SEANF Paper on Migrant Workers growth strategy risks short-changing migrants’ rights for the sake of short-term economic gains. 94. The SEANF is particularly alarmed that human rights considerations are being sidelined in Administrative Order (AO) 247 which places strong emphasis on export of workers to sustain national economic growth. 27 The SEANF recommends AO 247 be revoked, and the Philippines Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) be oriented back to its original mission to protect migrant workers by regulating against abuses by labour recruitment firms. The SEANF recommends the POEA to increase its vigilance and regulatory actions, including suspending and revoking the licenses of labour recruitment firms involved in illegal or abusive practices. 95. The SEANF urges the Government to make a serious political commitment to immediately pass legislation in Congress which will bring domestic work under the formal definition of employment in the labour laws. Several bills have already been filed in the Congress, and the SEANF believes it will be important for the final legislation to be developed in a participatory manner with politicians, civil society organizations, and associations of domestic workers. The SEANF believes the Government, by setting a positive example through passage of its own national legislation, will be in a much better position to advocate other ASEAN member states include domestic work in their own labour laws. 96. The SEANF finds that there are significant deficiencies in Government systems to protect human rights of migrant workers and assist them while overseas. Therefore, the SEANF recommends the Government conduct a full review of its labour migration policy, with the objective of revising the policies and practices to ensure primary importance is given to the human rights of migrant workers in reality as well as on paper. 27 AO specifically orders the POEA to refocus its functions “from regulation to full-blast market development efforts, [and] the exploration of frontier, fertile job markets for Filipino expatriates.” 42