RMMRU

Capacity of RMMRU to conduct Training Projects

RMMRU is the first organisation, which brought policy makers, private sector and civil society organisations together in respect to migration. Based on its extensive research on migration, RMMRU has developed a capacity to provide leadership in the area. It is in a good position to take up programmes that involve other partners. The persons involved in RMMRU have earned an international reputation and are providing leadership in their respective fields. It has established its credibility to the government through its various research works. Its goal has always been to bring government and civil society together to manage migration. It has done intensive work with the past government, the interim government and the present government to reform state policies regarding international labour migration.
RMMRU has good working relationship with national and local NGOs. RMMRU has been actively creating space for the migrant’s associations. In all its programmes migrant’s associations are represented. A section of recruiting agents is responsible for fraudulence, violation of migrants' rights and pauperization of migrants. Nonetheless they are major catalytic force behind large scale international labour migration from Bangladesh. They have to be brought in the forum. BAIRA is the association of licensed recruiting agents. Since 1998 RMMRU has successfully linked the members of BAIRA with the broader movement for safe migration.

Resource Pool
In organising training RMMRU involves top-level experts from government, private and public banks, recruiting agents and migrant’s associations. RMMRU has also created a trained human resource of its own. This has enabled the Unit a highly qualified resource pool for imparting training on migration. RMMRU also developed five trainers under the Combating Trafficking project who serves RMMRU on part time basis.
Training logistics
The unit has developed its own training infrastructure. Its air-conditioned training room is equipped with audio-visual equipments such as OHP, Multi-Media Projector, Television, Clip Board, Vip Board etc. It can accommodate 25 participants at a time. RMMRU also uses public training places, i.e. auditorium and meeting halls of Bangladesh Institute of Administration and Management (BIAM), with their accommodation facilities to organize residential training. A good working relationship has developed between BIAM and RMMRU. RMMRU also use meeting rooms of local government institutions, BRAC CDMA and NGOs to conduct training outside Dhaka.
Training Material
Training also needs using technique and support materials. Drama, documentary, flipchart, posters these are some of the supporting materials. RMMRU has its own capacity of preparing visual aides, posters. It has experience of drama production in technical collaboration with other media production houses. A drama on women and children trafficking titled Faad was produced with technical support of Theatre Centre for Social Development (TCSD). Similarly, as part of its broader agenda on labour migration RMMRU produced Another Horizon -a documentary on labour migration in collaboration with Media Mix Enterprise.

Training targeted to: Young professionals, Journalists, Members of law enforcing agencies, Grassroots level NGO activists
Local government functionaries, community leaders, Members of a disadvantaged community: the Biharis

Past Partners in Training Implementation: Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment: The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment is the line ministry in charge of processing migration. Government officials of this ministry are the member of the Sub-committee of RMMRU projects. This ministry will be one of the important partners in dissemination activities.
Ministry of Home Affairs: RMMRU is a member of the Technical Assistance Committee for the developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the area of trafficking. In the past the Ministry of Home Affairs took all the training manuals and kits to use them in their anti-trafficking campaign.
Government Agencies: The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) organises training for outgoing migrant workers. BMET uses RMMRU information kits in their training as well as TV awareness campaign messages.
British Council: The British Council is an important partner of RMMRU. It hosted premiere shows of numerous productions of RMMRU earlier. For instance, ‘Another Horizon’, a documentary jointly produced by RMMRU and Media-mix Enterprise was first screened in The British Council. The stage performance of ‘The Trap’ performed by TCSD was also staged at the Auditorium of The British Council. Moreover the drama was staged in different places of Rajshahi and Jessore under the trafficking project.
Media: In the past RMMRU produced documentaries with the technical assistance of Media-Mix Enterprise and Theatre Centre for Social Development (TCSD). Other than that RMMRU production unit worked with Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA), Bangladesh Center for Development Journalism and Communication (BCDJC), Mass-line Media Centre (MMC) and Media Professionals Group. RMMRU also has good connection with reputed media personell as well.
NGOs: RMMRU has worked with several local NGOs, for instance Rights Jessore and Association for Community Development (ACD), Rajshahi during the implementation of combating trafficking project. RMMRU also has working experiences with other National NGOs such as BRAC and Grameen Bank and TMSS. These organisations received training on safe migration and they have incorporated migration issues in their awareness campaign.