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Date Shared:
Friday, 18 July 2014
The Migration Dialogue for West Africa or MIDWA was designed as a platform to encourage the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss, in a regional context, such common migration issues and concerns for...
Countries and areas:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Thursday, 17 July 2014
The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen countries, founded in 1975. Its mission is to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport,...
Countries and areas:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Thursday, 17 July 2014
The main objectives of Southern African Development Community (SADC) are to: Achieve economic development, peace and security, and growth, Alleviate poverty, Enhance the standard and quality of life of the peoples of Southern Africa, and Support the...
Countries and areas:
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Migration Information and Statistics System for Mesoamerica (SIEMMES by its Spanish acronym) is a system of migration information designed to capture and monitor the magnitude and characteristics of migratory movements from, to and between the...
Countries and areas:
El Salvador, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Mediterranean Transit Migration (MTM) Dialogue is an inter-regional inter-governmental consultative forum of a wide number of EU, African, and other governments in the Meditteranean region, as well as observer States, and Partner Agecies, which...
Countries and areas:
Africa, Europe, Asia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Inter-governmental Asia-Pacific Consultations on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants (APC) is affiliation of Asia-Pacific governments, who seek regional co-operation on matters relating to population movements, including refugees, displaced...
Countries and areas:
Asia, Oceania
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Since its inception in 2002, the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process) has effectively raised regional awareness of the consequences of people smuggling, trafficking in persons and...
Countries and areas:
Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Targets on counter trafficking
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 9: Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants
Objective 10: Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Söderköping Process was launched in May 2001, funded by the European Union, as a cross-border cooperation process on asylum and migration and in order to respond to the new challenges that arose with the EU’s eastward enlargement. It is named...
Countries and areas:
Europe, Europe
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 11: Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner
Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
Date Shared:
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), under its Regional Programme on 'Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia', partners with recruiting/placement agency associations in some Asian countries to negotiate favourable contracts,...
Countries and areas:
Asia
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
Targets on vulnerability and protection
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
Objective 7: Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration
Date Shared:
Friday, 11 July 2014
Banks can play a stronger role in keeping transfer fees low for migrants through the creation of special services with features that aid migrant’s remittance transfers. An example of such services are the joint checking accounts offered by the...
Countries and areas:
Morocco
2030 Agenda migration-relevant and related target Labels:
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities - 10.c on remittances costs reduction
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth - 8.8 on labor rights for migrant workers
GCM Thematic Cluster Areas:
Objective 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants