Sattar Bhaban (4th Floor), 3/3-E Bijoynagar, Dhaka-1000.

Tel: 9360338,, Fax: 8362441

Email: rmmrubj@aitlbd.net, Web: www.rammru.net

Brief History of the Organization- RMMRU at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh has worked as a research, training and advocacy institution since 1995 and has already completed a number of noteworthy research studies on the rights of migrant workers, female migration, return and remittances, and forced migration in Bangladesh. It also maintains close working relations with institutes across South Asian region.

Major objectives of the project are: „X Influence migration policy in favour of imparting comprehensive training. „X To fill in the information gap among wider audience particularly the poor about labour migration process and encounter misinformation for the same. „X To reduce fraudulent practices in the labour migration process. „X To make potential migrants aware of their rights at work in destination countries. „X To make migration a planned exercise and to make it economically and socially successful in terms of poverty reduction, both for the individual as well as for the nation. „X To increase capacity of local and national actors in managing migration.

Information Dissemination through Migrants¡¦ Rights Protection Committee • Increased capacity of Government, NGO staff, local opinion leaders and journalists. • Increased knowledge of more than 100,000 common people (indirect beneficiaries) (40% of the total population of selected areas) about safe migration procedure. • Increased ability to make informed decision by the potential migrants at local levels. • Increased capacity of the local level opinion leaders to perform their functions as well as allocation of resources to provide services. • Increased capacity of the migrants to complete migration procedure independently and efficiently without the help of the middleman. • Increased interest of journalists to cover positive aspects of migration in the electronic and print media. Ensuring better Services from Banks • Increased capacity of migrant workers to process bank related documents independently. • Increased services regarding investment and utilisation of remittances. Capacity Building of District Employment and Manpower Office • Increased capacity of BMET & DEMOs to provide various information and services to migrants. • Increased involvement of government in the awareness campaigns on labour migration and projecting rights of migrants. Influencing policy through Press Conference and Media Campaign