Projects | Abu Dhabi Dialogue

The Abu Dhabi Dialogue is more than just a forum for discussing policy approaches to the management of temporary labour migration. The ADD plays a crucial role in the creation, development and oversight of pilot projects and programmes designed to improve the governance of labour migration. Through close cooperation, Member States help to strengthen the programmes by lending insights, expertise and resources, and even where they are not active participants, they learn from the experiences of other Members; experiences that are then often incorporated into their own policy making.

The most recent round of programming was initiated as a result of the inter-Ministerial meeting of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, in Colombo, in January 2017. The resulting Colombo Declaration establishes the broad direction and principles for four key programmes, focused on ethical recruitment, skills certification, information and orientation programming, and the role of technology in the governance of labour mobility.

Further information on these programmes, and earlier work undertaken by and on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, can be found on this website.

Future of Domestic Work in the Gulf

Across the world, the governance of the domestic work sector is being revisited from the perspective of the care economy, primarily because the growin

Technology in the Governance of Labour Mobility

Technology has an increasingly important role to play in the governance of labour mobility. In particular, it proffers the prospect of creating effect

Comprehensive Information and Orientation Programmes (CIOP)

Every year, temporary contractual workers from South and South-East Asian countries make the decision to pursue foreign employment in the Gulf region.

Certification and Mutual Recognition of Skills

According to UN estimates, the UAE hosts the sixth largest population of migrants in the world, due to a high reliance of the country’s labor force on

An Alternative Model of Labour Recruitment

A key study on the recruitment of workers from Kerala (India) and Nepal travelling to the United Arab Emirates for employment showed that a significan