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Technical and Secretariat Support to Inter-Agency Activities PDF Print

CFO continues to strengthen its linkages with relevant agencies and organizations in the Philippines to enhance programs and services for Filipino migrants, and to ensure accessibility in addressing specific needs and interests.

CFO provides technical and secretariat support to the following inter-agency committees:

  • Inter-Agency Committee on Philippine Schools Overseas
  • Exchange Visitor Program Committee
  • Human Resource for Health Network (with Department of Health as Chair)
  • National Seafarer's Day Committee (with Apostleship of the Sea as Chair)
  • Stock Estimation of the Filipinos Overseas (with National Statistical Coordination Board as Chair)
  • Anti-Trafficking initiatives with the USAID/Solidarity Center/ TUCP Anti-Trafficking Project
  • Inter-Agency Committee on the Celebration of the Month of Overseas Filipinos (with Philippine Migrants Right Watch as Chair)
  • National Anti-Poverty Commission Cabinet Group
  • Consultative Council on Overseas Filipino Workers

CFO was also a member of the following inter-agency committees:

  • Senior Governmental Working Group on Human Trafficking and People Smuggling
  • Technical Coordinating Committee for the preparation of the 5th and 6th periodic Philippine Reports to UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
  • Crisis Action Standing Committee/ Crisis Management Committee
  • Shared Government Information System on Migration (SGISM)
  • Technical Working Group on Absentee Voting (House and Senate)
  • Technical Working Group on Dual Citizenship (House and Senate)
  • Technical Working Group on Anti-Trafficking Bill (Senate)
  • Technical Working Group on Passport Act (House and Senate)
  • National Organizing Committee (NOC) for the Filipino Seafarers National Convention