Decision on the second item on the agenda: Outcome 9: Promoting fair and effective labour migration policies

Record of decisions | 22 March 2016

Decision on the second item on the agenda: Outcome 9: Promoting fair and effective labour migration policies

The Governing Body:

(a) requested the Director-General to take account of its guidance, in order to inform the implementation of outcome 9 of the Programme and Budget for 2016–17;

(b) agreed to holding in September 2016 a three-day tripartite meeting of experts to develop guidance on fair recruitment, which would report its conclusions to the Governing Body at its 328th Session (November 2016) and approved its proposed agenda and composition as set out in the appendix to document GB.326/POL/2;

(c) decided that US$153,300, which was the current funding gap of the tripartite meeting of experts, be financed, in the first instance, from fundraising of extra-budgetary resources or failing that from savings that may arise under Part I of the budget for 2016–17 or, failing that, through the use of the provision for unforeseen expenditure, Part II. Should this not prove possible, the Director-General would propose alternative methods of financing at a later stage in the biennium.

(Document GB.326/POL/2, paragraph 37.)