Regional and multi country priorities on migrants’ health Cross-cutting principles

1. Regional and multi country priorities on migrants’ health Cross-cutting principles • Protect the fundamental human rights, including the right to health, promote the welfare and uphold human dignity of migrants • Ensure that systems, policies and frameworks for migrants’ health are gender-responsive • Consider ASEAN Countries as potentially simultaneously countries of origin, transit and destination

2. Pillar 1 – Policy and Legal Frameworks • MoUs, bilateral and multilateral agreements to be more inclusive and participatory (including CSO and migrant community) and to include health issues in addition to HIV • Mapping and sharing social protection frameworks and mechanisms on health for migrants (beyond HIV, SARS and Avian Influenza ) • Enhance inter sectoral collaboration on migrants’ health concerns with respect to the ASEAN mechanisms such as AICHR, ACWC, ACMW as part of the protection and the promotion of the rights of migrant workers • Integrate health into the draft ASEAN Instrument on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers

3. Pillar 2 – Monitoring Migrants’ Health • Develop and agree on standard migrant health indicators (access, quality and cost) /disaggregated data, while ensuring the confidentiality, privacy and safeguarding against harmful use of the data • Improve national monitoring systems and advocate for sharing migration health data among sectors and countries for the purpose of enhancing migrants’ health • Incorporate participation of multiple sectors in the data collection of migrants’ health such as health, labour, immigration and security sectors, consulates, unions, civil society organizations, employers, etc. • Expand monitoring beyond disease outcomes by also focusing on health behaviour, utilization of services, barriers to access, occupational safety, sanitation, etc., throughout the migration process • Reach out to undocumented migrant populations through targeted surveys to identify effective health interventions

4. Pillar 3 - Partnerships, networks and multi country frameworks • Ensure that migrants’ health is included in regional and global platforms (e.g. GFMD, UN GA HLD 2013, WHA, ASEAN Summits, etc.) • Develop and strengthen inter-sectoral and inter-country health partnerships and include mental health, reproductive health, communicable and non communicable diseases, social protection mechanisms, etc. beyond HIV • Involve migrant communities, civil society organizations and unions as active partners in particular for advocacy and service delivery

5. Pillar 4 - Migrant sensitive health systems Increase collaboration between countries of origin, transit and destination, and involve migrants to promote culturally and linguistically sensitive health systems Mitigate the burden of out of pocket funding for all migrants and move towards social security systems that involve pooling of financial resources (employers, migrants / remittances, governments) in countries of origin, transit and destination. Work towards portability of health benefits across the region. Study the costs and benefits of providing migrant sensitive health services to migrants Increase awareness among foreign service personnel, health workforce, migrants and other stakeholders about social protection and health entitlements in countries of origin, transit and destination