Analysis of the Effectiveness of Portability of Pension Rights for Migrant Workers in the Framework of the CEPGL

Abstract

The UN knows over 272 million international migrants among whom twothirds are workers who retire time after time needing to acquire their pensions and other benefits. Using a documentary technique, we realized there are many ILO Conventions and the General Convention in CEPGL protecting workers whether themselves or their family members. In accommodation to these international conventions, East Africa adopted a protocol denoting movement of peoples and goods which denotes workers' movement within the community. Using documentary techniques through the reports of the institutions controlling pensions, results show that every year for the fulfillment of these conventions, Burundi and Rwanda pay pensions to retirees who worked in Burundi but went back to their home country in retirement. However, DR-Congo does not send these pensions to retirees who worked in it but came back home in Burundi or went back home in Rwanda after retiring. Reciprocally, Burundi and Rwanda do no longer pay them. In all circumstances beneficiaries are victims of reciprocal measures taken by countries in regard to pension payment in retirement when they go back home from their former working country.