Atikha Projects
EC-UN JMDI Project:
“Maximizing the Gains and Minimizing the Social Cost of Overseas Migration in the Philippines” | 
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Project number: P-069
Reporting Period: 1st of October 2009 to 31 May 2011(as amended)
Total funding amount approved for the project: $288,626
Names of the other project partners: Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli-CISP
Overall Objective of the Project
Increased awareness of the Filipinos and other stakeholders on the issues of migration and development and migrant social and civil rights in Italy.
Migrants organizations and HTAs enabled to build their knowledge on migrants rights and welfare issues, financial literacy, counseling, organizing and alliance building and develop their capacity to deliver economic and social services to their members and to help create community development projects in partnership with different stakeholders.
Migrant families and NGOs, Local Government Units, schools, cooperatives, rural banks and other stakeholders are involved in initiatives in addressing the social cost of migration and in tapping the resources of migrants for the development of the OFWs, their families and communities.
A public forum was also held reaching 312 Filipino migrants and leaders in collaboration with 6 associations and confederations in Turin, Naples, Florence and Rome.
Key expected results for the entire project
- 2,000 copies of Guide for Filipinos in Italy disseminated
- 1 forum on Migration and Development for local authorities carried out in Italy
- 10 public meetings held in Italy
- 4 capacity building modules for 30 leaders of migrants held
- Mentoring of 6 organizations in Italy and 8 echo seminar delivered in Italy
- Operation of center for Filipino migrants in Italy
- 1 International Conference in Italy held
- 4 training of trainers on financial literacy for 120 stakeholders in the Philippines
- Mentoring of 120 trainees on financial literacy and 20 echo seminar on financial literacy
- 3 OFW centers set-up and 3 MOA signed
- 3 development projects set-up
- 1 OFW desk set-up
- 2 teachers training for 60 teachers conducted
- 360 families encoded in the data base
Key activities for the Entire Period
- Printing and Dissemination of the Guide for Filipino Migrants in Italy
- Fora and consultation meetings on nexus on migration and development addressed to local authorities and associations in Italy and Philippines
- Capacity building activities on migrants rights , sexual and reproductive issues, leadership, organizing and others in Italy
- Operation of a Filipino Migrant Centers in Italy and the Philippines
- Conduct of International Conference on Minimizing the Cost and Maximizing the Gains of Overseas Migration in Italy
- Trainers Training on financial Literacy in the Philippines
- Mentoring of trainees and echo seminar on financial literacy in the Philippines and Italy
- Setting up/replication of development projects in the Philippines
- Training of teachers for school based program in addressing the social cost of migration
- Encoding of OFWs and families in the data base
Overview of project implementation for the entire duration of the project
Objective 1: Increased awareness of the Filipinos and other stakeholders on the issues of migration and development and migrant social and civil rights in Italy with the following outputs:
- 2,000 copies of the Guide for Filipino migrants in Itay printed and disseminated
- 8 public meetings with members of the Filipino community in Italy with 260 participants were held in the cities of Rome, Florence, Terni and Turin.
- 1 forum with local authorities, non-government organizations and migrants organizations in the Province of Rome.
- 8 consultations and fora on Migration and Development Nexus with local authorities, NGOs, and other stakeholders were held in the Provinces of Laguna, Batangas and Cavite.
Objective 2: Capacity building of Migrants organizations and HTAs on migrants rights and welfare issues, financial literacy, counseling, organizing and alliance building to deliver economic and social services to their members and to help create community development projects in partnership with different stakeholders and conducted the following outputs:
- 29 migrant leaders trained as trainers in conducting financial literacy in Italy from the cities of Rome, Padova, Milan, Torino, Brescia, Bologna, and Florence.
- 2 seminar on rights and duties of migrants in Italy involving 30 migrant leaders
- 14 echo-seminars on Financial Literacy and Counseling were conducted by the trainees reaching out to 419 migrants
- Consultations meeting with Hometown associations on partnership with local government in the Philippines on migration and development initiatives.
Objective 3: Build the capacities of Migrant families and NGOs, Local Government Units, schools, cooperatives, rural banks and other stakeholders involved in initiatives in addressing the social cost of migration and in tapping the resources of migrants for the development of the OFWs, their families and communities by implementing the following outputs:
- 4 training of trainers on financial literacy for migrants and families given to 115 Local government unit staff, Department of Education teachers, NGOs, cooperatives and OFW family leaders in the Philippines from the provinces of Laguna, Batangas, Cavite, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Abra, La Union and Pampanga.
- 110 trainees monitored and mentored
- 20 echo seminars conducted with 885 migrants and families reached in the Philippines
- 2 (4-day) trainings on setting up OFW Center conducted to 50 participants from the municipalities of the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, Cavite, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Bicol
- 4 MOAs signed and assisted in setting up 3 OFW centers in the province of Batangas and the municipality of Mabini and Cuenca in Batangas.
- 3 Development projects were set up: Coop Mart in Sta Rosa, Alaminos, Laguna; Ekolife Homestay Ecotour in San Pablo City and School-based Program in Mayantoc, Tarlac
- 2 (5-day) training of teachers on setting up School Based Programme in Addressing the Social Cost of Migration.
- 613 children joined the Batang Atikha Savers Club
- Monitoring and Data Base on the participants of the financial literacy developed and 475 OFWs encoded
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