Practices by Country

The LBS2 Fil Assist is a free application available to the public to locate and track Filipinos worldwide. LBS Recruitment produced a geo-locating application (LBS2 Fil Assist) that uses Google Maps’ geolocation technology (history location) to locate recruited migrant workers.

The country-team approach in the conduct of development diplomacy, was adopted by Executive Order No. 74 (1993) and foresees that all officers, representatives and personnel of the Philippine government posted abroad,...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) of the Philippine Government jointly adopted a crisis alert system which serves as the basis for emergency repatriation and deployment restrictions.

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is instructed by law to maintain, among other programs, an Emergency Repatriation Fund to evacuate OFWs in case of wars, disasters, or epidemics.

The Abu Dhabi Dialogue is a voluntary, non-binding and informal state-led consultative process engaging seven Asian countries of labour destination (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen) and eleven countries of origin (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pak

The Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 serves as a guide in formulating policies and implementing development programs for the next six years.

This Joint Manual of Operations in Providing Assistance to Migrant Workers and Other Filipinos Overseas is promulgated to ensure efficient and effective delivery of services to Overseas Filipinos, particularly those in distress, who require prompt and proper assistance at all times.

eBayanihan is a mobile and web based participatory disaster management system that allows citizens to participate in contributing and receiving disaster related information as part of disaster preparedness and mitigation.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) have launched, in partnership with Microsoft Philippines, the Tulay or Bridge Education.

OFW Watch is a community service initiative of Mynd Dynamic Team, Inc. of Davao City, Philippines. Mynd is a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company founded in 2006 by a former Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW), Ms. Myrna Padilla.