Section 17Sec./Art. 17

Full-Cycle National Reintegration Program. The Department shall develop and implement a full-cycle and comprehensive national reintegration program for both documented and undocumented OFWs, which shall be embedded in all stages of migration for work beginning from pre-deployment, on-site during employment, and upon return whether voluntary or involuntary. The reintegration program shall cover the different dimensions of support needed by the OFW such as economic, social, psychosocial, gender-responsive, and cultural, including skills certification and recognition of equivalency for effective employment services, and shall ensure contribution to national development through investments and transfer of technology from skilled or professional OFWs.

The reintegration program shall include promoting access to social protection instruments and financial services, and reintegration of survivors of VAW and trafficking in persons. For this purpose, the NRCO, shall serve as the lead office of the Department and shall coordinate all OFW training, programs and services of the TESDA, the DTI, the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the DOLE, and local government units, among others.