The ILO implemented the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) financed project entitled ‘”Free Movement of Persons and Transhumance in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Region: Improving Opportunities for Regular Labour Mobility.” The overall objective of the project was to improve opportunities for regulated labor mobility and decent work within the IGAD member States through the development of models of intervention.

MSA was commissioned to conduct a series of labor market analyses for the IGAD region. The study aimed to deepen understanding of the labor migration and labor market structures and dynamics in the region, and is based on individual country labor market analyses conducted in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda.