Strengthening social protection for African migrant workers through social security agreements: background report
This report gathers and analyzes information on social security programmes and labour migration in African countries participating in the "Extension of Social Security Coverage to African Migrant Workers Project" (MIGSEC). The project aims to improve national and regional strategies for the extension of social security coverage to migrant workers and their families through social security agreements, and to strengthen sub-regional mechanisms to effectively prepare or reinforce the compliance with regional social security conventions to accompany the various sub-regional processes in Africa. The MIGSEC project covers Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. (GIGA-Hff)