National Consultation on Institutional and Regulatory Reforms for Producing Nurses for Overseas Employment

The main objective of this paper is to identify ways of creating a competitive edge for Bangladeshi nurses for both local and international markets. The specific objectives are; To create opportunity for increasing the number of and quality of trained nurses in the country.To increase the share of professional and skilled migrants from Bangladesh vis a vis semi skilled and less skilled migrants.To minimise fraudulence and exploitation from overseas migration.To create opportunity for migration of women under less exploitative situation.The study covers issues related to the government’s migration policy; demand for nurses both at the local and international level vis a vis nursing education in the country. The study also focuses on the development of nursing education and the challenges the sector is facing in the training nurses as well as the experiences of Ghana and the Philippines with regard to nursing education and migration.