2013 is the final year in GAATW’s multi-annual plan for 2011-2013. During this year, we completed all the planned tasks. However, as we currently also carry out some projects in addition to the core programme, some tasks are still on-going.
In late 2011, a new project with domestic workers and garment sector workers was added to our plan. Upon completion of work in countries of origin, in early 2013 a team of GAATW member organisations and friends visited two countries of destination, Lebanon and Qatar, in order to draw a comparison between women’s perceptions of their lived migratory experience to those developed upon their return home. During the field visit, women were asked about their collective empowerment processes and for their thoughts on how exploitation and discrimination in migration should be addressed and overcome. We will enter into the implementation phase of this project by mid- 2014.