Day 1

8:00 am - 8:30 am

8:30 am - 9:00 am

9:00 am - 9:30 am

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Introduction of the Regional Workshop on Sustainable Reintegration Workshop and the World Development Report 2023

Chair: Soonhwa Yi, Senior Economist, World Bank

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Session 1: Migration - Development Nexus
Reintegration and Development in Labour Sending Countries

Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Vice President
Global Migration Policy Association

Q & A

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Session 2: Defining Sustainable Reintegration
Integrated approach to Sustainable Reintegration

Jacqueline Weekers
Chief of Mission Australia and Coordinator for New Zealand and the Pacific
International Organisation for Migration (IOM)


Q & A

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Session 3: Skills Development generating net-skills gains for labour sending countries

1. The Role of National Employment Policies
   Christian Viegelahn
   Officer in Charge and Employment Specialist
   ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries
2. Opportunities for the Pacific and Timor Leste
   Tim Harbison
   Skills for Employment & Training Director
   Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC)
3. Q & A

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Session 4: Entrepreneurship and small business investments by workers, their households, and local communities

1. Entrepreneurship and small business development to generate sustainable livelihoods and economic growth in labour sending countries
   Helen Kirsch
   Technical Officer
   ILO
2. Opportunities for the Pacific and Timor Leste
   Howard Politini
   Board Chair
   Pacific Island Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO)
   
   Howard Aru
   General Manager
   Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)
3. Q & A

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Session 5: Employment and labour market integration of returning workers

1. Labour market integration of returning workers and skills transfers for local development
   Nilim Baruah
   Regional Senior Specialist on Labour Migration
   ILO Asia Pacific
2. Opportunities for the Pacific & Timor Leste
   Antoine Ravo
   Director
   Vanuatu Department of Agriculture
3. Q & A

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Session 6: Savings by workers, their households, and local communities

1. Financial inclusion and benefits of saving in local financial institutions
   Chris Miller
   World Bank
2. Financial inclusion and benefits of saving in local financial institutions - Vanuatu experience
   Andrew John
   Manager, Financial Inclusion 
   Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
3. Opportunities and benefits of saving in Pacific national provident funds
   Richard Edwin
   Acting General Manager
   Vanuatu National Provident Fund (VNPF)
4. Q & A

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Final words from Chair

Closing Prayer

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception
Hosted by the Government of Vanuatu

Day 2

Chair: Ashmita Singh, Project Coordinator, International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Opening Prayer
Welcome and introduction of Day 2 programme

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Session 1: Social and Psychosocial Reintegration

1. Social inclusion and social/psychosocial services for returning workers and their households
   Nissara Spence
   Programme Manager
   IOM
2. Opportunities for the Pacific & Timor Leste
   Matt Withers
   Australian National University (ANU)
   
   Kirstie Petrou
   Griffith University
   
   Jeanette Tanghwa
   Pacific Labour Facility (PLF)
3. Q & A

10:30 am - 10:45 am

10:45 am - 11:45 am

Session 2: Regional Reintegration Initiatives

1. V-Lab in Vanuatu
   Torika Kalman
   Programme Coordinator
   V-Lab Association
2. Solomon Islands Economic Reintegration Strategy
   Jenny Barile
   Deputy Director
   Solomon Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs & External Trade
3. Q & A

11:45 am - 12:30 pm

Session 3: Regional Way Forward – Lessons from ASEAN

1. ASEAN Guidelines on Effective Return and Reintegration of Migrant Workers
   Nilim Baruah
   Regional Senior Specialist on Labour Migration
   ILO Asia Pacific
2. Q & A

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm

Session 4: Regional Way Forward for the Pacific and Timor Leste 

1. Options available to the Pacific and Timor Leste
   Ashmita Singh
   Project Coordinator
   IOM
2. Q & A

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Session 6: Rapid Assessment of Labor Mobility Policy’s Implementation Arrangements in Vanuatu
Establishing a conducive national policy context

Philip Martin (joining virtually)
Professor of Agricultural and Resources Economics
UC Davis
Senior World Bank Consultant

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm

5:30 pm - 6:15 pm

Day 3

Chair: Joe Pakoa Lui, Director for External Trade, Vanuatu Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade

