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The Government plans to establish bilateral relations on migration with the international community to ensure the safety of refugees and migrants.
Addressing delegates, during the launch of the Migration Statistics and the Recognition of the Migrants Skills Project in Harare yesterday, Public Service Minister, Paul Mavima, said the country had already established relations with Rwanda, to export professionals, such as teachers.
“The international migration policy is already in place and was launched by President Mnangagwa in 2019,” he said.
“It is a policy that guides us on how we should manage the migration of our citizens going out, and citizens from other countries, coming into Zimbabwe.
“We have completed bilateral relations with Rwanda where we are going to send mainly people in the teaching profession to that country, but they have said they now want more teachers.
“They also want artisans of various kinds and people who can start their technical and vocational training centres.”
He said Zimbabwe hopes to establish migrant bilateral relations with countries such as Qatar and Kuwait, in the Middle East, to avoid cases of human trafficking.
“People tend to be ill-treated if there is no involvement of the government, so these bilateral agreements are important for the protection of the citizens,” he said.
Speaking at the same occasion, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe, said migration governance, in terms of statistics, remained a challenge.
“It is not that migration is incapable of generating statistical data but rather it is the collection, interpretation, sharing and eventual use of major data that has had considerable challenges,” he said.
“This is because systems that are in place to harness migration data might either be incapacitated in terms of infrastructure, be handicapped technically or falling short in terms of training of practitioners.”
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter