From 18th to 20th July 2018, two training workshops on “Ethical recruitment and Corporate responsibilities in eliminating slavery and trafficking” and “Counselling skills and behavior-changing communication” were held in Vinh city, Nghe An province. The event engaged about 50 participants including officials from the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DOLISA) and its district-based officials, Employment Service Centre (ESC), MRC Centre and recruitment agencies.

Encouraging the participants to actively interact with trainers and with each other, especially through group discussions, these participatory training courses have effectively raised participants’ awareness of the definitions and forms of modern slavery which include forced labour and human trafficking. The participants also had a chance to exercise the gained counselling and communication skills by joining role plays and feedback sessions . Both two trainings were enthusiastically attended by the officials and labour recruiters who then gave positive feedbacks on the effectiveness, relevance and the applicableness of the skills and knowledge gained at the workshops.

These two workshops are organized under the “Migration Protection, Assistances, Capacity, Tolerance” Project – a sub-regional project funded by the Population, Refugees and Migration under the Department of States and implemented by IOM in collaboration with DOLISA and ESC Nghe An. The project’s phase 01 lasts from April to September 2018.