General Objective of the Exchange 

Offer input to build governmental capacities of the RCM Member Countries for designing, implementing, and monitoring mechanisms for safe, orderly, and regular labor migration, as a means to guarantee the fair hiring of migrant workers and the protection of their rights. 

Specific Objectives 

1. Socialize the current status of existing mechanisms in the Region for facilitating safe, orderly, and regular labor migration, as well as their effects on migratory dynamics, based on the principal findings and recommendations of the IOM study Labor Migration Mechanisms in Mesoamerica (2021). 

2. Identify areas for improving existing governmental capacities of the RCM Member Countries specifically related to Bilateral Labor Migration Agreements (BLMA).  To that end, the BLMA Toolkit jointly developed by the IOM and the ILO is available to be used at the national level to strengthen the areas identified during the Regional Exchange. 

3. Exchange information regarding good practices and lessons learned in the RCM Member Countries regarding the negotiation and implementation of labor migration mechanisms in countries with transit, destination, and return migration, as initiatives that promote the hiring of labor migrants and the protection of their rights, including groups in situations of vulnerability such as returnees and people with international protection to promote integration into the societies of destination and origin.