promoting safe migration and ensuring the protection of the rights of women migrant workers(articles 2 (a) and 3); (b) Active involvement of women migrant workers and relevant non-governmental organizations:States parties should seek the active involvement ofwomen migrant workers and relevant non-governmental organizations in policy formulation, implementation, monitoring andevaluation (article 7 (b)); © Research, data collection and analysis: States parties should conduct and support quantitative and qualitative research, data collection and analysisto identify the problems and needs faced by women migrantworkers in every phase of the migration process in order to promotethe rights of women migrant workers and formulate relevant policies (article 3). Responsibilities specific BCRidaeles) 24. Countries of origin must respect and protect the humanrights of their female nationals who migrate for purposes of work. Measuresthat maybe required include,but are notlimited to, the following: (a) Lifting of discriminatory bans orrestrictions on migration: States parties should repeal sex-specific bans and discriminatory restrictions on women's migration on the basis of age, marital status, pregnancyor maternity status. They should lift restrictions that require womento get permission from their spouse or male guardian to obtain a passport orto travel(article 2 (f)); (b) Education, awareness-raising and training with standardized content: States parties should develop an appropriate education and awareness-raising programmein close consultation with concerned non-governmental organizations, gender and migration specialists, women workers with migration experience andreliable recruiting agencies.In that regard, States parties should (articles 3, 5, 10 and 14): (i) Deliver or facilitate free or affordable gender- and rights-based pre-departure information and training programmesthatraise prospective women migrant workers’ awarenessof potential exploitation, including: recommended contents of labour contracts, legal rights and entitlements in countries of employment, procedures for invoking formal and informal redress mechanisms, processes by which to obtain information about employers, cultural conditions in countries of destination, stress management,first aid and emergency measures,including emergency telephone numbers of home embassy, and services; information about safety in transit, including airport and airline orientations and information on general and reproductive health, including HIV/AIDSprevention. Such training programmesshould be targeted to women whoare prospective migrant workers through an effective outreach programmeand held in decentralized training venues so that they are accessible to women; (ii) Provide a list of authentic, reliable recruitment agencies and create a unified information system onavailable jobs abroad; (iii) Provide information on methods and procedures for migrating to work for women workers whowishto migrate independently of recruitment agencies; (iv) Require recruitment agencies to participate in awareness-raising and training programmesandsensitize them on the rights of women migrant workers, the forms of sex- and gender-based discrimination, the exploitation women could experience and responsibilities of agencies towards the women; (v) Promote community awareness-raising concerning the costs and benefits of all forms of migration for women and conduct cross-cultural awareness-raising activities addressed to the general public, which should highlight the risks, dangers and opportunities of migration, the entitlement of women to their earnings in the interest of ensuring their financial security and the need to maintain a balance between women's familial responsibility and their responsibility to themselves. Such 20