Skilled female healthcare workers, housekeepers on high demand in EU
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
FE Report
Government is keen to develop healthcare and housekeeping skills among female migrant workers and expand training facilities all over the country for enabling them to meet job requirements particularly in western countries.
"Skilled workers in the healthcare and housekeeping are in great demand in the European countries, where Bangladeshi women could suit well," director training of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) Ahsan Habib said.
He was addressing a training program for housekeeping organized by International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the city recently.
As part of the collaboration with the government of Bangladesh, IOM helped develop a Standardized Training Manual on domestic work for female migrant workers and provided training to the trainers of the Technical Training Centres (TTC), Bangla-German Technical Training Centre under BMET and also trainers of selected NGOs in 2007. Refresher training was organised recently jointly by IOM and BMET, as the government has decided to expand the training into other TTCs in Bangladesh.
Welcoming the initiative, the Regional Representative of IOM Rabab Fatima stressed the need for standardizing the curriculum of all training provided or coordinated by the government for migrant workers.
IOM report said, the four per cent women among the total migrant worker population may not seem significant, but that totals to more than 20,843 women working abroad. However, this figure does not reflect the overall number of undocumented female migrants working in South Asia and the Middle East, which is believed to be much higher.
The manual developed with IOM support is now used for training of women migrant workers who go to different destination countries as household helpers. The manual includes general guidelines for trainers along with regular housekeeping curriculum, caring for children, elderly and sick people, health and hygiene, personal and professional safety, remittance management, language skill.
Government is keen to develop healthcare and housekeeping skills among female migrant workers and expand training facilities all over the country for enabling them to meet job requirements particularly in western countries.
"Skilled workers in the healthcare and housekeeping are in great demand in the European countries, where Bangladeshi women could suit well," director training of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) Ahsan Habib said.
He was addressing a training program for housekeeping organized by International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the city recently.
As part of the collaboration with the government of Bangladesh, IOM helped develop a Standardized Training Manual on domestic work for female migrant workers and provided training to the trainers of the Technical Training Centres (TTC), Bangla-German Technical Training Centre under BMET and also trainers of selected NGOs in 2007. Refresher training was organised recently jointly by IOM and BMET, as the government has decided to expand the training into other TTCs in Bangladesh.
Welcoming the initiative, the Regional Representative of IOM Rabab Fatima stressed the need for standardizing the curriculum of all training provided or coordinated by the government for migrant workers.
IOM report said, the four per cent women among the total migrant worker population may not seem significant, but that totals to more than 20,843 women working abroad. However, this figure does not reflect the overall number of undocumented female migrants working in South Asia and the Middle East, which is believed to be much higher.
The manual developed with IOM support is now used for training of women migrant workers who go to different destination countries as household helpers. The manual includes general guidelines for trainers along with regular housekeeping curriculum, caring for children, elderly and sick people, health and hygiene, personal and professional safety, remittance management, language skill.