Professional Documents
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2015/SOM3/ACT-OECD/RT/009
Awareness‐raising and
Preventive Measures
Against Illegal Recruitment
and Trafficking in Persons:
The POEA Experience
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
Trafficking in persons, almost always, begins
with recruitment
A significant population that is vulnerable to
recruitment malpractices and abuse and
exploitation
A mandate of law to undertake aggressive
public information campaign
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• PEOS/POEA on WHEELS
• AIRTIP SEMINARS
AND CET
• MULTI‐MEDIA • LEGAL ASSISTANCE
AND TECHNOLOGY‐
• OPERATIONS AND
BASED INFORMATION
SURVEILLANCE
MATERIALS
• INVESTIGATION AND
PROSECUTION
Pre‐Employment
• 1.33M participants in the last 5 years,
Orientation with more than 500,000 in 2014 alone
Seminar (PEOS)
• 285,850 unique visits and more than
PEOS Online 62,000 registered (March 2014 to
date)
POEA Mobile • Almost 90,000 downloads (March
Application 2014 to date)
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Accomplishments
POEA PRE‐EMPLOYMENT ORIENTATION SEMINAR
(PEOS) ONLINE
AIRTIP • 13,111 participants in 157 seminars
Seminars across the country in the last 4 years
Capability
• 3,692 PESOs, local officials and
Enhancement partners trained in the last 4 years
Trainings
POEA Facebook
and Twitter • Over 2 million views
Advisories
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Production of AIR • 217,742 total views in one year
videos
Production and
• 528,750 various printed materials
distribution of disseminated in 2014
printed materials
Continuing
Agency Education • More than 9,000 officers and employees of
Program recruitment agencies attended the program
IR‐Free • More than 1000 MOUs with LGUs ,
organizations of families of migrants,
LGUs academe and FBOs
• Streamlining departure formalities
BI‐POEA through data sharing arrangements
PDEA‐ • Information exchange and joint anti‐drug
campaign for overseas job applicants/OFWs
POEA
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Partnerships
With NGOs and civil society partners (i.e.,
FBOs, academe, professional groups) on pubic
information campaigns and setting up of
Migrants’ Desk
With international organizations for capacity
building and development of materials
With the private sector for systems
development and information campaigns
Decrease in cases of illegal recruitment cases
Intensified campaign against illegal recruitment and
public education on overseas employment in the
province of Pangasinan has shown a decrease in the
number of cases by 54% from 2013 to 2014
MOUs with local governments could facilitate
institutionalization of the conduct Pre‐Employment
Orientation Seminars (PEOS) and establishment of
Migrants’ Desks at the local level
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Engagement of the private sector could mobilize
resources for development and implementation of
capital intensive initiative
Inter‐agency arrangements facilitate law
enforcement coordination, policy coherence and
convergence of services
Data sharing arrangement between immigration and
POEA enables the identification of erring recruitment
agencies leading to imposition of administrative
penalties and filing of criminal cases
Review and re‐negotiation of bilateral agreements on
recruitment and deployment of HSWs
Standard Employment Contract
Policy review on recruitment costs towards reducing it to
prevent exploitation such as debt bondage and forced
labor
Regulating entry of applicants for new license
Penalties for erring recruitment agencies
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Ways forward
• Online legal assistance, providing better access to
complaint mechanisms
• Weaving through a comprehensive and integrated
public and migrants education campaign from pre‐
employment to post‐arrival
• Development of a database of persons and entities
engaged in human trafficking as a public information
tool by generating a blacklist of entities and individuals
involved in trafficking in persons
Thank you.