The project 'Safe and Fair: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region' is part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls, a global, multi-year initiative between the EU and the United Nations (UN). The Safe and Fair programme is a 25 million euro investment implemented through a partnership between ILO and UN Women with the overriding objective of ensuring that labour migration is safe and fair for all women in the ASEAN region, namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
For a large number of Cambodian women migrant workers who live and work abroad, there are serious gaps in information and access to service providers required to ensure their safety and rights. “One of the things that we know about migrant workers is that they can risk being isolated in the country that they go to. They may feel quite cut off from services and information in the country where they're working,” says Sarah Knibbs, Officer-In-Charge UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
It is for these reasons that the My Journey Mobile App was conceived. Developed through a collaboration between the Safe and Fair Programme in Cambodia, the Child Helpline Cambodia, and InSTEDD iLab, My Journey Mobile App provides access to essential, reliable, and practical information and services freely available on mobile phones, anywhere.