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Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment

Ministry

Labour migration management, expatriate welfare, and overseas employment

FY2026-27 proposed: Tk 880 crore gross, AFS Statement 8 · Budget hub →

FY2025-26 budget: Tk 855 crore net, iBAS · different basis from the gross figure above

Q1 FY2025-26 actual spend: Tk 69 crore (8.1% of budget) · operating Tk 59 cr, development Tk 10 cr (iBAS Statement-02)

ADP delivery portfolio FY2025-26 (RADP)

Largest projects by allocation:

• ৪০টি উপজেলায় ৪০টি কারিগরি প্রশিক্ষণ কেন্দ্র ও চট্টগ্রামে ১টি ইনষ্টিটিউট অব মেরিন টেকনোলজি স্থাপন (২য় সংশোধিত) · Tk 176 cr alloc, 83.0% of cost spent
• উপজেলা পর্যায়ে ৫০টি কারিগরি প্রশিক্ষণ কেন্দ্র স্থাপন · Tk 119 cr alloc, 0.0% of cost spent
• প্রত্যাগত অভিবাসী কর্মীদের পুন:একত্রীকরণের লক্ষ্যে অনানুষ্ঠানিক খাতে কর্সংস্থান সৃজনে সহায়ক প্রকল্প (১ম সংশোধিত) · Tk 90 cr alloc, 75.0% of cost spent, foreign-aided
• দেশে বিদেশে কর্মসংস্থানের জন্য ড্রাইভিং প্রশিক্ষণ প্রদান (১ম সংশোধিত) · Tk 57 cr alloc, 55.0% of cost spent
• রিডিউসিং ইররেগুলার মাইগ্রেশন এন্ড সাপোর্টিং রিটার্নিস ইন বাংলাদেশ · Tk 16 cr alloc, 0.0% of cost spent, foreign-aided
• Strengthened Servise Delivery System for Improved Migration Managment and Sustainable Reintegration · Tk 15 cr alloc, 0.0% of cost spent, foreign-aided

Source: Revised ADP FY2025-26, Planning Commission / IMED. Figures in crore taka.

Budget by division

Source: ibas_statement02 (FY2025-26, net basis)

Indicators

Tracked, awaiting data (31): adp_project_allocation_crore_bdt, adp_project_completion_rate_pct, bbs_agri21_total_irrigated_area, bbs_syb23_energy_generation_bpdb_share_pct, bbs_syb23_energy_generation_total_gwh, bmet_annual_overseas_employment_total, bmet_annual_overseas_workers, bmet_female_overseas_employment_total, bmet_ksa_deployment, bmet_malaysia_deployment, bmet_migrant_compensation_realized_bdt, bmet_pdo_orientation_participants, bmet_recruiting_licenses_issued, bmet_skilled_workers_deployed, bmet_technical_training_capacity_total, bmet_unskilled_worker_share_pct, bmet_welfare_fund_collection_crore_bdt, dept_service_delivery_efficiency_pct, energy_installed_capacity_mw, energy_system_loss_transmission_pct, fiscal_budget_allocation_crore_bdt, gov_institutional_efficiency_score, imed_bimt_actual_expenditure_cr, imed_bimt_cost_overrun_pct, imed_bimt_machinery_equipment_expenditure_cr, imed_bimt_original_dpp_cost_cr, imed_bimt_revised_dpp_cost_cr, imed_bimt_total_students_enrolled_post_project, imed_bimt_training_satisfaction_pct, wb_net_migration, wb_remittance_pct_gdp

Crisis responsibilities

Hazards this body owns or monitors, overlaid with the live early-warning watch. A hazard without a badge has no calibrated live reading.

• Brain drain owns
• Migrant wage theft owns
• Migrant-returnee shock owns
• Remittance channel disruption monitors
• TVET / skills gap monitors

Related research

• Bangladesh Migration & Diaspora Economy Analysis (primary)
• Bangladesh Migration & Diaspora: Deployment, Corridors, and Managed Migration (primary)
• Remittance Flows and Household Welfare in Bangladesh (primary)
• The State of Bangladesh Remittances (primary)
• The State of Bangladesh Remittances: Corridors, Dependence, and Reform (primary)

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Policy domains

Peer equivalent

Closest structural counterpart in a peer country: Department of Migrant Workers (Philippines)