Co-Chair: Roy Lagolago, Head of the PACER Plus Implementation Unit

8:00 am - 8:30 am

8:30 am - 9:00 am 

Opening Procedures

Welcome Remarks by Chair

Adoption of Agenda

9:00 am - 9:30 am

9:30 am - 10:15 am

Agenda 2: Inclusivity of the PLMAM
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/2: Improving the Inclusivity of the PLMAM

Alisi Kautoke Holani
PPIU

10:15 am - 10:30 am

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Agenda 3: Increasing the effectiveness of the Arrangement on Labour Mobility
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/3: Report on the Review of the Arrangement on Labour Mobility

Mathea Roorda and Rose Namoori Sinclair
ALM Review Panel

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Agenda 4: Creating an enabling environment to increase development gains from labour mobility
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/4: Defining good labour mobility governance

Nilim Baruah
Regional Senior Specialist on Labour Migration
ISO Asia Pacific

Angelica Neville
Labour Mobility Officer
ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Agenda 5: Update on labour mobility opportunities
5.1 Update on the RSE and PALM Schemes
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/5.1: Update on the RSE and PALM Schemes

Alisi Kautoke Holani
PPIU

Jordan Duffy
Pacific Labour Facility (PLF)

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

5.2 Intra-Pacific Labour Mobility
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/5.2: Intra-Pacific labour mobility to Cook Islands and Niue

Chere Arthur
Cook Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration

Morgan Mougavalu
Niue Ministry of Finance & Planning

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

8:30 am - 9:00 am

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Introductions; forum objectives, agenda, and ground rules

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Break out session for RSE and PALM employers to separately discuss Pacific-facing risks to the success of their respective schemes and proposed mitigation measures by employers

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Mitigation of Pacific-facing risks to Labour Mobility Schemes - Collective Way Forward

• Presentations by nominated RSE and PALM representatives on identified Pacific-facing risks and proposed mitigation measures by employers
• Consideration and prioritisation of common measures to be agreed as a collective way forward

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Other Priority Issues

Discussion on other priority issues (such as social impacts for workers, families and communities; worker wellbeing) and way forward

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
 

Finalisation of Outcomes Statement and Closing

Day 4

8:30 am - 9:00 am

9:00 am - 9:15 am

1. Opening Prayer
2. Welcome and introduction of the programme

9:15 am - 10:15 am

Session 1: Understanding the social impacts of Pacific labour mobility

1. The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey: Findings from the First Wave
   Dung Doan
   Social Protection Economist
   World Bank
2. The Safety & Wellbeing of Pacific workers in Australia
   Judy Putt
   Senior Research Fellow
   ANU
   
   Lindy Kanan
   PhD Candidate
   University of the Sunshine Coast
3. Q & A

10:15 am - 10:30 am

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Session 2: Perspectives on Social Impacts and Worker Welfare Management

1. Worker perspectives
   Worker representatives
   Vanuatu
2. Employer perspectives
   RSE & PALM Employer representative
3. Union perspectives
   Manufolau Daniel Urai
   President
   Pacific Island Council of Trade Unions (PICTU)
4. Q & A

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Session 3: Management of social impacts of labour mobility in the Pacific

1. Famili i Redi Programme
   IOM, World Vision, Famili i Redi 
2. Q & A

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

Final Words from the Chair

Closing Prayer

5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

Chair: Murielle Metsan, Commissioner for Labour, Department of Labour and Employment Services, Vanuatu

Co-Chair: Roy Lagolago, Head of the PACER Plus Implementation Unit

8:00 am - 8:30 am

8:30 am - 9:00 am 

Opening Procedures

Welcome Remarks by Chair

Adoption of Agenda

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Agenda 1: Outcomes of PLMAM 2022
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/1: Progress Update on PLMAM 2022 Outcomes

Alisi Kautoke Holani
PPIU

9:30 am - 10:15 am

10:15 am - 10:30 am

10:30 am - 11:15 am

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Agenda 5: Update on labour mobility opportunities
5.1 Update on the RSE and PALM Schemes

Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/5.1.1: Update on the RSE Scheme
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/5.1.2: Update on the PALM Scheme
Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

Jordan Duffy
Pacific Labour Facility (PLF) 

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

5.2 Intra-Pacific Labour Mobility
Discussion Paper PLMAM-23/5.2: Intra-Pacific labour mobility to Cook Islands and Niue

Chere Arthur
Cook Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration

Morgan Mougavalu
Niue Ministry of Finance & Planning

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm