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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports development of returned migrants, building their professional and entrepreneurship capacities

6 November 2020
Hans-Ullrich Ihm, OSCE PCUz Senior Project Officer and Nizom Kadyrov, Vice-principal of Westminster University Tashkent, during the certificate award ceremony of the Returned Labour Migrants Training, Tashkent, 30 October 2020. (OSCE/Umid Pulatov) Photo details

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) held a three-week capacity-building training course to help re-integrate returning labour migrants, which concluded on 6 November 2020. The event was organized in co-operation with the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan (the Agency), and took place at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT).

Some 75 returned labour migrants and 75 officers of the Agency from across Uzbekistan attended the course.

During the three-week course, which started on 26 October, the returned labor migrants developed their entrepreneurship skills, while the officers of the Agency worked on methodological skills to strengthen the reintegration of the returned migrants into the domestic labour market.

Faculty members of the WIUT lectured participants on business management and business idea generation, fundamental marketing concepts and marketing strategies, and financial management. The course also included a train-the-trainer component for Agency officers who learned how to pass on the knowledge they gained to others.

PCUz Senior Project Officer Hans-Ullrich Ihm underlined the importance of the OSCE’s priorities to improve economic development through job creation, growth opportunities and strengthened skills of the returned migrants. “The PCUz acknowledges the increasing importance of effective labour migration management and the benefits it can provide for all countries involved, including those of origin, transit and destination. Labour migration has the potential to foster economic growth and sustainable development, if managed and regulated properly,” said Ihm.

All the participants were awarded certificates of completion.

The training course was organized under the extra-budgetary project “Support to the improvement of labour migration policies in Uzbekistan” funded by Germany.