 migrant women on their rights and safe, orderly and regular migration in the regions of Agadez, Tahoua, Niamey and Zinder. In addition, 450 migrant women were reached through mass sensitization caravans on safe migration and the promotion and protection of migrant women's rights. Three spots and a sketch in French and in the national language on the norms of safe migration were produced by UN Women in collaboration with an implementing partner, the Association des Professionnelles Africaines de la Communication-Section du Niger (APAC-Niger)